A wide group photograph inside a large lecture hall with wooden walls and ceiling lights. Hundreds of graduates stand closely together, many holding certificates, dressed in formal attire. In the front row, several academics wearing black academic gowns stand facing the camera. Tiered seating rises behind them, filled with smiling graduates, creating a sense of scale and celebration.
A wide group photograph inside a large lecture hall with wooden walls and ceiling lights. Hundreds of graduates stand closely together, many holding certificates, dressed in formal attire. Tiered seating rises behind them, filled with smiling graduates, creating a sense of scale and celebration.
🎓🌟 On Saturday, we celebrated our Master’s and Bachelor’s graduates! 🎉🪩
Dear graduates, you can be truly proud: you met challenges, seized opportunities and grew. With your excellent education, you are ready to shape the future🚀—stay connected via WiSoAlumni:
👉 uni.cologne/CAVBR
#wisocgn #UoC
27.01.2026 12:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional graphic from Cologne Graduate School showing a person in academic dress holding a doctoral cap. The text reads: “Interested in a doctoral programme? Apply now – Doctoral Scholarship in Behavioural Management Science.” The Cologne Graduate School logo appears at the top.
🌟 Ready to advance your research career?
Hold a Master’s in Management or Economics and join the Cologne Graduate School at the University of Cologne. A 3-year doctoral scholarship starts Oct 1, 2026. 🚀 Apply by March 15, 2026 and join Behavioural Management Science. ✨
uni.koeln/V6B8L
#wisocgn
27.01.2026 10:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🚀 Startup Your Idea Contest – the final
4 February 2026 | UoC
Be there when founders from Cologne's Gateway Universities pitch their ideas to a large audience. Meet Cologne's start-up community and find new partners at the start-up market.
Register now for free and be there!
👉 bit.ly/SYIC2026
22.01.2026 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional graphic from Cologne Graduate School showing a person holding a doctoral certificate folder. Text reads: “Interested in a doctoral programme? Apply now. Doctoral Scholarship Business Administration.”
🎓 Advance your academic career!
The Cologne Graduate School (Univ. of Cologne) offers a 3-year PhD scholarship in Business Administration starting Oct 1, 2026. 🌐
Focus: analytics, AI & digital transformation.
Apply by Mar 15, 2026 👉 uni.koeln/JQGW2
#DoctoralScholarship #PhDOpportunity #wisocgn
22.01.2026 12:12 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Text: via ZOOM
APPLYING TO MASTER'S
PROGRAMMES
Tips & Best Practices
Register now!
25 February
15:00 non-EU applicants
17:00 EU applicants
Ready to apply?
🎓 Join our webinar “Applying to Master’s Programmes” for tips on a strong WiSo application. Learn all about programmes, requirements, pitfalls & live Q&A.
25 Feb 2026: Non-EU 3pm | EU 5pm (CET).
Register: uni.koeln/2TR66
#unicgn #wisocgn #WiSoFaculty #UniversityOfCologne
21.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A promotional image showing a smiling student sitting at a desk and working on a laptop in a bright, modern indoor setting with a green colour theme. Text bubbles in the image read “What are my chances of admission to a Master’s programme?” and “Your score is 71”. The graphic also includes the text “PACO Score”, suggesting a digital tool for assessing admission chances.
Dear Master applicants!
🎓 Assess your chances now via AI!
With PACO Score, estimate how well your application fits our Master’s programmes compared with the past results.📊 Try it now 👉
https//uni.koeln/THUJD.
(❗️PACO Score ist non binding and does not constitute any entitlement to a study place!)
20.01.2026 11:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A promotional image showing a group of graduates celebrating on a stage, wearing formal attire and raising their arms in celebration. Over the image, a large green circular graphic contains the text “Developing Global Leaders”. Additional text reads “Apply now! Master International Management – CEMS MIM”. The CEMS logo appears at the top of the image.
A promotional image showing a young person standing outdoors on a university campus, holding notebooks and looking confidently towards the camera. Other students are visible in the blurred background. A large green circular graphic overlays the image with the text “Shaping Academic Excellence”. Additional text reads “Apply now! Master Economic Research”.
✨ Join the Flagship! 🚢
💪Ready to take your future to the next level? Apply now for our Master's programmes in International Management (CEMS MIM) or Economic Research and set sail toward success! 🌍
⏳ Don't miss your chance to kickstart your journey in research and management.
🚀👉 uni.koeln/38QTA
19.01.2026 16:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Poster for the “Sociological Ash Wednesday” event at the University of Cologne on 18 February 2026, 16:00–18:00, in lecture hall A2, with a background photo of the Cologne skyline and cathedral at sunset over the Rhine. Large white text announces the title “SOZIOLOGISCHER ASCHERMITTWOCH”, with green banner slogans reading “Universitäre Diskursräume” and “Zwischen Freiheit und Beschränkung”. The lower left lists a panel discussion with Claudia Diehl (Konstanz), Naika Foroutan (Berlin), Markus Ogorek (Köln), Uwe Schimank (Bremen) and Richard Traunmüller (Mannheim), moderated by Jan‑Martin Wiarda, and organisation credit to Clemens Kroneberg with a website link. The logos of the University of Cologne, the Adenauer School of Government and the WiSo Faculty’s 125‑year anniversary (1901–2026) appear at the top and bottom of the poster.
Cologne sociologist Clemens Kroneberg invites to the Sociological Ash Wednesday on 18 February at the University of Cologne.
This year’s high-calibre panel discussion focuses on how to deal with academic freedom and diversity of perspectives in universities and academic world.
bit.ly/soziologisch...
16.01.2026 18:48 — 👍 22 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 1
Socio-economic status continues to have a strong influence on children’s educational outcomes in Germany, according to a recent study by the Cluster of Excellence ECONtribute at the Universities of Bonn and Cologne. 🎓📊📚🏫
uni.koeln/3XAP5
#EducationResearch #SocialInequality #EducationalOutcomes
15.01.2026 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Promotional graphic for the Cologne Graduate School advertising a doctoral scholarship. The image shows a close-up of a person holding a dark folder or binder, with only part of their long hair, hand, and a ring visible. Over a light green background, bold text reads: “Interested in a doctoral programme? Apply now. Doctoral Scholarship Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics and Social Sciences.” The Cologne Graduate School logo appears in the upper right corner. The overall design is clean and professional, emphasising academic opportunity and application call-to-action.
🎓Ready to embark on a groundbreaking academic journey? 🌟The Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) at the University of Cologne offers three-year doctoral scholarships. 🚀
🌐 Apply by March 15, 2026!
👉 Visit the CGS website for more details: cgs.uni-koeln.de/en/
13.01.2026 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New junior professor at the WiSo! 🎓✨📚🏛️🎉🤝📈
As of 6 January 2026, Dr. Hannah Winterberg will take up the Endowed Junior Professorship in Banking at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the University of Cologne.
uni.koeln/MQYDX
#WiSo #UniversityOfCologne #FinanceResearch
09.01.2026 11:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On 12 January 2026, from 5:45 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. in lecture hall XIII 🕕, Dr Katrin Assenmacher from the European Central Bank 💶 will discuss whether digital central bank money represents a revolution 🚀 or evolution 🔄 in the monetary system.
👉 uni.koeln/EZYKJ
#WiSo #iwp #lectureseries
07.01.2026 13:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video tip for your days off 👀: New research by Andreas Fügener, Sebastian Schiffels and Ulrich W. Thonemannexamines the influence of strategic buckets on portfolio decisions. See what this might mean for you 🔗: youtu.be/MDrxotqJohM
05.01.2026 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Text: ECONtribute
#52
DER WIRTSCHAFTSPODCAST
💵Issue 52 of ECONtribute Business Podcast: How is AI changing investing in the stock market?
WiSo professor Tom Zimmermann, professor at ECONtribute at the University of Cologne in an episode about (stock) markets, 📢people and machines.📊
👉https://bit.ly/KI-am-Aktienmarkt
30.12.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Festive graphic Christmas and New Year greeting card from the WiSo Faculty of the University of Cologne, featuring hanging ornament illustrations with the faculty seal and university emblem in blue and green, large overlapping green and red circles as decorative shapes, and the text “Merry Christmas & A Happy Anniversary/New Year – Season’s Greetings from the WiSo Faculty” alongside a “125 years 1901–2026 WiSo Universität zu Köln” anniversary mark on a white background.
We would like to pause briefly and thank all our faculty members, staff, stakeholders, supporters and friends for their dedicated support.
We wish you a restful holiday season and a peaceful transition into the new year 💚🎄🎇.
23.12.2025 17:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
https://chatgpt.com/c/694a6ae7-9af0-8327-9aa8-ed24a22666ce
🎓 Ready to embark on a groundbreaking academic journey? 🌟 The Cologne Graduate School in Management, Economics, and Social Sciences (CGS) at the University of Cologne offers three-year doctoral scholarships. 🚀
🌐 Apply by March 15, 2026!
👉 Visit the CGS website for more details: cgs.uni-koeln.de
23.12.2025 14:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Young female student wearing glasses and a black headscarf sits in a lecture hall, smiling and raising her hand while using a laptop. Other students are blurred in the background. Promotional text on the image reads: “Try WiSo-Studying at the Study orientation weeks (Wochen der Studienorientierung), January 2026.”
Looking for the right Study Programme at Uni Cologne? Explore degree options Jan 12–Feb 6, 2026. Take advantage of selected courses and experience university life first-hand.
For more information and registration for the additional lectures from WiSo Faculty, check out our website:
uni.koeln/623J2
20.12.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Two women sit at a table looking at a smartphone with bored expressions, holiday lights blurred in the background, and a CHE Ranking logo in the corner.
Promotional graphic showing a person typing on a laptop with the Universität zu Köln webmail page open, next to large text reading “THE SURVEY FOR THE CHE RANKINGS ARE PENDING!” and a CHE Ranking logo in the lower left corner.
Dear students of the B.Sc. BA, economics, MES, information systems and health economics,
Your feedback is needed! 🗣
The CHE Ranking🔎 📊 is currently taking place.
You have already received your personal access to the survey via your S-Mail account 📩 📬.
Tell it like it is and help future students. 🙌
19.12.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
WiSo Alumna Angela Knauber, Head of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at HARIBO. She smiles towards the camera.
🎓 Our #alumna Angela Knauber, now Head of Talent Acquisition & Employer Branding at #HARIBO, shares insights on building careers through lived culture, clear values and a strong people focus 🍬🤝
A great example of alumni #bridging #academia and #practice: uni.koeln/6CE5E
18.12.2025 11:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder:🏆 The University of Cologne honours outstanding achievements with the University Awards 2025!
Nominate exceptional people in 🔬Research, 🧩Teaching, ↔️Transfer, 🪴Sustainability & ⚙️Staff.
👉 More info: uni.koeln/3EMM2
#UniversityAwards #UoC #Nominate
17.12.2025 15:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Das Bild zeigt den Lesesaal der USB Köln mit Menschen, die an Tischen sitzen und lernen oder arbeiten. Im Vordergrund sind einige Personen zu sehen, die konzentriert an ihren Aufgaben arbeiten. Im Hintergrund sind weitere Personen zu erkennen, die ebenfalls beschäftigt sind.
Der Text auf dem Bild informiert über neue Öffnungszeiten während der Prüfungsphase ab dem 5. Januar 2026:
Montag bis Freitag: 8:00 Uhr bis 24:00 Uhr
Samstag und Sonntag: 9:00 Uhr bis 21:00 Uhr
Die Bibliothek scheint gut beleuchtet und gut ausgestattet zu sein, mit vielen Büchern in den Regalen im Hintergrund.
🕗 In der Prüfungsphase ab dem 5.1.26 haben wir neue Öffnungszeiten:
Montag–Freitag: 8 – 24 Uhr
Samstag–Sonntag: 9 – 21 Uhr
Die Serviceschalter haben kürzere Öffnungszeiten!
Wir wünschen euch viel Glück und Erfolg bei euren Prüfungen! 🍀🐽 uni.koeln/EJH9M
📸©Taimas Ahangari @unicologne.bsky.social
16.12.2025 09:49 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Professor Beatrix Busse, Vice-Rector for Teaching and Studies at the University of Cologne, Markus Weinmann, WiSo Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Institute for Business AI at the University of Cologne, WiSoAlumnus Peter Heidkamp, Vice President Financial Services Industry at Aleph Alpha, and WiSoAlumna Franziska Grabow, host of the evening, discuss on the impact of generative AI on decision-making, Europe’s position in global competition, and collaboration between academia, industry and society at this year’s WiSoAlumni Annual Reunion on “AI in Universities and Business – Risks, Opportunities, Perspectives”.
Markus Weinmann, WiSo Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Institute for Business AI at the University of Cologne, is speaking about „Understanding, designing, and using artificial intelligence“ and debunking common AI myths during his keynote at this year’s WiSoAlumni Annual Reunion on “AI in Universities and Business – Risks, Opportunities, Perspectives”.
Markus Weinmann, WiSo Professor of Business Analytics and Director of the Institute for Business AI at the University of Cologne, is speaking about „Understanding, designing, and using artificial intelligence“ and debunking common AI myths during his keynote at this year’s WiSoAlumni Annual Reunion on “AI in Universities and Business – Risks, Opportunities, Perspectives”.
Look back the WiSoAlumni Annual Reunion 2026
How is generative AI reshaping universities and industries? And can Europe remain competitive in a rapidly evolving global AI landscape?
Highlights via uni.koeln/A6JGJ
#wisoalumni #kölnalumni #uniköln #reconnect #wirsinduniköln
@unicologne.bsky.social
16.12.2025 07:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kann KI bald zuverlässig Aktienrenditen vorhersagen? In der neuen Folge des ECONtribute Wirtschaftspodcasts sprechen wir mit Cluster-Mitglied Tom Zimmermann @unicologne.bsky.social darüber, wie Finanzdienstleister schon heute auf maschinelles Lernen setzen 👉: econtribute.de/de/newsroom/... #EconSky
15.12.2025 08:11 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
A man with a neatly trimmed beard stands confidently with his arms crossed in a bright, modern hallway featuring large windows and a high, patterned ceiling. He is wearing a grey blazer over a mustard-yellow jumper and dark trousers. A green translucent circle overlays the centre of the image with white text that reads: “Alumni Success Story Salvatore Mancuso – Behind the Scenes of the NRW Parliament.”
🎓 New Series: WiSoAlumni Success Stories
Meet Salvatore Mancuso — WiSo Political Science grad and now Policy Advisor at the NRW State Parliament.
Details: youtu.be/EcVyF1dv698
#wisoalumni #kölnalumni @unicologne.bsky.social
11.12.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Text: We are hiring Doctoral Researcher (f/m/x) Cologne Institute for Information Systems (CIIS) // Picture: A young woman in a t-shirt outside on a sunny day. She has a backpack on her right shoulder and looks slightly to the back into the camera, smiling.
📢 #Doctoral #Researcher (f/m/x) @ CIIS wanted!
💡Research on digital innovation & responsible AI
💡Use advanced IS methods
💡Publish internationally
💡Teach in IS
💡Work with global partners
➡️ Master’s, motivation, teamwork, strong communication, German + English
📍Info: uni.koeln/LHZP2
11.12.2025 10:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
💬✨ Couldn’t join our Virtual Open Day? We've got you covered!
Catch up now and get a glimpse into who we are, what we do, and how you can become part of our community. 💡🌿
Video: uni.koeln/7QTRV
#VirtualOpenDay #FutureStudents #StudyWithUs #BehindTheScenes #wisocgn
10.12.2025 15:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Promotional banner for the University of Cologne Business School (UCBS). The left side shows the UCBS logo above the text ‘University of Cologne Business School.’ Three people—two women and one man—are standing together, smiling and talking in a bright, modern indoor setting. Colorful confetti-style shapes decorate the image. On the right, a green circular overlay contains the program information: ‘Master in Business Analytics & AI – Part-time, 18 months, Master of Science, Start in October 2026.’ A small credit at the bottom left reads ‘Grafik: Flaticon.’”
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We are delighted to announce the launch of the brand-new Master of Science Business Analytics & AI at the University of Cologne Business School: a part-time programme (18 months), leading to a prestigious M.Sc. degree from the University of Cologne.
Start in October 2026.
👉 uni.koeln/ZFD6A
09.12.2025 11:30 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A group of people from the University of Cologne, working at the Dellbrücker Heide during the Sustainability Days, to clean up the environment. It is a sunny day.
At the WiSo Sustainability Days, the ✨amazing colleagues👏 from the International Relations Centre 🌐 (ZIB) teamed up again with the experts from BUND🧑🔬 this time in the Dellbrücker Heide 🌿🏞️!
💪Together, they used their Sustainability Days time-off to dive into some eco-action and make a difference 🌱🌍.
05.12.2025 14:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
