Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences

The Faculty of Economics, Law and Social Sciences combines the fields of law (public and private law), social sciences (political sciences and sociology) and economics into an innovative teaching and research program. When it started operating in 2000, it was the first faculty in the German-speaking area to combine the above subjects, which had differentiated themselves over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, into an interdisciplinary program. With the establishment of the company, we took into account the social challenges that required an interdisciplinary perspective on increasingly complex problems. In the meantime, the political science teaching and research program has firmly established itself in the German university landscape and has also found several imitators. Political research links disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives and, in addition to basic theoretical questions from economics, social science and law, is devoted to, among others, the change of state and market under the conditions of the current European multilevel system as well as the political, economic and legal instruments for crisis management. With the B.A. Political Science, M.A. Political science and the English-language Master of Public Policy, we offer our approx. 800 students the best prerequisites for developing an interdisciplinary political science perspective on the social challenges of the 21st century. The supra-regional origin of most of the students is a clear sign of the high attractiveness of the courses.