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Business Administration | Bachelor’s Degree
20th Anniversary Early Bird Bonus
-15% granted on tuition fee for applications received by March 31, 2025
This Program is taught in German only.
What Does the Part-Time Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration Offer You?
The part-time bachelor’s degree program offers you advanced professional education with a focus on business administration, considering various disciplines and industries. It is designed for individuals with work experience who seek education and training at bachelor’s level with a focus on business management and a high level of application orientation in parallel to their career.
After completing the course, graduates can successfully apply fundamental concepts of business administration. The program specifically teaches skills in marketing and sales, accounting, financial management, human resources management, business organization, and corporate management.
Study Part-Time: Choose a Specialization
In addition to the main focus of the bachelor’s degree in business administration, you have the opportunity to choose a specialization that deepens your specialist knowledge and corresponds with your professional goals:
Academic Bachelor’s Degree Alongside Your Job
- Part-time bachelor’s degree in 6 semesters
- approx. 10 block courses per semester, approx. every 2 weeks
- Friday afternoons and Saturdays all day
Business Management Skills
The "Practice-oriented Business Administration" degree course focuses on practical business knowledge and methods as well as economic, legal and psychological content. Students gain an understanding of the various effects of entrepreneurial decisions and develop the ability to act with foresight within the framework of complex business processes due to the variety of subject areas.
Entrepreneurial Competencies
Students are enabled to work independently on complex technical projects in an entrepreneurial context and to manage them. They learn to take responsibility for decisions even in unpredictable work or learning contexts, which strengthens their ability to adapt flexibly and act successfully in different situations.
Management and Leadership Skills
The aim of the part-time bachelor’s degree is also for students to develop the ability to deal responsibly and critically with the actions of individual employees and entire teams in the context of management tasks. They also learn to give constructive feedback in order to actively contribute to the development of employees.
Communication Skills
Students train to present content in a way that is appropriate to the target group and situation, in particular problem analysis. They acquire the ability to identify business management fields of action and develop appropriate solutions. Furthermore, they learn to discuss complex subject-specific concepts and derive comprehensible proposals for preparing decisions.
Interdisciplinary and Systemic Thinking
Participants develop the ability to recognize the interfaces between business administration, law, society and ecology and to determine the well-founded interaction of these systems. They also learn how to deal appropriately with interdisciplinary challenges and develop suitable solutions for specific situations.
(Strategic) Planning and Implementation Skills
The aim is to develop strategies and implementation plans for the further development of processes in organizations and for overcoming challenges. This includes the incorporation of analysis results and the consideration of stakeholders and interdisciplinary framework conditions, including legal, sustainability and social aspects.
Decision-Making Capabilities
We enable students to make evidence-based and comprehensible decisions in complex and unfamiliar situations, including different perspectives and innovative approaches to solutions.
Critical Thinking and Reflection Skills
The aim is also to reflect on one's own actions in a professional context and to develop an independent position based on critical analysis and scientifically sound evidence.
The Bachelor’s Degree Program is Designed for:
- Individuals with professional experience or industry knowledge from various business sectors who are seeking an in-service education and training at bachelor level with a strong focus on business management.
- Self-employed persons who want to better position their company.
- Prospective managers who do not have a background in business administration and want to learn the basics in a compact and part-time manner.
- People who, in addition to their professional competence, want to acquire business management tasks in the company and get fit for their new tasks.
- People who have a (technical) degree and are aiming for an additional bachelor’s degree in business administration.
Flexible studying: Didactic design
The modular structure of the part-time bachelor’s degree program enables students to complete a challenging course alongside their everyday working life. We design the didactic approach with block courses. Tailor-made learning methods are used during classes, ranging from interactive case studies and business simulations to individual presentations.
The WU Executive Academy also offers the possibility of recognizing complementary subjects from previous studies to support your individual educational path. Our advisors are available to support you in choosing your field of study and to answer any questions you may have.
Study - job - family compatible: you stay in your job
The bachelor’s degree program is specially tailored to the requirements of working professionals:
- Courses are held in blocked modules on Friday afternoons and Saturdays. This enables you to continue your education in 6 semesters parallel to your professional career.
- This part-time format allows you to optimally integrate your studies into your everyday professional life, and it also makes it possible for interested parties outside the Vienna metropolitan area to study at WU Vienna.
- You will receive high-quality, accredited continuing education with an academic degree, and you can advance your career at the same time.
Official Degree: Bachelor of Science (CE)
After successful completion of the part-time bachelor's degree program "Practice-oriented Business Administration", the academic degree "Bachelor of Science (Continuing Education)WU", abbreviated "BSc (CE)WU" is awarded by the WU Vienna University of Economics and Business.
To Apply, You Must Meet the Following Requirements:
- Appropriate previous education in the form of the general university entrance qualification (Matura) or an equivalent qualification from a recognized domestic or foreign educational institution
- Proof of at least two years of professional experience relevant to the further education objectives of the course of study
- Proof of German language skills required for the successful continuation of studies, if German is not the first language of the applicants
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