The faculty is strongly committed to good teaching. In-person teaching is generally supported by a diverse range of digital learning and exam preparation materials offered on the learning platform Moodle (slide decks discussed, videos, central questions, quizzes and further literature). In addition, in the higher study semesters, more learner-centred formats are offered, such as study-team coaching, flipped classroom, problem-based and project-based learning. The acquisition of different skills is reflected by corresponding forms of assessment.

Easy-access yet comprehensive exchange formats: Annual Europe Week on campus with lecturers from the partner universities, blended learning with LAB as part of Erasmus+ Mobility, semester abroad with partner universities from Europe and beyond (including Asia) for all degree courses (50-90 students per year), double degrees in Business Administration, International Business, International Management and International Tourism Management. Three-week summer immersion for incoming students. The German-French University Institute (DFHI) at the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken (htw saar) is a unique selling point.

Metropolia UAS, Helsinki, Finnland; Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italien; Aoyama Gaukuin University, Tokyo Japan; University of Zagreb, Kroatien; Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexiko; Saxion UAS, Enschede, Niederlande; ISEG Universidade de Lisboa, Lissabon, Portugal; Universidad de Vigo, Spanien; Southern Oregon University, USA; University of Hertfordshire, Vereinigtes Königreich

The faculty has modern equipment in the classrooms in the form of modern lecturer desks with touchscreens and state-of-the-art media technology. Group work islands and individual workspaces are available for the students centrally on campus & in the library. In addition, the faculty has 3 special language labs for foreign language teaching as well as 4 IT labs with state-of-the-art software and hardware. The faculty also operates a media workshop, the logistics teaching lab & the Industrial Engineering Model Factory 4.0 for practical, application-oriented teaching.

Professors in the Faculty of Economics are involved in the research focus areas of the university in various ways according to the Research Map of the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). The research focus areas of the University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken (htw saar) are "Robustness, Efficiency and Sustainability of Processes", "Interfaces" and "Transitions in the Course of Life". In the years 2019 to 2021, research and transfer projects amounting to EUR 5.5 million were carried out in a large number of institutions and the Institute for Technology Transfer at the htw saar.

The promotion of entrepreneurship is an explicit part of the faculty. For this reason, a new professorship for Entrepreneurship was established in 2022, which will prominently represent the topic of entrepreneurship in teaching and research. In addition, several members of the faculty act as mentors for business start-ups as part of the EXIST programme or even beyond. To raise the awareness of students and motivate them to start a business, the faculty supports the university-wide start-up project "Places2X" and the Institute for Technology Transfer at htw saar.

The University of Applied Sciences in Saarbrücken is a Fairtrade University. Sustainability is an integral part of the mission statement and is anchored in the curricular across all programmes in the form of compulsory elective subjects and elective subjects. In addition, the most diverse facets of sustainability are integrated into the subject-specific events. There has also been a university-wide “Diversity” lecture series for 3 years, which can be integrated as a freely elective subject. Global citizenship and diversity management are currently brought into the faculty and the entire university by the Erasmus+ programme GlobDive.