Social Work (Presence), B.A.
The "Bachelor of Arts: Social Work" course is a face-to-face course that you can complete as a full-time undergraduate course with the appropriate requirements.
This course qualifies you for a wide range of fields of activity and is characterized by an intensive interlinking of theory and practice. With the successful completion of the course you have acquired the basis for a postgraduate master’s degree.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
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| Duration | 7 semesters |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.06, summer semester until 15.12 |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
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 →What you study
During the course of study, you will receive analytical and reflective insights into a wide range of fields of activity and tasks in social work. The course of study is clearly structured and shown in the so-called modular construction kit. In the first three semesters you will acquire basic methodological skills and specialist knowledge. You will also get a first look at various social work facilities. The fourth semester is the practical semester. In the following three semesters you will deepen and expand your specialist knowledge and, in the sense of research-based learning, gain practical experience in key areas of study and reflect on and analyze it in accompanying seminars.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The aim of the course is to enable you to apply scientific methods and findings so that you can work professionally and responsibly in the diverse fields of social work and its interfaces with other professions. You acquire the ability to enable people to participate in society in a self-determined manner. As specialists in social work, you are concerned with offering services that enable individuals, groups or social organizations to enter into an active relationship with their environment, to exercise their rights, to recognize their needs and interests and to shape their way of life .
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Important points of reference include the so-called International Definition of Social Work, the Global Standards for Social Work Education and the Global Agenda for Social Work and Social Development.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Rhineland-Palatinate), international students | €0 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Language | German B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.06, summer semester until 15.12 |
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 B2 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 via uni-assist until 15.12uni-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 15.12.2026 (62 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.