Founded in 1994, the Faculty of Business Administration (today WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL) started teaching in 1995 at the Weiden location with two professors. Today the WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL has about 1700 students (of which 600 are international students) supervised by 19 professors and 8 Assisting professors. In order to coordinate all other matters and to ensure smooth teaching operations, the Business School is supported by 9 employees. In addition, around 70 lecturers from the practical side of the business world pass on their experiences from the companies to our students. (Status SuSe2022)

Theses

Since the start of teaching 723 diploma theses, 1377 bachelor theses and 277 master theses have been supervised by our professors and selected lecturers. (Status SuSe 2021)

Graduates

Since 1995, 1282 graduates have left the WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL (Faculty of Business Administration) as trained business economists. Distributed among the study programs, there were 1004 graduates in business administration, 267 graduates in trade and service management and 11 graduates in extra-occupational trade and service management. In the summer semester 2019 we were also able to say goodbye to our first 8 graduates in the Master Digital Business. (Status SuSe 2019)

Library

Students of the BW faculty have access to approximately 19,000 books from the Business Administration Department in our library. In addition, our library provides access to approximately 23,000 e-books on economic and technical topics, 50 current printed journals and over 3,000 online journals.

In order to have peace and quiet for research work, learning and teamwork, our library offers you 53 individual workstations, 6 workcarrels, 4 computer workstations and 2 group workrooms. It is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for students with access to the 24-hour library.

Computer equipment

In three computer laboratories a variety of business application software is always available in the latest versions. Which programs you can use on our PCs and when the EDP labs are open can be found under Buildings and Laboratories. 

Learning management system

To make your teamwork virtual, interactive and effective, all students, professors and lecturers of the faculty use the learning management system moodle. There you will find scripts and information about the lectures in your course of study.

Interactive collaboration with your fellow students is possible via chat, video chat and discussion forums. You can also create Wikis and take exams.    

Award-winning teaching

Our professors create excellent learning conditions for you at the WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL. It is not for nothing that we have four award winners of both internal university prizes and external prizes such as the "Prize for outstanding teaching at universities of applied sciences" in our ranks. Read more about them under Rankings and Awards. 

Publication series „Weidener Discussion Papers“

The WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL maintains its own publication series with about ten publications per year. On the pages of the Weiden Discussion Papers you can access all publications. 

Premises

Students have access to 22 seminar and study rooms in three buildings on the campus of our university. In addition to the workstations and team rooms in the library, the WEIDEN BUSINESS SCHOOL also offers a learning room and a parent-child learning room.

W-LAN

We offer our students and lecturers - whether on our premises or on campus - a nationwide W-LAN.