On October 28, 2025, this year’s JobHub IT, the career fair for students of computer science and IT-related degree programs, took place in the Schloss Foyer in Münster. Students from all semesters had the opportunity to learn about internships, thesis projects in cooperation with companies, and career entry opportunities in the IT sector. The event provided an excellent platform to connect with potential employers and establish valuable contacts for future career paths.
Prof. Jan vom Brocke, Chair of Information Systems and Business Process Management, been awarded the SBE Research Prize for outstanding research achievements. Around 50 guests attended the award ceremony. In his laudatory speech, Prof. Bernd Hellingrath praised Jan vom Brocke for his exceptional international visibility, his outstanding commitment to the scientific community and his innovative approaches to solving urgent challenges in business and society.
With its ‘Update Wirtschaft’, the School of Business and Economics has successfully created a new format for discussing future issues, economic developments and social contexts. The opening topic, ‘AI disruption – how artificial intelligence is changing the rules of the game in the markets,’ was met with great interest: around 150 attendees filled the Forum Oeconomicum to capacity.
For her volunteer work and academic achievements, Tran Ha Linh Phan has been awarded the DAAD Prize 2025 by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The Vietnamese student has been pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems at the University of Münster since the winter semester 2022/23.
Prof. Dr. Martin Artz, Head of the Institute of Management Accounting and Control at the University of Münster, has received the Best Management Accounting Paper Award from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. The award was granted jointly to Prof. Artz and his co-authors Jens Böke (Research Assistant at the Institute of Prof. Artz), Martin Holzhacker (Michigan State University), and Michal Matějka (Arizona State University).
Prof. Dr. Nadine Riedel, Head of the Institute for Public and Regional Economics at the University of Münster, has published an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung entitled “The Proposed Tax Incentives Against Labor and Skilled Worker Shortages Are Only a Partial Measure”, together with Johanna Hey (University of Cologne), Martin Jacob (IESE Business School Barcelona), and Dominika Langenmayr (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt). All four authors are members of the Scientific Advisory Board of the German Federal Ministry of Finance.
‘Welcome to the School of Business and Economics’ is the message for numerous new students this semester. Prof. Dr. Thomas Langer, Dean of the School, welcomed the first-year students during orientation week (O-Woche), which was organised by the WiWi student council and is considered the largest in North Rhine-Westphalia. With 530 new enrolments, the Bachelor's programme in Business Administration has the most enrolments university-wide. The new international students were welcomed by Sina Heidtke from the International Relations Center.
A major success for the University of Münster at this year’s Enactus World Cup: The project “Seads Solution” from the Enactus team Münster made it into the Top 4 teams worldwide in the global student competition for sustainable entrepreneurship. Reaching the finals alone earned SEADS a prize of 2,000 USD, and in addition, the team won the prestigious “Sufficiency Economy Philosophy” (SEP) Award, presented by main sponsor Thai Beverage, worth 9,100 USD, which will now be invested in the project.
As part of the VIP programme of the School of Business and Economics, Prof. Samir Chatterjee and Prof. Alan Hevner will now be strengthening the research and teaching activities of the Institute for Information Systems. Samir Chatterjee is a professor at the Centre for Information Systems & Technology at Claremont Graduate University. Alan Hevner is a professor at the School of Information Systems and Management at the Muma College of Business at the University of South Florida.
