Bachelor in Digital Business

Bachelor in Digital Business is one of 9 English-taught Business Administration programmes at bachelor’s level in the register, offered by 8 institutions. 7 of them list an annual fee for students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland; this programme lists EUR 727 a year.

Digital Business at FHWien der WKW is a part-time bachelor's degree that sits where digital technology meets business. The programme calls itself "the Swiss army knife for digital transformation": you learn to judge technology by what it can do commercially, and to explain that to the people who pay for it.

What you study

The curriculum is split into blocks. Informatics takes 36 ECTS, business informatics 30 ECTS, business 36 ECTS, and communication and management 30 ECTS. The internship carries 24 ECTS, and research, development and the final exam another 24 ECTS.

Early semesters cover Introduction to Computer Science, Digital Business Models and Strategies, Information and Business Ethics and General Management. Later you meet Application Design and Development, Enterprise Architecture and IT Infrastructure, Business Data Analytics, Data Modeling and Databases, Business Process Management, Business and Information Law, IT Security and Compliance, Accounting and Business Planning.

Highlights named on the page include fundamentals of software development, working with cloud infrastructures, an introduction to database technologies and working with robots. A new specialisation option, "AI for Business", runs through Business Information Systems/AI-based Information Systems and Technology Assisted Work/AI-assisted Business. The business side is anchored in the Common Body of Competences (CBC), a shared content base across FHWien der WKW programmes.

How the programme is organised

It runs over six semesters and 180 ECTS, part-time. About 60 per cent of teaching is online on individual working days from 18:30. The other 40 per cent happens on campus on selected weekends, usually Fridays from 15:45 and Saturdays from 08:30 to 16:30. Hybrid participation in some face-to-face modules is possible.

Teaching mixes lectures, seminars, exercises and workshops with interactive business simulations, case studies and practical projects with partner companies. The page names two: "The future of automotive" with Deloitte Digital and "A digital eco-system" with Lijo. Each course combines on-campus sessions, live online teaching and self-study, and a timetable with dates and assessment criteria appears at the start of the semester.

The internship sits in the fifth semester. You can also spend the fourth semester abroad, or take the internship in the fifth semester instead.

Who it suits

This is for people who want to take responsibility for current and emerging digital technologies in complex projects, and who like working between technical experts and business managers. You should be ready for some statistics, logic and programming; no prior knowledge in these is required. The programme also builds communication skills in German and English, and asks you to train creativity and resilience.

Admission, language and next steps

Teaching is in German and English. German is the main working language; individual courses and the whole fourth semester are in English, so check which parts apply to you. There are 58 places per year, and the programme starts each winter semester in September at wko campus wien, Währinger Gürtel 97, Vienna.

There is no central application portal: you apply directly to FHWien der WKW, and its own pages list the admission requirements, the admissions procedure and the deadlines. Information events run on the first Monday of the month from 4 pm to 5 pm, or by appointment. As a university of applied sciences, FHWien der WKW sets its own fees; the programme page states the semester fee, and the Austrian students' union fee is extra.

For everyone who is interested in the latest trends and technologies and wants to know how they can be used strategically to develop innovative business models, this Bachelor's programme is the right choice. It combines cutting-edge digital technologies, AI skills and in-depth business knowledge to give students a comprehensive understanding of digital transformation. They will develop the Swiss army knife of digitalization and you become part of a community of innovative thinkers driving the digital revolution.

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There is no central application portal in Austria: you apply to the institution, here FHWien der WKW. Universities of applied sciences set their own application periods and admission procedures, so read them on the programme page. Entrance examination, as the register states it: Admission procedure. Entry requirements and language tests are set by the institution, so start from the official programme page. Our guides cover tuition fees, the student residence permit and housing.