The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (German: ''Duale

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Baden-Württemberg'', DHBW) is an institution of

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with several campuses throughout the state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. It offers dual-education (or also

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) bachelor's-degree programs in cooperation with industry and non-profit institutions in the areas of business administration, engineering, and social services. In 2011, it started a limited master's program.

History

The DHBW is the direct successor to the ''Staatliche Berufsakademie Baden-Württemberg''. The first Berufsakademie was founded in 1974 as a new type of educational institution and recognized by the state of Baden-Württemberg in 1982. It grew quickly to include seven institutions at eleven different locations. By 2009 the combined student enrolment across all institutions had reached 23,409 students, involving around 8,000 cooperative education partners and over 90,000 graduated alumni. On March 1, 2009, all institutions in the state of Baden-Württemberg were consolidated to form the ''Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg''.

Dual studies

DHBW offers job integrated learning (JIL) programs only. Job integrated learning (JIL) defines those work integrated learning (WIL) programs with compulsory internships, in which the student has to be employed by a single company during the complete duration of the study program and in which lectures and internships are geared to maximize applied learning and the transfer of knowledge. Therefore, the recruitment is exclusively done by the cooperative education partners, while the DHBW only has to verify the higher education entrance qualification. The three-year dual education program is divided into three-month phases alternating between the college and the cooperative education partner. The college phases provide traditional undergraduate education while the other phases provide insight and work experience in the field of the cooperative education partner. The dual education program operates on a non-stop, twelve-month schedule. Students are granted vacation days as stipulated in the three-year

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signed by the student and the cooperative education partner at the beginning of the program. In 2011 the school introduced a

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curriculum. It is mostly limited to DHBW

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. Currently the DHBW offers 21 courses of study with about 90 branches from the sections economic science, technics and social science. Partner companies in the field of

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are, e.g., SAP,

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, IBM,

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and

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. Examples in

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are

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, Bosch, Freudenberg and

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Campuses and satellite campuses

References

External links

Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Heidenheim

Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg, Heilbronn

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Lörrach

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Mannheim

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Mosbach

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Ravensburg

Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart

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