East Asia Institute (Ludwigshafen)

The East Asia Institute (German: Ostasieninstitut) is a public research centre, founded in 1989 as part of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences.

It offers four year or eight-semester programs (BA) in international business management, supplemented with cultural and language studies in China, Japan, or Korea-related topics and regions.

Depending on the country module chosen, students spend one year (5th and 6th semesters) in China, Korea, or Japan studying at one of the affiliated universities.

In 1989, professor Siegfried Englert founded the model degree program Marketing East Asia as a part of the University of Applied Science in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

The Institute has received visits from notable political figures since moving into the Rhine building, including German federal presidents Roman Herzog in 1997 and Johannes Rau in 2000.