Admission Requirements

General Information

In the bachelor programmes Business Adminstration and International Business Administration Business English is integrated into the curriculum as part of the Core Phase. The relevant module consists of two courses (Business English I and Business English II), which can be done consecutively, after the STEOP has been completed. To register for Business English I, students must provide confirmation of an English-level of at least B2 (according to GERS). 

Master students (International Business Administration) also have access to Englisch - Wirtschaftskommunikation in der zweiten Fremdsprache III. This course is an option in the module "Europe - Communication". 

Access to Courses

  • Possibility to take part in courses during the bachelor's programme (BE I & BE II) - and the master's programme (English - WIKO III)
  • Basic necessity for participating in these courses:
    Doing a bachelor's/master's programme offered by the directorate of studies for Business, Economics and Statistics (SPL4)
  • Courses accessible to:
    • Students of Business Adminstration (access to a limited number of courses)
    • Students of International Business Administration (full access to the courses)
    • (Students of any other "Business, Economics and Statistics" study programmes by choosing the courses as part of their ECs)

Business English I - Admission Requirements

The general pre-requisite to register for Business English I is the completion of the StEOP upon registration. There are no exceptions to this rule - it is not possible to register for Business English I before finishing all your StEOP courses.

Additionally, it is necessary to provide confirmation of your English-level being at least B2 (according to GERS). This confirmation can be your high-school graduation diploma (z.B. Matura/Abitur), as many of these diplomas in recent years already state the level of the foreign languages you graduated in. You can also provide different confirmations/certificates, which explicitly note the English level as B2 or higher. For a least of possible certificates look here.

 

If you have a valid confirmation, please send this to us (Sekretariat Wirtschaftssprachen) before the start of the registration phase, so you can be "unlocked" for registration to Business English I. Confirmations that reach us after the registration phase can no longer be entered for the upcoming semester.

 

Should you be in need of a confirmation, because you do not yet have a certificate, or your certificate is older than 3 years, you have the option to participate in the Oxford Online Placement Test a few times throughout the year. More information about this can be found here.