Skills to be acquired

The Master Programme leads students to acquire certain complementary skills. The key elements are summarised below:

• Successful completion of the Master Programme allows the student to conduct independent scientific research while building upon relevant contributions from the literature. Analysis will typically focus on strictly scientific fields and issues or put the emphasis on applied analysis which often involves topics related to the activities of firms or international organizations.
• Students having completed the Master Programme have a solid analytical scientific knowledge and are able to employ modern analytical approaches and techniques; and to further advance the relevant methods and topics.
• Those students also will have advanced knowledge in Business Administration and Economics which allows identifying and understanding decision-making in firms, markets and economic policy.
• Successful students will be able to scientifically analyze new topics and fields on the basis of related relevant knowledge. Based on a carefully selected state of information gathering and analytical reflection one can then develop proposals and adopt positions which are analytically well founded.
• Successful students are able to conduct research and complete projects on relevant topics – under tight time constraints – within a team; critical reflection can also be made with respect to the dynamics of the group and there are basic skills which allow steering of the group and overcoming shortcoming in the initial setup; also the individual contribution to the overall team results can be assessed.
• Successful students will have a clear perception about the degree of entrepreneurial and managerial reflections plus decision-making potential and action.
• Successful students will be able to assess critically their own level of knowledge and skills in Economics, Business Administration and related fields, including methodological approaches; also skills in the field of communication should be assessed and critically evaluated, strategies for enhanced learning and knowledge uptake should be recognized and developed.
  Further skills are described in the info about the various core options.  There, you will also find some reflections about career perspectives.