Business and Engineering THWS - Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt

Overview

Key facts

Innovation cycles become shorter, the political and economical environment becomes more insecure. VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity) is an acronym that summarises these new conditions. Volatility leads to uncertainty; changes become the rule. The interrelationships are becoming more complex, the becomes information situation more confusing and also more contradictory.

The Business and Engineering program at THWS - Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt objective is to teach students relevant skills to work in a world characterised by VUCA successfully, despite the challenging circumstances. In addition to the specific technical competencies, the programme imparts the ability to comprehensively understand problems in a holistic way and to solve them in an organised manner in interdisciplinary teams.

The graduates are particularly qualified to assume specialist and management positions in industrial companies and have attained the qualification for the higher service of public institutions. In addition, the master’s degree opens the opportunity to enter doctoral studies.

Occupational fields

Business engineers develop and implement solutions to complex issues, utilising their technical and business-management competences. Employers appreciate the abilities of our graduates to comprehend challenges to their full extent, to assemble and lead interdisciplinary and multicultural teams, and to work together to find and implement elegant and robust solutions. Among potential employers are manufacturing companies, major retail companies, and consultancies.