Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering links engineering to business in order to produce graduates competent in finding cross-disciplinary solutions to complex problems.
We offer this degree course in partnership with Universität Hamburg, which runs its business part while we cover the engineering side; this winning combination allows students to access a broad and diverse range of classes with roughly equal proportions of theoretical and practical elements. Required modules alongside a range of required electives for students to choose from mean you can plan your degree in accordance with your interests. Find out more at www.hwi.uni-hamburg.de/bachelor.
Your future career
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Industrial engineers work in a wide variety of fields and roles, from engineering design and technical quality control to marketing and management accounting.
A fairly large proportion of our graduates begin their careers in management consultancy, where they apply and expand their skills in analysing business processes. After a few years‘ experience, they are able to take on management and leadership roles in SMEs or large corporates or to launch their own successful businesses in mechanical engineering or IT.
Course content and structure
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The initial semesters of this inter-institutional course focus on the acquisition of fundamental principles for STEM and business subjects, taught in required modules. As the course progresses, you’ll be able to follow your interests by making appropriate choices from the wide range of required elective modules on offer. You’ll finish your degree by writing your Bachelor thesis. In total, the course is six semesters in duration.
Your interests and skills
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You’ll need to be interested in the big economic and business picture and in how business issues link up with technical matters, as well as being gifted in abstract and analytical thinking and good at maths. You’ll do best if you are an outgoing and communicative team player who’s able to make a constructive contribution in a multidisciplinary group.
Interested – but not quite sure yet whether this is the right course for you? Our self-assessment test can help you make up your mind. Take it here: HAW Navigator.
Admission requirements
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Higher education entrance qualification
You can apply directly for this course if you hold one of the following qualifications:
- Fachhochschulreife
- Allgemeine Hochschulreife
- Fachgebundene Hochschulreife (subject-specific HE entrance qualification)
- Meister_in (vocational qualification – master tradesperson)
- Fachwirt_in (certified specialist)
Applicants who do not hold a higher education entrance qualification, but have completed vocational training (Berufsausbildung) and at least three years of subsequent work experience, can apply under Section 38 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act, which sets out special provisions for these applicants (Besonderer Hochschulzugang für Berufstätige).
Find out more at www.uni-hamburg.de/38
Pre-course experience
Students on this course are required to complete 9 weeks of pre-course experience. You don’t need to have completed it before you enrol, but we strongly recommend you fulfil this requirement before you begin the degree course.
International applicants
If you completed your schooling outside Germany, we recommend you find out at an early stage – before coming to Germany if you are not here already, and preferably around a year before you intend to commence your studies – about your options, the application and admissions process, the course‘s structure, and whether we will be able to recognise qualifications or credits gained outside Germany.
If you have attended a Studienkolleg, you need to have taken your Feststellungsprüfung in the Wirtschaft (business) or Technik (STEM) course in order to be eligible for a place on this degree course. Read more at www.uni-hamburg.de/ib
Application process
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Applications for a place on the course are processed by Universität Hamburg.
During the application period (1 June–15 July: for the winter semester), you can find the online application and detailed information about the application process at www.uni-hamburg.de/campuscenter/bewerbung
Contact the Student Center
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Applications and admissions
Student services (Service für Studierende, SfS)
Application, Admissions and Student Affairs Team
Alsterterrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg
www.uni-hamburg.de/studierendenzentrum
General enquiries on the course:
Central student advisory and counselling services (Zentrale Studienberatung und Psychologische Beratung, ZSPB) at Universität Hamburg
Alsterterrasse 1, 20354 Hamburg
Tel.: + 49.40.428 38-7181
studienberatung(@)uni-hamburg.de
Drop-in hours (third floor):
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 10:00 am–1:00 pm; Thursday: 2:00 pm–6:00 pm
Advice and information by phone:
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday: 10:00 am–12 pm; Thursday: 2:00 pm–4:00 pm
Student Counselling Team (Zentrale Studienberatung) at HAW Hamburg:
Stiftstraße 69, 20099 Hamburg (Berliner Tor campus)
Tel.: + 49.40.428 75-9110
studienberatung(@)haw-hamburg.de
HWI course administration:
Frau Albers
Ulmenliet 20, 21033 Hamburg
Tel.: + 49.40.428 75 - 6051
heidi.albers(@)haw-hamburg.de
Contact the department
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Specifically subject-related queries:
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Cornelia Stübig
Ulmenliet 20, 21033 Hamburg
T +49.40.428 75 - 6111
cornelia.stuebig (at) haw-hamburg (dot) de
HWI-Management
pruefungsamthwi(@)haw-hamburg.de
