TU Chemnitz, Fakultät für Informatik: Department of Computer Science: Study Programs
Bachelor Programme Business Informatics
The bachelor programme Business Informatics offers students well-grounded scientific and practically oriented course units in the area of intra, cross and inter-plant information processing within commerce and public administrations. The bachelor programme establishes fundamental understanding of business backgrounds, basic principles in Informatics as well as comprehensive skills of methods and processes of Business Informatics. The degree programme is practically aligned and schedules various work placements and a project placement in the industry.
Degree holders will be provided with multidisciplinary analytical intellectual skills to self-sufficiently and self-dependently solve practical tasks in system analysis / organisational development, design of business processes, information management and controlling, IT management, business intelligence as well as IT counselling and training in their later professional environments.
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| Entry Requirements: | General qualification for university entrance | |
| Regelstudienzeit: | 6 terms | |
| Award: | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) | |
| Start Date: | Winter term |
Due to the extensive spread of information and communication systems in industry and administration, degree holders of Business Informatics have excellent chances on the labour market. In addition to core activities - planning, documentation and implementation of hardware and software systems - they are primarily employed as specialists for mediating computer-related problems between computer specialists and system users. Thus, career opportunities are not limited to the area information processing but are extended to economics-oriented operating departments that work with technologies of information processing.
Possible fields of work can be found in medium-sized companies, large-scale enterprises and multinational groups of various sectors such as industry, trade, banks, and service, consulting and software companies as well as in public institutions and governmental bodies. Due to the great demand for personnel with technical and economic skills, there are excellent chances for career opportunities in an international environment.
Scope of duties includes:
- System analysis and organisational development, i.e.
Creation of new and maintenance of existing information systems as well as relevant organisational structures in companies, e.g. internet applications for Supply Chain Management (creation and management of integrated logistics supply chains) and Customer Relationship Management (acquisition of new clients and customer retention)
- Information management and controlling, i.e.
Creation and maintenance of efficient and economically advantageous supply of information in companies and public institutions, e.g. implementation of Business Intelligence Concepts by means of Data Warehouse and Decision Support Systems
- Information technology management, i.e.
Activities that deal with applications and usage of hardware and software technology, e.g. application of databases, local networks, internet technologies and mobile computing systems
- Counselling / Training, i.e.
In-house and /or external counselling services concerning information demand and applications of information systems as well as training of employees, e.g. when implementing standard business software
Because labour market requirements tend to change very fast, the ability to adapt flexibly to particular occupational requirements as well as the willingness to study further throughout the entire professional life are mandatory qualifications nowadays. Normally, a continuous career according to one’s university education requires much personal commitment. Thus, the overall aim of the bachelor programme is to equip students with a well-balanced range of technical and generalisable competencies and, thereby, to prepare them for the many changing occupational areas of our strongly fluctuating society.
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The central parts of the programme are structured in a three-stage model. This model comprises basic studies, which offer an overview of the most important contents of the relevant subjects, furthermore an intensifying phase, which consolidates and deepens the understanding of integral competencies of degree holder in Business Informatics, as well as a final phase, where the acquired skills are exemplarily applied to selected problems (project placement and bachelor thesis). The degree programme is complemented by economically oriented language studies as well as the conveyance of social competencies of the relevant subject matter.
The subject areas of the bachelor programme Business Informatics are modularly structured. Each module is a self-contained closed course unit with defined objectives, contents and teaching and learning structures.
The purpose of the Basic Studies soll ein fundiertes Verständnis in den beteiligten Fachgebieten Wirtschaftsinformatik, Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Informatik erworben werden. Die Studierenden erhalten einen Überblick über zentrale Themen sowie Problem- und Fragestellungen der Wirtschaftsinformatik.
The basic studies comprise the following base modules:
- Principles of business informatics as well as practical training in the field of programming
- Principles of informatics
- Principles of mathematics
- Accounting and financial management
- Principles of business economics and political economics
- Law
The purpose of these base modules is to provide basic knowledge in political economics and business economics such as bookkeeping and cost and activity accounting, capital budgeting, production management and marketing as well as skills in law, mathematics and stochastic / statistics.
The purpose of the Intensifying Phase is to consolidate and intensify various competencies and skills of Business Informatics by help of the following intensifying modules.
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Intensifying Modules
- Planning and implementation of information systems:
This includes the teaching of skills regarding processes, structures and management when developing custom software or when selecting standard software.
- Operational information systems:
The purpose is to provide an practice-related understanding of the tasks and functions of application systems in various sectors and with regard to managing the production factor information.
- Analytical information systems:
In various lectures and use-oriented tutorials and work placements students elaborate architectures, methods and processes for the development and creation of application systems for operational and strategic-analytical problems in companies. Possible working fields for analytical information systems are, for example, components for free research in data archives as well as client-oriented Customer Relationship Management solutions.
- Informatics:
Certain areas of informatics, for example system security, computer networks and operating systems, are intensified in various course units.
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Supplementary modules
In addition to technical subject matters theses modules train and exercise particularly rhetorical and communicative skills as well as foreign language competencies. In the course of a seminar and a use-oriented business simulation game the acquired knowledge and the obtained written and communicative skills will be applied. Here students have to complete the following modules:- Social competence
- Language studies
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Module Bachelor Thesis
The purpose of the Final Programme Phase is to document theoretical and use-oriented skills as well the understanding of economic and IT-related backgrounds in the course of a practical project placement (12 weeks) and a final bachelor thesis. With their bachelor thesis students will have to demonstrate that they are able to process selected tasks according to the specified scope and to present the results in a presentation.
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You can apply via internet at https://sbservice.tu-chemnitz.de/onlbew.
You can also apply by use of this form:Antrag auf Zulassung/Immatrikulation.
For documents and further information on enrolment please refer to:
- Technische Universität Chemnitz
Studentensekretariat
09107 Chemnitz
Office: Straße der Nationen 62, Zimmer 043
Phone: (0371) 531-33333
- Internet: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/verwaltung/studentenamt/abt12
| Please note: | The admission restriction of degree programmes may change annually. |
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Course Guidance
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften
09107 Chemnitz
Prof. Dr. Peter Gluchowski
Office: Thüringer Weg 7, Room 225
Phone: (0371) 531-25410
Email: peter.gluchowski@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de
Beratung zur Informatik:
Prof. Dr. Andreas Goerdt
Office: Straße der Nationen 62, Room 226a
Phone: (0371) 531-25410
Email: andreas.goerdt@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Dipl.-Math. Margitta Pippig
Office: Straße der Nationen 62, Room 226f
Phone: (0371) 531-31363
Email: margitta.pippig@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de
Student Advice and Counselling Centre
Chemnitz University of Technology
Student guidance and counselling centre
09107 Chemnitz
Office: Straße der Nationen 62, Room 046
Phone.: (0371) 531-55555, -31637, -31690
Fax: (0371) 531-12128
Email: studienberatung@tu-chemnitz.de
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