
Turn your studies into a career kickstart!
With the career-integrated bachelor’s degree at SMT, you get the best of science and business, as you start your career in a well-known company alongside your studies. The result? Instead of working, you’ll earn a high salary right from the start – and while others only learn about their field in theory, you’ll gain valuable practical experience that will kick-start your career.
The courses on offer at SMTCareer-integrated Bachelor’s degree programs that will get you ahead
Our claim? Knowledge for practice. That’s why our courses combine the latest research findings with best practices from the business world. In addition, each of our work-integrated Bachelor’s degree programmes offers a choice of different specializations. This allows you to use your strengths and interests to lay the foundation for a career path that suits you.
Parallel to your courses, you will also start out as a specialist in SMT’s career-integrated study model. Throughout your studies, you will gain practical experience in the company – and be financially independent. Part-time jobs or student loans? Not with us: you will receive a salary for your project work from day one and your employer will pay your tuition fees.
Bachelor
Business Administration
With specialization in quality management with certificates from TÜV SÜD Akademie
36 months, once a year (fall)
German
Online, TÜV SÜD Academy Training Center, Germany-wide
Bachelor
Business informatics
With specialization in software development
36 months, immediate start possible
German, possibly English
Online
Bachelor
Business informatics
With specialization in digitalization and transformation
36 months, immediate start possible
German, possibly English
online
TestimonialsSMT alumni talk about their career-integrated studies
We are proud of our more than 1,200 graduates and their success stories. Almost all SMT alumni benefited from better career opportunities after graduation. More than half of our students even lay the foundation for a career as a manager with the work-integrated Bachelor’s degree and are promoted to management positions after graduation.
But you know what? We let our graduates tell you themselves – after all, they know best what benefits the work-integrated Bachelor’s degree has brought them. Let their stories inspire you and get your own idea of what your integrated degree program at SMT and your career path after graduation could look like.
André Wolf
Bachelor’s degree – Business Administration
The faster a company grows, the more important it is for management to maintain an overview of its development. As part of his practical project, André Wolf has introduced a management approach that helps SUATEC GmbH to keep an eye on the most important key figures even during rapid growth phases and to derive new strategies and goals from them.

THE UNIQUE STUDY MODEL OF THE SMTThe Project Competence Program© for your career-integrated Bachelor’s degree
The work-integrated Bachelor’s degree at SMT is more than just a dual course of study: with the Project Competence Program©, Steinbeis University offers you an innovative concept that optimally combines theory and practice. You spend the majority of your time not in seminars, but in the company – because here you can put what you learn in the theoretical phases directly into practice.
Over the course of your work-integrated Bachelor’s degree, you will develop an individual practical project. And this is far more than just an academic achievement: your project helps to solve a problem from everyday business life. You will learn how to deal with real professional challenges and lead your own projects from the initial idea to successful completion.

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Added valueWhat are the advantages of the vocational Bachelor’s degree at SMT?
The Project Competence Study Program® prepares you for your professional future – with specialist know-how and practical experience. Your study project is at the center of your learning process. By developing solutions that pass the practical test, you not only deepen your knowledge, but also show what distinguishes you as a specialist and manager of tomorrow.
In addition, you can specialize in precisely the industries and specialist areas in which you want to gain a foothold during your career-integrated Bachelor’s degree at SMT. From certificate courses on current topics in management and IT to stays abroad at our partner universities around the world, we help you to develop your full potential.
Our FAQDo you have questions about the careerintegrated Bachelor?
What is the difference between the work-integrated Bachelor’s degree at SMT and the dual study program at other universities? Should I apply for the fellowship model or rather for the Professional Education Program? Can I spend a semester abroad during my Bachelor’s degree? And where do the courses actually take place?
If you have questions like these, our FAQ will help you. From the application process and the course of the semester to organizational topics such as your salary as a project employee in the company, we have put together the most important information about studying at SMT for you in a nutshell.
Your path to the career-integrated Bachelor’s degree programThe application process
Regardless of whether you are at the beginning of your career path or already in the middle of your professional life: with a work-integrated Bachelor’s degree at SMT, you are starting a new chapter. So that you can concentrate on the essentials – first on your application and then on your practical project – our talent management team will support you with personal advice and lots of practical tips.
If you have convinced us with your online application, we will contact you for a telephone interview, which will focus on your plans for your studies. If you have not yet planned a project, we will also help you to find an exciting topic in one of our partner companies as part of our fellowship model – including coaching for your interview with your new employer!
Contact usHow can we help you?
Do you have a question that neither our website nor our FAQ can answer? Would you like to find out more about Steinbeis University, our study programs and the application process in a personal meeting? Or perhaps you are already enrolled at SMT and need a little help organizing your studies?
Whatever is on your mind: Our talent management team is there for you. We will be happy to advise you on all matters relating to studying, student life and applying for the work-integrated Bachelor’s degree at SMT.
