Program Overview

School of Advanced Professional Studies

The School of Advanced Professional Studies (SAPS) offers a range of programs, including Master's degree programs and continuing education formats.

Master's Degree Programs

SAPS provides various Master's degree programs, such as:

• Actuarial science
• Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries
• Biopharmaceutical-medical engineering sciences
• Business Analytics
• Instructional design
• Sensor Systems Engineering
• Advanced Oncology

Continuing Education Formats

The school offers several continuing education formats, including:

• Degrees
• Microcredentials
  • Microcredential series teachings
  • Microcredential series learning
  • Digital microcredential series
  • Microcredential series life insurance
• Certificate courses
• Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS)
  • CAS Actuarial Sciences
  • CAS Biopharmaceutical-Medical Engineering Sciences
  • CAS Business Analytics
• Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS)
  • THE actuarial sciences
  • THE business analytics
  • THE instructional design
  • DAS sensor system technology
  • DAS drug discovery and biomedicine

##Projects SAPS is involved in various projects, including:

• EduNEXUS BW
• Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries -2LIKE
  • Workshop on Adaptive Learning in Higher Education
• Further education@BW
• Further training advice
• Archive of completed projects

About Us

The school has a team and provides information on its structure and governance, cooperations and memberships, job opportunities, and publications.

Certificate course “Fundamentals of Business Administration”

The "Fundamentals of Business Administration" certificate course provides an overview of important areas in business administration and conveys basic knowledge in these areas.

Schedule 2025

The course schedule for 2025 includes:

• Online consultation hours
• Attendance day
• Written exam (exam)

Contents of the certificate course

The course covers the following topics:

• Establishment of a company (structure of a company)
• Production
• Marketing
• Investment and financing
• Business administration accounting

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide participants with basic knowledge of business administration and to enable them to recognize the connections between performance and financial cycles, evaluate the effects of changes on the balance sheet and income statement, and derive basic conclusions for corporate management.

Requirements

There are no prerequisites for the course.

Fees

The course fee is 450 after matriculation and 510 for contact studies.

Lecturer

The course is taught by Prof. Dr. Rouven Trapp, Professor for Controlling and Health Management at the Institute for Controlling.