Occupational Fields

The occupational fields consist of compulsory subjects and moreover may also include electives. Regarding the electives, the Director of the Study Programme publishes a list of courses which can be completed for the respective modules, which are generally considered approved for the modules. If other courses are chosen, they must be approved in advance by the Director of the Study Programme.

The corresponding courses of the respective semester are listed in the course directory.

Students of the Bachelor's degree in Business Administration may specialize in the following Occupational Fields:

Occupational Field: Banking and Finance (24 ECTS)

  • UK Decision Theory (4 ECTS)
  • 2 of the following 4 courses (8 ECTS):
    • UK Special Topics in Banking and Finance: Corporate Finance (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Banking and Finance: Financial Markets (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Banking and Finance: International Finance (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Banking and Finance: Risk and Insurance (4 ECTS)
  • Econometrics (8 ECTS) - two options:
    • VO Linear Models (6 ECTS) + UE Linear Models (2 ECTS)
    • UK Introductory Econometrics (8 ECTS)
  • Electives (4 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Special Topics in Banking and Finance, which were not chosen in the scope of the compulsory courses
    • Applied Econometrics
    • Game Theory
    • Finance and Business Law (a list of the eligible courses can be found on the homepage of the Department of Finance)
    • Controlling
    • Accounting

Mainly offered by the Department of Finance

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase Module „ABWL: Financial Management"
    • Core Phase Module „Quantitative Methods"
    • UK Statistics 2 (selectable as an elective of the BA curriculum Economics)
    • Core Phase Module „Law" (provided that electives of the field of Law are chosen)

Occupational Field: Management and Consulting (24 ECTS)

  • VO Strategy (4 ECTS)
  • UK Organizational Structures and Processes (4 ECTS)
  • UK Human Resource Management (4 ECTS)
  • UK Game Theory (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Controlling
    • Innovation and Technology Management
    • Organization of the International Firm
    • Negotiations
    • Corporate Social Responsibility
    • Decision Theory
    • Behavioral Economics
    • Employment and Social Law
    • Legal Issues of Corporate Governance
    • Enterprise Modelling 
    • Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

Mainly offered by the Department of Business Decisions and Analytics and the Department of Finance.

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of the Core Phase Module „ABWL: Management"

Occupational Field: Marketing Management (24 ECTS)

  • UK Marketing Instruments A (4 ECTS)
  • UK Marketing Instruments B (4 ECTS)
  • UK Empirical Social Research (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (12 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Internet Marketing and Electronic Commerce
    • Innovation and Technology Management
    • Organization of the International Firm
    • Legal Issues of Electronic Commerce
    • Intellectual Property Rights
    • Unfair Competition and Antitrust Law
    • Organization Theory
    • Strategic Management

Contact: Judith Ladenstein

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase module „ABWL: Marketing"
    • VO Soziologie for Students of Economics and Business Administration of the Core Phase module „Sociology and Information Technology"

Occupational Field: Economics (24 ECTS)

  • UK Decision Theory (4 ECTS)
  • UK Game Theory (4 ECTS)
  • UK Introductory Econometrics (8 ECTS)
  • UK Principles Public Economics (8 ECTS)

Instead of taking the UK Decision Theory and the UK Game Theory, it is also possible to absolve UK Decision and Game Theory (12 ECTS), which is being offered within the scope of the undergraduate degree Economics.

Offered by the Department of Finance and the Department of Economics

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase module „Economics" 
    • Core Phase module „Quantitative Methods"
    • UK Statistics 2 (selectable as an elective of the BA curriculum Economics)

Occupational Field: Production, Logistics and SCM (24 ECTS)

  • Mandatory Subjects (16 ECTS) four of the following five lectures:
    • UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Transportation Logistics (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Production Management (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Business Game to Production Management (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Supply Chain Management (4 ECTS)
    • UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Softwaretools in Decision Support (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Special Topics in Production / Logistics / SCM, which were not completed as a mandatory subject
    • Innovation and Technology Management
    • Negotiations
    • Enterprise Modelling
    • Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
    • Interculturate Competence in Business
    • Empirical Social Research
    • Game Theory
    • Decision Theory

Mainly offered by the Department of Business Decisions and Analytics

Contact: Carina Artner-Konecny

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase module „ABWL: Production und Logistics"
    • Core Phase module „Quantitative Methods"
    • VO Information Technology of the Core Phase module „Sociology and Information Technology“

    • Before attending the course UK Special Topics in Production/Logistics/SCM: Softwaretools in Decision Support it is recommended to first complete an other course of „Special Topics in Produktion/Logistik/SCM".

Occupational Field: Public and Non-Profit Management (24 ECTS)

  • UK International Public Utility Management (4 ECTS)
  • SE International Public Utility Management (4 ECTS)
  • UK Quantitative Assessment of Public and Non-Profit Strategies I (4 ECTS)
  • UK Quantitative Assessment of Public and Non-Profit Strategies II (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Strategic Management
    • Innovation and Technology Management
    • Special Topics in Banking and Finance: Risk and Insurance
    • Corporate Social Responsibility of the International Firm
    • Organization Theory
    • Principles Public Economics
    • Empirical Social Research
    • Game Theory
    • Decision Theory
    • Accounting in Public Institutions according to International Standards
    • Public Market Authority
    • Collective and Association Law

Mainly offered by the Department of Business Decisions and Analytics and the Department of Finance

Contact: Sabine Grahsner

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase module „Quantitative Methods"
    • Core Phase module „Principles of Law"
    • UK Microeconomics of the Core Phase module „Economics"

Occupational Field: Cost Accounting (24 ECTS)

  • UK Special Issues of Financial Accounting (4 ECTS)
  • UK Legal Framework of Accounting and Financial Reporting (4 ECTS)
  • UK "Konzernrechnungslegung" (4 ECTS) or UK Group Accounting (4 ECTS)
  • UK Financial Accounting according to IFRS (I) (4 ECTS) or UK Accounting according to IFRS (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Business Taxation (advanced)
    • Managerial Accounting

Mainly offered by the Department of Accounting, Innovation and Strategy and the Department of Business Law

Contact: Veronika Moser

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase module „ABWL: Business Administration - Accounting" und
    • Core Phase module „Principles of Law"

Occupational Field: Business Informatics (24 ECTS)

  • UK Enterprise Modelling 1 (4 ECTS)
  • UK Enterprise Modelling 2 (4 ECTS)
  • UK Enterprise Resource Planning Systems 1 (4 ECTS)
  • UK Enterprise Resource Planning Systems 2 (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Marketing Instruments
    • Special Topics in Produktion/Logistik/SCM
    • Organisation Theory
    • Innovation and Technology Management
    • Intercultural Competence in Business
    • Business Communication
    • Taxation of Multinational Businesses
    • Business Taxation

Mainly offered by the Department of Business Decisions and Analytics
Contact: Carina Artner-Konecny

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    • Completion of the Core Phase Module „Sociology and Information Technology"

Occupational Field: Economic Law (24 ECTS)

  • UK Employment and Social Law (4 ECTS)
  • UK Public Commercial Law (4 ECTS)
  • UK Law of Corporate Groups (2 ECTS)
  • UK Law of Corporate Reorganisations and Restructuring (2 ECTS)
  • UK Law of Private Trusts (2 ECTS)
  • UK Collective and Association Law (2 ECTS)
  • Electives (8 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • Intellectual Property Rights
    • International Private and European Law
    • Private Law Enforcement
    • Financial Reporting Law
    • Taxation of Multinational Businesses
    • Taxation of Investments (basics)
    • Business Taxation
    • Legalm Principles of Controlling
    • Securities and Equity Market Law

Mainly offered by the Department of Economic Law

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase Module „Principles of Law"
    • Core Phase Module „Law"

Occupational Field: Business Statistics (24 ECTS)

  • VO Linear Models (6 ECTS)
  • UE Linear Models (2 ECTS)
  • UK Linear Models 2 (4 ECTS)
  • Electives (12 ECTS) in the following areas:
    • UK Applied Statistics (4 ECTS)
    • UK Time Series Analysis (8 ECTS)
    • UK Applied Econometrics 1 (4 ECTS)
    • UK Applied Econometrics 2 (4 ECTS)
    • UK Introduction to Insurance Mathematics (4 ECTS)
    • UK Introduction to Financial Mathematics (4 ECTS)
    • PR Econometric Software (2 ECTS)

Mainly offered by the Department of Statistics and Operations Research

Participation requirements

  • Successful completion of the Study Entry and Orientation Phase (Studieneingangs- und Orientierungsphase, StEOP)

  • Recommended prerequisites:
    Completion of
    • Core Phase Module „Quantitative Methods"
    • UK Statistics 2 (selectable as an elective of the BA curriculum Economics)

VO = Vorlesung (no continuous assessment, no compulsory attendance)
UK = Universitätskurs (continuous assessment, compulsory attendance)
KU = Kurs (continuous assessment, compulsory attendance)
UE = Übung (continuous assessment, compulsory attendance)
SE = Seminar (continuous assessment, compulsory attendance)
PR = Praktikum (continuous assessment, compulsory attendance)

Here you can find detailled information regarding the various types of courses.