In the words of the university:

Bochum University of Applied Sciences – in short UAS_BO – stands for the integrated academic education and training of personalities. Students profit from the mix of state-of-the-art knowledge in engineering or economics and business management, the fostering of important transferable skills for career and everyday life as well as the proven practical expertise of lecturers and partners from regional institutions and partner universities abroad. Always to the fore: A thorough grounding for later professional challenges.

In order to guarantee and maintain the University’s practice-oriented focus, only professors with several years’ experience in professional practice are entrusted with teaching students.

UAS_BO wants to prepare its future graduates for this and also learn itself from the ideas and experiences of other nations and mentalities in teaching, research and university organisation.

In addition, a number of new degree programmes have been consistently introduced over the last years, e.g. Sustainable Development, Architecture, Media Management, Mechatronics, and Geoinformatics. What’s more, UAS_BO is always up to speed in modern teaching and learning methods (e.g. eLearning, WiFi, student workplaces at the University, introductory projects for new students).

The University also fosters the independence and personal responsibility of its students beyond pure academic knowledge. To this purpose, the “Institute for Study Success and Didactics (ISD)” was established to take care of cross-faculty training, such as the teaching of transferable skills, university didactics and support of entrepreneurship.