Physics and Management Bachelor of Science

In this three-year, interdisciplinary bachelor's programme, you will learn the fundamentals of experimental and theoretical Physics and Business and Economics. You can specialise in elective modules, an optional internship, work placement or study abroad according to your own objectives. You must earn at least 180 credit points (CP) and complete a bachelor's thesis (10 CP) at the end of the programme, which leads to independent scientific research under supervision.

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Curriculum

A tabular overview of the curriculum of the B.Sc. in Physics and Management:

Curriculum of the Physics and Management B.Sc. programme

Complete module description in the university portal:

Module handbook (link)
The module handbook describes the content of the degree programme and the knowledge, skills and competences you will acquire during your studies.

A tabular overview of the curriculum of the B.Sc. in Physics and Management:

Curriculum of the Physics and Management B.Sc. programme

Vollständige Modulbeschreibung im Hochschulportal:

Module handbook (link)
The module handbook describes the content of the degree programme and the knowledge, skills and competences you will acquire during your studies.

Study and examination regulations

You can find more detailed information on the legal framework for the degree programme under the following links:

Subject-specific study and examination regulations:
FSPO 2024 

General framework regulations:
ASPO 2022 

Landeshochschulgesetz (LHG)

The study and examination regulations for all degree programmes can be found here.

You can find more detailed information on the legal framework for the degree programme under the following links:

Subject-specific study and examination regulations:
FSPO 2019

General framework regulations:
ASPO 2017 

Landeshochschulgesetz (LHG)

The study and examination regulations for all degree programmes can be found here.

Exam organisation

FAQ Exams and Modules

Forms (z.B. exmatriculation, admission to final thesis, inability to take examinations, recognition of study and examination achievements...)

To earn credit points for a course students need to register for the exam on campusonline.

If your examiner/examination is not visible in the campusonline portal, please send an e-mail immediately to studiensekretariat@uni-ulm.de with a request to register for the examination and contact your coordinator.

Exam registrations for written exams have to be made at the latest five days before the exam date (e.g. exam date 21 February, last possible registration: 16 February). Late registrations are not possible. Deregistration is possible until the day before the exam.

  • If you fail to appear at an examination date and have not revoked your registration, you will be deemed to have failed the examination.
  • If you fall ill on the day of the exam and cannot take part in the examination, you must obtain a medical certificate immediately stating the illness. The medical certificate, together with the appropriate form from Studiensekretariat, must be sent to the Studiensekretariat immediately. Please also inform the examiner right away.

Summary PDF for exam registration. Please read carefully. Not legally binding (2024).

FAQ Exams and Modules

  • You can repeat all failed exams twice (ASPO 2022).
  • Examinations that have been passed cannot be repeated.
  • In the bachelor's programme in Physics and Management, the following module examinations may be repeated three times if failed (FSPO 2024 § 15 Repetition of module examinations (§ 25 ASPO)):
    • Mechanics,
    • Electricity and Magnetism
    • Theoretical Mechanics
    • Quantum Mechanics
    • Thermodynamics and Statistics

according to FSPO 2024 § 12 Deadlines

  • Students who have not passed one of the module examinations "Mechanics" or "Electricity and Magnetism" and one of the module examinations "Higher Mathematics I" or "Higher Mathematics II" in the bachelor's programmes in Physics and Physics and Management no later than two months after the end of the third semester lose their right to examination, unless the student is not responsible for missing the deadline.
  • Students who have not completed module examinations in the bachelor's programmes in Physics and Physics and Management with the specified minimum of 50 credit points after the 3rd semester and 110 credit points after the 6th semester by no later than two months after the semesters lose their right to examination, unless the student is not responsible for missing the deadline.

Elective area (FSPO 2024)

Interships and Seminars

Bachelor's thesis

according to FSPO 2024 § 13 Thesis (§ 18 ASPO):

  • The application for admission to a bachelor’s and master’s thesis must be submitted to the subject examination board before starting the thesis. The subject examination board checks whether the topic meets the scientific requirements of the subject.
  • A minimum of 135 CP is required to be admitted to the bachelor’s thesis in Physics and Management.
  • The bachelor’s thesis corresponds to 10 CP. This includes a graded presentation (1 CP) including discussion. The presentation is given in front of the examiner of the bachelor's thesis. The bachelor's thesis is completed within three months alongside the study programme.
  • The topic of the bachelor’s and master’s thesis in the programme in Physics and Management is set by an examiner in the Department of Physics, Economics or Mathematics at Ulm University. If students’ admission to the master’s programme in Physics and Management was based on a bachelor's degree in physics, the topic of the master’s thesis is limited to Econophysics, Economics, Mathematics and Management or an interdisciplinary area of Physics and Economics.

Experiments are demonstrated in the Physics lectures. Information, images and videos of the experiments can be found on the lecture collection website. Under "Experiment lists" you can look up when which experiments were shown in the respective lectures.

Physics lecture collection

Article about Reiner Keller, the lecture collection and the Christmas lecture (2018)

The Physics/Economics Discipline Representation is made up of all students from the Physics/Economics, Biophysics and Advanced Materials departments. Some of the students are active in the Fachschaft (subject-related student representatives), i.e. they represent the students of the discipline in various committees. They collect old exams and exam protocols, organise various celebrations at the University, take care of the lecture evaluation and are quite simply a contact person for questions about studying.

Fachschaft Physics/ Physics and Management
Wave meets particle - the Instagram channel of Physics in Ulm