In order to determine the range for the CHE salary, we calculate the salary for a 26-year-old employed by an IT service provider after graduation in Salarium (the federal government's statistical salary calculator). Depending on the place of residence, this results in a salary range of CHF 84,890 to CHF 120,263 per year. If you work in the financial sector, the salary range for a business IT specialist CHE salary is as high as CHF 102,960 to CHF 122,746. If you work in administration or consulting, the range is between CHF 88,699 and CHF 121,225. Use your salary calculator to calculate your own salary range as a business IT specialist CHE by entering the work region, industry and age.

A degree in Business Informatics HF is aimed at people with a basic education in business administration or an IT degree who work in an interface function between IT and the specialist areas or are interested in doing so. As generalists, they mediate between IT specialists and business administration staff. This requires knowledge of business management processes. Business informatics HF students are interested in examining the potential of information and communication technologies to support such processes. Analytical thinking is required to develop holistic social and economic systems using information technology. In addition, business informatics students can further develop their communication and negotiation skills at the university of applied sciences. Anyone with these skills can study business informatics well.

Are you looking for a suitable business college to study Business Informatics HF? Then you should pay attention to the following criteria when choosing a school to study business informatics:

• Awareness and image
• Satisfaction of graduates and fun factor through events, excursions, etc.
• Labels and certifications
• Infrastructure and furnishings
• Training and experience of the speakers
• Website, information events and quality of advice
• Training methodology, tutoring services, networking and career support
• Success rates as a higher technical college for business informatics and further training opportunities
• Location, lesson times and implementation guarantee
• Price

If you think about all these points, you are sure to find the business informatics college that suits you.

We can easily answer this question with the results of a survey conducted by Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch. This showed that 70% of respondents do this to match their own needs. 18 % are interested in continuing education in business informatics to become a business informatics specialist HF following a recommendation. 12% of the survey participants stated that they had read about this qualification more frequently in job advertisements as the reason for their interest in HF training in business informatics. Additional comments from respondents added further reasons for their interest in the HF Business Information Systems course: "This course will expand my know-how and open up further job opportunities.", "This course will expand my know-how and open up further job opportunities.", "Expanding skills", "Personal interest in connection with previous commercial training" and "I visited the "Via Mia" at the BIZ and it became clear to me that IT was the right subject for me - especially business IT.".

A qualified business IT specialist HF and a qualified business IT specialist HF work as managers at the interface between business administration, IT and management. They work for SMEs in all sectors, IT service providers, software manufacturers or in management consultancy. The business informatics tasks in business informatics jobs at HF level are:

• Employee management and supervision of project work
• Take care of the operation of computerized systems
• Analysis of operational procedures and business processes
• Collecting the necessary data and information from existing system architectures to create specifications
• Support and optimize management and business processes with professional information systems
• Analysis of IT problems together with specialists
• Determine the needs of the users for the IT solutions
• Evaluation of possible hardware and software solutions with existing system, own new development or customized external products and preparation of an evaluation report
• Participate in the development of computer-aided solutions in various business areasAdvise the company management on strategic issues relating to information technology and digitization
• Ensure that the technical, organizational and financial framework conditions such as budgets and controlling are taken into account - Play a key role in managing IT projects
• Accompany computer-aided system implementations in practice
• Creation of project documentation
• Training of the user groups
• Clarification of simple legal questions

The tasks of a qualified business IT specialist HF are very varied and you have a great deal of responsibility in the field of IT and digitization.

With further training in business informatics to become a business informatics specialist HF, graduates can achieve the following:

• Gain an understanding of business processes and their interaction
• Obtain a federal title as a certified business IT specialist HF, protected and recognized by the Vocational Training Act
• What you learn can be applied directly in your own professional practice
• Interface activities between the business unit and IT
• Can derive and analyze relevant statements from the business strategy
• Assessment of current IT technologies and their use for the identified improvement potential
• Design and evaluate solutions
• Introducing solutions efficiently in the company by means of projects
• Bachelor of Science in Business Informatics as a follow-up option

In response to a survey of prospective students conducted by Ausbildung-Weiterbildung.ch, a good 31 % stated that they had known the school before. 34.5 % asked one or more schools for further education in business informatics HF / Wirtschaftsinformatikerin HF for an explicit recommendation. On the other hand, 34.5 % rely on online evaluations when choosing a school for business informatics training. Through free-text responses from prospective students, we found out more reasons for enquiring about schools for business IT specialist training (HF):

• "I am looking for an online/distance learning option, i.e. virtual classroom."
• "Coincidence"
• "based in Winterthur"
• "In my region"
• "Continuing education portal"

In total, between CHF 12,000 and CHF 16,000 must be invested in the Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatiker HF degree. This usually includes the final diploma thesis. Some providers charge additional costs for enrollment fees, all teaching materials, internal examinations etc.. There are usually additional costs of around CHF 400 for an external English exam. The study programs at HF colleges are financially supported by the cantons. The cantonal contributions have already been deducted from these total costs. All you need is a confirmation of residence from your place of residence under scholarship law. In return for this investment, you will receive a nationally recognized diploma confirming your field-specific, practice-oriented specialist and management knowledge. Successful graduates can then carry the protected title of Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatiker HF or Dipl. Wirtschaftsinformatikerin HF.

The CHE Business Informatics degree program lasts three years and is part-time. The Business Information Systems course comprises around 1,000 lessons with different time options on one or two days per week - mornings, afternoons, all day or evenings. During the course, students must provide evidence of 50% professional activity in the field of business informatics.