Bachelor of Arts

Part-time corporate management (Austria)

Cooperation for prospective managers with the IBS Academy Vienna. The focus is on personnel management, new technologies, internationalization and management systems.

Bachelor's degree in Business Management Austria

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Faculty: Economic Sciences and Industrial Engineering
Location: Zittau, Vienna
Degree: Bachelor of Arts
Standard period of study: 5 semesters, part-time
ECTS points: 180
Enrollment for: Winter and summer semester, depending on demand
Cooperation partner: IBS Academy Vienna, Austria

The Austrian economy is often made up of small and medium-sized enterprises, ranging from traditional craft businesses to high-tech companies. And that's not all: Austria wants to become the most startup-friendly country in Europe by 2020 and is therefore supporting startups with a whole bundle of measures. It is clear that anyone who wants to be successful as an entrepreneur in the SME sector today should not only understand numbers, but also want to shape things and be open to new approaches and ideas. With the part-time Bachelor's degree program in Business Management - a cooperation between the University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz and the IBS Academy in Vienna - you have the opportunity to expand your practical experience with future-oriented management methods or to gain a foothold in a wide variety of business sectors. The focus of the program is on human resource management, new technologies, internationalization and the application of different management systems.

Your course content in the Bachelor's degree program in Business Management

1st semester
  • Mathematics I
  • General Business Administration
  • Fundamentals of Economics I
  • Law I (basics of private commercial law)
  • Business informatics I (basics of information and communication systems, database systems)
  • Fundamentals of General Science (AWG) / Accounting
2nd semester
  • Accounting I (annual financial statements)
  • Accounting II (cost accounting and basics of controlling)
  • Performance management
  • Business Informatics II (IT application systems, selection of standard software, IT management)
  • Corporate management/organizational
    management
  • Business English B2
3rd semester
  • Business law
  • Descriptive statistics
  • Investment/Financing
  • Business ethics/business history
  • Business English (comprehension)
4th semester
  • Project management/knowledge management
  • Management/Human Resource Management
  • Corporate culture/conflict management
  • Management systems
5th semester
  • Company analysis
  • Annual financial statements and corporate taxation
  • Security management
  • Controlling
  • Research project I
6th semester
  • Marketing for SMEs
  • Internationalization / regionalization in SMEs
  • Information and communication technology for SMEs
  • Production planning/logistics
  • personnel management
7th semester
  • Scientific work and methods seminar
  • Research project II
  • Final module (Bachelor thesis and defense)
  • Admission requirements

    You have a state-recognized qualification:

    • a commercial academy or vocational secondary school (BHS) in Austria
    • a secondary school for business or tourism professions in Austria
    • as a business economist in Germany

    The degree can be credited with up to 60 ECTS points. If there are fewer ECTS points , the missing points must first be earned through full-time business studies at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences.

  • Target group

    The part-time Bachelor's degree course in Business Management is aimed at professionals who have successfully completed training in the fields of commerce, business or tourism and generally want to qualify for management roles.

    You should be interested in taking a holistic view of business processes and have an understanding of figures as well as a high level of stamina. In addition, you should be prepared to actively incorporate the course content into your everyday working life or your practical experience in the classroom.

  • Study content

    The Business Management degree program includes online lectures (20 percent), which are held live, as well as attendance phases (80 percent), which enable direct exchange with your lecturers and fellow students.

    You can expect the following modules, among others:

    • Controlling
    • Information and communication technology for SMEs
    • Internationalization/regionalization in SMEs
    • Investment/Financing
    • Annual financial statements and corporate taxation
    • Management/personnel management
    • Management systems
    • Marketing for SMEs
    • Personnel management
    • Production planning/logistics
    • Business analysis
    • Business simulation
    • Business English (comprehension)
    • Business law
  • Study program
    • 1st to 3rd semester: Basic studies
    • 4th semester: Specialization: Management in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)
    • 5th semester: Business simulation, Bachelor's thesis and defense
  • Study objective

    The degree course is offered with the aim of training specialists for use in corporate management. It is characterized by an interdisciplinary form of acquiring skills and teaching material.

    This gives students the opportunity to

    • qualify at an academic level while working,
    • acquire generalist knowledge for the management of companies and
    • develop their methodological, communicative and personal skills in addition to their business management expertise.
  • Tuition fees

    The tuition fee is a minimum of 8,945 euros (with credit for prior knowledge) and a maximum of 11,948 euros (without credit for prior knowledge). The costs include: Registration fee, access to the online learning platform, digital scripts, examination fee and assessment of the Bachelor's thesis. You will not incur any further expenses during the course of your studies.

  • Career prospects

    As a graduate of the part-time Bachelor's degree course in Business Management, you are qualified as a future manager with a focus on small and medium-sized enterprises.

    You also have the opportunity to continue studying for a Master's degree to deepen your business management knowledge or specialize.

    Typical areas of employment for our previous graduates are:

    • Trading companies
    • technology companies
    • start-ups
    • Credit institutions
    • Business and tax consultancies
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Prof. Dr. rer. pol.
Mario Straßberger
Faculty of Business Administration and Industrial Engineering
02763 Zittau
Schliebenstr. 21
Building Z II, Room 116
1st floor
+49 3583 612-4678
Allgemeine Studienberatung
Madeleine Pohl
Department of Studies and International Affairs
02763 Zittau
Th.-Körner-Allee 16
Building Z I, Room 0.21
First floor
+49 3583 612-3055
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