Business Informatics, BSc

The University of Debrecen Business Informatics BSc program is a 7-semester program designed to qualify students for work in information technology systems management, as well as develop their professional skills in economics. Students will be able to cooperate with economics and business professionals, partners, and software developers.

Overview

The program equips professionals to be the link between software developers and users. During their training, students learn how to implement their knowledge in all business aspects. Hence, they will be able to comprehend both software development and managerial process, and consequently, after graduation, they will be able to solve business problems supported by information technologies to maintain and run any business IT system. Furthermore, they will be able to work hand-in-hand with economics and business professionals, partners, and software developers. This program prepares students for working in businesses with large amounts of data and helps them get certified by SAP, One of the largest business-software companies. Such skills and knowledge will give students a profitable advantage in the labor market.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to Management, Fundamentals of Business Law, Microeconomics, International Financial Accounting, Introduction to Programming, Operating Systems, Data Management, Copyright Law, Data Structures and Algorithms, Programming 1.
2. Macroeconomics, Introduction to Finance, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Programming 2, Database Systems, Information and Knowledge Management, Data Management, Business Intelligence in Practice.
3. Management Science, Developing Data Handling Programs, Fundamentals of Software Development and Software Testing, Foundations of Computer Security, Financial Mathematics, Introduction to SAP - End user level, Advanced Spreadsheets, Big Data Analytics, Data Visualization, Computer Statistics, Corporate Finance, Strategic Management, Introduction to SAP - Developer level, International Business, Decision Support Systems.
4. Advanced Data Security, Digital Marketing, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, Management of Value Creating Processes, Thesis.

Career prospects

The following career prospects are the most probable: company management system supporter, business analyzer, financial report developer, system administrator, business data system developer and tester. A successful applicant for a position should be excellent at such basic technologies as MySQL or MS SQL database, Unix/Linux, and Windows operating systems. After gaining appropriate experience business informatics graduates can succeed in applying for the position of manager at smaller enterprises.