BSc Economics at University of Göttingen

In our Bachelor’s programme in Economics, you will explore how markets, businesses, governments and households make decisions, and how these processes are interlinked. For example: how should governments, institutions and businesses make decisions on economic matters when resources are limited and goals are often conflicting? You will learn how to find answers through the analysis and interpretation of data.

Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Winter and summer semester  |  Location: Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany

What you will study

Starting with the 2026/2027 winter semester, the Faculty of Business and Economics will be redesigning the Bachelor's degree programme in Economics to provide you with targeted preparation for new societal and economic challenges. In light of digitalization, sustainability, and global transformation processes, the content and skills are being modernized to ensure a future-oriented and practice-focused education.

Career pathways

The internationalisation of economies, together with an increasingly transnational segmentation of the value chain, has led to an ever-growing international interdependence of companies; the demand for a labour force that thinks and acts global has never been so high.

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