International Business Administration, B.Sc.
Are you interested in a demanding business degree which, thanks to its decidedly international orientation, gives you the opportunity to take on challenging tasks in international business? Are you thinking of supplementing your professional activities with a job abroad and are you looking for a course that not only offers you specific business training, but also provides the necessary intercultural and linguistic skills?
The course in International Business Administration takes these requirements of the internationally active economy into account, through the concept of well-founded, internationally-oriented teaching, the acquisition of at least two foreign business languages and a compulsory study abroad.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 8 semesters, 240 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €41.50 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
As a sub-discipline of economics, business administration deals with the economic activity of companies, ie with those processes that take place in companies and lead from them to other market players as well as to the macroeconomic, social, political, legal, technological and ecological environment . The scientific goal of business administration is to capture these processes empirically and to find explanations that are as general as possible from which practical recommendations for action can be derived. The representatives of Bamberg's business administration also feel connected to this goal.
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With the course "International Business Administration" a further sharpening of the profile of Bamberg Business Administration towards a global orientation is achieved. At the Bachelor's and Master's level, the course focuses on the requirements of an internationally networked economy and work in a global organization.
The development of the world economy is characterized by increased global integration and intense competition. For graduates, this results in the need to adapt to these new requirements through diverse language skills, intercultural skills and a specific, university education in economics.
In the "International Business Administration" course, this development is taken into account through well-founded teaching in the sub-areas of economics and foreign languages. In addition to qualified basic training, the course can be deepened in specific subject areas. This can be done according to interests, talents and professional goals. Students can also orientate their studies on an interdisciplinary basis in order to set up their economic profile across a broad spectrum.
What you study
The bachelor's degree in "International Business Administration" leads to a first professional academic degree. It teaches the ability to recognize business problems, to present them appropriately and to solve them. This enables a critical understanding of the most important business theories, principles and methods. Students are enabled to independently work out and develop possible solutions to problems in an international context and to make scientifically sound judgments. In addition, the ability to solve interdisciplinary problems by applying scientific methods of business administration is taught.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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Markets are global today and many companies are therefore active internationally. For the German economy, exports and imports are just as important as having a presence abroad through e.g. sales offices, logistics centers, procurement offices or production facilities. For the associated tasks, employees are required who have not only acquired comprehensive business, but also linguistic and cultural skills in order to cope with these tasks in a targeted and successful manner.
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The international economy offers graduates of our international business studies interesting professional challenges and opportunities: responsibility for foreign business partners, posting to a branch of a company or their own professional path in other countries in order to develop professionally in companies.
The Bamberg IBWL prepares you optimally for work in such internationally active companies, but also in other organizations with international tasks in which economic thinking that goes beyond national requirements is very much in demand.
In addition to business start-ups and self-employment, activities in banks, insurance companies, (online) trade, (advertising) agencies, market research companies and in many areas of industry are also possible. Associations, NGOs or international organizations such as the EU and the UN can also be considered as a Bamberg graduate.
The international specialization geared towards the labor market enables interesting fields of activity in various functional areas of the company, such as controlling, finance, sales and marketing, human resources, but of course also in organization, logistics, accounting, tax consulting, supply chain management and innovation management.
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €41.50 |
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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 B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
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 B2 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 directly to the university until 15.01Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 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.
Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.01.2027 (93 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.