Professional and scientific competence

• Graduates have learned to integrate uncertainty into strategic issues (general corporate strategy, innovation, knowledge management).
• Graduates have learned to systematically evaluate strategic and operational information, process and resource alternatives and to make decisions.
• Graduates have learned to independently formulate and process an innovative scientific task from applied research.

Ability to take up qualified gainful employment

• Graduates can implement theoretically acquired knowledge in a practical and solution-oriented manner.
• Graduates have the ability to generate the necessary information from extensive data and to make well-founded (strategic) decisions.
• Graduates have learned to independently break down complex operational tasks into sub-tasks and to solve them in a company-related manner.
• Graduates can organise themselves and show teamwork and leadership skills.
• Graduates can research, interpret and question specialised scientific texts.
• Graduates can present work results in a structured manner and defend and further develop them in front of an expert audience.

Ability to engage in social activities

• Graduates meet the challenges of international professional work with a high degree of personal responsibility and integrity. They are naturally characterised by sensitivity towards issues such as sustainability, fairness and diversity.
• Graduates pay particular attention to possible consequences of action in relation to long-term trends such as globalisation, demographics, financial crises, sustainable development, etc. They are able to take into account economic and social factors when making (strategic) decisions.
• Graduates are able to consider, assess and integrate the economic, ecological and social dimensions in (strategic) decisions.

Personal development

• Graduates have learned to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as well as their effect on others and to act according to their personal resources.
• Against this background, graduates are able to make conscious and reflective strategic decisions and apply methods for their implementation.
• Graduates have recognised the necessity of lifelong learning and have acquired corresponding skills and strategies.