The Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach (DHBW-Loerrach) was founded in 1981 as Berufsakademie Lörrach. It offers workplace-focused, cooperative degree courses. This means that students alternate between learning the theory at school and applying it on the job in a three-months rhythm. Besides Loerrach, seven other schools of cooperative education and three branch campuses were founded in Baden-Wuerttemberg since the beginning of 1974.
The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg has changed the school’s legal status on March 1, 2009. The union of the merged eight institutions with 11 campuses is now named Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. It is a legal entity of public law and simultaneously a state institution. By 2009 the combined student enrollment across all 11 campuses had reached more than 25,000 students. More than 90,000 graduated alumni have been educated in more than 8,000 cooperating companies.
About 2,000 students are enrolled at the DHBW Loerrach. It runs a faculty of business and a faculty of engineering and offers 17 different business and technical fields of study. All programs are intensive and full-time degree courses (accredited with 210 ECTS).
In most of the courses students graduate after three years with one of the following degrees:
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)Master courses offered in
Health Care Management
Human Resource Management
Logistics Management
Business Management (Start October 2011)The DHBW Loerrach - situated in the triangle between Germany, Switzerland and France – offers two trinational courses in cooperation with the Université de Haute Alsace in Colmar and Mulhouse and the UASN-Switzerland in Basle and Muttenz. Students graduate from these courses after three and a half years and receive a degree from all three participating schools. The lectures are held in German, French and English.
The DHBW Loerrach cooperates with the Steinbeis Foundation Stuttgart and the following international universities:
Africa
Durban University of Technology, South Africa
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Vaal University of Technology, South Africa
North America
Georgian College Toronto, Canada
University of Ottawa, Canada
University of Victoria, Canada
University of Waterloo, Canada
Northwestern Michigan College, USA
University of California in Santa Barbara, USA
Asia
Beijing Wuzi University, China
TEDC Bandung, Indonesia
Australia
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
Europe
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Université de Haute-Alsace, France
INSEEC Bordeaux, France
Institute of Technology Tralee, Ireland
Università dell’Insubria Varese / Como, Italy
Università Politecnica delle Marche Ancona, Italy
Savonia Polytechnic, Kuopio, Finland
Ventspils College, Latvia
Hogeschool Zeeland, Vlissingen, Netherlands
FH Joanneum Graz, Austria
The Polish Open University Warsaw, Poland
Poznan School of Banking, Poland
Politehnica University of Timișoara, Romania
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Europäische Wirtschaftsakademie Madrid, Spain
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha Albacete, Spain
Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain
Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
Széchenyi István University Györ, Hungary
Istanbul Arel University, TurkeyThe school is a member in the World Association for Cooperative Education (WACE), the World Universities Congress and in the Balkan Universities Network.