Business Informatics (Part-time) (Master)

Upon completion of the Master´s Degree in Business Information Systems, you will have the following knowledge and skills:

• Develop operational and inter-operational information systems for business and the Internet.
• Create specialist concepts in the context of system analysis, specify the architecture in system design and develop individual software systems and/or adapt standard software systems in system implementation.
• Develop and deploy web-based application systems with attention to security, reliability, and usability.
• Master current programming, markup, and database languages.
• Design and implement complex databases and evaluate large data sets.
• Configure and deploy the necessary infrastructure.
• Consider business concepts and apply IT-related management methods in the process.
• Plan and manage projects.

In addition, you will be able to communicate your information technology knowledge in a way that is understandable to laypersons. You have the necessary skills to contribute to teams in a goal-oriented manner and to work on challenging issues in a solution-oriented manner.

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For companies, the qualifications you have acquired are valuable. As a master´s graduate, you bring sought-after knowledge for the complex tasks of the modern IT job market. Your interdisciplinary education and skills profile will enable you to take on a diverse range of tasks in the following areas of work:

• Software/Web architecture,
• IT consulting,
• IT project management,
• IT management.

Of course, there are other - also industry-specific - fields of activity in which you can successfully pursue a career as a business IT specialist with a master´s degree.

The study programme is divided into two consecutive stages: the specialisation stage (in the first, second, third and fourth semesters) and the research and development stage (in the fifth and sixth semesters).

During the specialisation stage, you will gain a detailed knowledge of IT (e.g. mobile engineering, big data, and IT management) as well as business (e.g. controlling, accounting, and organisational psychology). During the second stage, you will work on complex, innovative tasks from the realm of applied research. In this way, you will enhance your skills and prepare to use them in the business world and academia.

In the fifth semester, you will be able to choose from several practical and research projects from various subject areas and sectors in the core elective module Research and Development Projects. Working in a small team, you will deal with challenging assignments, such as those in the context of a funded research project.

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• Digitisation skills

In our Master’s programme, you will gain the core competencies that will enable you as an ‘architect of progress’ to help shape digitisation. For this purpose, we offer numerous modules, such as Big Data, Mobile Engineering, and E-Services.

• Interdisciplinarity

In our programme, you will gain application-oriented knowledge from business informatics, computer science, business administration and other supplementary subject areas. We merge these areas, their approaches and their methods into a seamless whole, giving you interdisciplinary training.

• Practice and research orientation

You will implement research-oriented projects as well as ‘real-world’ solutions. You will have numerous partner companies to choose from.

• Infrastructure

We operate our own server cluster to ensure that all students have use of virtual machines for assignments, seminars and project work.