The university has valued international contacts since its early days as a prerequisite for high quality teaching and research. This emphasis can be seen in the university's Centre for Study Abroad, which currently has partnerships with 85 foreign universities. The program is open to juniors and seniors with a GPA of 3.0 or better, who have at least four semesters of college German or the equivalent. The range of study is both wide and deep. For breadth of study, all the areas of sociology, the humanities, and the formal sciences that are connected with economic subjects are included in the curriculum.
Students design their own curricula.
An average course load is three to four courses per semester, but there are no specifications as to course number or distribution. Academic facilities available to students include the library and the computing center. The library, which houses information in the fields of business, economics, law, and humanities as well as the natural sciences, houses over half a million books. In the computer center, students may work on the computers, get computer training, and use electronic mail. The students' union offers a number of important services to students.