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M.Sc. Business Mathematics — Free Compulsory Elective Modules

In this area of study, modules in the scope of 36-39 CP are to be completed, so that in total with the area Compulsory Elective Modules in Mathematics 57 CP result. At least one and at most three mathematics or economics seminar must be completed. If two mathematical seminars are completed, these must be chosen from two different mathematical fields. If modules in Business and/or Economics are completed, all but one of these must be assigned to the chosen Business and Economics Focus Area (Accounting and Finance ("AF"), Information and Innovation Management ("II"), Market-Oriented Management ("MU"), or Economics ("VWL")). Of the Computer Science ("Inf") modules, a maximum of two modules can be taken and of the practical modules, a maximum of one module can be taken.

List of modules in this area of study:

Sorted: alphabetical, by classification, by level and CP

Basic module, 6 CP

• Empirical Economics (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Theoretical Economics (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)

Advanced module, 3 CP

• Personal Insurance Mathematics (Advanced module, 3 CP)

Advanced module, 6 CP

• Algebraic Geometry: Introduction (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Applied Harmonic Analysis I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Applied Institutional Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Behavioral and Experimental Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Development Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Discrete Geometry (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Economics of Political Institutions (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Elementary Number Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Group Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• International Institutional Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Law and Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Non-market Institutions (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Numerical Analysis I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Optimization I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Public Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Seminar Advanced Institutional Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Seminar on Institutional Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Small Advanced Module Computer Science 1 (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Advanced Module Computer Science 2 (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Advanced Module Computer Science 3 (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Advanced Module Computer Science 4 (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Advanced Module Computer Science 5 (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Advanced Module Numerical Mathematicss/Optimization (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Small Advanced Module Stochastics (Advanced module, 6 CP)
• Software Design and Programming Techniques (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Software Engineering (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Theoretical Institutional Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)

Advanced module, 9 CP

• Computer Networks (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Continuous Optimization (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Database Systems (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Efficient Algorithms (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Graphics Programming (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• IT-Security (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Computer Science 1 (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Computer Science 2 (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Computer Science 3 (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Computer Science 4 (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Computer Science 5 (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Advanced Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Large Advanced Module Stochastics (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Machine Learning (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Matrix Methods in Data Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Numerical Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Software Quality (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Statistics (Advanced module, 9 CP)
• Topological Methods in Data Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)

Specialization module, 3 CP

• Non-Life Insurance Mathematics (Specialization module, 3 CP)
• Small Specialization Module Stochastics without Tutorial (Specialization module, 3 CP)
• Special Topics of Insurance Mathematics (Specialization module, 3 CP)

Specialization module, 6 CP

• Advanced Financial Accounting I: Concepts & International Aspects (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Financial Accounting II: Corporate Valuation & Governance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Financial Accounting III: Selected Issues (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Financial Accounting IV: Advanced Issues (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Management Accounting I: Value-based Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Management Accounting II: Managerial Decision Making, Governance, and Control (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Advanced Management Accounting III: Data Analysis and Empirical Research (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Applied Harmonic Analysis II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Artificial Intelligence (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Asset Pricing Theory/Capital Market Theory (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Behavioral Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Business Administration Abroad I (MSc) (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Case Studies in Entrepreneurial Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Cloud Computing (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Corporate Taxation I (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Corporate Taxation II (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Corporate Taxation III (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Corporate Valuation: Theoretical and Practical Aspects (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Culture, Leadership, and Knowledge Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Data Integration (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Development and Marketing of New Products and Services (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Development and Marketing of New Products: Case Studies (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Digital Business (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Distributed Systems (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Economic Policy (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Empirical processes (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• High-dimensional Statistics and Machine Learning (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Index and Storage Structures (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Information Retrieval (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Innovative Business Models (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• International Economic Policy (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• International Marketing (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Macroeconomics and Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Management of Organizations (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Managing Digital Platform Ecosystems (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Market Research in Theory and Practice (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Monetary Economics (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Neural Networks (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Numerical Analysis II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Operating Systems (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Optimization II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Organization Theories and Knowledge Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Political Economics (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Quantitative Risk Management (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Selected Problems in Banking and Finance/Banking (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Selected Topics in Numerical Analysis (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Seminar Advanced Management Accounting (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Seminar Digitization and Process Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Seminar Empirical Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Seminar Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Seminar on Advanced Finance and Banking (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Seminar on Economic Policy (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Seminar on Empirical Marketing (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Seminar on Financial Accounting and Corporate Valuation (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
• Seminar on Marketing Theory (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Seminar on Money, Accounting and Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Seminar on Organization, Human Resource Management and Knowledge Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Seminar on Strategic and International Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Seminar on Strategic and International Management (Project) (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Seminar on Technology and Innovation Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Small Specialization Module Computer Science 1 (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Specialization Module Computer Science 2 (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Specialization Module Computer Science 3 (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Specialization Module Computer Science 4 (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Specialization Module Computer Science 5 (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Small Specialization Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Small Specialization Module Stochastics (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Software Evolution (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Stochastic Processes (Specialization module, 6 CP)
• Strategic Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation: Case Studies (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation: Intellectual Property Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
• Supplier-Retailer-Relations in Theory and Practice (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
• Topics in Institutional Economics Policy Abroad (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Topics in Money, Accounting and Finance Abroad (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
• Virtual Machines (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
• Web Technologies (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)

Specialization module, 9 CP

• Algebras and their Representations (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Approximation Theory (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Fourier Integral Operators (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Functional Analysis (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Implementation of Database Systems (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Computer Science 1 (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Computer Science 2 (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Computer Science 3 (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Computer Science 4 (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Computer Science 5 (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Large Specialization Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Large Specialization Module Stochastics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Mathematical and Nonparametric Statistics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Model-driven Software Development (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Multimedia Signal Processing (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
• Numerical Solution Methods for Differential Equations (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Numerical Solution Methods for Finite Dimensional Problems (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Probabilistic Combinatorics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Probability Theory (Specialization module, 9 CP)
• Stochastical Analysis (Specialization module, 9 CP)

Practical module, 6 CP

• Advanced Software Project in Business Mathematics (Practical module, 6 CP)
• Industrial Internship (Practical module, 6 CP)

Profile module, 3 CP

• Selected Advanced Topics in Business Mathematics A ("Seminar") (Profile module, 3 CP)
• Selected Advanced Topics in Business Mathematics B ("Seminar") (Profile module, 3 CP)

Please note:

This page applies to the most current examination regulations in Winter semester 2023/24. If you are studying according to an earlier or later examination regulation other provisions may apply:

• Winter 2016/17 (no corresponding element)
• Summer 2018 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2018/19 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2019/20 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2020/21 (no corresponding element)
• Summer 2021 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2021/22 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2022/23 (no corresponding element)
• Winter 2023/24

The information in this online module guide was created automatically. Legally binding is only the information in the examination regulations (Prüfungsordnung). If you notice any discrepancies or errors, we would be grateful for any advice.