Sustainable Business and Technology Trier University of Applied Sciences

Get prepared for leading positions in global teams at the interface between business and engineering, providing the canvas for managers of tomorrow. Take on the challenge and shape our future at Germany's most sustainability-oriented University.

This interdisciplinary Bachelor programme incorporates all aspects necessary to meet the demand of young students seeking a global perspective at the edge between business and technology.
Our focus on sustainability, green technologies, and a globally interrelated perspective provides future graduates with excellent key qualifications and enables them to master the challenges of our time.

In six semesters, students are enabled to study business and engineering through innovative learning concepts.

Real-life business projects as well as training in organisation, methods and communication skills complete our students’ academic and personal profile.

As a special benefit, German language and intercultural communication modules will pave the way for a possible professional life in Germany or German enterprises abroad.

The study programme includes the following fields:

• Natural Sciences
• Engineering Sciences
• Business Sciences
• Sustainability
• Key Skills
• Linguistics

The first four semesters cover the basics in the areas of Natural-, Engineering- and Business Sciences as well as Sustainability. These are supplemented by German courses up to the fifth semester.

Taking into account their own preferences, students select their electives and interdisciplinary projects in the fifth semester. 

The Bachelor's thesis and colloquium conclude the programme.

First semester:

• Mathematics I
• Physics
• Fundamentals of Sustainable Business I
• Fundamentals of Accounting
• Intercultural Communication
• German I (Foreign Language / Elective)*

Second semester:

• Mathematics II
• Chemistry and Ecology
• Thermodynamics
• Principles of Engineering I
• Accounting
• German II (Foreign Language / Elective)*

Third semester:

• Principles of Engineering II
• Information Technology
• International Law and International Economic Policy
• Scientific Methods and Concepts
• Corporate Finance
• German III (Foreign Language / Elective)*

Fourth semester:

• Sustainable Waste and Waste Water Treatment Technologies
• Sustainable Energy Systems
• Lab Work
• Manufacturing Technology
• Cleaner Production and Operations Management
• German IV (Foreign Language / Elective)*

Fifth semester:

• Ethics and Society
• Elective**
• Elective**
• Interdisciplinary Project
• German V (Foreign Language / Elective)*

Sixth semester:

• Elective**
• Elective**
• Career Planning and Employability
• Bachelor's Thesis and Colloquium

* The “German I-V / Foreign Language / Elective” modules include the courses “German as a Foreign Language I-V” for foreign students. Students whose native language is German and foreign students who have proven knowledge of German can take other languages or elective courses from the compulsory elective module catalogue of this degree programme.

** In the fifth and sixth semesters, students in the English-language Bachelor's degree programme in "Sustainable Business and Technology" have the opportunity to set study foci in order to enable individual profile formation and orientation towards a later field of activity.

• 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 finding further information on 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.

General semester fee
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/Germany.

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

We strongly urge you to arrange your accommodation before arrival. There is only a limited number of student apartments 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.

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 in 15 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
The Environmental Campus is located in the dynamic triangle between Germany, France and the Low Countries. It is near the town of Birkenfeld on the Nahe river, close to the major European centres of Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Trier.

Benefit from the direct rail link to the major transportation hubs of Frankfurt and Paris. 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.

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