Economics, B.Sc.
Economics deals with macroeconomic processes. It analyzes, among other things, the preconditions for economic growth, the causes of unemployment, the determinants of price developments, and the goals and effects of government activity. In a market economy, the main focus is on the functioning of markets, but also on the conditions under which market failure occurs and government intervention is required. In addition, economics deals with the economic relations between states.
In the bachelor's programme in economics at the Faculty of Business and Economics, students can, in addition to a sound basic education in economics and business administration as well as empirical methods, choose to specialize in a variety of areas such as international trade and production, development economics, behavioral economics, or quantitative methods. Courses taught in English (including by guest lecturers), courses in Business English and the possibility of a semester abroad round off the international education.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 30.04, summer semester until 31.10 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €375.31 per semester |
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
The bachelor's program in economics provides you with the technical and methodological knowledge to analyze the increasing international integration of national economies and to understand the basics of economic policy decisions by governments and international organizations.
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For economies, globalization means increasing competition on world markets. Traditionally strong export nations such as Germany are facing growing challenges in terms of their competitiveness. Many goods are no longer produced entirely in one place, but their individual components are produced in different parts of the world and assembled in other places. As a result, the economies of the individual countries are much more closely intertwined. This results in challenges, such as the creation of rules for global trade in goods or financial services, which must be solved jointly by national and international economic actors.
For these new challenges, companies, associations, state institutions and international organizations are looking for specialists who understand the complexity of modern economies and can make decisions based on this.
What you study
The course is fully modularized, which means that credits are earned during the course. The course is successfully completed when 180 credits have been achieved. The bachelor’s degree in economics is divided into the orientation phase (1st and 2nd semester) and the deepening and specialization phase (3rd to 6th semester).
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The professional perspectives of graduates of the bachelor’s degree are diverse, especially because of the foreign trade focus in Göttingen. Graduates acquire basic methodological and technical knowledge which, together with the acquired language skills in business English, is the basis for a successful career start in various industries and company departments, in associations, chambers and state institutions as well as in international organizations or multinational companies.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €375.31 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | If you decide to study economics, you should be interested in macroeconomic problems and have good or expandable knowledge of mathematics and English. |
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| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 30.04, summer semester until 31.10 |
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.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application directly to the university until 31.10Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 4Admission, 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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The deadline is 31.10.2026 (17 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.