Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Uni Bielefeld

Universitätsstraße 25
33615 Bielefeld
Phone: +49 521 106-3831

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Basic information

Total number of students	1,790
Number of master degree students	275
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	5.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Score for offers before studies - Score	5/8 points
Score for offers at start of studies	9/14 points
Score for offers in the first year of studies	0/11 points
Total score for support in the study entry phase

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	97.2 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	39.5 %

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	3/11 points
International orientation, master's	10/11 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	2/10 points
Contact with work environment, master's	2/10 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	< 1
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	10.4 %
Share of professors with work experience

Research

International publications per scientist	0.8
Third party funds per academic	23.6 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.6

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	rank group not assignable
Support in studies	rank group not assignable
Courses offered	2.7
Study organisation	2.1
Exams	2.7
Research orientation	3.1
Job market preparation	3.2
Support for stays abroad	2.5
Rooms	2.4
Library	1.6 *
IT-infrastructure	2.1 *
Overall study situation	2.3

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exams
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation	2.3
Job market preparation
Support for stays abroad
Rooms
Library
IT-infrastructure
Overall study situation

Degree courses with details

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Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
In teaching, quantitative approaches are predominantly, though not exclusively, used. This is a result of the recognition that complex, interdependent economic facts can often be more precisely described and communicated using mathematical methods. In addition, we pursue three subjects – Business Administration, Economics and Methodology – in almost equal weighting in the Bachelor's and Master's courses in Economic Sciences. In the English-taught Master of Quantitative Economics, students can apply for the Erasmus Mundus programme QEM (Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics).
Special features regarding the international orientation
The Faculty of Economic Sciences has numerous international partnerships with various European universities. Credits earned at a university abroad can be recognised and integrated easily into the Bachelor or Master in Economic Sciences by selecting special modules. Students of the English-taught Master of Quantitative Economics can complete an Erasmus programme abroad. Students can also apply for the Erasmus Mundus programme QEM (Models and Methods of Quantitative Economics).
Common partner universities for exchange
Universidat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain; Universita`di Bologna, Italy; Københavns Universitet, Denmark; Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Pisa, Italy; University of Essex, England; École Supérieure de Commerce de Rennes, France; Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France; Université catholique de Louvain, France; Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
Special features regarding the equipment
Excellent library, lecture theatres with outstanding media equipment, very good hardware and software in all fields, functioning and broad electronic course catalogue, free WiFi across the campus for students, there are also approx. 300 public PC workstations in the University that have direct Internet access.
Special features regarding research activities
In research too, quantitative approaches are pursued in the case of theoretical and empirical projects in order to better describe and communicate interdependent economic facts using mathematical methods. In doing so, the level of Economic research is particularly prominent in various international rankings. The Faculty also offers an English-language Master's course in Quantitative Economics with a double degree.
Website with further information on research activities
www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/forschung
Support for founders
The Start-Up Management modules teaches fundamental subject-specific and methodological skills for start-up management. In several courses, students are thus given an overview of the central requirements in the start-up process, as well as of the possible “tools” and/or alternative approaches to meet those requirements. Not least, these skills are consolidated on the basis of this insight into the start-up practice. Bachelor and Master students can take the module as part of “Individual Supplementation”.
Characteristics of assistance to differently abled persons
The Faculty has a decentralised representative for students with disabilities or chronic illness, who looks after the requirements of students with chronic health issues.
Characteristics of diversity advancement
The University of Bielefeld offers a comprehensive range of assistance and advisory services for students and staff to promote diversity in terms of gender, nationality, ethnic and socio-cultural origin, religion, beliefs, disability or (chronic) illness, age and sexual orientation.
Other special features
The Faculty is committed to familiarising young high performers at an early stage of life with the region and its companies through its programme Best Undergraduates to Bielefeld University in cooperation with a series of companies in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe region. Particularly successful secondary-school graduates and students complete an intensive advancement programme (BU2BU); Endowed chair of Business Administration – Management of Family Businesses since September 2015; The Faculty has close staff-based connections to the Institute of Mathematical Economics.