Broad-based basic education and sound methodological training in the Bachelor; teaching of social and cross-cultural skills and solid foreign-language skills; Preparation for professional practice through career-specific specialisation in the Bachelor of Economic Sciences; Highly-specialised Master´s degree programmes; Integrated work placements to some extent; Possibility of studying abroad at partner universities; Combination of academic education with practical applicability.

Cooperation agreements with 75 partner universities, including 64 in Europe via Erasmus+, and worldwide; 255 exchange places (including 220 places Erasmus+) for students of the faculty (as of Nov. 2019); Advice from the International Office of the faculty, American-African-European Summer and Winter Schools, language courses in Business English, in the Bachelor's degree course in European Studies students learn an eastern or eastern central European language, in the Master’s in Management and Organisation Studies a stay abroad is planned in the 3rd semester, double degree programme in the Bachelor's of Economics.

Universidad Nacional De Cuyo (UNCuyo), Argentinien; Xiamen University, China; National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan; Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Russland; INHA University Incheon, Südkorea; Universita'degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope", Italien; Tampere University of Technology, Finnland; Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norwegen; Universidad de Málaga, Spanien.

Various labs and training centres for marketing, value chain management and knowledge management, Reuters lab, empirical lab, modern computer clusters available, extensive economics databases, plus a wide range of literature available online, extensive availability of, in particular, business application software for research and teaching; possibility of access at any time for enrolled students in secured computer clusters; Campus-wide WiFi.

Research focuses: Innovation and Technology, Sustainability, Knowledge, Digitalisation (e.g. Industry 4.0), Work; Research into new technologies in interdisciplinary projects including in the areas of Mobility, Lightweight Materials and Energy: e.g. Smart Rail Connectivity Campus (SRCC, research campus for sustainable mobility in the Chemnitz-Erzgebirge region, the Excellence Cluster "MERGE: Merge Technologies for Multifunctional Lightweight Structures", ESF junior researcher groups, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action project TOpWin.

Teaching and research of the junior professor for Entrepreneurship in Start-Ups and Succession; Integration of the entrepreneurs’ network SAXEED in the courses of several programmes.