B.Sc. Wirtschaftschemie

Do you want to immerse yourself in the world of chemistry? At the same time, can you imagine a career in business and want to explore the interrelationships between business and economics? With the Bachelor's study programme, you combine your professional interests and qualify for a career at the interface of chemistry and business. You will acquire both broad chemical know-how and business skills and learn to think in an interdisciplinary way. This offers you versatile tasks in a number of economic sectors and companies.

Locations

You can study the programme B.Sc. Wirtschaftschemie at the following locations:

Curriculum

Description of the programme

The Bachelor's study programme in Business Information Systems (B.Sc.) combines chemical expertise with business know-how and is thus oriented towards the current needs of the labour market. Because today experts are in demand who think holistically and entrepreneurially, know the markets, develop sales strategies and marketing concepts and make business decisions. In the Bachelor's study programme in Business Informatics (B.Sc.) you will acquire all the necessary knowledge and skills to be able to control entrepreneurial processes in relation to chemical-pharmaceutical products and to initiate the development and marketing of new products.

In the first semesters of the Bachelor's study programme Business Informatics (B.Sc.), you build up a broad knowledge base in the core subjects of chemistry. The curriculum includes, for example, the basics of analytical chemistry and laboratory technology, physics and physical chemistry, biochemistry and biotechnology as well as applied chemistry. In the following semesters, you will deepen your business knowledge in areas such as marketing, sales, project management, innovation management and controlling.

Why enrolling in this programme?

The Bachelor's study programme in Business Informatics (B.Sc.) is application-oriented and practice-oriented. All study contents have been developed in cooperation with our practical partners from the chemical industry. The theoretical content of our lecturers is based on current questions from practice. Laboratory practicals and a practical project in the fifth semester train your practical skills. During the practical project, you work with a company on a current topic under real conditions. You may even make important contacts for your professional future.

Do you see your professional future more in chemistry? If your studies spark your enthusiasm for laboratory work and practical chemical work, the Bachelor's programme at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences offers you a special opportunity. You can switch to the Bachelor's study programme Applied Chemistry for Analytics, Forensics and Life Science (B.Sc.) at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences up to the end of the fourth semester without losing any time.

Accreditations & awards

All study programmes at the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg are accredited before they start for the first time and then regularly checked for conformity with the regulations. This ensures that they meet the quality standards of the Accreditation Council Foundation. The accreditation system in Germany provides for higher education institutions to have either individual study programmes (so-called programme accreditation) or the internal quality assurance system of the higher education institution (so-called system accreditation) accredited. The FIBAA (Foundation for International Business Administration Accreditation) accreditation of the study programmes of the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg guarantees the equivalence of corresponding study and examination achievements as well as degrees and enables student mobility within the scope of German law and the Lisbon Convention. Studying at the Hochschule Fresenius Heidelberg guarantees you a degree that meets all the requirements of the German accreditation system and the quality standards in the European Higher Education Area.

Overview

Degree: Bachelor of Science
Programme type: full-time
ECTS points: 180
Language: German

state-recognised

Start of studies: winter semester
Regular period of studies: 6 semesters

Application deadlines:
15/09/2023 (WS), 15/03/2023 (SS)

German language skills required

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Good to know

Young professionals with knowledge of the natural sciences and business administration have excellent opportunities on the labour market. Their entrepreneurial as well as scientific perspective qualifies them for management and leadership tasks in marketing, sales as well as project or quality management of companies in the chemical-pharmaceutical industry. Other possible positions are in companies in the consumer goods industry, companies in the cosmetics industry, companies in the metal processing industry, public authorities such as the Federal Environment Agency, Federal Criminal Police Office, management consultancies, transport companies and insurance companies.

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