Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences is one of the larger of Universität Hamburg’s 8 faculties and one of the largest of its kind in Germany.

Since its foundation, the faculty has undergone several changes. Since 2014, it has been separated into 3 departments: Socioeconomics, Social Sciences, and Economics.

The Graduate School was established in 2011 as an interdisciplinary institution dedicated to supporting our early career researchers. It consolidates and coordinates the doctoral procedures of the faculty in structured doctoral degree programs, providing a systematic education for our doctoral candidates and maintaining close links with the disciplinary and interdisciplinary research taking place across all departments.

Based on the experiences gained during its foundation and the introduction of a new organizational structure, the Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences offers an innovative range of degree programs and works on topical research areas.

Numbers and Facts

The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences is one of the larger of Universität Hamburg’s 8 faculties. It is also one of the largest of its kind in Germany.

Academics
The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences currently employs around 80 professors (15 of whom are junior professors) and more than 250 research associates (corresponding to 160 FTE) in research and teaching.

Students and doctoral candidates
Every year, 50 to 60 doctoral candidates complete their doctoral studies at the faculty’s Graduate School.

Around 6,100 students are enrolled in the 5 bachelor’s and 13 master’s degree majors of the faculty. Of these, nearly 4,500 are bachelor’s students, at least 1,500 are master’s students. Every year, more than 1,500 new students enroll in the faculty’s degree programs (around 1,100 bachelor’s students and 450 master’s students). They are joined by more than 240 first-year students in the teacher training degrees in the social sciences and business administration.

Additional information:

• More than 150 of the 450 places available to first-year master’s students at the faculty are in the international master’s degree programs Master of Science in Economics, Master of Arts in International Business and Sustainability, Master of Arts in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (Erasmus Mundus), and Master of Science in Politics, Economics and Philosophy. These programs are taught exclusively in English.
• The interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in Socioeconomics is one of Universität Hamburg’s largest degree programs with more than 2,400 students and 600 first-year places. Up to 40 percent of places available to first-year students are reserved for applicants without standard qualifications.
  (last updated: March 2018)