Elective Area

With 100 credit points, the compulsory elective area of the Master's in Business Administration covers practically the entire course and thus offers excellent opportunities for in-depth study and specialization.

Basic structure

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• The modules in the compulsory elective area are assigned to areas and profiles.
• The areas form the flexible basic structure of the compulsory elective area. Various soft point limits apply to them.
• With the profiles within the areas, you can set further accents in your study focus.

Modules

The full range of compulsory elective modules can be found in the table Modules of the compulsory elective area on the Study Documents website.

There you can also see which areas and profiles the modules belong to. Some modules are represented in several areas and/or profiles at the same time due to their suitability in terms of content - see the modules highlighted in green or red in the diagram of the basic structure. They are then primarily assigned to the thematically closest profile and subordinate to one or more other profile(s).

You can find out what content and qualification objectives, forms of teaching and examinations the modules contain in the module handbook (Annex 1 SO) on the Study Documents website.

Fields

The Master's in Business Administration has five areas: Business Administration, Methods and Procedures, Presentation and Discussion, Research Design and Supplementary Qualifications.

These areas cover the various qualification objectives of your degree program and are designed to give you a great deal of freedom of choice. The credit points to be earned in each area are not fixed. When selecting modules, you only need to observe the following soft minimum point limits:

• 50 credit points in the area of Business Administration,
• 10 credit points in the area of Methods and Procedures ,
• 5 credit points in the area of Presentation and Discussion .

In addition, there are exactly 10 credit points in the area of research design, which you take in conjunction with the Master's thesis.

The remaining 25 credit points in the compulsory elective area can be freely selected from these areas or from the supplementary qualifications. This flexibility makes it easy for you to tailor the course content to your interests.

Profiles

Groups of modules that fit together thematically and complement each other form profiles. These profiles allow you to further sharpen and clarify the focus of your studies.

The following profiles are available for the Master's in Business Administration:

Business Administration

• Accounting and Finance,
• Learning and Human Resources Management,
• Management and Marketing,
• Operations and Logistics Management,
• Sustainability Management and Energy Economics.

Methods and procedures

• Econometrics,
• operations research,
• statistics.

Supplementary qualifications

• Public and International Economics,
• Business Information Systems,

• Business Education and Management Training,

• Health Economics,
• Transport Economics.

Choice of profile

There is no obligation to choose profiles! Rather, you simply decide which modules you take in the compulsory elective area in accordance with the minimum point limits of the areas. If you have completed a sufficient number of modules that belong to a profile, you can have them designated as a major or minor:

• A major requires modules from the profile amounting to at least 30 credit points, of which at least 20 credit points must be from primarily assigned modules.
• For a minor, modules from the profile amounting to at least 20 credit points with at least 15 credit points from primary modules are sufficient.

You can therefore acquire several majors and/or minors - or do without them completely.

In the case of modules that are assigned to several profiles, you decide which profile it should ultimately be included in. The module then counts towards the area to which the selected profile belongs.