Brief history of the Berlin School of Economics (BSE)
| 2009 | The Berlin School of Economics and Law (BSEL) was founded on 1 April 2009 through the merger of the Berlin School of Economics (BSE) and the FHVR Berlin |
| 2007 | The "Environmental and Quality Management" certificate programme restructured as an MA in "Sustainability and Quality Management" in the IMB Start of the MA in "Chinese-European Economics and Business Studies“ Founding of the UAS7 e. V. non-profit making association of Universities of Applied Sciences as the further development of the UAS7 consortium |
| 2006/2007 | Accreditation of all Bachelor, Master and MBA programmes in both Faculties and the IMB |
| 2005/2006 | Extending the wing of the main campus building at Badensche Straße 50–51 to re-construct the top stories destroyed in the Second World War and so provide a larger pool of lecture and seminar rooms |
| 2005 | The remaining Faculty of Business and Economics (FB 1) programmes leading to the German Diploma degree restructured as Bachelor programmes Additional Bachelor programmes introduced in Faculty I and II Opening of the New York Office of the UAS7 consortium of Universities of Applied Sciences The BSE again receives the "Total E-Quality Award“ in recognition of its promotion of equal opportunities and gender equality The BSE becomes the first University of Applied Sciences in Berlin to have its in-house environmental management system accredited as meeting German Industry Standards DIN ISO 14001 |
| 2004 | Introduction of MA programmes: "International Management" and "International Economics" were launched as consecutive MA degrees in the Faculty of Business and Economics (FB 1) The IMB launched an MA in "Labour Policies and Globalisation" in cooperation with the University of Kassel |
| 2003 | Integration of the former Berufsakademie Berlin with 12 sandwich courses; the BSE is restructured into two Faculties and one central institute: Faculty of Business and Economics (FB 1); Faculty of Company-Linked Programmes (FB 2); and the IMB Institute of Management Berlin Start of the "Business Administration“ and "Economics“ Bachelor programmes in FB 1 with financial assistance from the EU Structural Funds BSE received the "Ökoprofit-Betrieb Berlin 2003“ award for implementing a series of environmentally-friendly measures |
| 2002 | Launching the "International Management" German-French diploma programme in cooperation with the Ecole Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur, ESCE, Paris The BSE is awarded the "Total E-Quality Science Award“ in recognition of its dedicated equal opportunities policy |
| 2001 | Introducing the Company-linked Bachelor Programme in Business Administration with Siemens AG as the University's first undergraduate sandwich course Founding of the Harriet Taylor Mill Institute, the first business university institute for gender studies |
| Late 1990s and 2000 on | Launching new MBA programmes
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| 1996 | Founding of the Institute for Resource Conservation, Innovation and Sustainability (IRIS) as an independent institute under the BSE umbrella |
| Early 1990s | Expanding the degree programmes: Launching international study programmes
Introducing interdisciplinary programmes interfacing with other subject areas (e.g., environmental studies) |
| 1980s | Number of students grow steadily (1981: 888 students; 1991: 2,225 students) |
| 1971 | The Berlin School of Economics was founded as the successor to the Wirtschaftsakademie Berlin, which had been created in 1965 through a merger of the Hochschulinstitut für Wirtschaftskunde and the Höheren Wirtschaftsfachschule. Degree programmes: Full-time and part-time degree (Diploma) in Economics |
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