Sustainable Business and Law Trier University of Applied Sciences

Embrace the future: the Sustainable Business and Law Bachelor’s programme

Our cutting-edge, interdisciplinary Bachelor’s programme is designed for the ambitious and forward-thinking student seeking a comprehensive and sustainable perspective at the dynamic crossroads of business and law.

Over the course of six semesters, you will explore the fields of business and law through innovative learning concepts.

Our curriculum is designed with a unique focus on sustainability, fundamentals of business and ESG law.

You will gain the critical skills and insights you need to navigate the complex legal and business challenges between profitability, regulatory requirements, public opinion, and changing environmental conditions.

As a special advantage, we offer immersive German language and intercultural communication modules. These are designed to prepare you for a vibrant professional life in Germany or with German enterprises across the globe, broadening your horizons and enhancing your global employability.

Join us and become part of a community of future leaders who are ready to reshape the world through the power of Sustainable Business and Law.

First Semester:

• Fundamentals of Science and Scientific Methods
• Fundamentals of Law
• Fundamentals of Sustainable Business I
• Fundamentals of Accounting
• Intercultural communication
• GermanPlus: German Pathways I

Second Semester:

• Sustainability in Law: ESG I
• Sustainability in Law: ESG II
• Fundamentals of Sustainable Business II
• Digitalisation
• Accounting
• GermanPlus: German Pathways II

Third Semester:

• Legal Compliance
• Energy and Resource Law
• Economics and Fundamentals of Business Taxation
• Strategic Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Corporate Finance
• GermanPlus: German Pathways III

Fourth Semester:

• Advanced Seminar
• Labour and Supply Chain Law
• Comparative Legal Case Studies
• Sustainability in Communication
• Elective
• GermanPlus: German Pathways IV

Fifth Semester:

• Ethics and Society
• Legal Foundations of Green Finance
• Non-financial/Sustainability Reporting
• Quantitative Business and Management
• Elective
• GermanPlus: German Pathways V

Sixth Semester:

• Elective
• Interdisciplinary project
• Bachelor's thesis / Colloquium

• Higher Education Entrance Qualification for Germany or equivalent

You can find out whether your higher education entrance qualification (UEQ) from your home country qualifies you to study directly in Germany or whether you will first have to attend a preparatory course ("Studienkolleg") by visiting the information portal on the recognition of foreign educational qualifications (ANABIN).

Additionally, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) operates a website where you can check whether your school leaving certificate qualifies you to study in Germany.

If you have a foreign university entrance qualification, it must be evaluated by our university as part of the application process. Please note that we do not cooperate with uni-assist and this examination is carried out exclusively by our university.

• English Language Proficiency (B2 is required)

Please see here for a step-by-step guide for your application.

Approx. 380 EUR per semester
The exact amount differs from semester to semester. The semester contribution also allows for free rail travel in the region/in Germany.

Approx. 900 to 1200 EUR per month
More information can be found here.

General information for finding side jobs can be found here.

We strongly urge you to arrange your accommodation before arrival. A limited number of student apartments is available directly at the campus. Hence, students are advised to book a private accommodation in time. Students can also live in private flats shared with other students. There are a number of popular online portals for finding a flat in Germany, for example, http://www.wg-gesucht.de or https://www.immobilienscout24.de/. We also recommend the website of the "Studierendenwerk".

Welcome to a unique place. Welcome to the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld.
At present, around 1,800 Bachelor and Master students from more than 80 countries are studying on campus in15 Bachelor degree programmes, 14 Master degree programmes and 9 dual degree programmes in the fields of environmental planning/environmental technology and environmental economy/environmental law. The campus is internationally networked, with the strength of strong, regional roots. The students come from all over the world to Hoppstädten-Weiersbach – due to the groundbreaking and future-oriented education.

Living, learning and working in a special place
The Environmental Campus Birkenfeld, a campus of the Trier University of Applied Sciences, is one of the special university campuses in Germany and offers students an interdisciplinary course of study at a unique "Zero Emission University", which, in addition to an ecological construction concept, also has a CO2-neutral energy and heat supply and state-of-the-art building and plant technology. Founded in 1996, the campus is one of the most successful conversion projects in Rhineland-Palatinate. A former reserve military hospital of the American armed forces was transformed into a university campus with exemplary environmental technology.

With the focus on "environment", students are offered a future-oriented education in the two fields of environmental planning/technology and environmental economy/law. The concept of environment and sustainability forms the thematic link within the study programmes and promotes intensive and interdisciplinary cooperation between individual disciplines.

All people on campus are united by a special group-oriented feeling that inspires teaching, learning and working, and 500 dormitory places directly on the campus make the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld an academic village in which everybody knows each other. The campus thus offers a unique workplace for different areas such as research, teaching, administration and technology.

Study in the heart of Europe – in the dynamic triangle between Germany, France and the Low Countries.

Experience Europe's oldest cultural landscapes and cities while living on campus next to Germany's youngest National Park.

The Environmental Campus is located near the town of Birkenfeld on the Nahe river, close to the major European centres of Frankfurt, Luxembourg, and Trier. The campus has its own railway station and is close to the Kaiserslautern-Trier motorway. It has a direct rail connection to Frankfurt Airport (less than two hours), and Ryanair's Frankfurt-Hahn hub is only 40 minutes away.

You can also benefit from the direct rail link to the major transportation hubs of Frankfurt and Paris.