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Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin
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Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin (SHB) (or Steinbeis

University) is a private German university, which was

Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin

founded in 1998.[2] The university is based in Berlin, but

also owns institutes in Baden-Wrttemberg.
The university mainly offers extra-occupational study
courses. Besides Bachelor and Master programs, there are
possibilities to get doctoral degrees. Although the
university is mainly offering economic courses, there is
also the opportunity to achieve a Bachelor of Engineering.

Motto

Knowledge. Transfer. Application.

Type

Private Business School

Established 1998 [1]

Dean

Johann Lhn

The main idea of Steinbeis University is the

"interdigitation of theory and practice", which means that
the students can apply their gained theoretical knowledge
directly to their job. Students are usually just accepted
together with a sponsoring company, where the students
have to work during their "practical training".

Academic
staff

39 Chairs

Students

4.244

Location

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Campus

Berlin

The university is wholly owned by the Steinbeis

Foundation.

Study
programs

Contents
1 History
2 Criticism
3 Study programs
4 Institutes

Bachelor of Science
Bachelor of Engineering
Bachelor of Business Administration
(BBA)
Master of Arts
Master of Science
Master of Business Administration
(MBA)
Master of Business Engineering
(MBE)

Colors
Website

Black and White

steinbeis-hochschule.de (http://www.
steinbeis-hochschule.de/)

5 References
6 External links

History
As early as 1994, the Steinbeis Foundation was working on the fundamentals of a new academy. The idea of
a private Steinbeis University in Baden-Wrttemberg was soon in coming. The circumstances at the time,
however, were not advantageous. As a result, Johann Lhn, the then Steinbeis Foundation Chairman of the
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Board, chose not to pursue the idea further.

As systemic coincidence would have it, lines of communication were established with the Berlin Senate
Department of Science and Education. The Secretary of State at the time, Erich Thies, was a strong advocate
of the university even if it existed in thought only. In a matter of weeks, Steinbeis received state approval
to move forward with SHB. The university opened its doors in the autumn of 1998 offering the MBE
(Master of Business and Engineering).
1999 saw the introduction of the MedienMBA, the first MBA for senior managers working in the German
media. In 2000 SHB added another string to its bow: MBA degrees for Chinese executives and German fasttrack employees. In 2001 SHB launched its first bachelors degree program.
From day one, the universitys entrepreneurial origins stood it in good stead: organized as a business, with
the institutes acting more like companies within a company. This set-up and the Project Competence
Concept have played a key role in SHBs astounding growth. Degrees based on this model require students
to partner with a company at the start of their studies and fl esh out a project that applies the lessons they
learn in the classroom to a tangible business challenge. The degrees are rounded off by specialized seminars
and training courses in key skills areas of technology, management and business all adding to the richness
of the Steinbeis curriculum.
Today over 4000 employed professionals are enrolled in SHB. In total about 900 lecturers and 1100 project
managers are, mostly part-time, employed by the university.

Criticism
At the beginning of 2014, the university received nationwide criticism after it announced plans to launch a
Steinbeis Transfer Institute in Traunstein in September 2014 offering a bachelor's degree in homeopathy.
Critics call it a "disgrace for the science center of Bavaria".[3] According to the Society for the Scientific
Investigation of Pseudoscience (GWUP) the course is "simply an academic misnomer." [4]
According to the journalist Weymayr, from the Christian Science Monitor, the program was a "training
school for medical practitioners" which "glosses over an academic cloak upgraded" with dignity. You talk
"from the master and bachelor of college, of, academic, '" says "all the serious degree programs that are
committed to academic standards and are based on normal universities, discredited." [5] The physician
Edzard Ernst stated that the programme "does not even meet the minimum of critical thinking and academic
integrity". He added that the implementation of such courses was "extremely regrettable - they devalue the
Bachelor of Science in all other areas and have nothing to do with science." [6] Against the accreditation of
the degree program a petition to the Senate of Berlin was directed that the College is responsible.[7]
At the beginning of April 2014, Spiegel Online stated that the proposed course of study will not be
introduced.[8]

Study programs
Doctoral programs, students are awarded the German PhD equivalent Dr. rer. oec.
Master of Business Engineering (MBE) - (General Management, Business Intelligence)
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Master of Arts (MA)

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA)
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)

Institutes
Steinbeis Center of Management and Technology (SCMT)
Stuttgart Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT)
Steinbeis Business Academy (SBA)
School of International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE)
School of Management and Innovation (SMI)
School of Governance Risk & Compliance (School GRC)
IBR School of Executive Management

References
1. "Steinbeis - Hochschule Berlin". http://www.4icu.org. 12 January 2015. External link in |journal= (help)
2. "Die Steinbeis - Hochschule Berlin (SHB)". https://www.adg-business-school.de. External link in |journal= (help)
3. BR: Der Globuli-Bachelor Streit um Homopathie-Studium in Traunstein (http://www.br.de/fernsehen/bayerisches-f
ernsehen/sendungen/kontrovers/homoeopathie-studium-traunstein-100.html), vom 26. Februar 2014
4. Spiegel Online: Umstrittenes Homopathie-Studium: Die Globulisierungs-Falle (http://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/w
underbar/privathochschule-streit-um-homoeopathie-studiengang-traunstein-a-953020.html), vom 17. Februar 2014
5. SWR: Dr. Globuli - Neuer Studiengang fr Homopathie (http://www.swr.de/swr2/wissen/homoeopathie-studium/-/i
d=661224/did=12914334/nid=661224/t5c0j3/), vom 24. Februar 2014
6. Der Standard: Homo-Akademie: "Nicht einmal ein Minimum an akademischer Seriositt" (http://derstandard.at/138
9858085927/Homoeo-Akademie-Nicht-einmal-ein-Minimum-an-akademischer-Serioesitaet), vom 27. Jnner 2014
7. https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/gegen-die-akkreditierung-des-bsc-msc-homoeopathie-studiengangs-derhomoeo-akademie-traunstein
8. Spiegel online: Globuli-Kunde: Privat-Hochschule gibt Homopathie-Studiengang auf (http://www.spiegel.de/unispi
egel/studium/steinbeis-hochschule-stellt-plaene-fuer-homoeopathie-studiengang-ein-a-962599.html), vom 4. April
2014

External links
Homepage of Steinbeis-University (http://www.steinbeis.de/en/experts/steinbeis-university-berlin-shb.
html)
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