Bachelor´s of Digital Business and IT Management

The Bachelor's degree program Digital Business and IT Management appeals in particular to young people with a technical interest who want a business education in an innovative and creative field of activity. The aim is to train students professionally for project activities, project and IT management or for founding start-ups.

In the first semesters, the program includes both broad business knowledge and basic IT knowledge. In the higher semesters, the focus is on deepening knowledge. This ensures a broad business and IT-specific basic qualification for the area of digital transformation and keeps numerous options open for students to specialize later in the areas of business informatics, IT, business administration or digitalization and innovation management.

 

Structure and Content of the Study Program

Semesters 1-4: Basics

During the first four semesters of studying, the students gain basic knowledge in the fields of business, economics and a broad overview over IT specific fields. Furthermore, they attend classes in Business Law, Academic Writing and Business English as well as Software Design, Social Media Management and various classes on programming.

Semester 5: Specialization of IT knowledge

During their fifth semester students attend compulsory modules in Management and Technologies of Digital Transformation and they have the opportunity to choose an elective module in an area of interest.

Semester 6: Company Internship and Bachelor Thesis

During the sixth semester students have the opportunity to look into working fields of Digital Business during their compulsory Internship. The second half of the semester is dedicated to the students Bachelor thesis, which is followed by a defense. 

 

Career Prospects

The students are professionally trained for project activities, project and IT management or for founding startups. Graduates of the degree program possess competencies that enable them to understand the background and working methods of the digital transformation in terms of its economic impact, and to be able to help shape it in its entirety. Due to the high quality of the education, you will be prepared for management tasks. The career prospects are excellent in terms of labor market data and offer a very broad selection of different fields of work.

Other possible prospects are a graduate study in a Master´s degree.