Master
Social management

The Master's degree programme is tailored to working professionals and is designed to be career-integrated. It consists of a combination of distance learning (75%) and seminar-orientated studies in attendance phases (25%).

The career-integrated studies make it possible to include questions and problems in the attendance phases that participants encounter in their daily professional practice.

Furthermore, by choosing an appropriate topic for the master's thesis, a direct link can be established between their own professional practice and their studies.

The theoretical content of the studies is primarily taught via correspondence courses. Course letters enable students to acquire the course content appropriately through self-study.

Students come together at the university for the seminars and exercises in the attendance phases. The attendance phases are organised in such a way that they can be completed by working people without any problems: They mainly take place in blocks at weekends (Friday afternoons and Saturdays) and for some subjects (particularly in the subject area "Leadership and Human Resource Management") in blocks of 3 to 5 days. A block of several days outside the weekend only needs to be scheduled once in the semester.

The dates of the attendance phases will be announced in good time before the start of each semester.

Successful graduates of the Master's degree programme have almost all career opportunities open to them in the management of the social and health sector. The declared aim of the Degree programme is to qualify students to take on management and leadership functions in the social economy.

The career-integrated nature of the joint degree programme enables the programme to include questions and problems that participants encounter in their daily practical application in addition to discussing open questions from the curriculum during the attendance phases.

The Career-Integrated Degree Programmes in Social Management combines social science, Business Administration and Economics and Law teaching education and relates this to the handling of management problems in social and health care institutions.

The studies consist of 12 modules:

• Module 1: Introduction to Social Management
• Module 2: Evaluation
• Module 3: Digitalisation in Applied Social Sciences
• Module 4: Business Administration I
• Module 5: Business Administration II
• Module 6: Organisational analysis and organisational development
• Module 7: Social Policy and Sustainable Development
• Module 8: Communication/Presentation/Moderation
• Module 9: Quality Management in Applied Social Sciences
• Module 10: Law I
• Module 11: Law II
• Module 12: Leadership and personnel management
• Module 13: Marketing in Social Work
• Module 14: Practical reflections on management action in social work institutions
• Module 15: Master's thesis with oral examination

Modules 1 to 14 are based on individual courses assigned to them. Module 15 consists of the master's thesis and the oral examination. Over a period of three months, the student documents in the master's thesis that he/she is able to work independently on a practical task from the field of social management under scientific and practical aspects.

Facts
► Type of degree programme // Career-integrated: distance learning (75%) and on-campus study (25%)
► Standard time to degree (in semesters) // 5 semesters
► Scope of study // 120 ECTS
► Place of study // Mönchengladbach campus
► Costs per semester // € 1150.00 (as of WS 19/20) - € 1350.00 from SS 2023
► Start of studies // Winter semester (WS) and summer semester (SS)
► Application deadlines // SS 01.12 - 15.03. and WS 01.05 - 15.09.
► Start of lectures // SS mid-March // WS mid-September
► Degree // Master of Arts (M.A.)
► Language of instruction // German
► The Master's degree programme in Social Management is a postgraduate integrated degree programme.

Admission requirements
► Proof of a completed degree in an undergraduate degree programme in Social Work, Social Education or Social Work at a state or state-recognised university within the scope of the German Basic Law or an equivalent degree with an overall grade of at least "good" (2.3).
► Proof of at least one year of relevant professional activity after successful completion of the undergraduate degree programme, whereby the periods of a relevant professional internship are taken into account
► Proof of professional activity at the beginning of the studies
► Exceptions to the minimum grade are specified in the examination regulations; corresponding proof must be submitted.

Counselling for the Social Management degree programme is provided by Ms Kathrin Großimlinghaus from Student Services at The Hochschule Niederrhein. She will help you with all organisational questions such as admission requirements, application procedures or grant leaves of absence.

Mrs Kathrin Großimlinghaus
Reinarzstr. 49
47805 Krefeld
Building A, Room A E06
Phone: +49 (0)2151 822-2733
Email: kathrin.grossimlinghaus(at)hs-niederrhein.de

►Student Services

Application periods
Summer semester: 01 December to 15 March
Winter semester: No application possible for winter semester 2025/26

Applicants who have obtained their higher education entrance qualification in a non-EU country:
Summer semester: 01 November to 15 February
Winter semester: No application possible for the winter semester 2025/26

Application
The application for a study place is made via the university's central online portal.

Link
Central Student Services (application, registration, etc.)

• Amendment of the examination regulations 18 March 2021
• Admission capacity

► Examination regulations
► Module manual

► Central Student Advice Centre (ZSB)
Central Student Services (application, registration, etc.)