Business administration (BA) with the competence field tourism and event management - part-time

<img class=" image-element " src=" https://keystoneacademic-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto,w_743,c_limit/element/24/24806_header_tourimusundeventmanagement.jpg " alt=" 2 " title=" old= "2" />The part-time course in business administration is an accredited, state-recognized course offered by the Hochschule Wismar - University of Technology, business and design.

This course is offered at the NBS in two time models, namely full-time during the day and Friday evenings and Saturdays for employed persons and trainees.

<halt="2>Die beruflichen Optionen</halt="2>

The bachelor's degree in business administration offers you a wide range of professional and personal development opportunities. After completing your studies, you will be able to solve business problems thanks to the content you have learned.

Our practice-oriented approach ensures that the technical content of the course can be transferred to your immediate business environment. The state university degree gives you a cross-industry qualification feature, which gives you a high degree of flexibility in your future professional life. The course gives you both further academic options and a doctorate, but also prepares you comprehensively for taking on responsibility in middle and senior management.

Tourism is a classic growth industry: Since the start of musicals in the mid-1980s, the number of overnight stays in Hamburg has increased by around 170%. In the year alt="2009, 4.4 million guests spent 8.19 million nights in the Hanseatic city. alt="According to information from Hamburg Tourismus, the number of visitors rose by a further 9,alt="2% in 2010, with the majority of the growth being generated from abroad (+11.9%). This underlines the internationality of this branch. In the year alt="201alt="2, Hamburg broke through the 10 million overnight stays mark for the first time. No other European city is developing as dynamically as the Hanseatic city. In line with the increasing demand, the volume of offers also increased constantly, which in turn speaks for the importance of Hamburg as an attractive location for tourism and the corresponding investments: This year, according to "Nordwirtschaft", there are 1alt="2 new hotel projects with a total of alt="2,800 beds before completion.

And these trends are not only found here: The UNWTO (United Nations World Tourism Organization) predicts an increase in international tourist trips from 9alt="2alt="2 million in the year alt="2008 to 1.6 billion in the next 10 years ahead.

Tourism is naturally closely linked to other areas such as event management, trade fair and event management, sports and wellness, the hotel and catering industry or transport.

The event industry is also booming. For many companies, events are a natural part of the marketing concept. Other institutions use events for employee or customer loyalty. Events have to attract attention, be well organized, run perfectly for outsiders and be pleasantly remembered for a long time.

NBS always focuses on the employability of graduates. This is promoted, for example, by the integrated free seminar program. Are you considering an academic career? Use our scientific publication series for your first publication!

There are different areas of work for graduates in the large tourism companies, for example in marketing, in HR management or in the legal department. Flexibility and inventiveness are among the necessary qualities in the industry. Excellent knowledge of several languages and initial experience abroad are required. A pronounced service mentality is particularly important for the companies in the sector.

In cooperation with the Hamburg Tourist Association:

<img class="image-element pull-left half-width" src="src_NUM_alt="2_" alt="2" title="alt="2" /><halt="2>Die Studieninhalte</halt="2>

Through application-oriented teaching, the Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration imparts a broad range of business knowledge and the ability to responsibly identify practical problems in the area of economic and administrative tasks, to work out possible solutions to problems and to critically weigh them up against one another, as well as to successfully use a chosen alternative solution in practice - also internationally context – to implement.

Taking on responsible tasks requires not only specialist knowledge, but also security and the willingness to make decisions. Accordingly, the training is also aimed at imparting key qualifications and promoting personal development.

<halt="2>Studienverlaufsplan</halt="2>

1. semester

• Introduction to business administration
• bookkeeping and accounting
• commercial law
• Linear Algebra/Linear Optimization
• Soft Skills I

alt="2. semester

• Marketing & Distribution
• financing
• microeconomics
• Analysis

3rd semester

• Materials and production management/logistics
• corporate governance
• human resource management
• Cost and Performance Accounting
• Taxation

4th semester

• controlling
• macroeconomics
• business Informatics
• statistics

5th semester

• investment
• Soft skills II
• Business French or Spanish
• Organization of tourism services
• travel management

6th semester

• Enterprise Resource Planning
• Organization of event services
• public relations
• Event management case study

7th semester

• Project, process and innovation management
• Balance sheet analysis & balance sheet policy
• European economic policy
• Operations Research
• Business communication or economy and politics

8th semester

• business simulation
• Bachelor thesis with colloquium

<halt="2>Studienbeginn</halt="2>

1. March and September 1 of each year

<halt="2>Abschluss</halt="2>

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

<halt="2>Zulassungsvoraussetzungen</halt="2>

• General higher education entrance qualification or subject-related higher education entrance qualification or technical college entrance qualification
• OR successful participation in a state-certified advanced training course such as master craftsman; state-certified technician; state-certified business economist
• OR by legal regulation, in particular §§ 18,19 LHG of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (entrance test, placement test) or equivalent access authorizations recognized by the responsible state body for this degree program.

<halt="2>Regelstudienzeit</halt="2>

8 semesters (48 months); Shortening possible with previous studies, vocational training or state-recognized advanced training.

<halt="2>Vorlesungszeiten und -orte</halt="2>

The courses take place on Fridays from 6:00 p.m. to alt="9:15 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in our study centers in Quarree and Holstenhofweg and on the premises of the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg.

<halt="2>Semesterferien</halt="2>

Semester breaks are in February and August. There are no courses or exams from Christmas Eve to New Year's Day.

<halt="2>Studiengebühren</halt="2>

The tuition fees amount to 48 installments of alt="260 euros per month. In addition, a one-time examination fee of 300 euros is charged for the final examination (total price: 1alt="2,780 Euro).