Business and Economics
Business and Economics (B.A.)
The bachelor’s degree program in Business and Economics offers a broad and in-depth education in the fields of economics and management. As a prospective economist, you will learn to understand and analyze economic relationships in order to develop successful strategies for business management, marketing, financing or even trade and investment policy.
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Duration of studies in semester
- 6
- Start of degree program
- Winter semester
- Study location
- Erlangen
- Number of students
- 50-150
- Subject group
- Economic and Social Sciences, Law
- Special ways to study
- 2-subject Bachelor, Part-time degree program, Cooperative Bachelor’s degree program
- Teaching language
- completely in German
- Admission Requirements
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Keywords
- Business Administration, Business And Economics, Economics, Business
What is the degree program about?
In the Bachelor’s degree program in Business and Economics, you will acquire fundamental knowledge of economics and the relevant methods. The program prepares you for careers in industrial and service companies, administration, associations and political parties. Throughout the program, fundamental basic knowledge in business administration and economics is combined with a second subject, equipping graduates for a wide variety of occupational fields.
In business administration, questions from the fields of marketing, production and procurement, organizational management, strategic corporate management and corporate accounting are studied in depth. In economics, the focus is on economic policy contexts, especially monetary and fiscal policy, social and labor market and financial policy in Germany and the European Union.
Specifically, you will deal with the fundamentals of economics, in which partly mathematically formalized models are used to analyze the behavior of individuals and households in economic decisions. That apart, you will also examine central macroeconomic relationships such as the emergence of unemployment or inflation, and you will learn what determines long-term economic growth. These topics are explored in depth in specialist lectures and in the basic seminars in economics and applied to current issues, such as the causes and effects of the global financial crisis as well as the debt crisis in the euro zone or the significance of demographic change.
You will also learn important basics in business administration, including management, logistics, marketing and financing. In addition, you will receive training in the basics of business accounting and an overview of important legal principles for economists.
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Business and Economics can only be studied in combination with another subject in the Bachelor’s degree program. This means it can be studied in this degree program either as the first subject with 70 ECTS credits plus the Bachelor thesis with 10 ECTS credits or as the second subject with 70 ECTS credits and the Bachelor thesis in the other subject.
The degree program focuses on the following subjects:
- Economics
- Business Administration
- Macroeconomics
- Microeconomics
- Management Accounting
- Statistics
- Public Law and Civil Law
- Private Business Law
- Specialization modules from business administration and economics
In the one-year orientation phase you will acquire fundamental knowledge about the contents and methods of economics. This is concluded by a preliminary examination (“Grundlagen- und Orientierungsprüfung”), for which achievements (modules) amounting to 20 ECTS points must be completed. The ECTS credits acquired in Economics together with the corresponding ECTS credits from the other subject must add up to at least 40 ECTS credits after the second semester.
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FAU’s degree program in Business and Economics is suitable for students who
- An interest in current business and economic issues
- Enjoyment in dealing with complex, controversial and current economic issues
- Have the ability to work independently with (specialist) literature, also in English, on various topics
- Are willing to learn and understand analytical economic models
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Particular emphasis is placed on teaching skills that can be used in a variety of ways as well as communication skills and the ability to reflect. However, the program also prepares graduates for various careers in fields such as
- Industrial and service companies
- Administration and in associations and political parties
Combining this with a second subject from the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology opens up special career prospects for graduates. On the one hand, you learn the foundations of economics, and on the other, you also gain knowledge in you other subject, such as methods in sociology or a foreign language. This allows you to gain broad fundamental knowledge.
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- Business and Economics uses an abstract way of thinking that students must first become accustomed to.
- Many models in Business and Economics are expressed in mathematical formulas.
- At the beginning of the degree program in particular, a great deal of content is taught in large general lectures, but the material is also covered in tutorials in small groups.
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Possible combinations without overlaps
- Archaeological Sciences
- Art History
- Book Studies
- Chinese Studies
- Cultural History of Christianity
- Education
- English and American Studies
- French Studies
- German studies
- Greek Philology
- Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Studies
- Islamic Religious Studies
- Islamic Religious Studies
- Latin Philology
- Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin
- Oriental Studies
- Political Science
- Scandinavian Studies (BA)
- Sociology
- Theater and Media Studies
With these subject combinations, there are generally no overlaps in the timetable.
Possible overlaps in the timetable
- Computational Linguistics
- Digital Humanities and Social Sciences
- Geography: Cultural Geography as a two subject Bachelor's degree program
- History
- Indo-European and Indo-Iranian Studies
- Japanese Studies
- Philosophy
If you combine these subjects, individual courses may overlap in your timetable. For this reason, you can only combine the following subjects with your chosen subject after a consultation. Students are responsible for ensuring that the combination can be studied and that the deadlines set out in Section 11 of the ABMStPOPhil are met. When enrolling, proof of a corresponding consultation with the Central Student Advisory Service or the Student Service Center (Faculty of Humanities, Social Studies, and Theology) must be submitted.
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- Admission requirements (first semester)
- No Admissions Restrictions
- Application deadline winter semester
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30.09.
Language skills
- German language skills for international applicants
- DSH 2 (written 2 / oral 1) or equivalent
- Details and notes
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The application deadline for the winter semester for international applicants is July 15th.
In addition to the general qualification for university entrance (Abitur), there are other access options for studying at FAU.
Do you need help or more information?
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