Business Administration
Help companies succeed. From purchasing to production, sales, or controlling, finance, HR, invoicing, or taxes: as a commercial employee, you can help shape all levels of the corporate supply chain. During the degree program, you will gain a practice-oriented education on how to optimize and further develop corporate processes. Sustainably and digitally.
Your heart beats for...
A Degree Program with a Future
You can also complete this degree program while you work, or expand it with an internship semester. This will allow you to gain practical experience. This may extend the duration of the program.
You will bring one of the following educational backgrounds:
- General university entrance qualification (Abitur)
- Specialized university entrance qualification
- Advanced technical college certificate (Fachhochschulreife)
- Vocational qualification
The six-week internship must be completed by the end of the third semester (the last day in February of each year).
German language level: C1
1. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Fundamentals of private commercial law
- Business mathematics
- Introduction to Business Administration
- Introduction to Production Management
- Introduction to external accounting
2. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Introduction to Information Systems
- Business statistics
- Marketing
- Operational cost and performance accounting
- Microeconomics
3. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Business and Commercial English
- Data Analytics
- Business investment and financing
- Introduction to controlling
- Macroeconomics
4. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Human resources management
- Choice of legal form and taxation
- Economic work
Compulsory elective modules
- Specialization in controlling
- Specialization in external accounting
- Industrial economics
- Specialization in production management
- Basics of value added tax
- SAP business game
- Foreign trade
- Sustainability reporting
- N.N. 1*
4. Semester
5. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Financial management
- Business organization theory
- Seminar on business administration
Compulsory elective modules
- Employee management in practice
- Service Marketing
- International Markets
- Introduction to auditing
- Fundamentals of income taxes
- Business ethics and sustainability management
- Sales and distribution
- N.N. 2*
6. Semester
Compulsory modules
- Digital business management in the smart economy
- Management in practice
Compulsory elective modules
- Supplementary module (a module not yet taken
- from compulsory elective module group 1 or 2)
Bachelor's thesis
- Bachelor's thesis in business administration
- Business administration colloquium
- Professional expertise, in particular general training in all business administration fields and on the fundamentals of economics
- Methodological expertise, in particular mathematical, statistical, legal and general scientific
- Self-competence, in particular self-organization and self-reflection
- Social competence, especially teamwork and critical faculties
As a graduate in business administration, you will enjoy a diverse range of career prospects:
- General management of companies,
- Marketing and sales, including sustainability management,
- Controlling and cost management,
- Production management,
- Finance and accounting,
- Acquisition management,
- Company-wide data analysis (data analytics),
- Corporate tax department or tax advising,
- Corporate auditing (auditing department)
- Project management,
- Corporate consulting,
- Higher civil service in public administration and
- as the founder or successor of a company.
We cooperate with mid-sized production companies from a variety of industries, such as the
- Metalworking and electronics industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Food production
- Chemicals and plastics industry
- Service providers
- Auditing firms
- Tax and corporate consulting
- The Smart economy is our guiding idea
- Digitization and digital transformation
- Innovative, sustainable ways of doing business
... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- directly to decent work and economic growth
- directly to industry, innovation and infrastructure
- directly to reduced inequalities
- directly to responsible consumption and production
- directly to life on land
- directly to partnerships for the goals
Studying at Innovation Campus Lemgo
At the Innovation Campus in Lemgo, you will study at one of the most exciting technology locations in NRW. Here you will find state-of-the-art laboratories and teaching rooms as well as science-to-business factories. For example, the Centrum Industrial IT, in which companies from all over East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL) have their branches. Or the Smart Factory OWL, which showcases data and AI management. In the Future Food Factory OWL, which is unique in Europe, something similar is happening in relation to food production. New work and transfer meet at InnovationSPIN. Here, TH OWL, the district administration and the skilled trades demonstrate transparent cooperation and a spirit that allows new things to emerge. In addition to Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, the campus is also home to two vocational schools and the national handball league team TBV Lemgo-Lippe. And best of all, the campus also has student residence halls with short distances to the university and the city.
Information
Only the details of the currently valid examination regulations of the degree program as published in the promulgation gazette are authoritative and legally binding. You can find the announcement sheets here.
Contact and Counseling
- Our Central Student Advisory Service answers questions about studying at the university
- Offers for study orientation
- Get to know your department!
- Click here to go to the subject-specific student advisory service of the department
- Apply via our KIS portal!
- Information on the enrollment procedure is available from the Enrollment Office
- Studying abroad? Our International Office is there for you!
Still unanswered questions?
Our Student Service Center will answer all your questions about studying at TH OWL as well as about application and enrollment:
Phone: +49 5261 702 2534
E-mail: studierendenservice(at)th-owl.de
Service hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.