Faculty of Social Sciences

Fakultät für Gesellschaftswissenschaften

The faculty currently has around 190 scientists, including 29 professorships and around 160 academic staff, 35 other employees and over 3,000 students, making it one of the largest social science faculties in Germany. The faculty is primarily based on the Duisburg campus. There are separate rooms on the Essen campus for teacher training; the professorship for didactics in the social sciences and the course office for social science teacher training courses are also located here. Research and teaching follow an interdisciplinary understanding of the social sciences. Within the research, the faculty's third-party funding has continuously increased to over € 5 million p.a. (2015: around € 5.4 million, 2016: around € 7 million).

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Facts about the faculty

University	University of Duisburg-Essen
Programmes	4 programmes · 4 master's
Language of programmes	German C1 — 1 programme; English — 4 programmes
Application	master's until 15.07
City	Duisburg
Website	https://www.uni-due.de/gesellschaftswissenschaften/

What the faculty's programmes require

The university-wide requirements are complemented by the faculty's own — they are missed most often, because the university page does not list them.

German C1 before applying

For 1 German-taught programme: DSH, TestDaF or telc C1 Hochschule — before you apply, not after.

English C1

For 4 English-taught programmes; the accepted tests (IELTS, TOEFL) are on the programme page.

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Questions about admission to the faculty

In which language are the programmes taught?

German C1 — 1 programme; English — 4 programmes.

When do I need to apply?

Master's until 15.07. Deadlines differ between programmes — check the programme page.

Do I apply to the faculty or to a programme?

To a programme: requirements, language and deadline are set per programme, and the faculty's admission committee assesses the application.

Will you get in with your grades at this faculty?

We will convert your certificate to the German scale and compare it with the committee's requirements, including subject requirements.

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