Small group sizes in a course network enable interactive exchange between lecturers and students using innovative teaching and learning formats, such as integration seminars on industry topics, exercises and management simulations. In teaching-oriented research activities, current problems and research topics are prepared for the students and worked on by small student teams. Personal support and counselling provided by course directors forms an important fundamentals for students’ individual learning progress.

The Department of Business Informatics has a clear international focus with the field of study in International Management for Business and Information Technology. International relationships are based on student and lecturer exchanges with the international partner universities in Europe, America and Asia. Stays abroad in the theoretical and practical phases are possible and promoted.

Aston Business School, Birmingham, Großbritannien; Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki, Finnland; Oulu University of Applied Sciences, Oulu, Finnland; Kristianstad University, Kristianstad, Schweden; Karlstad University, Karlstad, Schweden; Durban University of Technology, Durban, Südafrika; Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Südkorea; Inha University, Incheon, Südkorea; TEC de Monterrey, Guadalajara, Mexiko

The Department of Business Informatics offers a current IT infrastructure (e.g. digitalisation laboratory with 12 training / work stations with Raspberry Pi and IoT equipment, project area for prototype construction, data science laboratory) and at the same time integrates existing notebooks / tablets of the students , so that they can be used for courses. There are also a number of collaborations with the university programmes of important IT providers, such as IBM, Microsoft, SAP, so that these can be used by students for practical topics or courses.

Research is carried out in an application-oriented manner and in cooperation with companies, other universities and research institutions at regional, national and international level. In addition to solving existing company problems, the inclusion of the latest findings from research in teaching is also guaranteed. A network of innovative teaching and research centres (CASE) supports students in the application of social science methods and their own projects as well as in the implementation of professorial research projects for teaching/socially relevant issues.

In terms of content - in the form of courses - as well as organisationally, a number of important industry-wide standard certifications (for example ITIL, SAP) are supported, which allow students to further qualify professionally; Cross-faculty cooperation in various projects, centres and initiatives on sustainability; Establishment of innovative inter-faculty facilities to enhance teaching, such as a multimedia quality and innovation studio