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M.Sc. Business Mathematics — Free Compulsory Elective Modules
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In diesem Studienbereich sind Module im Umfang von 36-39 LP zu absolvieren, so dass sich in Summe mit dem Bereich Mathematik Wahlpflichtmodule 66 LP ergeben. Dabei muss mindestens ein mathematisches oder wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Seminar absolviert werden, insgesamt dürfen bis zu drei Seminare belegt werden. Wenn zwei mathematische Seminare absolviert werden, müssen diese aus zwei unterschiedlichen mathematischen Gebieten gewählt werden. Wenn wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Module absolviert werden, müssen diese bis auf eines aus dem gewählen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Schwerpunktsbereich sein (Accounting and Finance („AF“), Informations- und Innovationsmanagement („II“), Marktorientierte Unternehmensführung („MU“) oder Volkswirtschaftslehre („VWL“)). Von den Modulen zur Informatik („Inf“) können höchstens zwei Module und von den Praxismodulen kann höchstens ein Modul absolviert werden.
List of modules in this area of study:
Sorted: alphabetical, by classification, by level and CP
Without classification
- Advanced Business Analytics I (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Advanced Business Analytics II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Advanced Management Accounting with Excel and Business Valuation in the industry (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Advanced Problemsolving and Communication (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Advanced Software Project in Business Mathematics (Practical module, 6 CP)
- Algebraic Geometry: Introduction (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Algebras and their Representations (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Applied Harmonic Analysis I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Applied Harmonic Analysis II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Approximation Theory (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Big Data Systems (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Continuous Optimization (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Discrete Geometry (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Elementary Number Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Empirical processes (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Financial Mathematics II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Financial Optimization (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Forecasting: Theory and Practice (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Fourier Integral Operators (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Functional Analysis (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Group Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- High-dimensional Statistics and Machine Learning (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Industrial Internship (Practical module, 6 CP)
- Large Advanced Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Large Advanced Module Stochastics (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Large Specialization Module Business Mathematics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Large Specialization Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Large Specialization Module Stochastics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Mathematical and Nonparametric Statistics (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Matrix Methods in Data Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Non-Life Insurance Mathematics (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Nonsmooth Analysis and Optimization (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Numerical Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Numerical Analysis I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Numerical Analysis II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Numerical Methods for Ordinary Differential Equations (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Numerical Solution Methods for Differential Equations (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Numerical Solution Methods for Finite Dimensional Problems (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Optimization I (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Optimization II (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Personal Insurance Mathematics (Advanced module, 3 CP)
- Probabilistic Combinatorics (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Probability Theory (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Quantitative Risk Management (Specialization module, 6 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)
- Selected Topics in Numerical Analysis (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Selected Topics on Financial Mathematics (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Seminar Advanced Business Analytics (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Small Advanced Module Numerical Mathematicss/Optimization (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Small Advanced Module Stochastics (Advanced module, 6 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Business Mathematics a (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Business Mathematics b (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Business Mathematics without Tutorial a (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Business Mathematics without Tutorial b (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Numerical Mathematics/Optimization (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Stochastics (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Small Specialization Module Stochastics without Tutorial (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Special Topics of Insurance Mathematics (Specialization module, 3 CP)
- Statistics (Advanced module, 9 CP)
- Statistics and Statistical Learning (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Stochastic Processes (Specialization module, 6 CP)
- Stochastical Analysis (Specialization module, 9 CP)
- Topological Methods in Data Analysis (Advanced module, 9 CP)
Classification AF
- Accounting and Finance Abroad I (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Accounting and Finance Abroad II (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Advanced Management Accounting II: Managerial Decision Making, Governance, and Control (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Advanced Management Accounting III: Selected Issues (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Advanced Selected Problems of Accounting and Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Advanced Seminar in Finance and Banking (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Asset Pricing Theory/Capital Market Theory (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Behavioral Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Business Taxation I (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Business Taxation II (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Business Taxation III (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Financial Accounting I: Concepts & International Issues (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Financial Accounting II: Valuation & Governance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Financial Accounting III: Advanced Problems (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Financial Accounting III: Selected Problems (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Graduate (Research) Project Accounting and Finance (Specialization module, 18 CP, AF)
- Quantitative Methods in Empirical Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Selected Problems in Banking and Finance/Banking (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Seminar Advanced Management Accounting (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Seminar Current Topics in Behavioral Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Seminar Household Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
- Seminar on Financial Accounting (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF)
Classification AF&II
Classification AF&MU
Classification AF,MU&II
- Business Administration Abroad I (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF,MU&II)
- Business Administration Abroad II (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF,MU&II)
- Business Administration Abroad III (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF,MU&II)
- Business Administration Abroad IV (Specialization module, 6 CP, AF,MU&II)
Classification II
- Advanced Selected Issues Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, Innovation (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Business Analytics powered by process-oriented Artificial Intelligence (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Business Model Innovation (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Current Topics in Entrepreneurship (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Design of innovative, digital solutions (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- 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)
- Digitalization, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Abroad II (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, Innovation Abroad I (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Entrepreneurial Innovation through Design Thinking (Specialization module, 12 CP, II)
- Graduate (Research) Project Digitalization, Entrepreneurship, Innovation (Specialization module, 18 CP, II)
- Process Innovation (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Seminar Advanced Entrepreneurship and Innovative Business Models (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Seminar Digital Operations (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Seminar on Technology and Innovation Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation: Case Studies (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
- Strategic Management of Technology, Innovation and Intellectual Property (Specialization module, 6 CP, II)
Classification Inf
- Artificial Intelligence (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Cloud Computing (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Computer Networks (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Data Integration (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Database Systems (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Distributed Systems (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Efficient Algorithms (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Graphics Programming (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- IT-Security (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Implementation of Database Systems (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Index and Storage Structures (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Information Retrieval (Specialization module, 6 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 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)
- Machine Learning (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Model-driven Software Development (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Multimedia Signal Processing (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Neural Networks (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Operating Systems (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Program Verification and Synthesis (Specialization module, 9 CP, Inf)
- 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 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)
- Software Design and Programming Techniques (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Software Engineering (Advanced module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Software Evolution (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Software Quality (Advanced module, 9 CP, Inf)
- Virtual Machines (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
- Web Technologies (Specialization module, 6 CP, Inf)
Classification MU
- Advanced Marketing I (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Advanced Marketing II (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Advanced Selected Issues of Market-Oriented Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Cultural Capital (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Graduate (Research) Project Market-Oriented Management (Specialization module, 18 CP, MU)
- Management of Organizations (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Market-Oriented Management Abroad I (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Market-Oriented Management Abroad II (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Organization Theories and Knowledge Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Seminar Advanced Marketing (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
- Seminar on Organization, Knowledge Management, and Leadership (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)
- Strategic Management (Specialization module, 6 CP, MU)
Classification VWL
- Applied Econometrics (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Behavioral Economics and Sustainability (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Corporate Finance and Institutions (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Decision-Making in Strategic and Non-Strategic Settings (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Economic Aspects of Political Institutions (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Empirical Macroeconomics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- European Monetary Economics (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Experimental Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Institutions and Behavior: Empirics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Institutions and Behavior: Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- International Macroeconomics and Finance (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Introduction to Behavioral Economics (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Introduction to Institutional Economics (Basic module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Law and Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Political Economy (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Public Economics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Seminar in Institutions and Behavior: Advanced Level (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Seminar in Institutions and Behavior: Empirics (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Seminar in Institutions and Behavior: Theory (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Topics in Institutions and Behavior: Empirics Abroad (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Topics in Institutions and Behavior: Theory Abroad (Advanced module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Topics in Money, Accounting, and Finance Abroad (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
- Topics in Sustainability Abroad (Specialization module, 6 CP, VWL)
Please note:
This page applies to the most current examination regulations in Winter semester 2025/26. 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 (no corresponding element)
- Winter 2025/26
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.