
BACHELOR OF ARTS IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, QUALITIESMANAGEMENT
WITH CERTIFICATES FROM THE TÜV SÜD ACADEMY

The Bachelor Quality Management:Who is the course intended for?
Do you place the highest value on quality and are firmly convinced that even good things can always be made a little bit better? Streamlining processes, improving products and tackling complex problems with efficient and innovative solutions: Does that sound exactly like your job? Then we have just the right course for you.
In the Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on quality management, you will learn how to break down outdated structures and identify new approaches, from the analysis of existing workflows to the re-engineering of production chains. With analytical expertise, strategic vision and, last but not least, creativity and a spirit of innovation, you will contribute in many ways to making your company future-proof, competitive, economical and perhaps even a little more sustainable.
Note: To study at SMT, you need a partner company
To study at SMT, you need a partner company where you can complete a company-relevant project as part of your studies. This is possible without changing jobs at your current employer. Are you at the start of your career? Then you can find a suitable company through our partner, the SCMT. You can find relevant vacancies here – SCMT job exchange.
What you learn in theBachelor of Art – Business Administration
As the number of employees and departments, processes, projects and products increases, so does the complexity of the structures within a company. Modern quality management therefore requires holistic strategies that take into account interrelationships and interdependencies as well as the possible consequences of restructuring. The Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management provides you with the technical and methodological skills you need to maintain an overview at all times.
From management to marketing and from controlling to human resources, you will learn how to analyze and optimize the processes in the various areas of the company. This wide-ranging training enables you to specialize in specific quality assurance processes in the company, but also gives you a holistic perspective on interrelationships and optimization potential – the first step on your career path as a specialist and manager with vision.
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The Bachelor of Quality Managementat a glance
General information on the Business Administration degree program with a specialization in Quality Management
The Bachelor of Art – Business Administration Quality Management takes you from the specialist area of the Bachelor’s degree course into interdisciplinarity. On the one hand, you will deepen your knowledge of familiar business management theories and models, but on the other hand you will also acquire a second subject area with a specialization in quality management.
What makes this degree program unique? Its practical orientation – and its flexibility. We use blended learning to fit the theoretical phases of your quality management studies into your everyday working life. This not only means that you familiarize yourself with the theoretical content using state-of-the-art e-learning formats: we also bring the presence to you.
What makes this degree program unique? Its practical orientation – and its flexibility. We use blended learning to fit the theoretical phases of your quality management studies into your everyday working life. This not only means that you familiarize yourself with the theoretical content using state-of-the-art e-learning formats: we also bring the presence to you.
The unique SMT study model
What makes effective quality management? A holistic view of structures in the company – and a certain degree of lateral thinking, creativity and flexibility. To prepare you for everyday working life in this demanding field, you need more than just the latest theory. Our Bachelor’s in Quality Management offers you practical knowledge.
SMT’s Project Competence degree program not only prepares you to handle technical challenges with confidence, but also to work in management positions – to develop strategies and make decisions that drive the development of your company. This creates three basic building blocks for your quality management studies.

As your project in the company is a central component of the training, studying at SMT is only possible in cooperation with a company. Specialists who are already firmly established in professional life and would now like to develop further can combine project work with their existing professional activity as part of our Professional Education Program . Under the following link you will find further information on the Project Competence program, application process and more.
Project
During the Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management, 85% of your time will be spent working on your individual study project in the company. You will put what you have learned into practice and practice analyzing structures and processes, developing effective QM measures and evaluating their success using authentic problems from everyday business life.
Competence
Lay the foundation for your career as a sought-after specialist and manager with a Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management. From personal development to exchange with experienced experts, studying at SMT offers you a wide range of opportunities to sharpen your profile and specialize in working in certain industries or business areas.
Study
What do we expect from the Bachelor in Quality Management? Knowledge for practice. During the theoretical phases of your studies, you will acquire the knowledge you need not only to efficiently advance your project in the company, but also to flexibly apply your unique perspective to the challenges of modern quality management in the company.
Admission requirements for the Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management
The Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management is designed as an undergraduate course. It is suitable for acquiring a first professional qualification, but also as part-time further training for experienced professionals. No specific prior knowledge is required for the quality management course. A basic interest in economic interrelationships within a company is all you need to get started in this specialist area – because you will learn everything else here.
- Application for the Project Competence Study Program® via www.eis-scmt.com
- University entrance qualification (Abitur, Fachhochschulreife) or secondary school leaving certificate, completed vocational training and at least three years of professional experience or master craftsman (HK/IHK) or state-recognized technician or business economist
- Very good knowledge of German
- Successfully completed application process
- challenging project in the partner company
Core content of the quality management study program
With the Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management, you will develop into a specialist in quality assurance and optimization right from the start. To this end, you will familiarize yourself with the basics of business administration and economics, but also strengthen your methodological skills and, in particular, your confidence in using mathematics and statistics, which will allow you to examine processes and products for previously untapped potential.
As a quality management specialist, you will always work closely with various departments, so the basic modules will also introduce you to the work processes and structures of the most important areas in the company, from HR and project management to legal and controlling and marketing.
Business administration and economics
Economic processes – Corporate management – Economic thinking
Projectmanagement
Methods and tools – Phases of project management – Agile project management
Economic mathematics and statistics
Variables, differences and equations – Data analysis – Statistical distributions
Law and taxes
Company forms – Commercial law – Tax law
Financing and controlling
Investments – Financial & Management Accounting – Controlling Instruments
Marketing
Marketing theories – Marketing mix – Strategic marketing
Management and leadership
Corporate management – Corporate analysis – Organizational culture
Competence development
Social and intercultural skills – Professional and methodological skills – Management skills
Personnelmanagement
Strategic success factors – personnel selection
Innovation and technology
Innovation management – Digital markets – Trend research
Advanced quality management
Would you like to know what quality means – and how you can use the room for improvement to improve processes and products? Or would you prefer to strengthen your leadership skills and prepare yourself for working in a digital environment? Regardless of whether your heart beats for efficient supply chains, risk analysis or online trading: The Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management offers you a variety of different specialization modules that will take your methodological skills in the field of quality control and assurance to the next level, as well as your management skills.
Quality management
Introduction to quality management – standards – process management
Quality management systems and techniques
Risk management – Audit and certification – Monitoring and measurement systems
Total Quality Management
Leadership and strategies in total quality management – Supply chain management – Employee and customer orientation
Effective quality techniques
Kaizen and Six Sigma – Process optimization and design – CIP methods and tools
Businessprocessmanagement
Concepts of process management – Phases of business process management – Event-driven process chains – Business process modeling notation
E-Business
E-Business Framework – Online trade as a business model – Success factors in online trade – Supply chain management – eCommerce and eProcurement
Guidance
Leadership styles – Motivation theories – Communication models – Conversation management – Mediation procedures – Team development
Information and knowledge management
Informationmanagement as a management task – Knowledge management as part of information management – Methods and tools of knowledge management
Study with perspective:How the Bachelor of Quality Management paves the way for a career
From SMEs to global players, quality management has long since become an integral part of work processes in many companies – and for good reason. Modern quality management not only uncovers weaknesses and finds ways and means to eliminate them effectively: Modern quality management also means making strategic use of unique selling points and playing to a company’s strengths in an even more targeted way.
Regardless of whether you see your personal focus more in analysis or in the development of solutions: As an expert in the design and control of quality assurance processes, you are qualified to work in a wide range of business and corporate sectors with a Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management. On the one hand, you can develop into an all-round talent for process optimization, but on the other hand you can also specialize in process optimization in very specific industries and departments.
This individual design of your profile as a specialist and manager begins with the choice of your study project and the company for which you will be working during your project competence studies. As a career starter, you can gain an early foothold in exactly the sector and department in which you see your future – and as a seasoned specialist, you can take the next step on the career ladder with your career-accompanying degree.
PROCESS QUALITY MANAGER (M/F/D)
Are you a real team player, do you appreciate a varied working day and were you perhaps already enthusiastic about specializing in “business processes” as part of your quality management studies? Then the job of Process Quality Manager is exactly what you are looking for. As a process manager, you will work closely with a wide range of specialist departments to identify untapped potential. From audits to KPI analysis, you will pull out all the stops – and of course also take on the re-engineering that sustainably improves the processes within the company.
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER (M/F/D)
Whether service, product or process: as a quality manager, you know exactly what it takes to turn a good result into an excellent one. You take on a leadership role in the company and work closely with management to develop and efficiently implement new quality assurance measures. In addition to the analytical skills acquired in the Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management, you will also use your keen sense for the needs of your customers to identify training needs and continuously improve service quality.
QUALITY ENGINEER (M/F/D)
Do you think in terms of solutions rather than problems – and are you able to explain complex relationships simply? As a quality engineer, you not only develop, control and optimize modern quality management systems, but also use your leadership skills, which you strengthened in the Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management, to introduce these systems in the company. Regardless of whether you lead your own quality team as a quality engineer, convince customers of the need for new QM measures or conduct workshops for specialists and managers: Your enthusiasm for the highest quality becomes a catalyst for constant and sustainable organizational development.
Specializations, salary and network:What distinguishes our Bachelor in Quality Management
University degree or professional experience? Why not just do both? Our innovative SMT Project Competence degree program enables you to integrate the Bachelor of Arts in Quality Management effortlessly into your everyday work.
Thanks to the study project, you will not only learn how to independently apply current theory and proven methods to authentic problem areas in the company: You will also remain financially independent throughout your studies. Your employer pays the tuition fees – and of course you also receive a salary for your project work.
And even if you have already successfully completed your Bachelor’s degree in Quality Management, you can still count on the SMT network. Our alumni association promotes exchange between experienced specialists and managers through a wide range of further training and networking events throughout Germany.
Figures from ourAlumni studies
- 99%
Better career opportunities after graduation
- 53%
work in higher management positions
- 85%
receive an offer for a permanent position
What our alumni say about theirStudying at the SMT
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