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Business Informatics, Department

Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Universität Paderborn

Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Dep. 3 Wirtschaftsinformatik - Business Information Systems
Warburger Straße 100
D-33098 Paderborn
Telephone: +49 5251 60-4484
https://www.uni-paderborn.de
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

590

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

160

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

14/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

1.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

5.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

20.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

18.9%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

36.6%

Research

Publications per professor

no data

Doctorates per professor

0.1

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
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Digital learning
Support for stays abroad

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Rooms
Library
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Return rate of the questionnaires

32

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

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Support in studies

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Digital learning

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Practical orientation in teaching

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Courses offered

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Study organisation

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Transition to Master's studies

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Research orientation

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Support for stays abroad

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Return rate of the questionnaires

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Very good support student-teacher ratio and broad range of topics covered through 7 professorships in Business Informatics. Excellent Computer Science training by renowned Paderborn Computer Science. Master's degree programme in Business Informatics builds upon this and Master's degree programme in MIS allows individual specialisation options targeting technical or business-related content. Integration of current research topics and innovative, digital teaching formats for an exciting and varied course; Excellent networking with industry. Integration of practitioners into teaching; study abroad is possible without problems.

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Very good support student-teacher ratio and broad range of topics covered through 7 professorships in Business Informatics. Excellent Computer Science training by renowned Paderborn Computer Science. Master's in Business Informatics and Master's in MIS enables individual specialisations to be selected with technical or business-related content. Integration of current research topics and innovative, digital teaching formats for an exciting and varied course; Excellent networking with industry. Integration of practitioners into teaching; study abroad is possible without problems.

Special features regarding the international orientation

The degree courses are offered jointly by the Faculty of Economics and the Institute of Computer Science. Our students can use the international programmes (> 100) of both institutions, and there are also excellent programmes specifically for Business Information Systems students. With the ASBE programme, we offer a special focus on Asia; The degree programmes provide time windows for stays abroad and credits obtained are recognised quickly; We offer numerous events for international visiting lecturers and establish seminars with international student teams.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Boagici University, Istanbul, Türkei; LUT University, Lappeenranta, Finnland; University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norwegen; University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Österreich;Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan; Dublin City University, Dublin, Irland; University of Alberta, Edmonton, Kanada; University of Georgia, Athens, USA; Tongji University, Shanghai, VR China; Hanyang University ERICA, Ansan, Südkorea

Special features regarding the equipment

Our technical equipment is state-of-the-art. In addition to modern lecture halls, PC cluster rooms and campus-wide WiFi coverage, we offer two state-of-the-art IT labs: The ERP lab has SAP developer licences, geo-information systems and data glasses; The SODA lab provides high-performance computers with high-end graphics cards for the development of machine/deep learning and augmented/virtual reality applications. There is a new cluster for parallel computing in NOCTUA. We offer regular courses and certifications (e.g. ITIL, SAP TERP10, CAPM).

Special features regarding research activities

We examine and design information systems in the digital transformation at all levels of action (individual, group, company, market, society) and analyse data using methods of optimisation and data science. Through excellent large-scale research projects, international EU projects and collaboration with companies on the joint research campus on Zukunftsmeile 2, we design innovations for the digital society, for example in digital retail, disaster management, intelligent energy networks, electromobility and social participation.

Other special features

Business Information Systems offers degree courses with excellent job prospects and a lifelong successful career in the digital economy. The close cooperation with numerous companies in the SICP as well as the excellent technical and human resources provide the ideal setting for academic success. In addition to the attractive start-up offers, a new research and teaching focus has also been established with the recently established Paderborn Research Centre for Sustainable Economy and also anchored in the curricula for all degree courses.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

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Website of the Student Council

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education