Business Administration comes under the economic sciences. The discipline focuses on microeconomic relationships and economic principles governing individual enterprises, and delivers insights into operational structures and processes.
Economics is a science which analyzes how economic agents interact in situations where resources are scarce, which institutions facilitate these interactions and whether the interactions can and should be influenced by policy.
Social Sciences at the Cologne WiSo Faculty split into Political Science, Sociology, Empirical Social Research and Integrative Social Science.