School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University
The School of Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi University (SBE-ÅAU) was founded in 1927. Today it forms a key part of the university’s Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at the Department of Business and Economics, and Law.
We educate creative, critically thinking, responsible leaders, and do cutting-edge research especially in the areas of diversity, digitalization, sustainability, and entrepreneurship.
At SBE you learn to be a skillful communicator, an appreciated team member, and a capable manager of sustainable success – in individual organizations as well as in society overall.
Åbo Akademi University School of Business and Economics has in 2023 been accredited by AACSB, which is is considered one of the foremost international quality accreditations a business school can achieve. The School of Business and Economics has been assessed according to 15 international standards, from education and study environment, to research and collaboration.
In addition to Swedish-language Bachelor and Master programmes in Business Administration, SBE offers an English-language Master programme in Governance of Digitalization. Read more here:
SBE also offers a Doctoral programme in Business Administration in English. Read more here:
More about the major subjects at SBE
Accounting
Accounting is used to describe, prescribe, analyse and assess the reality of an organisation in a systematic and structured manner.
International Marketing
A successful international business requires insights into both one’s customers, competitors, strategy and operating environments.
Economics
Economic phenomena affect us on all levels in society. Economics is a discipline dealing with these issues from both a macroperspective at national and international levels and from a microperspective with a focus on markets.
Organisation and Management
Knowledge, competence and ideas are central resources in today’s companies and organisations.
Information Systems
Creating new business models and updating organisational functions, products and services in co-operation with customers requires innovative business leaders with technological insights.
Information Studies
In an age of information overload and fake news, the professional processing of information becomes even more important. The information and knowledge we possess affects the decisions we make. That is why strategic information management is so important both now and in the future.