History of the Department

1971

An application-oriented business administration course of study has existed in Neubiberg for longer than the Bundeswehr University Munich itself. As early as in 1971, the German Air Force Technical Academy was accredited as private University of Applied Sciences with a degree in economics in the Free State of Bavaria. From then on, the former Air Force Technical Academy was known as the Air Force University of Applied Sciences. Its students were officers of the German Air Force who were to work in logistics.

1973

The Air Force University of Applied Sciences was incorporated into the Bundeswehr University Munich in 1973. The Business Administration degree course was assigned to the Department of Economics and Organisational Sciences as an application-oriented degree course. The course was adapted in accordance with the three-year reform concept on the basis of trimesters and students graduated with the diploma in Business Administration.

1983

The independent Division of Business Administration was founded in 1983. In addition to the professorships for business administration, the professorships of mathematics and informatics were organizationally assigned to the Division of Business Administration with a cross-sectional function for all application-oriented courses of studies.

1991

The professorships of the so-called "Educational and Social Sciences Parts of Studies" had until then belonged to the university Department of Social Sciences and were also responsible for all application-oriented courses of study. In 1991, these professorships were allocated to the Division of Business Administration as a further scientific institution.

2007

In 2007, the Division of Business Administration was renamed the Department of Business Administration. At that time, the German higher education landscape underwent fundamental changes to meet the structural requirements enforced by the Bologna Accords. At the Department of Business Administration, a "generational change" in several professorships offered the opportunity to combine the necessary change to the Bachelor's and Master's system with a new profiling of the department and a reorientation of the range of courses offered.

Starting in 2007, the concept for an interdisciplinary Bachelor's program with a focus on economics and communication science as well as journalism was developed. With the rededication of four professorships, the personnel-wise course was set for a new, media-oriented profiling of the faculty and for the introduction of the new range of courses.

2010

With the academic year 2009, the classic business administration studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich with the diploma in Business Administration came to an end. In 2010, the newly developed Bachelor's program in Management and Media (initially: Economics and Journalism) was offered for the first time at the Department of Business Administration. In April 2013, the Master's program in Management and Media followed and started with two courses of study: Journalism and Strategic Communication.

In 2012, the new orientation of the department was taken into account with the dissolution of the existing scientific institutions and the ensuing foundation of five new institutes, representing the various disciplines united at the department:

  • Institute of Business Management
  • Institute of Economics and Law
  • Institute of Organization Communication
  • Institute of Journalism
  • Institute of Mathematics and Informatics