Focus on practice and application; Inter-Disciplinarity; Internationality; Current topics (privacy, IT security, artificial intelligence, data-based business models); Acquisition of additional skills possible in cooperation with companies; many courses are offered in parallel as online courses to support flexible learning; all required learning materials are made available via a learning management system.

Numerous English-language events; 1,818 international students (winter semester 21/22) in total at the university; 78 international partner universities both in Europe and beyond; Regular visits from international visiting lecturers and visiting professors; Option of a double Master's degree in Business Information Systems with the University of Turku (Finland) or the IIT Madras (India); University-wide orientation events for international students; Research collaborations with academics from different countries; Excellent range of courses offered by the Foreign Languages Centre.

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, China; Universität Jyväskylä, Finnland; Corvinus Universität, Budapest, Ungarn; Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, Indien; Universidad de Málaga, Universitat Politecnia de Valencia, Valencia, Spanien. Spanien; Universität Turku (Turun),Finnland.

Online tool to support courses and evaluation (Stud.IP), experimental lab PAULA, multimedia lab, extensive electronic literature databases and research databases (e.g. Thomson One Banker), professional presentation equipment in all classrooms, numerous computer clusters, all chairs are equipped for online and hybrid teaching, equipment for online conferences; Training with real systems (e.g. SAP, data warehouse systems, document and content management systems); Use of current technologies in system development.

In the new German Research Foundation (DFG) Research Training Group, representatives of the faculty from Business Administration, Economics and Business Information Systems join forces in the field of "Digital Platform Ecosystems". The faculty placed in the top 201-250 faculties worldwide in the latest "Subject Ranking" by Times Higher Education (THE) (improvement in the category "Business and Economics" by 150 places). Similar to the universities of Cologne and Hamburg or Queen Mary University London. The faculty has a strong focus on research excellence.

Founders' Café: Those interested in founding a company, investors and start-up experts meet regularly; forum for questions about own start-ups; start-up support by the Transfer Centre; events for students and young academics (5-euro Business competition, Start-up Week Germany, start-up workshop, start-up academy, workshops and courses by the two entrepreneurial chairs); “Gründerzeit” (start-up time): Students who want to start a business during their studies can take a leave of absence of 2 semesters if supervised by the Transfer Centre; mentoring of start-ups, funding.

The Faculty Diversity Officer (since winter semester 21/22) actively participates in the diversity mission statement and is involved in certification, which is due for completion by 2023; Associated measures for diversity-sensitive teaching; Increasing number of modules on the subject of sustainability with the aim of a topic-related specialisation within Economics; Worldwide alumni network, mentoring programme by alumni, close company contacts, target faculty of many companies for recruiting, large number of student initiatives, students from all over Germany