Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät at the Uni Passau

Uni Passau

Innstraße 27
94032 Passau
Phone: +49 851 509 2401

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Basic information

Total number of students	50 *
Number of master degree students	50
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	10.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	5.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees	no data
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	78.9 % *

International orientation

Outgoing students

4.0 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	1.2 %
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	8.5 %
Share of professors with work experience	80.0 %

Research

Publications per professor	Points per professor within the range 1,1 to 1,7
Third party funds per academic	11.1 T€
Doctorates per professor	0.4
Research reputation	< 1%

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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Job market preparation
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Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support	1.4
Support in studies	1.5
Courses offered	1.4
Study organisation	1.2
Transition to Master's studies	1.4
Research orientation	1.3
Support for stays abroad	1.7
Overall study situation	1.2

Degree courses with details

International Economics and Business (M.Sc.)

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

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About the subject

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Economics in Passau is particularly strong in research. Publications in A+ and A- journals and frequency of citation are of a particularly high level. This sound research level is integrated into the Master's courses. As a result, an especially large number of Master IEB graduates move on to doctoral studies. The link to practice is influential thanks to the empirical approach of research and teaching.
Special features regarding the international orientation
Economics in Passau is international renowned and well-networked where research is concerned. This opens Master IEB students doors to work placements and semesters abroad. International professors regularly visit for seminar presentations that Master IEB students attend.
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Porto/Lisboa, Portugal; Università degli Studi di Firenze; Università degli Studi di Torino; Universität Oulu, Finnland; Université des Sciences Sociales, Toulouse, Frankreich;Wirtschaftsuniversität Prag, Tschechien; Türk-Alman Üniversitesi; Ege University, Izmir, Türkei; Corvinus Universität, Budapest, Ungarn; Higher School of Economics, Moskau, Russland; Karlsuniversität CERGE-IE, Prag, Tschechien.
Special features regarding the equipment
Access to experimental research laboratory. Special software "classEx" allows for the realisation of lab-in-the-field experiments and integrates interactive modules into teaching. Contact with German economic research institutes allows access to multiple databases.
Special features regarding research activities
In the areas of Development Economics, Experimental Macroeconomics, Education Economics, Family Economics, Corruption Research, Globalisation, diverse involvement in ongoing national and international research projects.
Support for founders
Founders' Café: Goal: Start-up interests, investors and start-up experts meet regularly; forum for questions about your own start-ups; promotion of start-up of the transfer centre; events for students and young researchers (5-euro business competition, Gründerwoche Deutschland, Gründerwerkstatt); Wilhelminian era: Students who want to establish their own business while studying can take a leave of absence for 2 semesters if supervised by the transfer centre.
Further information on research activities
http://www.wiwi.uni-passau.de/forschung/