Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach
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The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as Berufsakademie Lörrach. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the theory at school and applying it on the job in a three-months rhythm. Besides Loerrach, seven other schools of cooperative education and three branch campuses where founded in Baden-Wuerttemberg since the beginning of 1974.
The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has changed the school’s legal status on March 1st, 2009. The union of the merged eight institutions with 11 campuses is now named Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
. It is a legal entity of public law and simultaneously a state institution. By 2009 the combined student enrollment across all 11 campuses had reached more than 25,000 students. More than 90,000 graduated alumni have been educated in more than 8,000 cooperating companies.
About 1,700 students are enrolled at the DHBW Loerrach. It runs a faculty of business and a faculty of engineering and offers 17 different business and technical fields of study. All programs are intensive and full-time degree courses (accredited with 210 ECTS).
In most the courses students graduate after three years with one of the following degrees:
Master courses offered in
The DHBW Loerrach - situated in the triangle between Germany
, Switzerland
and France
– offers two trinational courses in cooperation with the Université de Haute Alsace in Colmar
and Mulhouse
and the UASN-Switzerland in Basle and Muttenz
. Students graduate from these courses after three and a half years and receive a degree from all three participating schools. The lectures are held in German
, French
and English
.
The DHBW Loerrach cooperates with the Steinbeis Foundation
Stuttgart and the following international universities:
The school is a member in the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), the World Universities Congress
and in the Balkan Universities Network
.
The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has changed the school’s legal status on March 1st, 2009. The union of the merged eight institutions with 11 campuses is now named Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University is an undergraduate college with several campuses throughout the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It offers dual education degree programs in cooperation with industry and non-profit institutions in the areas of engineering, business...
. It is a legal entity of public law and simultaneously a state institution. By 2009 the combined student enrollment across all 11 campuses had reached more than 25,000 students. More than 90,000 graduated alumni have been educated in more than 8,000 cooperating companies.
About 1,700 students are enrolled at the DHBW Loerrach. It runs a faculty of business and a faculty of engineering and offers 17 different business and technical fields of study. All programs are intensive and full-time degree courses (accredited with 210 ECTS).
In most the courses students graduate after three years with one of the following degrees:
- Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
- Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Master courses offered in
- Health Care Management
- Human Resource ManagementHuman resource managementHuman Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...
- Logistics ManagementLogistics ManagementThe term Logistics Management or supply chain management is that part of Supply Chain Management that plans, implements, and controls the efficient, effective, forward, and reverse flow and storage of goods, services, and related information between the point of origin and the point of consumption...
- Business ManagementManagement (disambiguation)Management is the directing of a group of people or entities toward a goal.Management may also refer to:-Business:* Benefits realisation management* Brand management* Business process management* Change management...
(Start October 2011)
The DHBW Loerrach - situated in the triangle between Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
, Switzerland
Switzerland
Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....
and France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
– offers two trinational courses in cooperation with the Université de Haute Alsace in Colmar
Colmar
Colmar is a commune in the Haut-Rhin department in Alsace in north-eastern France.It is the capital of the department. Colmar is also the seat of the highest jurisdiction in Alsace, the appellate court....
and Mulhouse
Mulhouse
Mulhouse |mill]] hamlet) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. With a population of 110,514 and 278,206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after...
and the UASN-Switzerland in Basle and Muttenz
Muttenz
Muttenz is a municipality with a population of approximately 17,000 in the canton of Basel-Country in Switzerland. It is located in the district of Arlesheim and next to the city of Basle.-History:...
. Students graduate from these courses after three and a half years and receive a degree from all three participating schools. The lectures are held in German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
, French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
and English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
.
The DHBW Loerrach cooperates with the Steinbeis Foundation
Steinbeis Foundation
The Steinbeis Foundation is an institute headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany dedicated to the transfer of academic findings and knowledge into the field of business. Established in its current form in 1971, the foundation encompasses the Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin, hundreds of Steinbeis Transfer...
Stuttgart and the following international universities:
- Africa
- Durban University of Technology, South Africa
- Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
- Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
- North America
- Georgian College Toronto, Canada
- University of OttawaUniversity of OttawaThe University of Ottawa is a bilingual, research-intensive, non-denominational, international university in Ottawa, Ontario. It is one of the oldest universities in Canada. It was originally established as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate...
, Canada - University of VictoriaUniversity of VictoriaThe University of Victoria, often referred to as UVic, is the second oldest public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It is a research intensive university located in Saanich and Oak Bay, about northeast of downtown Victoria. The University's annual enrollment is about 20,000 students...
, Canada - University of WaterlooUniversity of WaterlooThe University of Waterloo is a comprehensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The school was founded in 1957 by Drs. Gerry Hagey and Ira G. Needles, and has since grown to an institution of more than 30,000 students, faculty, and staff...
, Canada - Northwestern Michigan College, USA
- University of CaliforniaUniversity of CaliforniaThe University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
in Santa Barbara, USA
- Asia
- Beijing Wuzi University, China
- TEDC Bandung, Indonesia
- Australia
- Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
- Europe
- University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université de Haute-Alsace, France
- INSEEC Bordeaux, France
- Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
- Università dell’Insubria Varese / Como, Italy
- Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
- Savonia Polytechnic, Kuopio, Finland
- Ventspils College, Latvia
- Hogeschool ZeelandHogeschool ZeelandThe HZ University of Applied Sciences is a vocational university in the Dutch province of Zeeland and has buildings in Vlissingen and Terneuzen.- External links :...
, Vlissingen, Netherlands - FH JoanneumFH JoanneumFH Joanneum is one of the largest Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria. It has about 3,500 students and about 530 employees . The main campus is located in Graz, while there are two other locations in Kapfenberg and Bad Gleichenberg...
Graz, Austria - The Polish Open University Warsaw, Poland
- Poznan School of Banking, Poland
- Polytechnic University of TimişoaraPolytechnic University of TimisoaraThe "Politehnica" University of Timişoara was founded on November 11, 1920. It is one of the largest technical universities in Central and Eastern Europe.The university has 10 faculties and several independent departments....
, Romania - University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
- Europäische Wirtschaftsakademie Madrid, Spain
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Albacete, Spain
- Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
- Brno University of TechnologyBrno University of TechnologyBrno University of Technology is a university located in Brno, Czech Republic...
, Czech Republic - Trakya UniversityTrakya UniversityTrakya University , aka University of Thrace, established on July 20, 1982, is a state university located in Edirne, at Turkey's European part Eastern Thrace....
, Edirne, Turkey - Széchenyi István UniversitySzéchenyi István UniversityThe Széchenyi István University is located in Győr, Hungary. The university was established in 2002. It has an excellent reputation in electrical and mechanical engineering and has a partnership with the German car manufacturer Audi.- History :...
Györ, Hungary
The school is a member in the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), the World Universities Congress
World Universities Congress
The first World Universities Congress was organized and hosted by Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University between October 20-24, 2010 to discuss the question of the responsibilities and duties of universities in the face of global problems....
and in the Balkan Universities Network
Balkan Universities Network
The Balkan Universities Network or BUN in its present form was created after the end of the SFR Yugoslavia, the founding of new universities, and the implementation of the Bologna Process in Balkan Universities...
.