Business Information Systems (BIS)

The degree course is clearly oriented towards business information systems as an independent discipline. The experience that business information systems specialists must have both thorough knowledge of business administration and a comprehensive basic knowledge of computer science is appropriately implemented through the contents of the degree course.

Brief overview

  • Degree

    Bachelor of Science (BSc)

  • Start of studies

    Summer and winter semester

  • Subject group
    Mathematics, Business mathematics, Wirtschaft
  • Form of study

    Full-time

  • Admissions procedure

    nationwide limited-access

  • Focal Themes

    Informationsmanagement (IM),
    Supply Chain Management (SCM),
    Customer Relationship Management (CRM),
    Business Intelligence (BI)

  • Pre-study internship

    nicht erforderlich

Course focus points and specialisations

  • Business Intelligence

    BI encompasses the integration of strategies, processes and technologies in order to generate success-critical information on status, potential and perspectives from fragmented, inhomogeneous company, market and competitor data in the environment of decision-support systems and to present this information in a suitable way for analysis, planning and control purposes.

    More information about this specialisation can be found here.

  • Customer Relationship Management CRM

    Customer Relationship Management (CRM) describes the shaping of customer relationships. It is a customer-oriented management approach with the aim of securing the company's success in the long term. CRM requires corporate cultural, organisational and technological foundations to align business processes with customer needs.

    More information about this specialisation can be found here.

  • Information Management IM

    The most important topic in information management is the support of strategy implementation and as well as the organisation of companies and their information processing. Thus, a development or change of information systems often aims directly at the implementation of corporate goals.

    More information about this specialisation can be found here.

  • Supply Chain Management SCM

    SCM (Supply Chain Management) represents a holistic (also cross-company) view of the business processes of logistics and production with the aim of optimally designing and operating these processes. Both customer requirements, such as short delivery times and high adherence to delivery dates, and internal company goals, such as low inventories and short throughput times, must be taken into account.

    More information about this specialisation can be found here.

Business Information Systems (BIS)

During their studies, students primarily build up conceptual skills and consolidate them in the solution of practical tasks, in practice-oriented projects and in integrated practical phases.

Objectives of the course

The aim of the Bachelor's degree course in Business Information Systems is to prepare students for a responsible professional activity in information processing in companies and to provide them with the knowledge, skills and methods required for this. Graduates should be able to independently acquire further knowledge and develop findings on a scientific basis and use them in an application-oriented manner. 

The students acquire the specialist knowledge required for the operational practice of information processing in an application-oriented manner and can use the specialist methods in practice. They have the necessary knowledge to analyse and design operational information systems and structures and to plan, implement and control corresponding actions.

Course prerequisites

Entitlement to study in the Bachelor's course in “Business Information Systems" is proven by the general university entrance qualification, the subject-related university entrance qualification, the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences, a passed matriculation examination or a previous education recognised by the Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs as being of equal value. A pre-course internship is not essential. More information can be foundhere

Students are admitted to the programme at the beginning of each summer semester (1 March of each year) and each winter semester (1 September of each year). When registering for a course of study, deadlines and special regulations such as the admission regulations must be observed. It is possible to improve one's chances of admission by taking a voluntary aptitude test (pay attention to the registration deadlines!).

Further information and regulations

Questions regarding admission procedures and course prerequisites at the Hochschule Hannover – University of Applied Sciences and Arts can be answered by the Student Advisory Service Team