Business Administration (BSc)

Business administration (BWL) takes the perspective of individual companies. During your studies, you will learn about the sub-areas in companies such as controlling, marketing or production and logistics. The main aim is to understand and explain the individual decision-making processes.

In our bachelor's programme, you will learn to solve complex business problems using scientific methods. In doing so, you will draw on current scientific publications. Lectures with the participation of guests from the business world, practical lectures, excursions as well as seminar papers and theses with practical relevance will give you important contacts and prepare you for professional life. You can organise your studies individually: Choose whether you want to sharpen your foreign language skills in English-language courses or prefer to attend lectures in German. Decide whether you want to specialise in topics such as management or controlling or whether you want to get to know different subject areas to discover your own interests and talents.

The entire course is finished when a total of 180 credits have been earned.

During the first week of the summer and winter semesters, you will be supervised by older students, the WiWi-O-Phase tutors. In addition to the first lectures, you will get to know important learning management and examination administration systems as well as examination and study regulations of the degree programmes. You will learn how to do your semester schedule and you can even talk to the professors of the faculty at the professors' breakfast. You will get to know each other at city rallies and pub evenings. Even before lectures begin, you can (voluntarily) take part in the maths pre-course (MVK), in which selected content from school mathematics is repeated and preparation is made for the mathematics module in the 1st semester. The student council of the Faculty of Business and Economics organizes the "social events programme" during the maths pre-course with pub nights as well as campus and city tours.

Prerequisites for the successful completion of a Bachelor's programme in Business Administration are a sound knowledge of the English language (and for international students also of the German language), mathematics and computer sciences. The Faculty of Business and Economics offers a precourse in mathematics (in German) to prepare new students for the following modules in mathematics.

Admission to the Bachelor's programme in Business Administration is restricted. Students can apply and be enrolled in both the summer and winter semesters.

What we expect from you:

• Motivation and a will to achieve
• Interest in entrepreneurial or macroeconomic issues
• Analytical thinking abilities as well as an interest in and ability to deal with mathematical methods of presentation
• Proficiency in German, a good or at least working knowledge of the English language

As a graduate with a bachelor degree, you will have career opportunities in a multitude of professions. Thanks to your broad and solid basic education in all sub-disciplines of business administration, a large range of career opportunities will await you, irrespective of which area of specialisation you choose. As a generalist, you can find a job in the following sectors:

• Management positions, consulting
• Staff departments for business administration at large corporations
• Governmental authorities and associations
• There is always the option of starting up one's own company as well.

The specialisation options, moreover, can additionally boost your career prospects:

• Specialisation in Finance, Accounting and Taxes
  • Accounting and taxes, controlling
  • Finance and risk management, auditing and tax consultancy
  • Banks, insurance and other financial service providers

• Specialisation in Marketing and E-Business
  • Marketing, public relations (PR)
  • Sales, purchasing, logistics and planning
  • Trade, market research, logistics services

• Specialisation in Management
  • Production, controlling, organisation, human resource management
  • Purchasing, logistics and planning, logistics services

Get to know the different professional fields of our graduates in the alumni portraits .

Students can follow up their bachelor degree with further studies like enrolling in a master's degree programme in Germany or abroad. In Göttingen, graduates with a bachelor degree can be admitted to one of the advanced, four-semester master's degree programmes:

• MSc in Finance, Accounting and Taxes (double degree option in cooperation with the University of Ghent, Belgium)
• MSc in Management (double degree option in cooperation with the University of Nanjing, China)
• MSc in Applied Statistics
• MA in History of Global Markets