The Faculty of Economic Sciences at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, was one of the first German universities to completely restructure its single-tier diploma programmes into a two-tiered Bachelor’s and Master’s system, starting in the winter semester of 2005/ 2006. Thus, the Faculty is actively participating in the reform process of European education systems, combining the introduction of new programmes of study with far-reaching reforms of programme structure, programme content, and teaching and learning methods.

The change to Bachelor's and Master's system occured in all of the four main-segments of Faculty: Business Administration (including Business Information Systems), Economics, Business and Human Resource Education as well as Economic and Social History.

Research conducted at the Faculty of Economic Sciences in its core subjects – Business and Economics – focuses on research in

• Governance,


• Integration and Development,
and

• Marketing and Channel Management.

Our focus in the field of Business and Human Resource Education is on education policy, institutional and organizational conditions and learning and instruction problems of vocational, occupational and professional education and training over the life-span. This includes training programmes for schools as well as for enterprises.

The Chair of Economic and Social History has an interdisciplinary focus, bringing a historical perspective into all research conducted by the Faculty. The chair specializes in business and globalization history as well as in the history of consumption.
The Chair of Statistics and the Chair of Econometrics provide the Faculty with expertise in empirical methodology.
In our research we maintain various international partnerships. Externally-funded research has become increasingly important at the Faculty in recent years.

The Faculty also offers structured doctoral programmes that greatly contribute to its research profile. Doctoral studies are conducted interdisciplinary with other Faculties (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Faculty of Law, and the Faculty of Social Sciences) and are combined in the Göttingen Graduate School of Social Sciences (GGG). As from April 1, 2012, the German Research Foundation (DFG) will be funding two new Research Training Groups at the Faculty of Economic Sciences. The scientists of the Research Training Group 1703, “Resource Efficiency in Corporate Networks – Methods for Enterprise and Corporate Level Planning to Utilize Renewable Resources”, will be examining the increasing significance of renewable resources for industrial use. The Research Training Group 1723, “Globalization and Development”, is a joint project at the Universities of Göttingen and Hannover. The scientists working in this Group are examining the impact of economic globalization on developing countries.

In the field of teaching the Faculty offers a variety of general Bachelor's Programmes in Business Administration, Economics, Business Information Systems, and Business and Human Resource Education as well as differentiated Master's Programmes: There is a variety of different Master's Programmes in the main-segments Business Administration and Economics and a specific offer of Master's Programmes in Business Information Systems, in Business and Human Resource Education, and in Economic and Social History. In the field of Business Administration, three focuses of teaching ore offered, that lead to seperate master's-titles: (1) Finance, Accounting, and Taxes, (2) Marketing and Channel Management, and (3) Management. The Master's Programmes in International Economics and Development Economics have a very international focus and both require a study period abroad. Development Economics is taught completely in English.

At the center of our Faculty’s knowledge transfer activities are consulting services for businesses, government departments and international organizations, as well as expertise provided to courts of law and other decision-making bodies. We also develop and offer teaching/training modules as well as learning modules and environments – also computer-based – for initial and recurrent occupational and professional education and training – from the apprenticeship level up to management training. In addition, we foster knowledge transfer by holding lectures, conferences, seminars, and series of interdisciplinary lectures at home and abroad as well as through Business and Summer Schools.