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CHE University Ranking

Business Administration, Department

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät

Universität Potsdam

Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät
August-Bebel-Straße 89
D-14482 Potsdam
Telephone: +49 331 977-3324
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de
Uni Potsdam
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

790

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

240

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

6.0%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

6.0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/16 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

no data

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

1.3%

Research

Publications per professor

between 0.8 and 1.9 points

Third party funds per academic

41,000 €

Doctorates per professor

1.4

Research reputation

no data

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital teaching elements
Introduction to scientific work
Offers for career orientation
Practical orientation in teaching
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

36

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support

Not specified
Support in studies

Not specified
Digital teaching elements

Not specified
Practical orientation in teaching

Not specified
Courses offered

Not specified
Study organisation

Not specified
Transition to Master's studies

Not specified
Research orientation

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Support for stays abroad

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Overall study situation

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Return rate of the questionnaires

no data

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Orientation of teaching towards potential future areas and desired fields of work of students such as public management (see Trendence Study MCKinsey 2018) as well as close integration between Business Administration and Business Informatics offers (especially digital transformation, see also Weizenbaum Institute, Hasso Plattner Institute), linking theory and practice through guest lectures , workshops with company representatives, e.g. cooperation with international and medium-sized tax consultancy companies, cooperation with relevant Dax40 groups in the field of IT and Negotiation Management.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Research collaborations, e.g. with Stanford University, San José State University in the area of negotiation management and support systems, negotiation competitions with American students (Cultural Day in cooperation with Western Michigan University), collaborations with University of Michigan, Drexel University, Northwestern University, University of Central Florida in the area of international HR, Leadership Symposium at the University of Potsdam with international researchers. Number 1 in THE ranking of young universities in Germany, number 28 worldwide, overall number 251 worldwide

Exchange universities for stay abroads

UIBE Peking, China; UTS Sydney, Australien; Clarkson University, New York, USA; Universität Opole, Polen; L-Università ta' Malta, Malta; Universiteit Gent, Belgien; Universidad de Granada, Spanien; Université de Montpellier, Frankreich; Università degli studi Internazionale di Roma, Italien; Universitetet i Bergen, Norwegen.

Special features regarding the equipment

MATLAB licences; Statistics software such as: SPSS licences, Stata licences, R licences; Citavi licences; Access to additional software at IT workstations at the university: MS Office 365, LibreOffice, Scribus, LaTeX tools, Adobe Acrobat Prof., GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Dreamweaver; Online platforms and tools for negotiation exercises; Electronic exam and test systems; Survey software such as Quicktap Survey; Business simulation software licences (e.g. StratX); Provision of iPads for loan.

Special features regarding research activities

Research initiative "Potsdam Centre for Quantitative Research" (PCQR), Competence and Advisory Centre for Young and Advanced Academics (Potsdam Graduate School (POGS)), guest visits to partner universities, high level of theory-practice exchange & transfer, cooperative studies with regional & international companies (e.g. consumer behaviour, leadership, change management, negotiation management), lecture series and panel discussions, numerous interdisciplinary joint projects (German Research Foundation (DFG), Federal Ministry of Education and Research) e.g. artificial intelligence or language & negotiations

Support for founders

Mentoring by professors, courses on business start-ups and business plan competitions integrated into the curriculum, close cooperation with "Potsdam Transfer": Start-up service, start-up grants, provision of co-working spaces, "Potsdam International Transfer Collaboration Hub" (PITCH), "Potsdam Entrepreneurship Experience Lab” (PEELx), collaboration with the HPI School for Design Thinking, leading position of the University of Potsdam in relevant start-up rankings, e.g. 3rd place in the 2020 “Gründungsradar” (Start-up Radar)

Other special features

Promotion of students’ team working skills and soft skills through group projects, close supervision and feedback as well as regular course evaluation and, if necessary, adaptation of the courses to the interests and demands of the students, opportunities to participate (in teaching, practical and research projects, etc.) inside and outside the curriculum, for example Negotiation Academy Potsdam, "Digital together"; Innovation behaviour of users in the digital health sector, participation in studies and experiments, coaching programmes in data generation and evaluation, diversity audit

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2023: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education
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