Sustainable Management and Technology

The Importance of Sustainable Business Practices

The societal interest in sustainability-oriented business practices is greater than ever before. Changing consumer behavior, employee expectations, and political regulations and control instruments necessitate a rethinking of sustainability in companies. Due to the increasing political and societal interest in a bio-based economy and in sustainable and competitive resource utilization, there is expected to be a growing demand for professionals in this field.

Knowledge and Skills Acquired in the Program

Students are provided with a broad knowledge of basic business administration, essential principles of statistics, economic mathematics, and computer science. They become familiar with empirical and analytical methods and integrate these with entrepreneurial questions. They apply sustainability concepts for the evaluation and innovation of products, processes, and value chains, considering business, macroeconomic, ecological, and societal effects.

The interdisciplinary bachelor's program in Sustainable Management and Technology bridges the gap between business and technical sectors of companies, training the future leaders of a sustainable economy who can understand and shape entrepreneurial developments and their impact on society and the economy in the necessary depth and complexity.

Which Further Expertise and Skills Will I Acquire?

The bachelor's program in Sustainable Management and Technology aims to provide students with basic business administration knowledge for the development of sustainable technologies, products, and processes. Coupled with interdisciplinary skills and social competence, students are enabled to support the transition to sustainable businesses. Graduates possess essential technical and methodological knowledge in the fields of economics, engineering, and natural sciences relevant to sustainability.

Students acquire fundamentals for building, organizing, planning, coordinating, executing, and controlling sustainable systems in areas such as raw material procurement, technology development, production and logistics, marketing and sales, as well as controlling and financing. Graduates are capable of identifying entrepreneurial challenges, development potentials, and deficits with regard to sustainable business practices and analyzing them considering business and macroeconomic, technological, and scientific frameworks.

Graduates' professional and scientific self-conception includes independently setting work and behavioral goals and achieving these goals based on a self-developed timeline. They understand the implications of business decisions and reflect on their professional activities in the context of social and ethical responsibility.

Which Professional Opportunities Can I Take Up with This Qualification?

Graduates of this program are ideally suited to engage intensively with sustainability issues in companies. The need for sustainability concepts and their implementation exists in all functional areas such as research and development, procurement, production, sales, controlling, and marketing, as well as in all types of companies (from start-ups to large corporations).