Admission Requirements

With your Master's degree in Adult Education, you can work, for example, in educational management or in personnel and program planning in the field of education.

Entering the Master's programme in Adult Education at Hochschule Fresenius is quite straightforward: You need a Bachelor's degree with at least 180 ECTS. In addition, you must demonstrate at least 1 year of relevant work experience that you acquired after completing your bachelor's degree. Relevant activities include work in educational institutions or departments, consulting tasks, both within and outside educational contexts; planning, organizing, and developing educational offerings; as well as teaching in initial and continuing education/adult education.

Don't have a Bachelor's degree? To enter the distance learning programme in Adult Education without a Bachelor's degree, a specialized vocational training is required. After completing your vocational training, you must have worked in a job relevant to the Master's programme for at least four years. You will then take an aptitude test at Hochschule Fresenius. If you pass this test, you will be immediately enrolled in this part-time degree programme.

Course Contents, Modules and Specializations

The Master's programme in Adult Education is divided into the module groups Pedagogy as a Science, Education in Modern Society, Education and Research, as well as Adult Education. In addition, there are 2 elective areas with numerous specializations.

In the full-time study programme, the course structure is as follows:

• 1st Semester: Introduction project on self-organized learning, Pedagogy as a Science, Didactic Models and Principles, Lifespan Pedagogy, Media Pedagogy and Media Didactics, Education in an Interdisciplinary Context, Education, Ethics, and Sustainability, Aspects of Scientific Research, Educational Marketing
• 2nd Semester: Lifespan Pedagogy, Media Pedagogy and Media Didactics, Education and Society, Education Research, Program Planning, Law, Financing, Funding
• 3rd Semester: Quality Management in Education, Educational Management, Vocational Training and Continuing Education, Elective Area
• 4th Semester: Educational Counseling, Master's Thesis

In the 3rd semester, you choose your 3 specialization modules from the elective areas: Media and Digitalization as well as Management and Leadership.

Study Concept and Process

We are convinced that exams in the form of written tests are not suitable for reflecting the competences you have actually acquired. Therefore, you will find hardly any written exams in test form in this degree programme. We test your learning progress throughout the course online through tasks such as essays, online presentations and reports, or in so-called e-portfolios. For you, this means no travel required for exams and less exam stress - thus, a fair chance for excellent performance evaluations that correspond to your actual knowledge and competence level.

Keeping a balance between studies, work, and life is a major challenge. Therefore, the support in this crucial phase of your life is essential: family support, understanding from your company, and above all, the personal, consistently service-oriented guidance 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 on studynet - your study coach advises and actively supports you on your way to a successful graduation. Together, we create the necessary balance and thus the conditions for you to constantly develop in your studies - reaching achievements that initially seemed out of reach.    

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

For example, with many features that you are already familiar with from your usual social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange information 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 achieved already and where you stand. At the kick-off study camp, the open learning camps, and other optional events on-site, we create opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts from the world of onlineplus. This way, you experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and will continue to be a valuable network for you beyond that, as an alumnus of Fresenius University.    

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

This way, you learn in manageable stages that provide regular successes and new motivation in your studies. The study plan recommended by onlineplus offers you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options that you can tailor to your personal learning style, preferred learning times, and pace. This allows you to find exactly the right study programme for you.

With full transparency at all times: At any given point, you can see your individual learning progress, i.e., what you have already accomplished, where you currently stand, and what lies ahead. The innovative and intuitive form of study thus lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online study.