Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät - FIM at the Uni Augsburg

Kernkompetenzzentrum Finanz- und Informationsmanagement

Uni Augsburg

Universitätsstraße 12
86159 Augsburg
Phone: +49 821 598-4800

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General remarks

The results for Finance and Information Management which is offered in cooperation with Uni Bayreuth and der TU Munich are shown separately here. The other business studies programmes of this department are can be found here. This department is also featured in the U-Multirank world university rankings.

Basic information

Total number of students	100 *
Number of master degree students	100
Percentage of teaching by practitioners	35.0 %
Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's	35.0 %

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

Results of study

Graduations in appropriate time, undergraduate degrees
Graduations in appropriate time, master's	100.0 % *

International orientation

Outgoing students

25.0 %

Job market- and career-orientation

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment	no data
Master theses in cooperation with work environment	71.1 %
Share of professors with work experience	33.0 %

Research

Publications per professor	results will be added later on
Third party funds per academic	178.5 T€
Doctorates per professor	1.8
Research reputation

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

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

Students' assessments on consecutive master's degree courses

Teacher support	1.1
Support in studies	1.1
Courses offered	1.2
Study organisation	1.1
Transition to Master's studies	1.2
Research orientation	1.1
Support for stays abroad	1.3
Overall study situation	1.1

Degree courses with details

Finance and Information Management (M.Sc. with honors)

Degree courses without details

Further degree courses of the department

none

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Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching
Interdisciplinary methods and skills from the fields, Business Administration, Financial Mathematics, Financial Management, Data Analytics, Business Informatics and Energy and Resource Management; contents are examined from both a practical and a research perspective; basic training in all subject areas as part of the core courses; individual profiling afterwards as part of the elective courses; soft skill training for interdisciplinary skills, such as leadership, teamwork, self-reflection, presentation technique.
Special features regarding the international orientation
International orientation with a wide range of research collaborations around the world; internationally operating partner companies; possibility of a stay at a foreign partner university; opportunity for internships in an international context and abroad; courses (e.g. Financial Econometrics) and guest lectures (e.g. Nicolas Berente) held by foreign professors or practitioners; numerous cooperations and projects of the participating universities to organise stays abroad (Erasmus, TUM-Exchange, ...).
Exchange universities for stay abroads
Stanford University; MIT Center for Collective Intelligence; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Queensland University of Technology; Notre Dame University; University of Toronto; National University of Singapore; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Calgary.
Special features regarding the equipment
All seminar rooms and lecture halls of the faculty are equipped with projectors. Some seminar rooms are equipped with SMART boards. In addition, students can use the computer hardware with the latest hardware and software (colour and black and white laser printers, scanners, burners, literature management software, Microsoft products, simulation software, online journal database, numerous online databases for literature research) at the universities of Augsburg, Bayreuth and from the Technical University of Munich.
Special features regarding research activities
In the course of seminar papers, "individual research" phases or final theses, students can work on questions from ongoing research projects in the department. For example, you have the opportunity to carry out a comprehensive analysis of the current state of research, to support the design and implementation of laboratory experiments and surveys, as well as to perform factor analysis and other methods of data analysis. Many students also initiate their own research projects under the scientific supervision of participating professors.
Support for founders
The department supports students with start-up projects. Current examples: Integreat: Founded in 2015 by Daniel Kehne as a FIM student while still studying under the scientific guidance of Prof. Krcmar; Celonis: Former FIM student Bastian Nominacher, along with the other founders of the Munich start-up, was awarded 1st place in the Federal President's Future Prize for their successful process mining software; Deepset: The startup founded by former FIM students is committed to the efficient application of NLP in practice.
Further information on research activities
https://www.fim-rc.de/forschung/
Information on access restrictions
http://www.fim-master.de/