Small practical and exercise groups; Application-oriented content; Interdisciplinary culture; Equal distribution of contents between business administration, (business) informatics and cross-curricular knowledge; Generalist education.

In the Business Informatics degree course, a semester abroad can be completed at a freely chosen university in the 6th Study semester based on a learning agreement. The International Business Administration and Informatics degree course includes a compulsory year of study at a foreign university. The international orientation is promoted by a wide range of foreign languages, international workshops and excursions, as well as an English-language teaching programme.

Marmara Üniversitesi Istanbul, Türkei; Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spanien; Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal, Portugal; Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Niederlande; Staffordshire University, Stoke-on-Trent, England; Cork Institute of Technology, Irland; Foshan University, China, M.I. Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University. Novocherkassk, Russland; Universita di Palermo, Italien; Samara State University of Economics, Russland.

Well-equipped computer labs and computer clusters, SAP lab, legal databases, e.g. beck-online, Wolters-Kluwer / economics: Business Source Ultimate from EBSCO, Carve Out for project management / engineering: Simulation and planning system Autodesk Inventor and Fusion (including standard part databases), simulation of machining processes with ExLSWOP, robot simulation with Ciros Robotic, simulation of pneumatic systems with Festo FluidSim. A number of content-related video libraries are available, such as: Programme instructions and presentation of technical workflows and production examples

Research focus area Prof. Fleischer: Maturity Management in Early Development Phases and Quality 4.0; Research projects: Qbility - Quality 4.0 Capability Determination Model (2020-2022) / RAPIDO - Maturity Assessment is Early Phases (2014-2016); Research projects by Weichs: 2020 EXIST potentials; 2021 EXIST business start-up grant; Since 2020 FH-Preneur: Internal, cross-location initiative for the sustainable promotion of company founders / 2017-2020 Start-up innovation lab in South Westphalia (ERDF); Business model research; Research in the field of economics: Entrepreneurship

From the initial idea to the start-up: The "Fhpreneur" start-up initiative accompanies students in the start-up process and offers them a holistic concept with bundled expertise. Furthermore, the start-up camp/incubator helps students by involving regional companies, start-ups, etc. in the start-up process at an early stage. Successful start-ups (alumni) form a supportive ecosystem together with partners from industry. The continuously expanding community lives by the guiding principle of "give and take" and thus creates result-oriented added value.

Sustainability: External speakers on current topics, e.g. as part of the Hagen University Talks. In the winter semester 2022, on the topic of Energy & Buildings and Energy Savings in cooperation with the consumer organisation. The faculty appoints a Sustainability Officer and has its own sustainability lab. Lectures on Female Entrepreneurship as part of “FH-Preneur”. The Faculty Equality Officer is involved in all important committees/bodies of the faculty.