Electronic Business (M.Sc.)

Electronic Business is an international bilingual master’s degree programme which participates in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).The programme is accredited by the accreditation agency AQAS.

Degree

Master of Science (M.Sc.)

Programme start

Winter semester (October)

Programme duration

3 semesters (18 months)

Credits

90 ECTS Credits

Languages of instruction

English and German (the first semester is solely taught in English)

Study focus

Innovative technologies like the internet are transforming the way business is done in all areas of commerce, industry and services and are generating totally new products, distribution channels and business processes. Taken together, these developments are called Electronic Business. Experts agree that Electronic Business will expand exponentially in the years ahead.

The international Master of Science course in Electronic Business offered by Fulda University of Applied Sciences seeks to prepare university graduates for careers as specialists in Electronic Business to conceive, design, implement and operate systems for the management and optimisation of business processes in banking, commerce, manufacturing and services.

Graduates are qualified for further postgraduate studies, in particular PhD programmes.

The course sets special emphasize on project work and teams with international participants and focuses on the development of Electronic Business systems, online marketing, information security, strategic management, consulting, business process modelling, enterprise recourse planning systems, human computer interaction and programming projects.

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Programme structure

E-business is a postgraduate degree programme, which encompasses three semesters of full-time study.

Semester 1:

  • Formal Methods of Software Engineering
  • Development of Business Applications
  • Business Process Analysis, Evaluation and Re-Design BP (AERD)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
  • Project 1
  • Foreign languages

Semester 2:

  • Strategic Management / Consulting
  • Knowledge Management / Data Warehouse
  • Human Computer Interaction (Elective)
  • Business Simulation (Elective)
  • Law and International Negotiation (Elective)
  • IT-Security
  • Project 2

Semester 3:

  • Master’s thesis (may be written in English)

Special services

  • Propedeutic Programme (preparatory course)
  • Orientation Week prior to the start of the Programme
  • Academic and non-academic guidance and counselling
  • Assistance with accommodation and with administrative formalities
  • Cultural programme

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Admission requirements

  • A first or undergraduate degree in computer science from a recognised institution of higher education. In exceptional cases also a degree from a related discipline will be accepted, if the course includes sufficient lectures of modern programming languages, data base design, software engineering, etc.
  • Degrees from acknowledged institutions outside Germany must be at least equivalent to a British Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree with honours with a duration of 4 years.
  • Certification of good proficiency in English

Costs

Tuition-free.

For further information contact

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Department of Applied Computer Science
Ms. Merete Hirth
Marquardstrasse 35
36039 Fulda
Germany

fon.: +49 (0) 661 / 96 40-343, fax: +49 (0) 661 / 96 40-349
Email: merete.hirth@bitte-loeschen.informatik.hs-fulda.de

Internet: http://www.informatik.hs-fulda.de/ebusiness