Good reasons for choosing BiTS

At BiTS we want to help you develop into an inspiring leadership personality and to give full expression to your individual creative potential.
How? By opening doors for you and offering an innovative curriculum that sets no bounderies for you in terms of either content or geography – using a particularly practical orientation, individual fostering, and international opportunities that go well beyond a semester abroad. Thanks to its membership in the world’s biggest education network, Laureate International Universities, BiTS was just recently selected as one of the 25 best internationally oriented universities worldwide (*U-Multirank 2016).

  • International

    Boundless international prospects – Make the world your campus

    In the business world, national borders have long been a thing of the past – as they have been at BiTS. Because of the Laureate International Universities network, your campus will not be just Berlin, Hamburg, or Iserlohn: through projects abroad and transnational internship projects, you become part of a worldwide community and work with students, professors, and partners from all over the world. And quite aside from this, interesting job opportunities and exciting projects await you!

    What can you expect from us?

    • Integrated semesters abroad at one of our 140 partner universities worldwide, including the London School of Economics, the Kendall College in Chicago, and the Stellenbosch University on all continents
    • Internship projects and lectures with fellow students from other countries and renowned international partners
    • 100% English-language programs or German programs with portions in the English language
    • Dual graduations with our international partner universities
    • Multicultural campus, particularly in Berlin
  • Practical orientation

    Limitless practical orientation and entrepreneurship: Projects, contacts, and learning from pros

    Learning by doing: At BiTS you gain practical experience and make valuable contacts right from the beginning. We are eager to hear your ideas – as are your future employers too. Discover your inner entrepreneur and get to work. In an environment where great emphasis is placed on cooperation. This is how your career is already beginning, without you even noticing it. 

    What can you expect from us?

    • Integrated internships and traineeships
    • Experienced professors, lecturers, and visiting lecturers with many years of experience in private enterprise
    • Projects with more than 600 collaborating partners from commerce, the media, sports, and culture
    • Assistance in student-led resorts, e.g. in the field of marketing, consulting, or social issues, in which you work on innovative solutions for customers
    • Entrepreneurial institutions such as a start-up workshop on the Berlin campus
    • State-of-the-art, hands-on equipment, e.g. TV studio, radio studio, Mac pools, lectures and events with successful personalities and partners from the real world
  • Individual development

    No limits to individual development – Your personality counts

    Successful leadership personalities excel in more than pure expertise. They know what their passions are and make them into their profession, providing new impetuses and ideas that are contagious.

    Our graduates have founded their own companies or work in positions of leadership in companies in the fields of commerce, communication media, culture, and sports, such as Nike, Porsche, RTL, and the German Soccer League.

    We help you to forge your individual talents and use these to lay the foundation for writing your own success story.

    What can you expect from us?

    • Individual monitoring and close cooperation with the faculty
    • Small study groups
    • Promotion of social and interdisciplinary competencies such as leadership and management
    • Personal career planning through the Career Center
    • Support from the International Office before and during your semester abroad
    • Wide selection of optional areas of specialization
  • Innovative thinking

    Innovative thinking and progressive teaching methods

    BiTS keeps up with the times. We regularly offer new, future-oriented courses and we adapt existing study programs to prepare you for the needs of tomorrow’s work environment. This means that you learn today what will be in demand tomorrow.

    What distinguishes us?

    • Close cooperation with our partners in the development of innovative programs (e.g. Entrepreneurial Economics, Alba Berlin College)
    • Laureate Professional Assessment: Planning study programs based on the further development of core competencies deemed relevant in the future by around 5,000 companies worldwide – awarded as a supplementary certificate together with the graduation diploma
    • Access to innovative (digital) teaching formats in the international Laureate network
    • BiTS is in the leading group of German universities for applied research.
    • Accredited and quality-tested programs: In 2014/2015, BiTS again received institutional accreditation from the German Council of Science and Humanities for the maximum period of ten years. In addition, programs at BiTS also carry the FIBAA Quality Seal.
  • German Council of Science and Humanities

    German Council of Science and Humanities

    “The numerous collaborations with the commercial sector substantiate the claims of providing practical training”

    “The strategy of internationalization is to be welcomed and it leads to a greater international mobility for the students”.

    “Outstanding research work by individual professors”

  • FIBAA

    FIBAA

    “In addition to this, there is a series of criteria that exceed quality demands, for example in career counseling and in individual counseling and support given to students.”