Management of Mid-Sized Companies
This master’s program will allow you to deepen your expertise: whether in financial, production, or project management or marketing, taxes or corporate leadership. As a commercial manager, you will take on responsibility for and further develop all processes along the company's value creation chain. 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.
The degree already earned must include at least coursework in the following areas and scopes:
- Business administration 70 credits
- Economics 10 credits
- Quantitative methods (in particular mathematics, statistics, operations research) including business informatics 25 credits
- Business English 5 credits
- Bachelor's thesis 10 credits (the credits of the bachelor's thesis are not counted towards the other study components)
If credit points of up to 20 credits are missing, the examination board may, in consultation with the candidate, determine which additional achievements from the bachelor's degree program in business administration must be completed as a further prerequisite for enrollment. The additional achievements must be proven at the latest when registering for the Master's thesis and are not taken into account in the calculation of the final Master's grade.
German language level: C1
1. Semester
- Business administration of mid-sized companies
- Financial management
- Corporate tax planning
- Advanced business and commercial English
- Business administration internship semester Part I
2. Semester
- Strategic HR management
- Business administration internship semester Part II
- Production management
- Empirical business research
- Competition policy (elective)
- Corporate succession and restructuring management (elective)
3. Semester
- Project management
- International marketing
- Market research and customer behavior
- Corporate management and controlling (elective)
- HR management (elective)
4. Semester
- Sustainable corporate governance (elective)
- Supply chain management (elective)
- Master thesis
- Colloquium
Wahlmodul
- Competition policy
- Corporate succession and restructuring management
- Corporate management and corporate controlling
- HR management
- Sustainable corporate governance
- Supply chain management
- Commercial specialist and methodological expertise, in particular skills on supporting and analyzing complex corporate projects (such as financial and HR planning, including investment calculation methods and corporate tax planning, production planning, change management, sustainability management)
- Personal competence, in particular self-organization and self-reflection
- Social skills, in particular the ability to work on a team and critical thinking skills
As a master of management in mid-sized companies, you will enjoy a diverse range of career prospects:
- Junior manager in finance and accounting, including non-financial reporting
- Junior manager in controlling and production management
- Junior manager in HR
- Junior manager in marketing and strategic management
- Commercial management
- Project manager in a company or corporate consulting
- Junior manager in public administration
- founder of your own company
- Successor in an existing company
We cooperate with mid-sized production companies from a variety of industries
- Metalworking and electronics industry
- Mechanical engineering
- Food production
- Service providers
- Corporate consulting firms
- 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 will study at one of the most exciting technology locations in NRW. Here you will find state-of-the-art laboratories and teaching rooms as well as science-to-business factories. For example, the Centrum Industrial IT, in which companies from all over East Westphalia-Lippe (OWL) have their branches. Or the Smart Factory OWL, which showcases data and AI management. In the Future Food Factory OWL, which is unique in Europe, something similar is happening in relation to food production. New work and transfer meet at InnovationSPIN. Here, TH OWL, the district administration and the skilled trades demonstrate transparent cooperation and a spirit that allows new things to emerge. In addition to Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, the campus is also home to two vocational schools and the national handball league team TBV Lemgo-Lippe. And best of all, the campus also has student residence halls with short distances to the university and the city.
Information
Contact and Counseling
- Our Central Student Advisory Service answers questions about studying at the university
- Offers for study orientation
- Get to know your department!
- Click here to go to the subject-specific student advisory service of the department
- 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.