Dual Bachelor's degree programs

A dual study program is in cooperation with a practice partner, who is also a contractual partner and where the students perform the pracitcal part of their education. There is close coordination between the theory and practical periods. In part-time studies, there is no contractual relationship between the university and the employer. The study program is designed in such a way that it is compatible with a full-time professional activity.

• The degree programs were developed together with the business community.
• The professors and lecturers with practical experience come from the business world.
• The study conditions are outstanding.
• Specialization options through the choice of majors (about 20 electives). 
• Intensive foreign language training with one to two compulsory languages (English, Spanish or French) and the additionally selectable languages Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
• Semester abroad: Students can spend the 5th semester at a foreign university. NORDAKADEMIE cooperates with more than 30 partner universities worldwide.
• Studium Generale for soft skills training (more than 250 classes).
• Internationally acknowledged degrees.
• Further qualification possible through part-time master's degree programs at the NORDAKADEMIE site in Hamburg.

NORDAKADEMIE offers dual Bachelor's degree programs leading to a Bachelor of Science degree:

• Business Administration (B.Sc.) – for the training of business people who can be employed universally in all industries. Fields of specialization: Finance and Accounting, Human Resource Management, Logistics/Operations Management, Marketing and International Management.

• Industrial Engineering (B.Sc.) – for the training of junior staff with technical and commercial qualifications, e.g. for technical sales, production control/planning or project management.

• Business Informatics (B.Sc.) – to train IT professionals with business expertise. The program includes information technology subjects (e.g. programming) as well as business subjects (e.g. accounting). In addition, overarching subjects such as IT organization and project management are taught.
• Software Engineering (B.Sc.) – for training professional application developers and software engineers. The program's focus is on information technology subjects - from the fundamentals of computer science and programming to software development, usability engineering and IT security. 
• IT-Engineering (B.Sc.) – an essential component of the course is the examination of cyber-physical systems and the intelligent networking of various hardware and software components.

Part-time Master's degree programs

NORDAKADEMIE also offers a variety of part-time master's degree programs and advanced education modules, including the Master of Business Administration (MBA).

Practical phases in the company (13 weeks per term) and the theoretical part at NORDAKADEMIE (10 weeks per term) alternate in blocks. The bachelor's thesis is based on a business related topic and takes 2 months to complete.

In the first semesters, students pass through the most important departments of their training company. Increasingly independent activities and longer-lasting collaboration in selected specialist departments predominate in the later semesters. With advanced training in the company it has proven to be most effective to involve the students in projects or to entrust them with substitutions and thus to give them increasing responsibility.

Our cooperating companies are convinced that a study duration of six semesters does not provide enough practical as well as theoretical training. NORDAKADEMIE therefore prefers a total study duration of seven semesters until the bachelor's degree. Enough time, therefore, for a sound education in both practice and theory. The last semester in particular is the time in which the dual students have already acquired sufficient qualifications to actively work in the company and systematically grow into their future profession. This also improves the cost-value ratio of a dual study program for the company.

As a "university of the economy" (Hochschule der Wirtschaft), NORDAKADEMIE is directly supported by companies. The shareholders of the non-profit supporting company are well-known companies from northern Germany and the NORDMETALL Verband der Metall- und Elektro-Industrie e.V. Through the supervisory board, the general meeting of shareholders and the advisory council, NORDAKADEMIE is way more linked to the business community than probably any other university. This ensures that the courses offered are up to date and practice-oriented, and is the prerequisite for training highly qualified junior staff in line with demand.