Business Informatics (MSc)

The Master's degree programme in Business Informatics of the University of Marburg has a focus on technical knowledge, skills and methods in business informatics, computer science, business administration and mathematics. In particular, it takes into account the requirements and changes in the increasingly digital professional world (business, industry, public service). In addition, you will be trained to work independently according to scientific principles at an advanced level, and to analyse and critically evaluate modern scientific knowledge. You will be able to set individual focal points by selecting from a large variety of electives in all four disciplines, as well as a wide offer of tasks in several practically-oriented modules. Besides a software project with a duration of one year, in which you practise business-informatics skills such as software management in a team, you will participate in at least one seminar in which you practise working with relevant scientific literature. In the individual Master’s thesis, you will work on research-related problems from business informatics. 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 practise to compare and evaluate research results. In a dedicated module you learn and practise 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.