The Faculty of Business Administration (BWL) at the University of Hamburg was one of the first faculties in Hamburg to develop a mission statement for teaching. Key points in teaching are the newly designed Bachelor's and Master's programmes. They offer an academically oriented, methodological education with a variety of specialisation options. The teaching is research-oriented, with a focus on stimulating independent thinking.

The Faculty of Business Administration has more than 20 partnerships (as part of Erasmus +) with international universities. There are exchange programmes with nine universities in South America and Asia. There is also a double degree programme (MSc/MBA) with the Graduate School of Management at Kyoto University.

Audencia Nantes - Ecole de Management Lappeenrannan Teknillinen Yliopisto (University of Lappeenranta) Libera Università di Bolzano - Freie Universität Bozen National Taiwan University Taipeh Linköpings Universitet Universiteit Hasselt EM Strasbourg Business School Toulouse School of Management Kyoto University CBS - Handelshøjskolen i København

Co-working space/economics and social sciences research lab/databases: Wisonet/Genios, Business Source Complete/Ebsco, ABI/Inform Complete/ProQuest, EconLit with Fulltext/Ebsco, Social Sciences Citation Index/Clarivate Analytics, Stotax First and IBFD. In addition, the library has licensed the most important databases for corporate and financial data, which are also used by students, e.g. for their final theses: WRDS, Compustat (S&P), CRSP, Dafne and Refintiv Workspace and Bloomberg Terminal.

Research in the research focus areas is interdisciplinary, international and practice-oriented and deals with topics relevant to society and business. The Faculty of Business Administration has three research focus areas: Health Economics, Marketing & Communication, Logistics & Digital Services. The faculty plays a central role in the interdisciplinary research centre Hamburg Centre for Health Economics (HCHE). In the WirtschaftsWoche Ranking, the most important national ranking for business and economic research, the faculty came in third place in Germany.

TransferLab: Bringing together business founders, investors and other parties interested in starting a business; Bringing together skills and needs across faculty boundaries; Promotion of university-wide entrepreneurship courses; Promotion of transfer from research to industry and society

The faculty is committed to gender equality and equal opportunities and actively promotes diversity through its equality strategy. It works closely with the university's central Equality Department. The Equality Officer and their representatives are responsible for the development and implementation of the faculty's equality strategy. This includes: Promotion of diversity; Study regulations with access rules for disadvantaged students; Parental leave model ("BWLternzeitmodell"); Gender-appropriate language