Business Administration, B.A.
The business administration course at the HTW Berlin covers a wide range of subjects and qualifies you for a wide range of professional applications and a professional approach to your job. After completing your degree, you will have a critical understanding of the scientific principles of business administration and have learned to deepen and broaden your knowledge independently. You are able to systematically collect relevant information and derive well-founded judgments from it, as well as apply theories and methods from your specialist discipline to plan and work on comprehensive technical tasks in your field of activity and profession. You will be able to take social and ethical aspects into account and to present your point of view and solution approaches to experts and laypeople.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
|---|---|
| Duration | 7 semesters, 210 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 30.06, summer semester until 31.12 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €324.90 per semester |
| Practical semester | Yes, mandatory |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
In good company
Anyone studying business administration for a bachelor’s degree at the HTW Berlin is in the best of company. Around 1,500 students are currently preparing for their degree in business administration on the Treskowallee campus. With good reason: This course at the HTW Berlin imparts all the knowledge you need for a successful career in business — or for founding your own company.
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Practice
Interdisciplinarity and the flexibility that is indispensable for today's business world are part of the course. The direct line to successful companies is established through seminars by external speakers, projects with practice partners or excursions.
Dedicated care
The committed supervision by highly qualified professors enables the acquisition of well-founded basic and specialist knowledge in various areas of business administration, economics and law.
Versatile training in small groups
Working in small groups facilitates learning progress, and despite the large number of students, personal access to the teachers for questions and suggestions is always possible. In the wide range of specializations and electives - from human resources to environmental management - everyone will find the area that optimally challenges and promotes their talents and interests.
Invest in the future
All in all, the business administration degree at HTW Berlin is far removed from the faceless mass processing at other universities. Those who study business administration at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences invest in their successful future in business from day one of the first semester.
2nd place in the FH ranking by WirtschaftsWoche
The Business Administration course at the HTW Berlin is one of the best courses of its kind in Germany. In the FH ranking of WirtschaftsWoche, he took second place nationwide in 2022. For the ranking, more than 500 HR managers are asked each year from which universities they prefer to recruit graduates.
What you study
Communication of competence
With the business administration degree, you will acquire the skills required in practice using scientific methods. The transfer of specialist knowledge is the necessary basis. However, the goal of successfully completing your degree goes far beyond that and consists of acquiring independent scientific skills for use in a professional environment.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Berlin), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €324.90 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 30.06, summer semester until 31.12 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application via uni-assist until 31.12uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 31.12.2026 (78 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.