Small practical and exercise groups; Application-oriented content; Interdisciplinary culture; Equal distribution of contents between business administration, (business) informatics and cross-curricular knowledge; Generalist education.

Small groups for practical work and exercises, often in the format of seminar-based instruction; Supplementing the range of courses with top-class experts from business as lecturers; intercultural cooperation in small project/working groups

In the Business Informatics degree course, a semester abroad can be completed at a freely chosen university in the 6th can complete a semester abroad at a university of their choice on the basis of a learning agreement. The international orientation is promoted by a wide range of foreign languages, international workshops and excursions, as well as an English-language teaching programme.

Die Studierenden können optional ein Auslandssemester absolvieren, ein spezielles Kooperationsprogramm gibt es nicht. (Freemoving) Kooperationen des Fachbereichs in anderen Fachgruppen bestehen z. B. mit: Tongji Universität/China; Tec de Monterrey/Mexiko; UTCC/Thailand.

Well-equipped computer labs and computer clusters, SAP lab, legal databases, e.g. beck-online, Wolters-Kluwer / economics: Business Source Ultimate from EBSCO, Carve Out for project management / engineering: Simulation and planning system Autodesk Inventor and Fusion (including standard part databases), simulation of machining processes with ExLSWOP, robot simulation with Ciros Robotic, simulation of pneumatic systems with Festo FluidSim. A number of content-related video libraries are available, such as: Programme instructions and presentation of technical workflows and production examples

Research projects by Weichs: 2020 EXIST potentials; 2021 EXIST business start-up grant; Since 2020 FH-Preneur: Internal, cross-location initiative for the sustainable promotion of company founders / 2017-2020 Start-up innovation lab in South Westphalia (ERDF); Business model research; Research in the field of economics: Entrepreneurship; Prof. Leubner: Transfer projects in the field of AR/VR in the Industry 4.0 context; strong integration of SAP systems in teaching for practical preparation for professional activity; Prof. Femmer Research and project activities in the field of Requirements Engineering/Software Quality

Sustainability: External speakers on current topics, e.g. as part of the Hagen University Talks. In the winter semester 2022, on the topic of Energy & Buildings and Energy Savings in cooperation with the consumer organisation. The faculty appoints a Sustainability Officer and has its own sustainability lab. Lectures on Female Entrepreneurship as part of “FH-Preneur”. The Faculty Equality Officer is involved in all important committees/bodies of the faculty.