AKAD Privat-Hochschulen

Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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AKAD Privat-Hochschulen are private institutions that give state-recognized diplomas. Among the locations are in addition to the AKAD headquarters and Technical College in Stuttgart , AKAD Privat-Hochschulen and Pinneberg , and the study centers in Dusseldorf , Frankfurt and Munich . The Science Council has the three universities accredited in July 2006 AKAD institutionally in a common procedure and re-accredited in November 2009 [2] . In addition, one private, also nationally recognized Scientific University of Lahr of “AKAD private universities GmbH”.

AKAD Privat-Hochschulen is a group of the Cornelsen publishing house and from the Swiss AKAD emerged. In 1959, the “Academics Adult Education Society mbH” in Stuttgart, established to prepare professionals for the first time with a combination of distance learning with classroom instruction at the high school. Beginning in 1960 created further AKAD schools in Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Munich. In addition to the high school preparation AKAD offered in 1968, a preparatory course at the Business Administration, the forerunner of the later polytechnic degree; more AKAD distance learning emerged in subsequent years. AKAD opened in 1974, the Institute for Language Diploma and a year later by the Economic Institute, a program of education and training in the commercial sector.

In 1980 the university established AKAD Privat-Hochschulen in Pinner and became the first German long-distance high school state recognition. The following year, ran the trial operation of the first courses to graduate in business administration and diploma in industrial engineering. From this point AKAD extended the range of study and training opportunities. In 2009 AKAD celebrated its 50th anniversary as the oldest and largest private university network in Germany.

Courses Offered
Undergraduate Programs
Graduate Programs

Business Administration (Bachelor of Arts)
Business Administration (Master of Arts)
Business administration (Diplom-Kaufmann, FH)
Services Management (Bachelor of Arts)
International Business Communication (BA)
Economic translator (Diploma in Business translator, FH)
Business computer science (BSc)
Business computer science with focus on IT Management (MSc)
Business computer science (Diploma in Business Informatics, University of Applied Sciences)
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (Bachelor of Engineering)
Mechanical Engineering (Bachelor of Engineering)
Mechatronics (Bachelor of Engineering)
Industrial Engineering (Bachelor of Engineering)
Industrial engineering (industrial engineering graduate, FH)
Industrial Engineering (Master of Engineering)
General Management (MBA)
Management (Master of Arts)
Finance and Banking (Master of Arts)
Business Education (Master of Arts)
Clinical Research Management (MSc)
Economy
Business computer science
Technology
Mathematics and Statistics
Languages
Chamber of Commerce courses