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University of MünsterSchool of Business and Economics

University of Münster, School of Business and Economics

Overview

• The city of Münster

• The University of Münster• Facts and Figures• Research at the University of Münster

• The School of Business and Economics• Structure and degrees• Centers • Services • Contacts


Münster: An Ideal Place to Study

• More than 55,000 students; almost 5,500 students graduating every year

• Germany’s fifth biggest university, one of the most renown in Germany (and abroad).

• Variety of options for spending free time (concerts, theater, museums, sports, pubs & nightclubs, …)

• The city is your campus: all university facilities are spread all over the city

• Europe's bicycle capital


The University of Münster

The University‘s main building

The University‘smain building


Facts and Figures

• Foundation in 1780• Today: 15 schools and 130 programs

reaching from Archaeology to Zoology (all sciences except Engineering)

• Interdisciplinary and international research: Humanities, Law, Business, Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine…

• Approximately 6,500 members of staff, including 550 professors

• 5,000 academic and non-academic staff members

• Plus 7,100 staff members at the University Hospital


Research

• Top-level research in more than 30 research centers• Interdisciplinary and international approach• Main areas of research:

• Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics “• Münster Electrochemical Energy Technology (MEET)• Molecular Biomedicine (in collaboration with Max Planck Institute)• Biology and Biotechnology (cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute)• Gifted and Talented Education, Life Sciences, Nanosciences

• Special emphasis on junior academics:• Increasing number of Graduate Schools and Research Training Groups• 800 doctorates awarded every year• WWU ranked as “first-rate address for junior researchers” by CHE

• 9 Leibniz Laureates• Third-party funding in 2009 (incl. Medical Faculty): €122 million• Science-to-business transfer and support for spin-offs and start-ups by the WWU

Innovation Office


The School of Business and Economics


Structure of the School

Approximately 4,600 students total

Economics

13 Professors3 Junior Professors105 Academic Staff

930 StudentsBusiness Administration


2,500 Students

Interdisciplinary Economics3 Professors

13 Academic Staff1,500 Students (Minor)

Information Systems


720 Students

Interdiciplinary cooperation of all study areas within the faculty


Study Programs

Bachelor degree programs• BScBA, BScEc, BScIS, BAPolitics & Economics, BScEconomics & Law, BAEc (Double

Major), Economic Education, double degree with IC Nancy Business School in BScBAMaster degree programs

• MScBA, MScEc, MScIS, double degree with IC Nancy Business School in MScBAExecutive Programs

• Executive Program in Accounting & Controlling (CUR)• Marketing Executive Program (MEP)• Executive Program in Information Management (WIM)• MBA Business Management• Postgraduate Mergers & Acquisitions Program (in cooperation with the Faculty of Law)• Postgraduate Program Private Wealth Management• Interdisciplinary program in Tax Studies (in cooperation with the Faculty of Law)• Executive Program in Accounting and Auditing (in cooperation with Ruhr-Universität

Bochum)Doctoral program

• Ph.D. in Business Administration, Economics, and Information Systems


Accounting Center Münster (ACM)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Berens / Management Accounting• Prof. Dr. Peter Kajüter / International Accounting• Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Kirsch / Accounting and Auditing• Prof. Dr. Christoph Watrin / Accounting and Taxation• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Robert Ullmann / Accounting and Taxation

Research Areas• Management/Financial Accounting (Due Dilligence/M&A, Public Sector Accounting)• International Management Control (Cost Accounting, Culture and Impairment testing)• Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Auditing (Accounting Research, Standards)• Accounting and Taxation (Financial Accounting, Taxation, Corporate Finance)


Finance Center Münster (FCM)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Nicole Branger / Derivatives and Financial Engineering• Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer / Finance• Prof. Dr. Andreas Pfingsten / Banking• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Judith Schneider / Finance II• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Weiqi Zhang / Finance I

Research Areas• Derivatives, Asset Pricing (Long-run-risk models, Variance Risk, Option Pricing, Contagion)• Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance (Prediction Markets, Retirement Provisions)• Real Investments, Financial Intermediation (Bank Accounting, Risk Mgt., Lines of Credit)• Corporate Finance, Insurance (Robust Risk Management, Behavioral Insurance)• Empirical Asset Pricing, Investments, Volatility


Marketing Center Münster (MCM)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hennig-Thurau / Marketing and Media Research• Senior Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Backhaus / Business-to-Business Marketing• Prof. Dr. Manfred Krafft / Marketing• Prof. Dr. Thorsten Wiesel / Value-Based Marketing• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Michael Steiner / Marketing I• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Götz / Marketing II

Research Areas• Media Marketing, Innovation Management (Entertainment Media, Digital Marketing)• Customer Relationship/Direct/Sales Marketing. (Big Data, Private Label, Loyalty Programs)• Value-Based Marketing, eCommerce, Retail Marketing (UCG and Social Shopping, Loyalty)• Consumer Behavior, Brand Management• Marketing Strategy, Consumer Marketing (Customer Relationship Mgt., Direct Marketing)


Center for Management (CfM)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Thomas Ehrmann / Strategic Management• Prof. Dr. Jens Leker / Business Management, Chemistry and Pharmacy• Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schewe / Organization, Human Resources and Innovation

Research Areas• Strategic Management, Planning and Decision Making (Franchising, Hybrid Organizations)• Innovation Management, Corporate Strategy• Change Management, Organization and Human Resource Management, Risk&Compliance• Industrial Relations, Personnel Economics (Corporate Governance, Organizational Econ.)


Center for Applied Research in Economics Münster (CAWM)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Theresia Theurl / Cooperative Research• Prof. Dr. Ulrich van Suntum / Housing and Spatial Economics• Senior Prof. Dr. Karl-Hans Hartwig/Prof. Dr. Gernot Sieg / Transport Economics• Senior Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ströbele / Economic Theory• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Torben Stühmeier / Industrial Organization

Research Areas• Business Cooperation, Theory of the Firm, Institutional Economics, Economics of Regulation• Macroeconomics, Regional Economics, History of Economic Thought (Euro Crisis, Currencies)• Transport Economics, Industrial Organization (Residential Parking, Slot-Coordinated Airports)• Micro-/Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, Environmental Economics• Economic Theory• Principles of Economics, Industrial Organization (Competition Policy, Media Economics)


Center of Quantitative Economics (CQE)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Martin T. Bohl / Monetary Economics• Prof. Dr. Bernd Kempa / International Economics• Prof. Dr. Ulrich Pfister / Economic and Social History• Prof. Dr. Mark Trede / Econometrics and Economic Statistics• Prof. Dr. Bernd Wilfling / Empirical Economics

Research Areas• Monetary Policy/Theory (Speculative Bubbles in Agricultural Markets, Price Discovery)• International/Monetary Economics (Open-Economy Macroeconomics, International Finance)• Quantitative Macroeconomics, Economic History (Business Cycles, Market Integration)• Econometrics, Statistics (Income Dynamics, Financial Econometrics)• Financial Econometrics, Empirical Economics (Int. Financial Markets, Speculative Bubbles)


Center for Economic Theory (CET)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Johannes Becker/ Public Economics• Prof. Dr. Aloys Prinz / Finance II• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andrea Schneider / Public Economics

Research Areas• Microeconomics, Public Economics (International Taxation, Tax and Subsidy Competition)• Economics of Taxation, German Tax System, Sports Economics (Behav. Econ. of Taxation)• Game Theory, Microeconomics, Public Economics (Tax Competition)


Department of Information Systems / 1

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Jörg Becker / Information Systems and Supply Chain Management• Prof. Dr. Bernd Hellingrath / Information Systems and Logistics• Prof. Dr. Stefan Klein / Interorganisational Systems• Prof. Dr. Herbert Kuchen / Practical Computer Science• Prof. Dr. Heike Trautmann / Information Systems and Statistics• Prof. Dr. Gottfried Vossen / Databases and Information Systems• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Böhme / IT Security Research• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Meisel / Quantitative Methods for Logistics• Jun.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Stieglitz / Communication and Collaboriation Management

Research Areas• Process Management, Conceptual Modelling, Retail, eGovernment, Business Intelligence• Information Systems, Supply Chain Management, Ecological Design, Planning and Controlling• Information Management, Electronic Business, Communication and Collaboration Systems• Software Engineering, Model-Driven Software Development, Data Structures and Algorithms


Department of Information Systems / 2

Research Areas (continued)• Statistics, Business Intelligence, Operations Research (Multiobjective Optimization)• Databases, IS, Data Warehouses (Data Pricing, Big Data, Business Process Modelling)• Information/Multimedia Security, Cryptology, Network Economics (Personal Data, Bitcoin)• Transportation and Logistics Optimization, Computational Stochastic Optimization• Communication, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship (Social Media Analytics, Blended Learning)


Center for Interdisciplinary Economics (CIW)

Professors and Junior Professors• Prof. Dr. Thomas Apolte / Political Economy• Prof. Dr. Alexander Dilger / Organisational Economics• Prof. Dr. Christian Müller / Economic Education

Research Areas• Macroeconomics, Welfare Economics, Public Choice (Violence, Regimes and Performance)• Business Economics, Industrial Relations, Personnel Economics (Corporate Governance)• Economic Education (Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Ethics, Social Justice)


Services at the School of Business and Economics


International Relations Center• Coordination of exchange programs with about

100 partners worldwide and care for 160 international students studying in Münster and 250 students abroad every year.

• Up-to-date information for prospective students and individual mentoring of current international students.

• Advisory service for German students interested in a stay abroad and selection of outgoing candidates

• Implementation of the internationalization strategy and active support of the international life at the school


Career Development Center

• One of the first subject-specific Career Centers at a department nationwide

• Career counseling, review of application documents (CV-checks), also for exchange students

• Target groups: Students and graduates (up to one year after graduation)

• “BusinessContacts Münster”: career fair with 45 companies; more than 3,000 participants every year

• “Ment-Al”:Mentoring Program in cooperation with AlumniUM


MSBE‘s Alumni Organization: AlumniUM

• AlumniUM is an independent, non-profit association connected to the School of Business and Economics

• Its mission is to establish partnerships between alumni, students, the School and companies

• AlumniUM offers a variety of services, for example:

• Quarterly newsletters• Regional groups• Mentoring program• Homecoming events


ContactsProf. Dr. Christoph [email protected]

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd HellingrathVice Dean for International [email protected]

Jochen Wicher, MSc.Student Mobility (Incoming)[email protected]

Olga Lunina, M.A.Student Mobility (Outgoing)[email protected]

Dipl.-Vw. Sophie WohlhageInternational Relations, Partnernetwork and [email protected]

Dr. Ulrike AugustinProgram [email protected]

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