Students on Bachelor's degree programmes in business and economics can also take more modules in business education as part of a specialisation. The elective options in the assessment and profiling phase can be used, for example, to prepare students ideally for the Master of Science in Business Education or the Master of Education in Business Education - Teaching Qualification for Vocational Colleges.

The task of business education is to systematically research processes and conditions as well as support options for vocational teaching, learning and development at various learning and working locations across the lifespan. In doing so, it combines economic content with educational policy, organisational and didactic-methodological issues of vocational education and training in the school, company and inter-company fields. As part of its teaching and research, the Department of Business Education deals with current and future issues in vocational education and training. The following keywords indicate the range of work carried out by the Department of Business Education:

• Design of complex learning environments and self-regulated learning
• Competence measurement and development
• Support diagnostics and individualised learning paths
• Learning with new media
• Educational management and teacher training

Teachers at vocational colleges are faced with the challenge of not only imparting specialised knowledge, but also helping students to develop professional skills. This means that they must support students in being able to reliably fulfil the tasks in their future professions. They should also enable students to understand and critically assess economic contexts, find solutions and be able to defend and discuss them. We prepare prospective teachers for these complex tasks in our degree programmes. The teaching profession at vocational colleges offers great diversity, as students are taught in many different educational programmes. The spectrum ranges, for example, from educational programmes leading to a technical secondary school certificate, entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or general higher education entrance qualification to various training occupations in the dual system.

We constantly incorporate new findings from our numerous research projects into our teaching - for example on the requirements and challenges of the teaching profession. We live the teaching profession ourselves and are committed to a lively exchange.

The Master's degree programmes in Business Education (Master of Science and Master of Education) prepare students for work in vocational schools, companies, educational administration institutions and research and development institutes through their traditional combination of economics and Education Studies components.