You not only plan, design, evaluate and optimize information systems, but also master organization-specific tasks in these areas.
Information and communication systems are a company's lifeline. As a business IT specialist, you'll use your expertise in business and IT to shape digital technologies in companies. Become a digital transformation manager!
By combining business and technical content, the JKU’s Bachelor’s degree program in Business Informatics provides students with a strong theoretical background in both fields as well as numerous opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge to address real-world problems. If you are interested in both business and technology - and aim to pursue a career in management and innovation - our Business Informatics graduates have outstanding career prospects. Business Informatics is at the interface of business and technology, designed to shape, drive, and responsibly take control of our digital economy and digital society.
The Bachelor’s degree program provides you with broad expertise in business informatics, general computer science, and business. Students are well-educated and highly qualified to either start a career or pursue an advanced degree after graduation.
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Key Facts
Degree
Bachelor of Science (BSc)
Duration
6 Semesters
ECTS
180 Credits
Language
German (Level B2)
Location
Linz
Program
Full-Time/Part-Time
Why This Degree is Particularly Attractive
- You not only learn state-of-the-art methods to implement digital transformation and digitalization across a wide range of sectors, you will benefit from a combination of technical and business education, focusing on cutting-edge topics that include cloud and mobile computing, social media, digital business, AI, data science, the Internet of Things, workflows and services, etc.
- Work on your Bachelor's thesis in both an industrial environment and as part of research projects, including supportive mentoring and academic supervision. Together with our corporate partners, we also offer project-based courses that include real-world challenges.
- Additional online modules mean students can schedule classes at off-peak times; we offer a wide range of courses and students can easily balance working while pursuing an academic degree.
- The courses are continually updated, reflecting changes in the current technological and business environments (such as cloud computing and generative AI). The curriculum is always up-to-date to match new trends.
- The Bachelor's degree program in Business Informatics is Austria's only internationally accredited degree program of this kind.
Video about studying Business Informatics at the JKU
Students and faculty members talk about studies and university life at the JKU.
Program Structure
As part of the Bachelor’s degree program, students are required to complete courses totaling 180 ECTS credits in the following subject areas:
Studies Introduction and Orientation Phase (StEOP)
After enrolling in Business Informatics, you will be required to complete the StEOP requirements at the start of your studies. The StEOP requirements consists of certain courses that are outlined in the curriculum. Before completing the StEOP courses, you can only get limited academic credit when you take additional courses.
Program Details
If you would like to learn more about the Bachelor's degree program in Business Informatics, we strongly recommend taking a look at the curriculum. In addition, we have separately summarized a few details for you.
Areas of Specialization
The Bachelor's degree program in Business Informatics concentrates on your fundamental understanding of business informatics, computer science, and business (AI, data science, cloud computing, Internet of Things, workflows and services, etc.). You also acquire skills in the following areas:
Initiate, execute, supervise, and manage software projects (acquire, produce and maintain software products); acquire a strong understanding of constructive and analytical measures in support of quality management, concepts, methods and specification techniques, design, implementing and testing software systems; prepare for any and all roles required in order to be an effective member of a software development team.
A strong understanding of information and communication technologies; recent developments in the field of database systems, particularly in the field of Data & Web engineering; familiarity with the way knowledge-based systems work; design and execution of database systems as well as how to integrate them into applications.
Master concepts and methods to design distributed, interactive IT systems in an organizational context; design IT systems and learn to differentiate between organizational, technical, and HR requirements; procedures and methods to distribute information processing; analytical skills, integrative and reflective work.
What You Will Learn in the Program
The degree program focuses on managing digitization by designing a human-task technology system. During the course of your studies, you will learn to plan, develop, introduce and optimize business processes as well as the required IT systems. The program conveys expertise in many core areas, including skills to:
- Understand complex business and technical relationships
- Think in a capacity to find solutions, be creative, innovative, and design-oriented
- Depict and outline complex business situations and think in line with the market
- Ability to assess and apply the most recent technological advancements
- Organize and responsibly support IT-related projects
- Strong social skills set and skills for human resource management
- Create and hold presentations in English as well as negotiate in English
Did you know that ...
The Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Business Informatics were awarded a quality seal by the Agency for Quality Assurance through Accreditation of Degree Programs (AQAS e.V.).
Videos about the Program
A presentation about the program recorded during the JKU 2021 Open Days *Online
- As part of the 2020 SIM (Studies Information Fair at the JKU)
Duration: 25 minutes
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Here you will find a short, online lecture on the topic of Digital Twins.
JKU Podcast for Prospective Students
When it comes to information and communication systems, digital technologies represent a company's lifeline. As a Business Informatics specialist, you combine your expertise in business and computer science to create digital technologies within companies. JKU students Christina and Lukas share their lecture hall insight and talk about why they chose this major, how they are already putting what they have learned in the classroom to practice, and what their career prospects are. Have fun listening!
Your Career Prospects
As an information systems specialist in Linz, you can work in key, highly paid positions in the business and administration sectors, or launch your own innovative company. There are a wide range of attractive and rewarding career opportunities available to you. Examples include:
- Design Innovative IT Systems: You can create, design, market, and sell innovative IT products and services.
- Manage IT and Cloud Systems: Take on core responsibilities across national and international IT projects in different areas that include logistics and banking.
- IT Consulting: Optimize and support business processes by means of innovative IT solutions and actively drive digitalization at companies forward.
- Design and Market IT products and services
- IT Controlling and Auditing: Effectively manage the use of IT within a company and generate key performance indicators relating to IT productivity and efficiency.
- Conduct R&D in the IT sector: Based on your own personal start-up idea, you can successfully create your own company.
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Admission Requirements
In order to be admitted to the Bachelor's degree program in Business Informatics, you must fulfill the following requirements.
- Hold general higher education entrance qualifications (such as an Austrian "Matura" diploma)
- If your first language is not the program language, you will be required to submit proof of language proficiency in German (level B2).
Please note:
- You can transfer academic credit for certain courses taken at school. Please contact the Office of Examinations and Recognition Services at the JKU.
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Frequently Asked Questions
To study Business Informatics, students should have their own laptop for use in various classes and to complete group work. The JKU will provide you with the software you need. Click here, opens an external URL in a new window for additional information about the JKU's software.
The JKU offers preparation courses to help new students prepare for their studies. The courses provide a condensed review of material taught at higher-level schools - perfect to help prepare new students for initial university-level lectures. Newly enrolled students who have no programming experience can learn the basics in order to take part in programming classes. Attendance is optional.
Together with the Austrian Student Union, the JKU also organizes events to help new students get off to a good start.
As soon as you have successfully completed a minimum of 150 ECTS credits in the Bachelor's degree program for Business Informatics, you can start taking courses from the first semester of the Master's degree program in Business Informatics (WIN) before officially completing the Bachelor's degree program. Click here to learn more (German Only).
The studies commission strongly recommends and encourages students to spend a semester or a year abroad studying at a university outside of Austria. Click here to learn more about studying abroad for a semester or a year.
If you want to learn more about the program, accompany a student in the program for a day (see: "Study for a Day"). You can also contact the Austrian Student Union representative for Business Informatics, opens an external URL in a new window and get answers to any questions you may have.
The Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Business Informatics have been designed to accommodate working students. For numerous reasons, many of our students in the program also work while completing a degree. Courses requiring attendance and examinations are often scheduled at times conducive to the students' work schedule (blocked weekend sessions, etc). The program has also been designed to be flexible and allow you to individually create your curriculum and better accommodate your working hours.
If you have questions about the program, please contact the program management by sending an e-mail to: win(at)jku.at or send an e-mail to the Austrian student union representative for Business Informatics: win(at)oeh.jku.at. If you have questions about credit transfer, please contact the committee by sending an e-mail to: praeses-win(at)jku.at.
Program Management
Are you interested in the Bachelor’s degree program in Business Informatics? Please do not hesitate to contact us by making an appointment for an academic advising consultation during the following office hours: Monday - Wednesday between 9.00 and 11.30 AM or Monday between 1.00 and 3.00 PM.
Management Center, 2nd Floor, Rm. 211 B
+43 732 2468 3073
win(at)jku.at
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Do you need help registering or do you have questions about the program? Contact the JKU's Office of Student Information and Academic Advising (SIBS)!
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- Business School
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- Studies Commission and Directors
- Institute for Business Informatics – Communications Engineering
- Institute for Business Informatics – Data & Knowledge Engineering
- Institute for Business Informatics – Information Engineering
- Institute for Business Informatics – Software Engineering