Following the Bologna guidelines on European university education, the course is structured so that 30 credit points (ECTS) should be achieved every semester. The different modules in the Master's programme add up to 120 ECTS:
Compulsory Elective Modules in Business Administration (18 ECTS points)
You can choose one of three focal areas in business administration, which includes modules teaching in-depth application skills and the ability to further develop solutions in the respective area:
- Accounting and Finance: internal and external accounting as well as decision and investment theory
- Market-Oriented Management: a market-oriented perspective on companies
- Information and Innovation Management: a resource-based perspective on companies
Compulsory Elective Modules in Computer Science and Mathematics (24 to 30 ECTS points)
From the long list of electives in computer science and mathematics, you can select modules according to your own interests, thereby deepening and broadening your competencies and knowledge from the Bachelor's programme.
Compulsory Elective Modules in Business Informatics (18 to 24 ECTS points)
You can deepen your knowledge and competencies in business informatics by selecting from our long list of electives covering a variety of knowledge areas. To broaden your own profile, it is also possible to acquire competencies in knowledge areas of business informatics that you have not yet taken in your Bachelor’s programme.
Practical and Seminar Modules (24 to 27 ECTS points)
This study area serves to deepen your practice-oriented scientific skills. These include competencies essential for business informatics specialists to carry out a research project in a group work, usually involving modelling, management and quality assurance in an extensive software project. In one or two seminar modules, you can sharpen your profile as well as practice to compare and evaluate research results. In a dedicated module you learn and practice techniques of scientific work in business informatics in an individual project.
Master's Thesis (30 ECTS points)
The final phase of the course is the Master's thesis. Students apply the skills acquired during the taught part of the programme. You will work on your own research project under the guidance of an experienced professor.