With an academic ceremony on Friday, 28 June 2024, the Faculty of Business and Economics at Göttingen University bid farewell to its graduates of the winter semester 2023/ 2024. A total of 299 students graduated in the past winter semester. 140 of them completed a Bachelor's programme, 159 a Master's programme. 36 doctoral students successfully completed their doctorates during the past year. Dean of Studies Prof. Dr. Claudia Keser welcomed the guests. Natalie Ehrhardt spoke as a representative of the graduates of the winter semester. Dr Malte Ehrich, Head of Division at the Ministry for Climate Protection, Agriculture, Rural Areas and the Environment of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, also spoke as an alumnus of the faculty. The "Florenz Sartorius Prizes" donated by Sartorius AG in Göttingen were also awarded during the event. The best graduates of the individual disciplines received a prize. The Faculty honoured Lilia Katharina Geis (Master of Science in Marketing and E-Business) and Tim Fabian Schlatermund (Master of Science in Finance, Accounting and Taxes) for their outstanding academic achievements in the field of business administration. They both achieved the same final grade. Joel Beck (Master of Science in Applied Statistics) was honoured in the field of Economics. In the field of Business Education, Sanoa-Amina Bialas (Master of Education in Business and Human Resource Education) and German Braun (Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems) in the field of Business Informatics. The faculty also awarded the "Florenz Sartorius Prize", endowed with 1,000 euros each, for outstanding dissertations in business administration and economics. The Faculty awarded the prize to Dr Imke de Maeyer for her thesis on "Corporate valuation with mixed financing strategies and cross-border relations" in the field of business administration. Her supervisor was Prof Dr Stefan Dierkes from the Chair of Finance and Controlling. In Economics, Dr Shu Wang was awarded the prize for his doctoral thesis "Essays on Selected Modern Approaches to Causal Inference in Structural Vector Autoregressions". The thesis was reviewed by Prof Dr Helmut Herwartz from the Chair of Econometrics.
Graduates of the winter semester bid farewell with ceremony
Best of the year are awarded the "Florenz Sartorius Prize" in the university auditorium
Contact
Gesche Quent
Faculty of Business and Economics
Communication and Marketing
Tel. +49 551 39-25847
gesche.quent@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de
