Faculty of Business Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

Fakultät Wirtschaft (Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften (Wolfenbüttel, Salzgitter, Wolfsburg, Suderburg))

Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences

The Faculty of Business is one of 12 faculties of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Together with the Faculty of Health and the Faculty of Automotive Engineering we are the Campus Wolfsburg. 

Currently, about 1,000 students are enrolled at the Faculty of Business. About 40 lecturers, administration staff, and employees are supporting our students in their studies.

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History of the Faculty of Economics

The Faculty of Economics is one of a total of 12 faculties at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences. Together with the (again younger) Faculties of Health Care and Automotive Engineering (with the Institutes of Industrial Information Technology, Recycling and Automotive Engineering), it is part of the Wolfsburg campus of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences.

There is an interconnection with the Faculty of Automotive Engineering, which provides teaching in technology-related subjects for the Faculty of Economics. From the 2002/03 winter semester, the Industrial Engineering degree program will be offered in cooperation with the Faculty of Automotive Engineering.

The establishment committee for the establishment of the Faculty of Economics met for the first time on November 9, 1990, and on this occasion elected Prof. Dr. K. Bruns as the founding dean. The founding phase begins with the election of the Faculty Council and Prof. Dr. D. Seydel as the first dean in the summer semester of 1995.

The study program begins (due to a cooperation with the FH - Zwickau) in the winter semester 90/91, initially with two students in the technical business administration (TB) course and one student in the business administration course with a focus on banking and insurance (BV) at the university of applied sciences in Zwickau.

The courses in Wolfsburg take place for the first time in the winter semester of 1991/92 with 24 (TB course) and 14 students (BV course). In the summer semester of 1992, the first 2 students begin the supplementary course in economics with a focus on technical sales and procurement. In the winter semester 96/97, a supplementary economics course was also offered for the first time in the form of a 5-semester distance learning course, which is primarily aimed at a clientele with an engineering background who are not interested in a full-time course (for example because of employment).

At the instigation of the regional dealership and the state association of the motor vehicle trade, among others, the business administration course with a focus on automotive management was set up in the Autostadt Wolfsburg in the winter semester 97/98. One year later, the general business administration and business informatics courses and a distance learning course for graduates of professional academies also started.

There are currently around 1,000 students enrolled in the Faculty of Economics. In addition to external lecturers, teaching is provided by seventeen full-time professors and ten teachers for special tasks. Supported by six other academic employees and three administrative staff.

In and around Wolfsburg

The city of Wolfsburg is, alongside Salzgitter, one of the youngest cities in Germany (founded in 1938) and today has 124,000 inhabitants. Wolfsburg is a modern industrial city surrounded by greenery - a young city with considerable economic influence, a city of technology, knowledge and science, but also an international city with a variety of contacts with different cities and cities around the world.

Wolfsburg is above all the automobile city, headquarters of Volkswagen, the largest employer in Lower Saxony and the number 1 car manufacturer in Europe. Volkswagen not only represents an essential part of the city of Wolfsburg, but is also the most important economic factor in the entire region. However, Wolfsburg is also a city of culture and leisure. There you have the opportunity to get to know the theater, planetarium, art museum, car museum and the Autostadt, which opened at the same time as Expo 2000, as well as to use the diverse leisure and sports opportunities, for example at the Allersee leisure park. Wolfsburg is also the city of the "German Champion 2009". Since the opening of the Autostadt, tourists from New York, Sydney or Tokyo are no longer a rarity here. With 4.4 million guests, the Autostadt has become one of the biggest visitor attractions in Germany within the first two years of operation.

The tourism, sports and recreation sector will continue to be expanded in the future. The new water park, the new VfL stadium Volkswagen Arena, science center, wellness center, a holiday village residential complex and a winter world that is unique in Europe will attract many visitors to the Allerpark in the future. The Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences' Wolfsburg study location is home to the faculties of business, health care and automotive engineering.