What does a study program in economics actually look like?

Jan Fiebich completed his Master's degree in Business Education just a year ago and immediately landed his dream job as a personnel officer at Deutsche Bahn. He laid the foundations for this with an internship during his Master's degree. This made it much easier for him to start his career than many of his fellow students. Today, the 26-year-old applies the knowledge from his studies in his day-to-day work.

Making the world a better place is the vision that Michelle Müller lives for. At the Department of Information Systems, she conducts research into the online behaviour of people on digital marketplaces and its effects. She travels halfway around the world to exchange ideas with her research colleagues - and yet she always enjoys coming home.

Gathering new impressions, developing herself and helping other people - and all this in Uganda! Even before her studies, Leonie was already concerned with social inequalities and set herself the goal of changing this. Four years ago, she became aware of the charitable Paderborn Odissa-Charles organisation and has been flying to Uganda for several weeks a year to provide local support ever since.

The Asian economic and cultural region is considered to be very important now and in the future and is also becoming increasingly interesting for European Studies students. The ASBE programme offers a special opportunity to shape your own CV in an international and targeted way during your studies - Jason Hensel did not miss out on this opportunity and spent his semester abroad in South Korea during the ongoing corona pandemic.

Cafer only started his degree in Economics at Paderborn University in 2016. Today, he is in the final stages of his M.Sc. in Business Administration, but is already working as Head of PM at a Shopware agency. Cafer told us what drove him to his personal dream job much earlier than his fellow students and what his degree programme has to do with it.