Extra-occupational bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration & Management

This extra-occupational Bachelor's degree programme, lasting between five and eight semesters, lays a solid foundation for your future career or for setting up your own business. Your curriculum covers all the topics relevant to your future management responsibilities: organisation, finance and accounting, marketing and sales, service management, human resources and leadership, as well as business law. The programme consistently focuses on the current challenges facing the business world – sustainability, customer service, and digitalisation. Last but not least, this degree programme enables you to develop your personal skills. Public speaking, facilitation, time management and conflict resolution are valuable skills for tackling management and leadership tasks.

Successful completion of this Bachelor’s degree programme can also serve as a foundation for further academic study, in particular a Master’s degree programme.

The extra-occupational Bachelor’s degree programme requires motivation and commitment, but is designed so that it can be completed whilst working full-time.

Are you already firmly established in your career and looking to develop further? Is your aim to secure a leadership role in a small to medium-sized enterprise, or to take on greater responsibility in middle management within a large organisation? Are you a go-getter with a specific business idea who wants to set up your own company? Would you like to make the most of transfers between academia and practice in both directions?

Then the extra-occupational Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration & Management is exactly the right investment in your future!

The extra-occupational Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management equips experienced professionals for a career in middle to senior management or for starting their own business.

This comprehensive basic professional training equips students to work independently and in a scientifically sound manner across the entire field of business administration. Students learn to apply their business administration knowledge in practice and to deal effectively with even complex problems. Furthermore, the programme develops general leadership and decision-making skills, as well as communication and teamwork skills.

As an optional further qualification, graduates have the opportunity to progress to a Master's degree programme.

You can find a list of all modules here:

Study and Examination Regulations for the Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration and Management

Module selection (presented in summary form) to illustrate the content:

Business Management and Academic Work

• Understanding the history and fundamentals of management
• Sustainable Management (The Need for It and a Paradigm Shift)
• Scientific rigour and scientific methodology as a way of thinking and as a tool for systematic working practices
• Process management as a value-added perspective on organisations

Accounting and Annual Accounts

• Principles, regulations, specific features, and techniques of bookkeeping and financial reporting
• Presentation in the balance sheet, balance sheet structure and eligibility for inclusion in the balance sheet
• Bookkeeping as part of management accounting
• Valuation principles and performance analysis

Corporate organisation

• Organisational structures (e.g. functional, divisional, matrix organisation)
• Processes and procedures within the organisation
• Project organisation, change management and organisational development

Private Commercial Law

• Basic Concepts of Civil Law
• Law of Obligations
• Tort law and product liability
• Legal issues relating to digital Transformation, property law and company law

Corporate taxation

• Income tax and the fundamentals of international taxation.
• Value added tax, business tax, corporation tax
• Inheritance and Gift Tax

Business start-ups and succession

• From business idea to implementation: generating ideas, securing resources, the start-up phases
• Entrepreneurship, Business Succession and Innovation Management
• Social and Corporate Entrepreneurship (Intrapreneurship)

Macroeconomics

• key macroeconomic variables, national accounts, economic cycle
• Phases of the economic cycle
• The monetary sector and determinants of the foreign exchange market

Internships and project studies

• In conjunction with the modules, students undertake research projects on selected topics with a particular focus on practical application
• In this way, students demonstrate how theoretical concepts are applied in real-world business practice

Financial Management

• Financial and risk management, management accounting, business valuation and credit rating
• In-depth study of corporate taxation, internal and external accounting, copyright law and insolvency
• Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Valuation, Due Diligence

Service Management

• Fundamentals, distinctive features and conceptual classification of services and their management
• Customer value, customer satisfaction and delight: fundamentals, measurement and interpretation.
• Service Operations Management, Service Innovation Management
• Micro Innovation in Customer Service

Leading by Persuasion

• Negotiation as the basis of lateral leadership: Who negotiates? What is negotiated? How is it negotiated?
• To equip participants with the skills to recognise and assess conflictual situations in their day-to-day interactions with others, with a view to resolving them through the targeted application of negotiation techniques.

When, how and where can I submit an application for the BA in Business Administration and Management programme?

The extra-occupational Bachelor’s degree programme can be started annually in the summer semester (March) and in the winter semester (October). Applications must therefore be submitted by 15 January (summer semester) or 15 July (winter semester) of the relevant year at the latest. Applications for admission must be submitted online. You will find the relevant link to the Munich University of Applied Sciences application portal on our website. All required application documents must be attached to the application.

This degree programme is a ‘non-selective programme’, which means that there is no specific minimum entry requirement (NC).

Do you have to submit an application for the general Abitur?

You can also submit an application if you hold a vocational baccalaureate or other higher education entrance qualifications. For example, if you hold a master craftsman’s certificate or are recognised as a qualified professional.

Can the duration of the course be shortened?

The duration of the programme, which is 11 semesters, may be shortened upon application and following review by the examination board, provided that evidence of equivalent qualifications is provided.

The following, for example, may be taken into account for academic credit transfer:

• Professional experience demonstrated by proof of employment
• Credits from prior qualifications in business administration, provided these were obtained after completing a higher education entrance qualification (Abitur, Fachabitur, Meisterprüfung or similar). E.g. credits from the Business Administration qualification under the HwO

Examples:

• By applying academic credit transfer for professional experience in combination with the project work integrated into the degree programme, the duration of the degree programme can be reduced to 8 semesters.
• By conducting further academic credit transfer, such as that from the Business Administration (HwO) programme, the duration of the course can be reduced to 5 semesters. To this end, an individual assessment of the supporting documents submitted (certificates, etc.) takes place at the start of the relevant semester.

Is it possible to have the two practical semesters recognised for academic credit transfer even if you only start working at the beginning of your degree or afterwards?

As the practical semesters are only scheduled for the fifth and ninth semesters respectively, this does not pose a problem. Proof of relevant work experience is required for academic credit transfer.

Where do the lectures take place?

Lectures take place mainly online on Tuesdays, and on Fridays and Saturdays at our Pasing Campus. Any changes to this schedule will be announced in good time.

How many students usually enrol?

The number of applicants always varies between the summer and winter semesters. For this reason, we are unable to provide exact figures. However, the ‘family-like’ atmosphere of this degree programme offers students the ideal conditions for exchanging ideas and networking with fellow students and lecturers.

The extra-occupational Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration & Management opens up career opportunities for working professionals, with or without A-levels, in middle management at a larger company or senior management at a smaller one. The compulsory elective modules in the final two semesters offer the opportunity to explore topics in greater depth according to one’s own preferences. Many of our graduates already have a specific goal in mind when they start the programme – one they wish to achieve within the company where they are currently employed. Others wish to make a career change or to establish a solid business management foundation for setting up their own company.

Admission requirements:

• Proof of higher education entrance qualification (general university entrance qualification, university of applied sciences entrance qualification, subject-specific university entrance qualification, entry via the workplace (possibly in combination with passing a university entrance examination))
• Proof of professional qualifications

There is no admission restriction (numerus clausus).

The application period for the extra-occupational Bachelor's degree programme in Business Administration & Management generally runs from 2 May to 15 July each year for the following winter semester, and from 15 November to 15 January for the following summer semester. You can find an overview of all application deadlines in the HM’s overview of application deadlines.

Applications for the Bachelor’s degree programme must be submitted exclusively online via the Munich Universty of Applied Sciences application portal.

There you will find a form to complete for your application letter; we also ask you to provide a CV and the relevant proof of your higher education entrance qualification.

Tuition fees amount to € 1.790 per semester. In addition, there is a Student Services contribution of € 97 per semester.

Schedule of Fees

Have you secured your vocational qualification but don’t have a school-leaving certificate, and would now like to go to university? Nothing stands in the way of an academic career!

Thanks to the partnership between the Munich University of Applied Sciences and the Chamber of Crafts for Munich and Upper Bavaria!
Since 2012, all holders of a ‘Meister’ qualification, as well as those who have completed equivalent vocational training, have had the opportunity to enrol on a degree programme at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. No further proof of academic achievement is required for this, apart from having passed the ‘Meister’ or vocational training examination. Since its inception, the BA in Business Administration & Management programme has produced over 115 successful graduates. They are now successfully running their parents’ businesses or have set up their own companies. What makes this programme special is that academic credit transfer is possible for qualifications obtained prior to the degree, such as the ‘Betriebswirt des Handwerks’ (Crafts Business Administration), which means that modules from the programme can be credited towards these qualifications, thereby shortening the duration of the course.