TH AB: Software Design International B.Sc.

Build your own software? Learn how to create all the applications you want – from design through to implementation!

Are you the kind of person who explores topics that range from creating websites and smartphone apps through to robotics? You enjoy using a computer, and you’re curious about how it works? You like problem-solving? You appreciate creativity, and enjoy getting your hands dirty and creating ‘stuff’? If so, you’re the right person to enrol on a degree programme that promises a wide variety of career prospects in software!

Programme content

You will learn the principles of software design and implementation:

Systems analysis and design
Software development: programming languages and technologies
Software engineering: software architecture, software testing, human computer, requirements engineering and usability interaction

Learn all about technologies such as:

Databases
Computer networks,
Foundations of IT hardware
Operating systems
Multimedia technology
IT security

Other fascinating areas of your studies include:

Project management and agile development
Data science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning

From your sixth semester onwards you will specialise in Data Science or Digital Transformation.

Requirements for the bachelor’s degree programme

General university entrance qualification
You can find out which certificates are valid and what you need as on our page Application

Entry qualification – German	A1
Entry qualification – English	B2; IELTS 6.5

Opportunities for practical experience

Your studies offer you a variety of opportunities for practical experience. For example, in many of your courses you will apply the theory you have learned directly by engaging in a realistic project so as to be able to pursue it in greater depth. The fifth semester is a practical semester: here you go out to a company and apply everything you have learned so far in a real-life setting.

You can also write your bachelor thesis at a company. A special bonus: our cooperation with industry partners means you can apply as a working student from the second semester onwards.

The Career Service team will be glad to support and advise you on how to stay close to real-life practice. A variety of other events are planned in addition to the regular courses,

project weeks
workshops
practical lectures by external guests
excursions
case studies
project work with other students
individual coaching

Why study Software Design at Aschaffenburg University of Applied Sciences?

The Software Design programme at Aschaffenburg UAS qualifies you to work as a software professional. The primary focus of this course is on the underlying principles of software engineering and their application to modern software engineering practices. The programme provides you with all the skills you need for your future career in software engineering. You will learn to plan and implement complex software projects efficiently and with a customer focus.

This degree programme equips you to start working life having already completed your practical work with a work placement in a company during the fifth semester. Through our partners, we work with companies to provide students with a practical placement, thereby enabling them to combine theory and practice.

Every great programme involves a blend of practical and theoretical aspects, and academic excellence is important, too. This is one of the reasons you will be required to write a bachelor’s thesis, which is the final element of the course. So in addition to learning how to programme and develop your own applications, you will come away with work experience and a bachelor thesis.

The aims and objectives of Software Design at TH AB are:

Problem solving techniques
Develop the skills you need to problem-solve as a software engineer
Principles and practices
Provide an understanding of software engineering and its principles
Professional practitioner
Become a competent practitioner in software engineering
Social skills and Leadership
Develop the social skills that enable you to become a leader and potentially take on a leadership role in the future, e.g. in project management
International Work setting
Develop a sense of professionalism so as to be able to work comfortably in an international or German-based setting, both independently and in a team environment

Career prospects with the bachelor’s degree

You can either start out in the field of software development and computer science or head a department for quality assurance and process management. With a degree in Software Design, many doors are open to you in the world of digital, including the following careers:

Software Engineer
Software Developer
Software Tester
Product Manager
Data Scientist
Web Developer
Software Project Manager
Application Specialist
Business Analyst

That covers quite a range! Whether freelance or employed: you can work for smaller companies, medium-sized businesses or large-scale companies, as well as in the public sector.