Business Analytics, Controlling & Consulting

The Master of Science course in Business Analytics, Controlling & Consulting comprises 3 fields of study:

• In the field of Business Analytics, you will learn how to efficiently handle the processing and analysis of large amounts of data to create a sound basis for operational decisions.
• The knowledge and skills acquired in the field of Controlling enable graduates to perform planning, coordination and control tasks in companies.
• The field of Business Consulting aims at a professional and systematically comprehensive qualification in internal and external consulting and uses the tools of business analytics and controlling to develop goal-oriented solutions for current issues.

After successfully completing this master’s programme, graduates will have a wide range of employment opportunities open to them, both as specialists and in middle or senior management positions due to the key skills they have acquired. The knowledge imparted in the course is cross-sectoral. The course content reflects the need for quantitatively trained and analytically oriented employees.

Alumni are qualified for jobs in fields such as business intelligence, target group management, controlling, in-house consulting, corporate consultancy, reporting and market research. Due to the broad methodological training, graduates are also qualified for an academic career. Since the methods learned are applied across disciplines, you can pursue a career as a researcher in different areas of empirical work in economics and the social sciences. A key feature of the degree programme is the combination of database knowledge (SQL) and the training in econometric methods together with their implementation in the software packages (SPSS, R). Common job titles for people with this profile on internet job boards currently include: data scientist, data analyst or business analyst.