Students discussing monetary policy.

Mercator School of Management - MSM - is the name assumed by the Faculty of Business Administration in reverence to Duisburg's scientist and famous cartographer, Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594).

The MSM is a classical business school with a clear focus on business administration. Four chairs in business administration disciplines are combined in each of three research departments, Accounting and Finance, Technology and Operations Management, and Management and Marketing. The economics disciplines are concentrated in the Department of Managerial Economics, which also includes Business Didactics and the sections of East Asia Studies focused on Japan/Korea and China.

Bachelor and Master courses in business administration are accompanied by a range of interdisciplinary programmes. These include East Asia Studies, Business Education, Industrial Management, Cultural Management, "Komedia" (Cognitive and Media Science), and Logistics Management. Students can expect to find an internat-ional atmosphere at the MSM, with lectures held in English, a summer academy and visiting professors. Over 40 international partner universities on four continents offer students plenty of options for completing a semester abroad and double degree programmes.

In order to meet its regional educational mandate in a very popular subject to better and lasting effect, the MSM offers various means of additional support to business administration students. In the reception phase, they are person-ally assigned a professorial mentor to ensure that any organisational or academic problems they may encounter during their studies can be identified and resolved early on.

The Faculty's traditionally practice-oriented approach is supported by an advisory committee made up of senior representatives of trade and industry at regional and national level. It advises the MSM on functions in teaching, research and self-administration. The advisory committee has also been instrumental in acquiring numerous sponsorship commitments under the NRW Scholarship Programme.

The main subjects of research and teaching at the MSM are: technology and innovation management, telecommunications, bank controlling, risk and portfolio management, forms of taxation, corporate structures, business start-ups, information and production management, supply chain management, international accounting, employee performance, service engineering, corporate governance, East Asian economies, human resources and corporate development, project management, and international business relations.