Public Health, M.Sc.
The consecutive Master of Science in Public Health is carried out jointly by the institutions involved in the BSPH: Alice Salomon Hochschule, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin. Each institution brings its own professional expertise to the course.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to 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 | €376.80 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
Public health, also known as health sciences, deals in practice, research and teaching with the conditions for health and the management of illness, insofar as they are based on the natural, technical and social environment of people.
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Various factors influence the health of a population. The health system, the supply structures, the financing of health services, the political and social framework and also the health behavior of the population play a decisive role. Public health is an interdisciplinary subject that develops solutions for improving the health situation in society as a whole through the scientific cooperation of different disciplines. The current tasks of public health move in the connection of health research, social medicine, health system and health care research and health-related technology assessment.
Epidemiological methods are used for public health in order to analyze the political and economic framework conditions of a population group in terms of health at the population level, to examine the systems of health care, to consider the interactions between people and their environment, to research the social structures and health-related behavior of society and to consider the implementation of medical findings in society as a whole.
Public health has a health-promoting and disease-preventing orientation. The interactive cooperation of different disciplines offers starting points for their implementation. Human biology identifies and recognizes the diseases of our time. Quantitative disciplines such as epidemiology and statistics allow us to see the spread of diseases in populations and risk groups beyond the individual. The social sciences offer insight into social, economic and political structures that help determine the health of population groups. Health-related behaviors and different lifestyles can be further explained through disciplines such as psychology. Educational sciences offer strategies to implement knowledge about health and public health concepts such as 'empowerment' in different population groups.
Public health is practice-oriented. One of the tasks of public health is to have an effect on real conditions and to influence and change them. This can be done by taking on management functions in the healthcare sector, by working on a political level or by researching, evaluating and disseminating health science concepts.
What you study
The MScPH is designed as a full-time course. Every semester there are daily courses of around 20 hours with compulsory attendance. In addition, there are about 20 hours of preparation and follow-up time per week, resulting in a student workload (Student Investment Time, SIT) of about 40 hours per week. With the aim of being family-friendly, courses take place between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Each semester consists of 15 semester weeks of lecture time followed by a lecture-free period in which examinations and homework are completed.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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A master's degree in public health serves to deepen the content and expertise and specialize for activities in the healthcare sector.
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- BSPH graduates can opt for a research-oriented orientation and are equipped for science-related work.
- It can also be studied in a more application-oriented manner, which enables a wide range of uses in health administration and health policy, planning and management of and in care facilities, supporting organizations and associations in the health and social sector.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Berlin), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €376.80 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | The Master of Science in Public Health is a consecutive course and is aimed at bachelor graduates (180 ECTS) from all disciplines relevant to public health. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to 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 directly to the university until 15.07Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 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.