Bachelor’s Degree Program in Business Law

The Bachelor’s program in Business Law combines legal expertise with business know-how and prepares you specifically to address challenging tasks at the intersection of law and business. The expertise of commercial lawyers is particularly in demand where legal and commercial issues are interlinked.

The degree program offers an interdisciplinary education with a focus on national and international business law, supplemented by relevant management and communication skills. English language, law, and business modules prepare you specifically for work in internationally oriented companies.

The ZHAW has been training business lawyers since 2003, making the university a pioneer in this field. Its degree program in Business Law has now become firmly established in the job market and the Swiss educational landscape.

The Bachelor's degree program in Business Law combines a sound legal education with practical relevance and prepares you specifically for a legal career. Here are three practical examples from the program: 

As a graduate of the Bachelor's degree program in Business Law, you have various career paths open to you. Typically, business lawyers take the following roles and are active in the following sectors: 

Functions

• Compliance / data protection
• Tax consulting / auditing
• Staff functions / project management
• Legal consultants in business law
• Human resources

Sectors

• Financial services providers and insurance companies
• Tax, fiduciary, and auditing services
• Public administrations and trade associations
• Management consulting
• Industry and the service sector

A BSc in Business Law presents numerous professional training and continuing education opportunities. Graduates gain favorable access conditions to Swiss university Master of Law programs and the opportunity to be admitted to the bar. 

Further information can be found here: A Master's Program After a BSc in Business Law.

The Bachelor program in Business Law has two study levels: In the first-year level (Assessment), you will focus on acquiring basic knowledge and developing a basic methodological toolkit. The first-year level takes two semester (full-time) or three semesters (part-time) to complete. In the subsequent main study period (Hauptstudium) level, you will broaden, deepen, and interlink your legal and business skills.

You can choose between studying full-time or part-time.

In the full-time model, you will have classes on four to five days a week, and the program will take you six semesters to complete. The part-time model will take eight semesters and you will attend classes on two whole days a week.

• A federally recognized commercial vocational baccalaureate: no entrance exam or additional professional experience required
• A non-commercial vocational baccalaureate: no entrance exam required; at least one year of regular work experience in the commercial field
• A federally recognized academic baccalaureate: no entrance exam required; at least one year of regular work experience in the commercial field
• no final exclusion at the faculty of law of a university

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