Bachelor Business Psychology

The following requirements must be met for admission to the Bachelor's degree in Business Psychology:

• General higher education entrance qualification, subject-related higher education entrance qualification, advanced technical college entrance qualification or equivalent foreign educational qualification.
• As of Wintersemester 23/24 there is no perliminary commercial internship of at least 30 days' attendance required. 
• Knowledge of English is necessary, as some courses are held in English. As a rule, however, no language certificates are required for application and admission. However, a special regulation applies in the case of qualified professionals.

Further information on the admission requirements can be found in the admission and selection statutes.

The allocation of study places is based on a university selection procedure, whereby the following criteria are particularly taken into account:

• Average grade of the university entrance qualification (HZB)
• Mathematics grade of 2.0 or better
• Apprenticeship in the commercial sector

Further information on our selection procedure can be found in the admission and selection regulations.

If you are already in a Bachelor's programme at another college or university and would like to change to our programme for a higher semester, please refer to the following information sheet on changing colleges and universities and click on the following link:

Even without the advanced technical college entrance qualification it is possible to be admitted to the course of studies under certain circumstances, if a corresponding professional qualification is available. Please inform yourself under the following link:

If you are an applicant from abroad, please note the information on the following page and the additional documents you need to submit.

In the study programme B.Sc. Business Psychology only a certain number of students can be admitted per semester. Currently, 36 study places are offered per semester.

The following figure shows the Numerus Clausus and the number of waiting semesters from previous years. It should be noted that all these numbers are indicative, as the NC and the waiting time will not be known until after the end of the admission procedure.

The waiting period is calculated from the time you acquire the university entrance qualification and only counts for the period during which you were not enrolled at a German university. This means that semesters enrolled at a German university are deducted from the waiting period.

Digitalization, globalization, Industry 4.0, but also sustainability, customer proximity and agility are topics that are currently triggering far-reaching transformation processes in companies and require a high degree of flexibility from employees and managers. Many questions that arise in connection with these challenges require practical answers at the interface between business administration and psychology. And this is exactly where business psychologists come into action!

The central qualification goal of the Bachelor's programme in Business Psychology is the application-oriented teaching of business and psychological contents. Individual priorities can be set in the areas of marketing & market research, human resources management and consulting, as these are the most important professional fields of activity for business psychologists. In addition, empirical research methods are trained and the development of intercultural as well as transdisciplinary competences is strengthened.

As of winter semester 2023/2024, students will also have the opportunity to apply for the Bachelor Plus (7 semesters) and the Bachelor International (8 semesters) within the degree programme and thus gain further competences for starting a career or continuing a Master's degree programme.

As a university of applied sciences, we provide our students with a lot of practical training. Practical experience is integrated into the curriculum in various ways. Doing so, students can build up a valuable network for their career start already during their studies.

• Bachelor International: Two additional semesters (7th and 8th semester) give students the opportunity to spend an entire academic year at one of our partner universities as part of the Bachelor International programme. The individual study programme is developed together with the students in advance.

  In some cases, there is also the possibility of an additional degree at the partner university. This is currently possible at Metropol University in Helsinki (Finland) and Napier University (Edinburgh). Metropol University awards the degree ‘Bachelor of Business Administration’, Napier University the degree ‘Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) Business Management’. As Napier University is a private university, tuition fees are payable.
  
  

• Semester abroad on the six-semester degree programme: We also offer the opportunity to integrate a semester abroad into the six-semester Bachelor's degree programme. This can be flexibly integrated into the programme at any time. We co-operate with various partner universities worldwide, so that as a rule no tuition fees have to be paid at the university abroad (exceptions are the private partner universities). 
  
  

• Short stay: These four-week language and cultural strips are usually designed as an "entry offer" to a foreign country and take place during the semester break. These summer and winter schools give students the opportunity to get to know the language and culture of a country, and company visits are usually also part of the program. Especially Russia and China have proven to be popular destinations for short stays for our students in the past. The International Office organises these services throughout the whole university. 
  
  

• Internship abroad: If you would rather gain practical, work-related experience abroad, you can complete an internship abroad. In addition to the International Office, the Internship Office also helps with the search of a suitable internship. One the one hand, an internship abroad offers the advantage to experience the actual working life abroad, but on the other hand  company's workforces usually have a heterogeneous age structure, which can make social integration (compared to a semester abroad) somewhat more difficult.