The significance of information and communication technologies (ICT) in our society is constantly growing. Innovative IT solutions improve the competitiveness and design the communication between enterprises and customers. Therefore the job market increasingly requires highly qualified personalities, designing efficiently the interface between management and applied informatics and being able to edit and implement concrete applications.

The electives represent a particularity of this degree program, focusing on the effective application of IT in the sectors Media, Tourism, Learning and Health. An intensive dialogue with business experts, reflected by research and practical projects, shall procure to the students a sustainable impression on the relevance of the transferred learning. This unique degree program also offers the possibility to spend a term at one of our numerous international partner universities.

Graduates have the possibility to choose between numerous career profiles. These include for example career opportunities as: Human Interface Designer, Junior Controller, Junior Consultant, Trainer, Sales- & Customer Manager, Application Developer, Helpdesk-Manager as well as assistant positions for example in areas as IT-Computer Center, Head of the Department for Information Management and System Design.

Job opportunities result in enterprises, in which communication and IT-systems play a significant role (e.g. IT to support communication processes within companies). Our graduates make career in the service industry, health care, trading, with hardware manufacturers, software and computer retailers, in media enterprises, banks, consulting companies, assurances as well as in the education sector (with universities, universities of applied sciences and research institutes).

During the 6th semester students are required to complete an integrative internship in a relevant industry either in Austria or abroad. The program management will provide organizational support and mentoring in co-operation with the relevant company. This concept of learning by doing constitutes an ideal stepping stone for a future career and, furthermore, is often useful as the basis for writing the 2nd bachelor’s thesis.

The strong link between the study program, business-related research and development projects constitutes an integral part of the program and creates an attractive opportunity for students to address concrete problems and solution concepts from science and business already during their education.

Following this context, we would like to give special reference to Telekom Austria AG, the leading Austrian provider in information and communication technologies and a pioneer in implementing state-of-the-art concepts, which actively supports and closely co-operates with the study program.

Students graduate with the academic degree ‘Magister / Magistra (FH)’ or ‘Mag. (FH)’ (attested by a leaving certificate, diploma, diploma supplement, etc.). The admission to a doctoral program at Austrian universities is regulated by the relevant legal requirements or edicts.

The academic staff consists of full-time professors and lecturers of MCI, as well as acknowledged experts from the fields of science, technology and business as well as the independent professions. This guarantees that the latest developments in the world of science and practical application are synergisticly integrated in the curriculum of the program.

Coupling progressive didactic teaching methods with intensive mentoring ensures a practical education that offers the support needed to complete this course of studies within the projected time-frame. ‘Theoretical’ and ‘practical’ are not contradictory terms, but as a fusion offer opportunities and challenges for a new form of teaching and learning.

Students are required to pay a tuition fee of currently EUR 363 per semester plus membership fee to the Austrian Student Union. To prevent admitted students from failing to begin or dropping their studies, a deposit of currently EUR 363 must be paid at the beginning of the program. The deposit will then be used to pay the fee for the second semester. Students are also responsible for paying the required course materials distributed by MCI.

Graduates of the program are conferred the academic degree Bachelor of Arts in Business, in short BA or B.A. (attested by a leaving certificate, the Bachelor’s diploma, the international diploma supplement etc.). Other than embarking on their professional career, grad uates will have the option of continuing their studies by a corresponding Master’s program in Austria or abroad.

MCI offers a number of internationally oriented Master’s programs. The Master’s program Management, Com mu ni cation & IT (starting 2010) is addressed to the graduates of this Bachelor’s program. Grad uates of a Master‘s program are eligible to be admitted to corresponding doctoral studies.