Requirements for enrollment

With a Master's degree in Change Management, you can work as a Change Manager, in project management, or as an organizational developer.

You can enroll in the Master's program in Change Management if you have completed a Bachelor's degree. The degree program must include at least 180 ECTS credits, of which 60 ECTS credits must come from the fields of business administration, business psychology, and/or communication science.

In addition, you can also enroll without a Bachelor's degree. The following is required for the Master without Bachelor at Hochschule Fresenius:

• You have completed a specialized vocational training.
• Following your vocational training, you have worked for at least 4 years in a profession relevant to the Master's in Data Science and IT Security.
• You write a letter of motivation with a maximum length of one A4 page.
• You take the aptitude test for Master's programs in distance learning.

Study Contents, Modules, and Specialisations

This part-time master's programme systematically conveys to you expertise in economic psychology, economics, and communication studies, as well as comprehensive knowledge of human decision-making behavior. With these skills, we enable you to successfully design change projects.

Throughout the master's programme, you will complete the following modules:

• Interdisciplinary Research Perspectives: Theory formation from an interdisciplinary perspective, research approaches from an interdisciplinary perspective, Interdisciplinary practice project
• Economic Psychology: Social interaction and communication, Leadership psychology, Media psychology, Intercultural psychology
• Communication: Corporate communication, Crisis communication with internal and external stakeholders, Social media in internal and external communication, Media planning
• Management: Digital transformation, International and intercultural management, Values-based corporate management, (Virtual) working and leading in international contexts
• Research Methods: Research methods and tools, Empirical research project, Colloquium
• Change Management and Decision Making: Designing change processes, Success factors of change management, Storytelling in change management, Change management: Case studies, Decision-making and problem-solving, Decision theories and behavior, Decision-making behavior in an economic context, Decision-making processes in change: Case studies
• Master's Thesis

Core of the Master's Programme: The module group "Change Management" and the module group "Decision Making." In the Change Management module group, you engage intensively with the peculiarities of change projects and their framework conditions. In the Decision Making module group, you delve into the decision-making behavior of people as well as key aspects of behavioral economics.

Study Concept and Procedure

We are convinced that exams in the form of written tests are not suitable for reflecting your actual acquired competencies. Therefore, in this degree programme, you will find few written exams in test form. We test your learning progress throughout the studies online through assignments, online presentations and speeches, or in so-called e-portfolios. For you, this means: No travel effort for exams and less exam stress - thus, a fair chance for excellent performance evaluations corresponding to your actual knowledge and skills.

Balancing studies, work, and life presents a great challenge. Therefore, the support in this groundbreaking phase of your life is crucial: the backing of your family, the understanding in your company, and above all, the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. That's why we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team consisting of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact person for all matters related to your studies. Whether by phone, email, or via the messenger in studynet - your study coach advises and actively supports you on your path to a successful degree. Thus, together we create the necessary balance and the prerequisite for you to continuously grow in your studies - and achieve something that seemed so distant to you at the beginning.

Whether at home or on the go, on desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone - your campus is always with you. Our studynet learning platform is simultaneously an auditorium, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social learning" is the keyword: a holistic learning experience that consistently relies on dialogue in addition to the use of a variety of different media formats.

For example, with many features that you already know from your usual social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange via the messenger. Stay up-to-date with the activity board, your onlineplus timeline. And find out in your personal learning analytics what you have already accomplished and where you stand. At the kick-off studycamp, open learning camps, and optional further events on-site, we create opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts from the world of onlineplus. Thus, you experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and will also be a valuable network for you beyond that as an alumnus of Hochschule Fresenius.

At onlineplus, studying is a method. Structure and pacing characterize the learning organization at onlineplus, providing clear orientation and fundamentally distinguishing it from conventional distance learning programs. You start flexibly at a time you choose, and are guided through similarly structured learning units, modules, and semesters based on our study magazines, the studymags, via individually planned milestones.

This way, you learn in manageable stages that provide regular moments of success and new motivation in your studies. The recommended study plan from onlineplus gives you the flexibility of numerous customization options that you can adjust to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and pace. Thus, you find exactly the right study program for you.

Throughout, you have full transparency: At any time, you see your individual learning progress, that is, what you have already achieved, where you currently stand, and exactly what lies ahead. The innovative and intuitive form of study lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online studies.

Tip: The costs incurred for your studies alongside your job can be deducted from taxes. You have two options: You can either declare the expenses for your studies as special expenses up to an amount of 4,000 euros in your annual tax return. You can apply this option if the part-time studies represent a first-time degree that was not initiated by the employer for business reasons and is not pursued within the scope of an employment relationship.

Or you deduct the costs as business expenses in full from taxes. This is possible if a completed vocational training or a completed basic degree precedes the part-time studies, or if the studies are ordered by the company. In this case, not only the tuition fees but also, for example, specialist literature count as business expenses. In all tax-related matters, please consult your tax office or a tax advisor.