Interdisciplinary Healthcare and Management, B.Sc.
The purpose of this Bachelor’s degree course in Interdisciplinary Healthcare and Management is to provide qualified nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists with the tools to structure their day-to-day practice and attain management positions. The course is designed to be compatible with continued work in your profession.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
|---|---|
| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €338 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →About the programme
The demographics of our populations are changing, as is the spectrum of diseases with which we are faced; medical and technical advances are matched by people’s increasing desire to take charge of their health and avail themselves of the latest treatments and therapies – in a situation of limited healthcare resources. All these factors and more challenge the healthcare world to change with our times.
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In out- and inpatient care alike, interdisciplinary approaches are gaining in currency; we need to identify and shape points of intersection between professions in the sector if we are to adequately meet the growing need for information, advisory services and health promotion interventions tailored to specific target groups.
The purpose of this Bachelor’s degree course in Interdisciplinary Healthcare and Management is to provide qualified nurses, midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists with the tools to structure their day-to-day practice and attain management positions. The course is designed to be compatible with continued work in your profession.
The course will give you an academic foundation for exploring and implementing profession-specific and interdisciplinary methodologies and approaches and teach you to use targeted methods for planning healthcare services and managing resources. Further, you will interact with others across healthcare disciplines and leave us with the ability to engage actively in developing healthcare systems, taking a range of professional viewpoints into account.
What you study
This six-semester course builds on its students’ prior professional experience, keeping its classes relatively small to enable them to contribute their specific expertise and recognise its place in an interdisciplinary network of knowledge.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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Our graduates drive change in their professional settings, take on management and leadership roles, work on research projects, and fulfil organisational, planning and specialist functions in interdisciplinary healthcare delivery settings or in organisations shaping healthcare policy.
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Examples of fields our graduates work in beyond their original area of professional practice include:
- Local and public health authorities and services
- Health and consumer advisory services
- Health insurers
- Professional associations
- Higher education and research institutions
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hamburg), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €338 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | You should be scientifically minded, interested in how health systems work and the political, societal and economic backdrop to those workings, and keen to help shape healthcare delivery processes. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application uni-assist (VPD) + the university until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.