On the Landscape of Business Informatics Master’s Programs in Germany: First Insights on Structure and Content

Becker, Luc; Kranz, Johann; Neuburger, Rahild und Hess, Thomas (2024): On the Landscape of Business Informatics Master’s Programs in Germany: First Insights on Structure and Content. Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024, Würzburg, Deutschland, 16.-19.09.2024. In: Wirtschaftsinformatik 2024 Proceedings, 21

Abstract

Since its inception in the 1950s, the Business Informatics field and its education have continually adapted to the growing need for information systems expertise. The continuous evolution of the field, as well as the need to align with emerging topics, challenge master’s programs to meet market demands for highly trained scholars, managers, and entrepreneurs. Despite various adaptations, most business informatics master’s programs have kept the name “Wirtschaftsinformatik,” masking the diversity of their structure and content. We address this by investigating the structure and content of German Business Informatics master’s programs to identify their similarities and differences. We gathered data from 4,158 courses from 47 German universities and performed topic modeling using BERTopic. Our results provide first insights into programs’ structures and contents, highlighting similarities and differences. We discuss these results, introducing a three-dimensional typology that categorizes three program types, and concluding with future research directions.

• Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
• Keywords: Business Informatics; Business Informatics Education; Information Management; Knowledge Management
• Faculties: Munich School of Management > Institute for Digital Management and New Media; Munich School of Management > Institute for Digital Management and New Media > Foundations of business informatics
• Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics
• Language: English