Business Administration
Help companies succeed. From purchasing to production, sales, or controlling, finance, HR, invoicing, or taxes: as a commercial employee, you can help shape all levels of the corporate supply chain. During the degree program, you will gain a practice-oriented education on how to optimize and further develop corporate processes. Sustainably and digitally.
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A Degree Program with a Future
You can also complete this degree program while you work, or expand it with an internship semester. This will allow you to gain practical experience. This may extend the duration of the program.
You must have one of the following qualifications:
- General university entrance qualification (Abitur)
- Subject-specific university entrance qualification
- Technical college entrance qualification
- Vocational qualification
The six-week internship must be completed by the end of the third semester (the last day of February).
German language proficiency: C1
1st Semester
Required modules
- Fundamentals of Private Commercial Law
- Business Mathematics
- Introduction to Business Administration
- Introduction to Production Management
- Introduction to External Accounting
2nd Semester
Required modules
- Introduction to Business Informatics
- Business Statistics
- Marketing
- Management Accounting
- Microeconomics
3rd Semester
Required modules
- Business and Commercial English
- Data Analytics
- Corporate Investment and Finance
- Introduction to Controlling
- Macroeconomics
4th Semester
Required Modules
- Human Resource Management
- Choice of Legal Form and Taxation
- Economic Research
2 required-elective modules from a specialization area
5th Semester
Required modules
- Finance
- Business Organization
- Seminar on Business Administration
2 elective modules from a specialization area
6th semester
Required modules
- Digital Business Management in the Smart Economy
- Management in Practice
1 elective module from a specialization area
Bachelor’s Thesis
- Bachelor's Thesis in Business Administration
- Business Administration Colloquium
Create your own personalized academic profile:
By carefully selecting five elective modules and choosing the topic of your bachelor’s thesis, you’ll specialize in one of three attractive career fields—and receive a corresponding certificate in addition to your bachelor’s degree:
- Business Management
- Operations & Sales Management
- Finance, Accounting, Controlling & Taxes
You can find detailed information about the certificates here.
- Professional expertise, in particular general training in all business administration fields and on the fundamentals of economics
- Methodological expertise, in particular mathematical, statistical, legal and general scientific
- Self-competence, in particular self-organization and self-reflection
- Social competence, especially teamwork and critical faculties
As a graduate in business administration, you will enjoy a diverse range of career prospects:
- General management of companies,
- Marketing and sales, including sustainability management,
- Controlling and cost management,
- Production management,
- Finance and accounting,
- Acquisition management,
- Company-wide data analysis (data analytics),
- Corporate tax department or tax advising,
- Corporate auditing (auditing department)
- Project management,
- Corporate consulting,
- Higher civil service in public administration and
- as the founder or successor of a company.
We cooperate with mid-sized production companies from a variety of industries, such as the
- Metalworking and electronics industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Food production
- Chemicals and plastics industry
- Service providers
- Auditing firms
- Tax and corporate consulting
- The Smart economy is our guiding idea
- Digitization and digital transformation
- Innovative, sustainable ways of doing business
... the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
- directly to decent work and economic growth
- directly to industry, innovation and infrastructure
- directly to reduced inequalities
- directly to responsible consumption and production
- directly to life on land
- directly to partnerships for the goals
Studying at Innovation Campus Lemgo
At the Innovation Campus in Lemgo, you’ll study at one of the most exciting technology hubs in North Rhine-Westphalia. Here you’ll find state-of-the-art laboratories and classrooms, as well as science-to-business factories. Take, for example, the Centrum Industrial IT, where companies from across the OWL region have established branches. Or the Smart Factory OWL, which demonstrates data and AI management. At the Future Food Factory OWL—unique in Europe—similar activities take place, this time focused on food production. New Work and knowledge transfer converge at InnovationSPIN. Here, TH OWL, the district administration, and the skilled trades demonstrate transparent collaboration and a spirit that fosters innovation. In addition to the Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, the campus is also home to two vocational colleges as well as the Bundesliga handball club TBV Lemgo-Lippe. And best of all: the campus features student housing just a short walk from the university and downtown.
Information
Only the details of the currently valid examination regulations of the degree program as published in the promulgation gazette are authoritative and legally binding. You can find the announcement sheets here.
Contact and Counseling
- Our Central Student Advisory Service answers questions about studying at the university
- Offers for study orientation
- Get to know your faculty!
- Click here to go to the subject-specific student advisory service of the faculty
- Apply via our KIS portal!
- Information on the enrollment procedure is available from the Enrollment Office
- Studying abroad? Our International Office is there for you!
Still unanswered questions?
Our Student Service Center will answer all your questions about studying at TH OWL as well as about application and enrollment:
Phone: +49 5261 702 2534
E-mail: studierendenservice(at)th-owl.de
Service hours: Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.