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The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as ''Berufsakademie Lörrach''. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the theory at school and applying it on the job in a three-months rhythm. Besides Loerrach, seven other schools of cooperative education and three branch campuses were founded in Baden-Wuerttemberg since the beginning of 1974.
The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has changed the school’s legal status on March 1, 2009. The union of the merged eight institutions with 11 campuses is now named Webpage University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
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Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach
The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as ''Berufsakademie Lörrach''. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the theory at school and applying it on the job in a three-months rhythm. Besides Loerrach, seven other schools of cooperative education and three branch campuses were founded in Baden-Wuerttemberg since the beginning of 1974.
The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has changed the school’s legal status on March 1, 2009. The union of the merged eight institutions with 11 campuses is now named Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University
The Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University (German: ''Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg'', DHBW) is an institution of higher education with several campuses throughout the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It offers dual-educat ...
. It is a legal entity of public law and simultaneously a state institution. By 2009 the combined student enrollment across all 11 campuses had reached more than 25,000 students. More than 90,000 graduated alumni have been educated in more than 8,000 cooperating companies.
About 2,000 students are enrolled at the DHBW Loerrach. It runs a ''faculty of business'' and a ''faculty of engineering'' and offers 17 different business and technical fields of study. All programs are intensive and full-time degree courses (accredited with 210 ECTS).
In most of the courses students graduate after three years with one of the following degrees:
* Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
* Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
* Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)
Master courses offered in
* Health Care Management
Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks ...
* Human Resource Management
* Logistics Management
Logistics is generally the detailed organization and implementation of a complex operation. In a general business sense, logistics manages the flow of goods between the point of origin and the point of consumption to meet the requirements of ...
* Business Management (Start October 2011)
The DHBW Loerrach - situated in the triangle between Germany
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, Switzerland and France
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– offers two trinational courses in cooperation with the Université de Haute Alsace in Colmar and Mulhouse
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and the UASN-Switzerland/ref> in
Basle
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, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS), ...
and Muttenz
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History
Under the Roman Empire a hamlet called Montetum e ...
. Students graduate from these courses after three and a half years and receive a degree from all three participating schools. The lectures are held in German
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**Ge ...
, French and English
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The DHBW Loerrach cooperates with the Steinbeis Foundation Stuttgart and the following international universities:
*Africa
** Durban University of Technology, South Africa
**Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
** Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
*North America
** Georgian College Toronto, Canada
** University of Ottawa
The University of Ottawa (french: Université d'Ottawa), often referred to as uOttawa or U of O, is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on directly to the northeast of Downtown Ottaw ...
, Canada
** University of Victoria
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, Canada
** University of Waterloo
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, Canada
** Northwestern Michigan College, USA
** University of California
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in Santa Barbara, USA
* Asia
** Beijing Wuzi University, China
** TEDC Bandung, Indonesia
*Australia
** Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
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Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...
, Australia
*Europe
** University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
** Université de Haute-Alsace, France
** INSEEC Bordeaux, France
** Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
** Università dell’Insubria Varese / Como, Italy
** Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
** Savonia Polytechnic, Kuopio, Finland
** Ventspils College, Latvia
** Hogeschool Zeeland, Vlissingen, Netherlands
** FH Joanneum
FH JOANNEUM is one of the biggest colleges of higher education in Austria. It has about 5,000 students and about 750 employees. The main campus is located in Graz and there are two additional locations in Kapfenberg and Bad Gleichenberg. All t ...
Graz, Austria
** The Polish Open University Warsaw, Poland
** Poznan School of Banking, Poland
** Politehnica University of Timișoara
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, Romania
** University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
** Europäische Wirtschaftsakademie Madrid, Spain
** Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Albacete, Spain
** Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
** Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
** Trakya University
Trakya University ( tr, Trakya Üniversitesi), was established on July 20, 1982. The university is located in Edirne, at Turkey's European side (Eastern Thrace). Trakya University is a regional university with institutions and schools spread o ...
, Edirne, Turkey
** Széchenyi István University Györ, Hungary
** Istanbul Arel University, Turkey
The school is a member in the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), the World Universities Congress
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and in the Balkan Universities Network
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.
Notable professors and alumni
* Hagen Pfundner (born 1960), German pharmacist and Chairman of the Board of DHBW LoerrachExternal links
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