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Business Administration, Department

Studiengang Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensführung (BU)

Hochschule Heilbronn

Studiengang Betriebswirtschaft und Unternehmensführung (BU)
Max-Planck-Straße 39
D-74081 Heilbronn
Telephone: +49 7131 504-6762
https://www.hs-heilbronn.de
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

620

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

35.0%

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

13/16 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

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Research

Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)

no data

Third party funds per professor

800 €

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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

99

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching

Close interlinking of well-founded concepts and practice-oriented education. Students acquire the skills needed for solving problems independently and in groups. Focus at the beginning on the solid teaching of specialist knowledge. Check-up and wrap-up of school knowledge (preliminary courses, tutorials, exercises). Group work and simulation games to strengthen problem-solving skills and personal competence development. Targeted use of online teaching with external speakers and blended learning modules. Areas of competence play a bigger role in the main study stage. Consistently high degree of practical relevance in all study phases.

Special features regarding the international orientation

International research with corresponding topics, publications etc. English teaching content always takes internal aspects into account. Specialities such as Ethics and Intercultural Issues in specific subjects. Lecturers with international experience and guest lecturers are often used. Students bring global experience, work with guest students and partner universities. Mobility extends to all continents. There are enough places available for study semesters, internships, double degrees, scholarships and short stays such as Study Tours.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Northumbria University in Newcastle, Großbritannien; Napier University Cracow, University of Economics in Krakau, Polen; Ljubljana University, Slowenien; Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; Kyungpook National University in Daegu, Südkorea; Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing in Sao Paulo, Brasilien; University of North Carolina in Greensboro, USA; Vaasa University of Applied Sciences, Finnland; University of Johannesburg, Südafrika; Rabat Business School, Marokko

Special features regarding the equipment

Extensive technical resources are available to our students. the university has an e-learning platform, which is used to support the teaching in many ways. The library offers a variety of classical media and e-media, which can be accessed flexibly, e.g. via the campus WiFi. Modern IT labs and workstations and a virtual learning environment are used by our students as part of IT lectures, simulations or SAP training. Access to databases is continuously expanded, for example access to the Bloomberg Terminal.

Special features regarding research activities

Research focus on corporate management, family businesses, entrepreneurship and digital transformation. Examples of current research focus areas: Foundation of an Innovation Hub for Family Businesses, Foundation of an Institute for Company-Related Forecasting Models and Potential Analyses, Corporate Management for the Digital Economy, Digital Transformation, International Recruiting, Big Data Analytics, Foundation Management, Business Continuity Management, Competitive Intelligence. Each professor contributes personal research and transfer topics.

Support for founders

The range of events to strengthen innovation and promote a start-up culture within the curriculum is being expanded. Implementation of start-up and innovation projects. Individual support for students in project assignments with a focus on starting a business by lecturers in the areas of Marketing, Financing and Law. Support for networking in the start-up scene inside and outside the university. Coaching in the start-up phase. Offers of events to evaluate personal commitment and risk tolerance.

Other special features

In addition to the close connection of well-founded concepts and practice, the course is particularly characterised by a high degree of flexibility. Students are not forced to commit to a specialisation at the start of their studies, but can do so through elective subjects. Graduates have excellent regional, national and international job market opportunities. In particular, the close integration with the regional economy enables contacts, practice-oriented teaching and research, study-related internships and practically oriented theses.

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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