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Business Administration (B.A.)
Choose your form of study:
- Start: Winter semester
- Length of study: 6 semesters
- Degree: Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Courses: usually 4 days per week
- Teaching language: German or English
Study focus: Digital Business, Entrepreneurship & International Management
Are you passionate about business topics and megatrends such as digitalisation, globalisation and connectivity? You enjoy entrepreneurial thinking and are enthusiastic about marketing, finance and innovative and sustainable business ideas? Then you've come to the right place: study the new business administration at Dresden University of Applied Sciences! This Bachelor's degree programme opens up job prospects and career opportunities in management in all kinds of industries and companies worldwide.
Top 6 reasons for studying Business Administration at the FHD
Practical studies
We offer you a high level of practical relevance with an application orientation and at the same time sound and up-to-date theoretical knowledge. Case studies and specific practical projects allow you to try things out for yourself. During an internship in a company of your choice, you will develop the goal-oriented action and problem-solving skills you have learned.
Diverse career opportunities
Whether it's HR management, marketing, logistics or controlling - you are ideally equipped for numerous functions and management tasks in companies. This allows you to try out different companies while you are still studying, without committing yourself straight away. Our compact teaching times provide the necessary scope for this. Thanks to the international orientation, you can also pursue a career worldwide.
Fokus on sustainability
Sustainability is an overarching cross-cutting theme throughout your studies. Whether economic, social or ecological aspects - you will learn about responsible management and modern leadership in all areas. In your own projects, you will create concepts for new products and processes and further develop existing business models.
High success rate
Thanks to their practical orientation, our alumni have above-average job market opportunities and usually secure a job before the end of their studies. Companies as employers are particularly enthusiastic about the methods and tools that graduates bring with them from their studies at the FHD. This enables you to enter the world of work straight away, leading directly to your dream job.
At eye level and individual support
At the FHD, you are not an anonymous number. Our professors get to know you over the course of your studies and support your individual strengths and potential. The exchange is always at eye level. You actively participate in small groups and develop your skills. This is how you learn teamwork naturally during your studies.
Attractive location
You will study in an exceptionally attractive city, where numerous companies from various sectors as well as consultancies and associations are represented. This means you can easily gain your first professional experience alongside your studies and at the same time have an exciting cultural offer and many nearby excursion destinations with moderate housing costs.
The most important facts at a glance
What you learn during your studies: Tailored course content
What you can expect during your studies: Future-oriented study program profile
Against the backdrop of the digital transformation, established companies are having to evolve at an ever faster pace to safeguard their competitiveness. Young companies are entering the markets with new business models. Entire industries are in a state of upheaval. In a digitized economy, therefore, leaders are needed who can grasp complex interrelationships and develop cross-disciplinary, disruptive, and sustainable solutions. In the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Business Administration, we train you with excellent business skills and offer you opportunities to develop into a proactive decision-maker with an entrepreneurial spirit.
In the Business Administration program, you will initially acquire basic business knowledge that is taught in an application-oriented manner with close practical relevance. Building on this, the basic know-how is expanded to include functional aspects of business administration, from supply chain management to marketing, as well as sub-areas of the value circulation sphere such as investment, financing and controlling. The learned core competencies are linked to current trends and are consolidated by methods as well as tools from science and practice. Guest lectures and excursions serve to reflect on the knowledge and help establish contacts with the business world. Only professors and lecturers with relevant practical experience teach at Dresden University of Applied Sciences. Through small study groups and the exchange with the lecturers at eye level, individual support is strengthened.
In addition, you will acquire key qualifications, e.g. in Business English, as well as modern analysis methods and social skills.Interdisciplinary projects and modules incorporate content from other disciplines such as computer science and design.The program is rounded out by elective courses to help you develop your individual profile.
What jobs are open to you: Career prospect
Upon successful completion of the program, you will receive the internationally recognized Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (B.A.).With this degree, you are optimally trained for the future challenges in management positions and able to proactively develop companies strategically at an international level.You work as a business all-rounder with individual core expertise and the ability to combine different disciplines with a view to the company's goals. In this way, you will increase economic success in the long term.
Our graduates take on functions such as:
- Marketing Manager
- Controller
- Business Analyst
- Business Developer
- Innovation Manager
- Logistics Manager
- Human Resources Manager
- Project Manager
- Financial Planner
- Management Consultant
- company founder
and many more.
The high level of qualification with a focus on Digital Business & Entrepreneurship as well as the practice-oriented profile of the Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Business Administration opens up the opportunity for you to immediately join companies as a management trainee and specialist expert, to set up your own company or to start further Master's programs.
Why you should invest in education: Fees & Funding
As a private university, we offer you many advantages and services from the first interest in a place at our university to your graduation - and beyond. With us, you are not just an anonymous matriculation number, but we accompany you individually, purposefully, supportively and challengingly on YOUR way through your studies.
In order to be able to offer you this high quality of study, we have to charge tuition fees. As a private university, the FHD is not supported by public funds, but has to finance itself completely.
Of course, there are various ways in which you can finance your studies. We will be happy to look at your individual situation and find solutions together.
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What you need: Study requirements & applicationung
You want to get started right away? You can apply at any time.
For the admission to the NC-free study program Business Administration Bachelor of Arts (B. A.) you need either
- the general university entrance qualification or
- the advanced technical college entrance qualification or
- a subject-related university entrance qualification (in the field of business or similar).
You also need to have a very good knowledge of German and a B1 level of English.
If you have any questions about the application process, please contact our student advising team.
Impressions
These companions will help you move forward
Studying is a great adventure in which you are not on your own. Here you will find key institutions and people who will accompany you on your journey through your studies, from your first contact to everyday life as a student right through to graduation.
Always approachable & competent: our professors & lecturers
Always at the cutting edge: our project and internship partners
The Business Administration program has an extensive cooperation network with partners from business, culture and research. We teach and research in a practice-oriented, interdisciplinary manner and incorporate the experience of our project partners into our teaching.In this way, we guarantee our students the current practical relevance of the teaching as well as a high scientific standard.
Always open to new ideas: Our International Office & university network
The FHD has a constantly growing international network of university partnerships. This means you can spend your semester abroad at one of our partner universities of your choice. Our International Office will guide you through the entire application process and advise you on accommodation, funding and any other questions you may have.
Paola Yaconis
Kontakt
Campus Straßburger Platz | Raum 108
Tel +49 351 44 45-417
p.yaconis@fh-dresden.eu
Always there for you: our student advisory service
Do you have questions and would like to find out more about studying at the FHD? We will be happy to advise you!
Jasmin Kellermann
Kontakt
Campus Straßburger Platz | Raum 108
Tel +49 351 44 45-444
studium@fh-dresden.eu