Practical Orientation: A Bachelor’s in Business Law will give you an academic education which is tailored to the exact requirements of business law practice. You will be able to learn from business and legal experts with proven academic and professional backgrounds and deal with tasks and cases taken from the lecturers’ daily work and transferred to the classroom.

Interdisciplinary, International Approach: The program focuses on national and international business law, combined with key management and communication skills. English language, legal, and business modules will prepare you for working in a company with an international profile.

Professional Qualification: Our BSc in Business Law program is interdisciplinary and practically oriented, enabling you to address challenges at the intersection of law and business in a thorough and professional manner.

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

Accredited: The ZHAW School of Management and Law has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) since 2015. AACSB is the world's leading agency for the accreditation of business schools. An AACSB certification reflects excellence in both academic teaching and research.

Talented students can apply to join the ZHAW Law Clinic, where they will offer free legal advice to students at ZHAW and other institutions under the supervision of legal professionals. This enables them to apply the knowledge they acquire in their studies to practical contexts and to gain valuable experience in dealing with real cases.

The International NGO Law and Policy Project (INLPP) provides free legal, policy, research, communications, and advocacy services to NGOs. The INLPP is staffed by students and gives them the opportunity to use their knowledge and skills to solve real world challenges.

The ZHAW enables you to participate in renowned international moot courts. Moot courts are simulated court or arbitration proceedings in which teams of students from different universities compete against each other and represent one of the parties in a dispute.

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

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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