Hanseatic University Rostock
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| Established: | 2007 |
| Type: | private |
| Chairman: | Wolf Schäfer |
| Students: | 4 [1] |
| Location: | Rostock-Warnemünde |
| Website: | www.hanseuni.de |
The Hanseatic University(HU) in Rostock-Warnemünde is a private state-recognized University in Germany. Following the Witten/Herdecke University, it is the second privately operated institute in Germany to be offficially recognized as a university and thus permitted to include the designation university in its name.
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[edit] History
In 2002, two business consultants from Schleswig-Holstein, Peter L. Pedersen and Knut Einfeldt, took part in a business plan competition staged by the regional state government in Mecklenburg West Pomerania, presented a plan for setting up a private university operated as a business institution, and won the first and third prizes.
In 2003, the decision was made to establish the project in Mecklenburg West Pomerania, and in 2004, the location was narrowed down to the Hanseatic City of Rostock. The company was formed at a celebration held in Rostock Town Hall in September 2004 and – with express approval of the Regional State Ministry for Education, Science and Cultural Affairs in Schwerin – entered into the Rostock Commercial Register as Private Hanseuniversität GmbH & Co. KGaA.
In spring of 2007, EDUCATIONTREND AG, a Hamburg holding company, took over 97.8% of the shares in the Hanseatic University and, at the same time, increased its share capital. EDUCATIONTREND is a partly-owned (90%) subsidiary of ATON GmbH, Fulda, a company founded by Lutz Helmig, the former principal shareholder of HELIOS Kliniken.
In close cooperation with the ministry in Schwerin and the Scientific Council, as well as with active support from Deputy Regional Prime Minister Jürgen Seidel, the university was officially recognized on July 24, 2007.[2]
The founding President Wolf Schäfer, was formerly Vice-President of the Helmut-Schmidt-University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. University studies took off to a smooth start with the initial faculty of Economics and Social Science on October 22, 2007.
[edit] Faculties
The HU consists of two faculties:
[edit] Economics
- Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
- Bachelor of Science - Business Information Technology
- Master of Arts - Global Management
As a principle, the bachelor courses run for six semesters with 180 ECTS and the master courses for four semesters with 120 ECTS. Lectures are held in German and English. Each and every course includes a foreign-exchange semester and is organized as traineeship, whereby the student can attend management school and complete an on-the-job internship parallel to university studies. This method allows business enterprises to recruit their top executive trainees as school-leavers, finance their university studies, and contractually agree to employ them after graduation in executive position for a period of several years. As a result of the demographic change and keen competition for suitable junior executive candidates, the advantage will lie with those companies that do not wait until graduation, but recruit their future executive staff as they leave high school. In the current climate of rising tuition fees, students can reap the benefits offered by an alternative method of financing university education combined with a job guarantee.
[edit] Law
- Preparation for the First State Law Examination incl. Bachelor Course (LL.B.)
Beginning in the winter semester 2008, the HU will be offering, as only the second private university in Germany, law studies. Parallel to the classical preparation for the First State Law Examination, we will be offering a bachelor course (LL.B.) that is fully integrated into examination preparation studies. The studies will be principally aimed at applied law practice, trial management, and international business group management. Our consistent orientation towards the main fields of law is reflected in the high number of internships.
[edit] Tuition Fees
- All bachelor courses: €45,000 for each complete 36-month course.
- All master courses: €30,000 for each complete 24-month course.
Tuition fees may be advanced by business enterprises sponsoring their trainee students or paid by the students themselves. Together with cooperating companies, the HU award scholarships on an annual basis.
[edit] Student Selection Procedure (SAV)
All candidates holding a university entrance level certificate (or non-German equivalent) or specialized school leaving certificate, or who have passed the examination for admission statutorily recognized by Mecklenburg West Pomerania for "late entrants" without university entrance level, may apply for a place at the HU. The examination score is not taken into consideration; the prime requirement is participation in the HU Student Selection Procedure (SAV).
The SAV is divided into two stages:
- SAV I is held as an online test lasting several hours in a decentralized location at one of the many institutes (high-school advisory centres or application centres) that cooperate with the HU at home and abroad. This stage of the selection procedure focuses on the prospective students' cognitive potential.
- After successful, the HU invites applicants who have successfully completed SAV I to take part in SAV II in Rostock-Warnemünde. A team of observers at the assessment centre focus on assessing the social competence revealed in situation games and presentation tasks. There is also a leadership aptitude test that is used as a basis for recommendations to business enterprises that wish to sponsor and employ trainee students.
- A further requirement for studies at the HU is aptitude in the German and English languages. The minimum requirement for all candidates whose mother tongue is not German is a pass in the "German Language Proficiency Test for Admission of Foreign Students to University" (DSH) or evidence of equivalent qualification. The minimum requirement for all candidates whose mother tongue is not English is a pass in English Language Proficiency Stage B2 (bachelor course) or Stage C1 (master course) of the Common European Framework for Languages or evidence of equivalent qualification.
[edit] Research and Doctorates
Together with state recognition as university, the HU has acquired the right to accept doctoral students.
Apart from the research carried out at the university itself, the HU works closely together with business enterprises conducting research and development. Companies can reap the combined benefits of business and science by establishing privately operated institutes attached to the Hanseatic University (so-called associated institutes).
[edit] Varsity Sport
The HU has initiated the establishment of its own Hanseatic Yachting Club (effective in spring 2008). Jürgen Knuth, twice world sailing champion, has been appointed General Manager.
[edit] See also
- List of German universities
- List of German universities and other institutes of higher learning with equivalent status
