The full-time Bachelor's degree program in International Personnel Management and Organization (IPO) provides you with a solid business education in just 6 semesters, paired with a clear focus on personnel management and organization. A high level of practical orientation, international experience and the acquisition of intercultural skills round off the profile.

At the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, you will study in relatively small groups, so that a very good supervision ratio can be guaranteed. Lectures, seminars and exercises are offered by professors and other full-time lecturers as well as by lecturers from the field. In this way, you will gain knowledge of current research findings as well as knowledge of corporate HR work. This lays the foundation for a first-class academic education that is ideally suited to the current and future requirements of companies and other organizations.

The degree programs are consistently geared towards the professional field of human resources management and organization. It covers all central areas of responsibility and functions of human resources work from an operational and strategic perspective at the level of a first degree qualifying for a profession. The typical activities of personnel management in companies include

• Personnel marketing,
• recruitment,
• personnel development,
• Operational personnel management (shared services administration),
• personnel deployment planning,
• international assignments (expats/imports),
• personnel controlling or
• personnel planning.

Graduates also work for external personnel service providers, e.g. as personnel consultants, temporary staff planners, training managers.