The common courses at the BSc in Economics and Business Administration programme will help you learn about the basic disciplines in business economics. Marketing will help you learn how a company markets and sells its products - to customers in both Denmark and abroad. You will also learn about accounting, which focuses on both internal accounting, i.e. the way in which a company manages its finances, and external accounting, which involves reporting and annual reports. Finance will help you learn about various sources of finance, the stock market, and how financing is carried out across national borders. Organisation will help you learn about a company’s human resources, and how the company best organises itself. Entrepreneurship will help you learn about starting a new company and innovative thinking.

You will also take courses such as microeconomics, which involves what a company’s operating economy is like, i.e. the internal economics of a company. And you will also learn about macroeconomics, which is the national economy, and how Denmark's economy is in relation to other countries.

All of the above will provide you with a basic understanding of the business economics you will need in order to identify and solve company issues.

On your fifth semester you can choose an elective course in order to specialize your programme even more. You can either choose to follow an elective course at SDU or at one of SDU’s partner universities abroad. You can read more about this under "Study abroad".

During your fifth semester you will have the option of studying at a university abroad. You can choose a university that SDU collaborates with, or you can choose to arrange your own stay at another university. SDU collaborates with more than 200 partner universities, and we will gladly help find the right university for you.

You will learn a great deal by studying abroad - not only about what it is like to live and study in another country but also about yourself. Living alone in another country allows you to grow and is an experience for life.

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You can choose to take part in a project-oriented study in a company during the fifth semester of your BSc programme. You can choose the course as an elective, in which the majority of the course takes place in the company.

You will thus learn, what it means to participate in working relationships, get to test your theory in practice, and expand your network, while you are studying.

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Your programme concludes with a bachelor project in the sixth semester. The bachelor project is a major assignment, which must be written within a defined topic. You can write it alone or in a group of two to three students, just as you can write it in relation to a company, and thereby connect what you have learned to practical issues.

The rules for your programme are laid down in the programme regulations, which constitute the formal description of your programme.

The programme regulations contain information about the purpose and structure of the programme, including which subject elements it contains, whether there are opportunities for stays abroad, project-oriented courses or the like, rules for conducting teaching and exams, and rules for participation in exams etc.

As a student, you are responsible for keeping yourself informed about the rules that apply to your programme. It is therefore important that you know the regulations for your programme.

Read the programme regulations for Economics and Business Administration
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A course description is a detailed description of a subject, where you can, for example, read about the purpose of the subject, the content of the subject, including the teaching method(s), the expected workload, and the exam in the subject.

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The programme runs for a period of three years (six semesters), and is set at 180 ECTS. 

At the university, we use ECTS credits for measuring study programmes, and 60 ECTS credits are the equivalent of a full year of study.

Examinations for courses in BSc programmes are typically taken upon their completion, which means that examinations are held during January and June.

Many different methods of assessment are used: Written and oral examinations, take-home assignments, weekly assignments, seminars, and projects. A seminar is a teaching method and method of assessment, in which all students in the seminar group must write an assignment. The assignments are then discussed in the seminar group, and the students take turns in defending their own assignments, opposing the assignments of other students, and acting as “general” participants in the discussion.