Social Work – Inclusion and Exclusion, M.A.
The consecutive Master’s degree "Social Work - Inclusion and Exclusion" continues undergraduate degree programs in social work and social pedagogy and enables graduates to meet more highly qualified and specialized professional requirements.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 3 semesters, 90 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €152.50 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
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
Identification of social milieus and target groups whose chances of participation are limited or excluded by demographic, sociographic, geographical and psychological characteristics or as a result of gaps in the social security systems.
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Recognition of social structural inequalities and disparities in the social security systems that prevent adequate participation. These can be personal limitations and a lack of skills, restrictive living environments and national or transnational economic and political framework conditions.
What you study
This course continues undergraduate courses in social work, social work and / or social pedagogy and enables graduates to meet more highly qualified and specialized professional requirements. Upon successful completion of the course, the academic degree “Master of Arts”, short form “M.A.”, is awarded.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
- Managerial functions in the fields of social work, social pedagogy, educational science, adult education or similar.
- Inclusion officers, diversity officers, integration officers, officers for equality (women and men, disabled people, senior citizens)
- Community and social space-oriented work for selected target groups (young people, unemployed, migrants, senior citizens, people with disabilities)
- Community Care (e.g. in socio-cultural (meeting) centers or cultural youth centers)
- Case / care management for sick people, delinquents, unemployed people, migrants, elderly people, homeless people
- Planning and development tasks (e.g. youth welfare and elderly care planning)
- Operational integration management
- Budget advice and management
- Networking and coordination of services, activities and facilities (e.g. volunteer services, self-help initiatives, community centers, joint service points, cultural committees) including the development of financial bases
- International and intercultural activities (e.g. organization of cultural festivals, public relations work for larger sponsors, etc.)
- Research at universities, institutes and within social institutions
- Management of facilities (e.g. day-care centers, refugee aid, assisted living)
- Child and adolescent psychotherapist
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €152.50 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | The successful completion of a university degree in social work, social work, social pedagogy, educational science, sociology, political science and psychology at a German university for applied sciences (technical college) or university or an equivalent degree at a foreign university. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, summer semester until 15.01 |
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 15.01uni-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 15.01.2027 (93 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.