The Graduate School of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
The Graduate School of the University of Applied Sciences Offenburg is a public university located in the town of Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Graduate School offers four international Master's degree programs with focus ranging from Communication and Media to Energy Conversion and Business Consulting. The Master's program of Communication and Media Engineering is ranked in "Top 10 2008 Germany International Master Degree Courses" from DAAD. More recently the MBA (IBC) program has been ranked within the QS 200 Business Schools Report. History. The university was founded in 1964  originally as a state engineering school with the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. From 1971 the university was called "Fachhochschule" Offenburg (FHO). In 1978, the curriculum was expanded to include business studies, which initiated the Campus Gengenbach. In 1996, the Fourth Department of Media and Information Sciences was supplemented. 2000, the Graduate School was founded, which today serves and coordinates four international study programs. In 2005, as part of the transition to the Bachelor/Master's degrees (Bologna process), the university has been renamed to "Hochschule" Offenburg (HSO). In 2009, after a 2 years construction period, the new extension  building for the faculty "Media and Information" has been inaugurated. Alumni Network. The Alumni-Network of the Hochschule Offenburg was founded in 1999 and was mainly tailored towards the needs of German alumni of the university. The international profile of the Hochschule Offenburg has been intensified in recent years and along with it comes the need for a more international approach towards our alumni activities.