Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaft

Uni Magdeburg

Universitätsplatz 2
39106 Magdeburg
Phone: +49 391 671-8585

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General remarks

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Basic information

Total number of students	320
Number of master degree students	215
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	10/14 points
Score for offers in the first year of studies	7/11 points
Total score for support in the study entry phase

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	82.1 %
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	69.2 %

International orientation

International orientation, bachelor's	3/11 points
International orientation, master's	7/11 points

Job market- and career-orientation

Contact with work environment, bachelor's	4/10 points
Contact with work environment, master's	4/10 points
Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	4.3 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	11.6 %
Share of professors with work experience

Research

Publications per year	The number of weighted publications per year is lower than 0,8
Third party funds per academic	11.7 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.3
Research reputation	1.2 %

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Teacher support	less than 15 answers
Support in studies	less than 15 answers
Courses offered	less than 15 answers
Study organisation	less than 15 answers
Exams	less than 15 answers
Research orientation	less than 15 answers
Job market preparation	less than 15 answers
Support for stays abroad	less than 15 answers
Rooms	less than 15 answers
Library	less than 15 answers
IT-infrastructure	less than 15 answers
Overall study situation	less than 15 answers

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered	2.1
Study organisation	1.7
Exams	2.8
Transition to Master's studies
Research orientation	2.5
Job market preparation
Support for stays abroad	2.0
Rooms	1.9
Library	2.4
IT-infrastructure	2.4
Overall study situation	2.0

Degree courses with details

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Specialised methodological, theoretical and empirical training. Mathematics, statistics, data analysis, econometrics, decision and game theory are used to identify optimal processes, incentive-compatible rules and observational decisions of consumers, investors, businesses and politics. Business administration and economics are closely integrated as part of the "Unity of Economic Science". Enhancement of cross-cultural and social skills is part of the curricula. Bachelor/Master/PhD programmes taught entirely in English; Constant quality monitoring through online teaching evaluations.
Special features regarding the international orientation
English-language degree programs from Bachelor and Master to PhD in economics and business administration. International Study Programme since 1997. Share of international students in ISP around 50%. Special services: ISP Office and Buddy Programme for new ISP students. Exchange programmes for all students with partner universities around the world. Studying abroad is recommended and encouraged by the faculty of all programmes. Regular events on studying abroad and recognition of international examination results. Throughout international research activities and cooperation.
Common partner universities for exchange
Xiamen University, China; University of Siena, Italy; University of Western Ontario, Canada; Universidad de Oviedo, Spain; Kedge Business School, France; University of Niigata, Japan; University of Economics in Wroclaw, Poland; National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan; Marmara Üniversitesi, Turkey
Special features regarding the equipment
Excellent teaching/research conditions, such as in experimental behavioural economics (MaXLab), consumer behaviour, financial engineering (FINTECHLAB), production planning, routing and storage optimisation. Library with online access to books and journals, as well economics and corporate databases. Department has 60 PC pool workstations that are state of the art. Modern faculty building that won architectural award and has full wireless coverage, as well as offices/classrooms/labs and faculty centre all in one building. Media rental (notebooks, projectors, etc.) at the dean's office of the department and the media centre.
Special features regarding research activities
Theoretically sophisticated, both socially and commercially relevant research. Selected priorities in the economics area: Economic happiness and satisfaction research, migration, neuro-, financial, labour, environmental and behavioural economics. Permanent partnership relations with the "Research Centre for Savings Bank Development", "Magdeburg Laboratory for Experimental Economics", "Centre for Brain Sciences" and the "Halle Leibniz Institute for Economic Research (IWH)," whose president and two department heads hold chairs in Magdeburg.
Research topics reflected in teaching
Economic Crisis - Causes, Effects and Consequences; Regulation of banking markets; Institutions of banking and financial market authorities; Financial Markets and Bank Management; Recent developments in the banking industry; Econometrics of Financial Intermediation; Microeconometric Tools for Labour Market Research and Policy Evaluation; Population and Family Economics; Future Economic Trends; Economic aspects of current environmental and climate policy; The economics of ecology; Measuring Happiness - The Economics of Well-Being; Gender-Bias in the Publishing Process.
Website with further information on research activities
www.fww.ovgu.de/-p-55
Support for founders
The faculty has a Chair in Entrepreneurship. It forms the institutional core of a larger start-up and transfer-oriented "Interaction Centre". Both start-up research and specific start-up assistance are provided here. Through joint professorships, start-up activities grounded in engineering sciences are supervised, "ego incubators" receive business administration support, etc. Furthermore, the department's curriculum offers a rich variety of courses on preparing business plans, entrepreneurial decisions and actions.
Characteristics of assistance to differently abled persons
Easily accessible, centrally located department building, convenient parking; Flexible optimisation of study and exam procedures, customised individually ("equalisation of disadvantages"), such as extensions on projects and exams, technical aids, etc.; Curricula that can be adapted in line with individual's respective disability; OVGU has a representative for students with health problems and/or disabilities. All departments have their contact persons, as does, of course, the Department of Economic Sciences.
Characteristics of diversity advancement
The department, like OVGU overall, represents an open university culture characterised by transparency. It views competent handling of diversity and cultural diversity as an enrichment of university life and shared potential in general. Neither individual nor structural discrimination and disadvantages are tolerated, but instead addressed openly, visibly and thus rendered modifiable. In this context, the university is committed to equal opportunities for all university members in terms of education and living conditions.