Studium Individuale, B.A.
Are you curious about the various challenges faced in the contemporary world? Are you looking for a way to combine your broad academic interests? Do you care about working intensively with others while shaping your own personal plan of studies? The Studium Individuale gives you the freedom and the responsibility to design your curriculum. It challenges you to engage with key questions and problems of the present. It helps you cultivate academic skills that are fundamental for living and working in today’s world. It gives you support in formulating your ideas and goals, and taking steps towards their realisation.
The Studium Individuale is a program of study in the Liberal Education tradition. Programs of this kind focus on the intellectual and personal development of each individual student. They emphasize breadth of knowledge while also encouraging students to develop a specific personal profile.
Students learn to cultivate important skills: analytical and reflexive thinking, clear and persuasive communication, as well as well-rounded judgement. Liberal Education programs foster intensive learning within a community of faculty and fellow students, both in and outside the classroom. A contemporary liberal education prepares students to be creative, purposeful and responsible agents in many walks of life.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €352.89 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
FREEDOM AND CONTEMPORARY QUESTIONS
We believe that the best way to foster curiosity, self-direction and independence of mind is to allow students to map out their personal course of study, with support from faculty and their fellow students. The aim of each individual course of study is to explore in-depth questions and problems that need to be addressed in an interdisciplinary way.
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<p.Students can combine modules from the entire spectrum of academic fields at Leuphana, from sustainability to entrepreneurship, from digital media to psychology, from politics to education. The Studium Individuale thereby combines the pursuit of personal intellectual interests with a concern for important issues regarding our common life.
STUDIUM INDIVIDUALE IN PRACTICE
In addition to the self-designed course of study, each student takes part in the core curriculum of the Studium Individuale, its intellectual backbone: one challenging interdisciplinary course of high intensity in each semester, taught in English.
Here, students are engaging in central themes that are relevant for both understanding and taking action in the contemporary world, such as: What is valid knowledge? How can we identify a problem? What are possibilities for, limits to and consequences of action? How can we understand and evaluate historical change? What is modern freedom?
AN ENCOMPASSING EDUCATION
Learning in the Studium Individuale deliberately continues beyond the classroom in often student-led activities: talks with guest speakers, practical projects, weekend-workshops, excursions, or simply informal exchange. Students are also supported and encouraged to spend parts of their studies abroad, in order to gain additional valuable experiences for their education.
As a personal, engaging and challenging programme, the Studium Individuale offers you a rich and meaningful education while also providing you with a sound basis for a variety of Master programmes, careers and life projects.
What you study
COMPULSORY MODULES
- Responsibility and Sustainability
- Humanities
- Methods I
- Module Methods II: Introduction to the methods of the Studium Individuale
- Introduction to the discipline: Studium Individuale
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The Studium Individuale is designed to help students cultivate their personal interests and strengths, and to prepare them for a civic and professional engagement with the world’s contemporary problems. By developing their own lines of inquiry and learning, students shape their education and lay the groundwork for their future professional career.
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CAREERS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
A key rationale of liberal education programs such as the Studium Individuale is to provide students with the skills, knowledge and professional disposition that are needed for a variety of careers in contemporary society. There is a clear demand for mature, self-reliant and self-motivated graduates, who can be trusted to learn quickly and who know how to make the best use of their own faculties. It is these qualities that the Studium Individuale brings out of its students. Studying the Studium Individuale at Leuphana College thereby prepares students for sustainable, socially relevant and personally rewarding careers.
Depending on the choices that you make over the course of your studies and the specific profile that you develop, graduating from the Studium Individuale will enable you to continue your studies with a range of M.A. or M.Sc. programs. You may find innovative, problem-oriented and interdisciplinary Master programs particularly attractive and attainable. You will be offered substantive advice from faculty as to which programs might be desirable in view of your personal interests, goals and academic profile.
With or without a subsequent M.A. degree, the liberal education that is offered to you through the Studium Individuale opens up a wide range of possible career paths. Businesses, the public and non-profit sector, and universities alike are expressing a growing demand for self-reliant, personally engaged, and versatile graduates who are trained in analytical thinking and capable of acquiring and managing knowledge and skills. Among the sectors and types of organizations that regularly employ and work with graduates of liberal education programs are national or international NGOs; administrations, parliaments and political organizations; diplomacy and international organizations; consultancies, think tanks and research institutions; media and journalism; cultural institutions, museums and the arts, just as universities and research foundations.
In which field and position you will have your first job will significantly depend on your study choices and achievements, extra-curricular initiatives and work experiences, and generally the individual profile you build at Leuphana. With its emphasis on self-guided learning and acting and its espousal of creative problem-solving, the Studium Individuale equally encourages and prepares for entrepreneurial initiatives. Graduates of the Studium Individuale are ideally situated to create their own positions, by helping others identify and solve complex problems. Whatever your choices, the Studium Individuale will provide you with a solid foundation for your professional journey.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €352.89 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | As a student of Studium Individuale, you should bring with you intellectual curiosity to deal with a variety of areas of knowledge, topics and questions, and ultimately: to deal with the world. |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, 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.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application via uni-assist until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 4Admission, 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.
Questions about this programme
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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.