FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management

The
FOM University of Applied Sciences was founded in 1993 by the Essen
Employer's Association, the Essen Retail Association, the Essen
Association of Wholesale and Foreign Trade and by the Chamber of
Commerce and Industry, Essen, Mülheim, Oberhausen. These institutions
represent important enterprises in energy supply, retail and services,
chemical and glass production and the metal and electrical industries;
the member companies reflect the entire economic spectrum of the area,
from the medium-sized private company to the global player.

The FOM offers the possibility of studying at a university while
holding a full-time job. Students are able to continue and to
strengthen their company career and at the same time acquire a German
or international university degree. A particular strength of the FOM is
that our teaching staff is composed both of university lecturers with a
strong practical orientation and business practitioners with managerial
experience and an affinity for teaching. In total, the FOM employs
about 150 university professors, 40 of them on a full-time basis, and
more than 500 visiting lecturers. The FOM is located in 17 cities in
Germany: Berlin, Bremen, Bochum, Dortmund, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Essen,
Frankfurt, Gütersloh, Hamburg, Cologne, Leverkusen, Marl, Munich,
Nuremberg, Neuss, Siegen and Stuttgart. The headquarters are located in
Essen. FOM has become one of the biggest private universities in
Germany. All the academic degrees awarded are of course officially
recognised and accredited by the government.

Some of the most important companies, e.g. Siemens, Bayer and
Bertelsmann, have integrated FOM courses into their high potential
development programmes. Close relations to business community are
underlined by the fact that many FOM students hold managerial
positions.

Lectures are held in the evenings or at weekends so that in general
there is no overlap with working hours. Additionally, the seminars are
supplemented by the use of new media such as the internet ( via online
campus). The major advantage of the FOM is that the studies are very
practice-oriented. Students improve their soft skills such as
presentation techniques, teamwork and time management whilst gaining
academic knowledge that can be directly applied in their everyday work.
Students also profit from the exchange with other students, who are
professionals and graduates too.

The FOM offers Bachelor and Master degrees as well as degrees classical academic degrees (German Diploma):

Bachelor of Arts:

Bachelor of Laws:

Bachelor of Science:

Bachelor of Engineering:

Academic Degrees / German Diplomas:

In 2006 the bachelor and the MBA programme have been successfully
accredited by the FIBAA, the leading academic accreditation institution
in Germany. The accreditation of the FOM as a university of applied
sciences by the "Wissenschaftsrat", the Federal Council of Science, was
already achieved in 2004.

International cooperation agreements have been established with the following universities:

The subjects and activities of these collaboration projects range
from simple student exchanges to the carrying out of complete courses
of study in one of the foreign countries. As an example, the FOM has
been authorised by the Chinese government to establish several German
study centres in China.

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