How is the study program structured?

The master's program "Sustainable Management" can be completed after four semesters. Special emphasis is placed on an interdisciplinary education: 

Students choose between a major in economics or business administration and supplement this with a minor from the fields of politics, urban and landscape planning, agriculture and food management, environmental and energy technology or human-environment systems. It is explicitly desired that students have different backgrounds and thus enrich the interdisciplinary education.

The program consists of the following compulsory modules : 

• Environmental Economics
• Intermediate Microeconomics
• Supply Chain Management
• International and European Environmental Law
• Ecology and Material Flows
• Business Theory and Sustainability

Students must also complete 12 credits in economic research methods.

In the main concentration , 18 credits are taken in one of the following two modules:

• Sustainable Behavior and Governance (Economics-oriented).
• Sustainability Management (Business Administration-oriented)

In the minor concentration , 12 credits are earned in one of the following modules:

• International Politics and Development
• Politics, Economics and Sustainability in Latin America
• Landscape Planning
• Sustainable agriculture and food management
• Environmental Engineering
• Renewable Energies and Energy Efficiency
• Human-Environment Systems

In addition, 12 credits are acquired as key competencies . The final module (30 credits) consists of the master's thesis and the associated colloquium.