The course imparts a comprehensive know-how in business administration and management as well as specific skills in special areas of application in international business administration. A term spent abroad is a mandatory component of the curriculum. In addition, two international project studies are planned, which you will complete in internationally operating companies.

International business administration – help to shape the markets!
Markets are changing all the time. Enterprises of all sizes and sectors have to adjust to the changes of globalisation in order to remain competitive. So that you can contribute to solving these problems and to shaping the international markets, the International Business Administration Bachelor’s Course at the Business School Potsdam imparts the theoretical and practical tools to you.

In the framework of the course you will acquire a well-founded expertise in business administration and management, which is always orientated towards the specifics of internationally active enterprises and markets. In addition to a comprehensive impartation of methods, the course focuses on the formation of foreign language and intercultural skills, in order to prepare the graduates for collaboration with colleagues, customers and suppliers of other nationalities.

The Course’s Foundation in Reality
The International Business Administration course was developed from practical requirements and therefore imparts to you a well-founded scientific education as well as a high degree of application-orientation.

In the framework of the “Study Project Module” you will apply your skills in concrete projects for real clients. Moreover, in two firmly integrated project study modules you will obtain basic and deeper insights into selected occupational fields. You will complete one of these two modules in a foreign country.

The practical aspect will also be incorporated into the teaching through excursions, simulations, case studies and role play, in the context of which you will analyse practice-relevant situations and be able to try out and work out options for action in business.

In addition to the permanently employed professors at the BSP Business School Potsdam, selected lecturers from real life contribute to the teaching and they will enliven your studies through exciting insights into professional life.

The Internationality of the Course
The curriculum of the International Business Administration B.A. course integrates international aspects at various levels:

• The fifth term is intended to be a mandatory term spent abroad. To this end the BSP maintains cooperation with selected colleges in various language areas and continents.
• Two international project studies are planned for during the course; these are to be completed in internationally operating enterprises and of which the second will be carried out mandatorily abroad.
• The impartation of foreign language skills is an integral part of the curriculum.
• All course modules are always specific to the international theme (thus the module “Principles of Module Business and Tax Law” also illuminate the essential features of international tax law).

Job Prospects International Business Administration
Because of their well-founded basic knowledge in business administration and management and the practical experience obtained in the project studies, the graduates of the course will have the best possible prerequisites for being employed successfully in the typical business administration, function-related occupational fields, such as, for example:

• Marketing,
• Personnel management,
• Accounting,
• Financing.

Furthermore, because of the diversified international orientation of the course, you will also have the best conditions to make a career abroad.

• general higher education entrance qualification or advanced technical college certificate or
• a subjects-specific university entrance diploma if it entitles study in the relevant subject or
• a higher education degree or
• a successful examination for a master craftsman's diploma or a master craftsman’s examination of equivalent entitlement in an occupation suitable for the intended study.
• For foreign applicants, an educational certificate in accordance with Article 8 BbgHG

Admission to a bachelor’s course can also be granted to those who can provide evidence of the completion of a lower-secondary level education or equivalent and completed vocational training suitable for the intended study and who has thereafter obtained at least two years occupational experience.

Study Fees International Business Administration
Study Fees

Full time model - € 590.00 per month

Part-time model - € 440.00 per month

All the study events and courses on offer in the relevant course are included in the fees, which are to be paid monthly. The framework conditions of the study contract apply.

Additional Costs
€ 100.00 – One-time registration fee

€ 100.00 – Term ticket

Financing Possibilities
There are numerous ways of financing studies, e.g., BAföG (the Federal Education and Trainings Assistance Act), stipends, student loans and student education funds. Talk to us – we would be pleased to advise you!