Business Administration (BA)
Schmalkalden, Germany
BA
DURATION
7 semesters
LANGUAGES
German
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
The business administration course Hochschule Schmalkalden
The business administration course is aimed at future managers in small, medium-sized and large companies in Thuringia and nationwide. Here you will learn the basics of management from scratch and also acquire relevant statistical and economics knowledge in order to be able to act as a manager with foresight and to meet the admission requirements for many master’s programs. The imparting of key qualifications and our career service also prepare you optimally for your professional life. You can optionally attend lectures in English or Spanish. Practical in the lectures as well as on practical excursions you will find a quick introduction to business administration. With the elective subjects you can specialize in the second half of your studies. You can deepen your knowledge as part of the compulsory internship.
You will find very good study conditions on our campus. In the renowned CHE ranking, our faculty landed e.g. B. in the supervision and support of students in the top group. This also applies to the ability to study, which enables the popular business administration degree in the standard period of study.
| Type of study: | Full time |
| Duration of study: | 7 semesters |
| Lecture language: | German |
| Graduation: | Bachelor of Arts |
| ECTS: | 210 |
| next start of studies: | each winter semester |
| Application deadline: | 07/15/2021 |
Business studies course structure
The 7-semester full-time course leads to the degree of "Bachelor of Arts". The practice-oriented business administration degree consists of the following six elements:
- 21 compulsory subjects (105 ECTS points)
- Elective subjects for personal focus (at least 60 ECTS points)
- Student thesis (to prepare for the bachelor thesis)
- Internship semester
- 9-week bachelor thesis (12 ECTS points)
- Colloquium (final oral exam; 3 ECTS points)
Your business education in Schmalkalden is based on 21 compulsory subjects, in which the important cornerstones are laid. The achievement of the learning objectives is checked in course-related examinations. You will see your progress immediately and can quickly take countermeasures if your performance is not sufficient.
Business studies course content
The business administration degree covers a wide range of knowledge that imparts specialist and methodological skills. In addition to the basics of business administration, the social skills of the students should also be consolidated and trained. Especially with regard to future professional practice, skills to enable management functions in business and administration as well as responsible and independent work are developed intensively.
Compulsory subjects in business studies:
- Basics of economics
- Key Qualifications
- Business English
- Sales economy
- Taxation
- production and management
- Financing and Investment
- microeconomics
- macroeconomics
- Economic theory
- Economic policy
- accounting
- Cost accounting
- Mathematical basics and analysis
- Matrix Algebra and Decision Theory
- Basics of statistics
- Computer-aided statistical methods
- Basics and applications IT
- Programming and data organization
- Basics of commercial law, civil law and labor law
- Commercial, corporate and competition law
You determine your personal focus yourself by selecting 12 modules from the 13 elective areas. At least 40 ECTS points in the field of business administration must be achieved for the business administration degree.
Elective areas of business administration:
- Business start-up and security
- financial management
- International Management
- Management accounting and management control
- marketing
- Human resource management and organization
- Taxes and balance sheets
- Tourism industry
Elective areas economics:
- Empirical Research in Economics
- Finance
- Health and Environmental Economics
- international economic Relations
- Quantitative methods