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Bachelor / 20 February 2017

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Matthias Catón
Managing Director, German Maritime Centre
Dr. Matthias Catón is the Managing Director of the German Maritime Centre in Hamburg, a leading think tank for the German maritime industry. Before taking up his current position, he worked at Frankfurt School as Director of Corporate Development (2019-2024) and as Programme Director of the Bachelor (BSc) in Business Administration (2011-2019). He also launched and ran the Indo-German Centre for Business Excellence, a think tank, research center, and network that connects people and organizations interested in business relations between India and Germany.

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From spring 2018 onward, two things will change for the Advanced Study Phase (that is, semesters 6 and 7) of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at Frankfurt School.

Thematic areas of the Bachelor of Science Advanced Study Phase at Frankfurt School

First, we will introduce a structure of four quarters, which means that we will divide each semester into two quarters with seven or eight weeks of classes followed by an exam week. We started this system in 2015 with the first semester. Through the additional mid-term exam weeks we reduce the number of exams at the end of each semester and allow students to concentrate on fewer topics at a given time.

Second, the summer semester will start one month earlier than before, namely at the beginning of February. We do this to satisfy frequent requests from students who wanted to have more time off during the summer. Employers often require a three-month minimum for internships, and until now Frankfurt School students only had two months off in the summer. Many students felt that they were missing out on attractive internship opportunities.

The new time structure will look like this:

  • Q3: weeks 6 to 12, exams in week 13
  • Q4: weeks 14 to 21, exams in week 22
  • Q1: weeks 36 to 42, exams in week 43
  • Q2: weeks 44 to 50, exams in week 51

There will be thirteen weeks off in the summer and six in the winter. In case you are wondering what the week numbers mean, we follow ISO 8601 which defines week 1 to be the week with the year’s first Thursday in it.

The concrete dates for 2018 are the following:

  • Q3: 5 February – 31 March 2018
  • Q4: 2 April – 2 June 2018
  • Q1: 3 September – 27 October 2018
  • Q2: 29 October – 22 December 2018

Time structure of the BSc Advanced Study Phase

Each course will run for eight hours a week either on one day (see figure, slots A to E) or on two consecutive days (slots F and G).

While the changes bring a lot of advantages to many students, some are also struggling with them. Depending on where they spend their semester abroad, some students might want to do internships in February and March. It will, therefore, be possible for all students, independent of their concentration, to skip the first quarter of the summer semester (Q3) and only return to Frankfurt at the beginning of April.

You can find all the details in this document that we prepared for the 2015 intake, the first to study with the new time structure.

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