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Business administration University of Duisburg-Essen

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Degree
Bachelor of Science
Standard period of study (amount)
6 semesters
Location
Essen

Overview and admission

Study Type

undergraduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study

  • Business Administration
  • Financial Management, Insurance
  • Accounting, Taxation, Controlling
  • Economic Sciences, Economics
  • Environmental Management, Energy Management

Focus

Energy Management, Financial Management, Health Economics, Economic Law, International Accounting and Corporate Taxation, Health Care Management, Econometrics and Experimental Economic Research, Business Administration, Economics, Business Informatics

Annotation

How do companies make successful decisions? How do innovative business models emerge and how can organisations be structured for sustainability? The Bachelor’s degree course in Business Administration provides in-depth knowledge of all central areas of modern corporate management – from marketing, human resources and organisation to accounting and financing, corporate strategy and digitalisation.

The degree programme combines scientific methodology with practical questions and enables students to analytically understand economic challenges and to address them in a solution-oriented manner. Individual options allow students to focus on their personal interests in more depth and to set their own priorities as early as the Bachelor’s degree.

Graduates have a broad business foundation and are qualified for a variety of roles in companies, organisations, associations and public institutions. At the same time, the degree course offers excellent fundamentals for a postgraduate Master’s degree.

Three good reasons for studying a business administration degree course in Essen: Thanks to the penalty-point system, you can study without the traditional pressure of failing and have enough leeway to fail an exam once in a while. Thanks to the "cafeteria" principle, you can flexibly design your studies according to your interests and combine specialisations from different fields. And if you find during your studies that you are more interested in macroeconomic topics, switching to Economics in the first few semesters is easy.

For more information on the degree course, visit the faculty’s website:
https://www.wiwi.uni-due.de/studium/betriebswirtschaftslehre/bsc-bwl/

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

More information regarding admission requirements

Admission requirements

Registration takes place as part of the dialogue-oriented service procedure (DoSV), initially through the Foundation for University Admission (hochschulstart.de). There, you will receive your applicant identification number (BID) and your applicant authentication number (BAN). With these numbers, please then apply online to the admissions office of Duisburg-Essen University.

Application deadlines: 15.07. each year for the winter semester

Prospective students from non-EU countries submit their application for the winter semester of each year to uni-assist by 15.06.

In recent years, all complete applications have been accepted in the move-up procedure.
For more information, please see our detailed degree course description.

Lecture period

Winter semester 2026/2027: 12.10.2026 - 05.02.2027The dates are inclusive of the first and last day specified.

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2026/2027)

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

Further languages

English

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