Master Business Psychology

We live in a time of change: Markets, products, organisations and business models are subject to constant change. How can we keep people and their needs in focus?

The Master's degree in Business Psychology at the HFT Stuttgart prepares you to actively participate in this change and to look for solutions that make this change positive for employees, customers and society. Practical events, active experimentation and freedom for your own ideas form the basis of our course of study. Come to us to actively shape change!

The Master's programme in Business Psychology qualifies students to examine economically relevant issues in which the human factor is of central importance from both an economic and a psychological perspective. In this way, (new) approaches to solving problems that arise as a result of complex organisations and markets are found.

In order to optimally prepare students for a subsequent career, a strong practical orientation and a high degree of application orientation are central aspects of the entire Master's programme.

In addition, students should acquire the competence to independently work on complex business psychological issues and to develop new approaches to solutions with the help of scientific methods.

The Master's degree program in Business Psychology offers a wide range of career opportunities and prepares our students ideally for a career start in various fields and industries. Through the combination of economic and psychological skills, the Master's programme fills a gap in demand that can hardly be covered by any other programme to date.

All doors are open to graduates - regardless of whether they decide to pursue a career in business or science.

In addition, there is the possibility of founding a company after graduation. In addition, the Master of Science entitles you to do a doctorate, should you decide on a scientific career.

The following requirements must be met for a successful application to the Master's programme in Business Psychology:

• The study program is offered in German therefore the ability to study in German.
• First professionally qualifying university degree (Bachelor, Diploma or equivalent) in the fields of business psychology, economics or psychology following a full-time study programme lasting at least three years (180 credit points according to ECTS) with an examination result of at least 2.5.
• The Bachelor's programme must include courses in the field of business administration and/or psychology of at least 100 credit points. These are to be proven in the overview of modules for the Master's admission and submitted with the application. The Bachelor's program must include courses in the field of business and/or psychology of at least 100 credit points. Evidence of these must be provided in the performance overview modules for master's admission and submitted with the application. Proof of this is not required for degrees from universities in accordance with Annex 2 of the Admission Statutes.
• Letter of motivation with a description of the study-relevant competences and experience acquired so far, personal ideas and expectations of the studies and the desired profession (max. 2 DIN A4 pages).
• English language skills, at least at level B2 (European Reference Framework). This level is acquired with the university entrance qualification if an explicit reference is made on the certificate or the language has been studied as a 1st, 2nd or 3rd foreign language at least up to grade 1 (2nd semester). Proof of a separate language test is then not required. In all other cases we require a separate language certificate. Here, level B2 must be explicitly mentioned.

In the case of foreign applicants with foreign certificates, the following additional requirements must also be met/certificates must be available:

• Ability to study in a foreign language (German).
• Certificate of the Studienkolleg Konstanz on the recognition of the acquired educational certificates from the country of origin.

Further information on the admission requirements can be found in the Admission and Selection Regulations.

Please note: If you have not submitted your application in full, you can still submit the missing documents - with details of the applicant number and the programme - to the programme secretariat until the application deadline. After this date, no further documents will be considered. Missing documents will not be requested subsequently.

The allocation of study places is carried out according to the Hochschulvergabeverordnung (HVVO). In addition, our course of study has an internal university selection procedure.

Further information on the selection procedure can be found in the admission and selection statutes.

Our Master's degree program in Business Psychology is enjoying very high demand. In order to ensure personal and individual support, the number of first-year students is limited to 24 per semester.

In the following figure you can see the Numerus Clausus from the past years. The basis for this is the final grade of the Bachelor's certificate. It should be noted that these are approximate values, as the NC is only given after the end of the award procedure and is subject to annual fluctuations.

After our students have laid the foundation for their academic education during their Bachelor's degree, we offer them the opportunity to further develop their profile with our application-oriented Master's degree program in order to position themselves attractively on the job market.

The main focus is on "Psychological aspects of organizational behavior" and "Marketing and consumer psychology". These are complemented by applied research methods.

Methodological training with survey methods (e.g. surveys, interviews) and data analysis (e.g. with statistics programs such as R and SPSS) is offered at a very high level and trains our students to become experts in these subject areas. In this way, previous graduates have been able to lay an important foundation for a scientific as well as practical career.

In addition to teaching the general study contents, we place great importance in our Master's programme on enabling our students to build and sharpen their individual and innovative profile. Therefore we offer them the opportunity to design their studies as flexible as possible. In doing so, we encourage them to think outside the box and encourage a high degree of independence.

In addition to the classic study contents, you can therefore attend courses that deal with current topics such as Big Data or business ethics. A further example of this is the literature course we offer, in which you are taught content that we believe is essential for competent consideration of current issues.

The third semester also offers the opportunity to gain experience in practice, abroad or in research.

In close cooperation with the didactics centre of the HFT Stuttgart, we offer students a wide range of courses in addition to the compulsory courses of the curriculum, which can be attended voluntarily as part of their studies. This gives students the opportunity to strengthen their interdisciplinary competences and thus sharpen their own profile.

You can attend various certified additional qualifications free of charge as part of the Integral Studies programme. These include, for example, further key qualifications, events on the topics of sustainability and ethics, as well as a wide range of language courses.

You can find further information on the courses offered by the Didactics Centre here.

As a university for applied sciences, we train our students for practical applications. Practical professional experience is therefore integrated into the curriculum in various ways. During their studies, our students come into contact with companies and company representatives at various points, can apply their specialist knowledge in the company and build up a network for their future profession.

Our course of studies sees itself as a network partner for representatives of business and science in the Stuttgart region and offers a platform for regular exchange with each other with the Day of Business Psychology. Here, too, our students are involved and have the opportunity to network with companies.

Even though we hear it with mixed feelings when students describe their semester abroad as "the best time of their studies", we can understand what they mean.

With the number of students going abroad, we are one of the proud leaders in the university. Whether it is a short stay, an internship abroad, a semester abroad or even a double degree - our students are enthusiastic about stays abroad of all kinds.

They all come back enriched linguistically, culturally and personally, acquire a "global mindset", a good feeling for intercultural differences and, in the process, increase their chances of finding attractive positions on the international job market.

In general, there are different ways for our students to go abroad:

• Short stay: These four-week language and cultural stays are usually designed as an "entry offer" to study abroad and take place during the semester break. During these summer or winter schools, students have the opportunity to get to know the language and culture of a country. Russia and China in particular have proved to be popular destinations for short stays for our students in the past. The International Office organizes these offers throughout the university.

• Internship abroad: Those who would rather gain practical, job-related experience abroad can complete an internship abroad. In addition to the International Office, the Internship Office can also help you find a suitable internship. The advantage of an internship abroad is that you can experience the actual working life abroad, but the disadvantage is sometimes that the workforces of companies usually have a heterogeneous age structure, which can make social integration (compared to a semester abroad) somewhat more difficult.

• Semester abroad: Of course we also offer the possibility of a semester abroad. This can be flexibly integrated into the course of study at any time, but the 3rd semester has proved to be particularly successful. We cooperate with various partner universities worldwide so that, as a rule, no tuition fees need to be paid at the university abroad (exceptions are the private partner universities).

• Double Degree: If a semester abroad is not enough for you, you can also opt for a double degree. Currently we offer the possibility of a double degree together with Napier University (Edinburgh). This involves spending the 3rd and 4th semester abroad. The Master's thesis is primarily supervised by the university abroad, while the HFT provides secondary supervision. The Master's thesis written abroad is recognised at the HFT. The Napier University awards the Master degree "International Business Management". As Napier University is a private university, tuition fees are payable.

The International Office is available to answer general questions about studying abroad and questions about financing.