Requirements for Enrollment

With your Master's degree in Education, Management and Leadership, for example, you work on the introduction and implementation of systematic personnel development and in change projects in the education context.

You can easily enroll in the Master's program in Education, Management and Leadership at Fresenius University: A bachelor's degree with at least 180 ECTS is required. In addition, you must demonstrate at least 1 year of relevant professional experience that you have gained after completing your bachelor's degree. Relevant activities include work in educational institutions or departments, team leadership tasks or management and leadership roles, planning, organization, further development of educational offerings, or teaching in initial and continuing education/adult education.

Don't have a bachelor's degree? To enroll in the distance learning program for Education, Management and Leadership without a bachelor's degree, a relevant professional training is required. After completing your professional training, you must have worked for at least four years in a job relevant to the master's program. You will then take an aptitude test at Fresenius University. If you pass this test, you will be immediately enrolled in this part-time study program.

Study Contents, Modules, and Specializations

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

In the full-time study program, the course plan looks as follows:

• 1st Semester: Introductory project on self-organized learning, Pedagogy as a Science, Didactic Models and Principles, Education in an interdisciplinary context, Education, Ethics, and Sustainability, Aspects of Scientific Research
• 2nd Semester: Lifespan Pedagogy, Media Pedagogy and Media Didactics, Education and Society, Education Research, Modern Working Methods and Models, Labor Law for Management and Leadership
• 3rd Semester: Quality Management in Education, Sustainable Human Resource Management in Education, (Virtual) Working and Leading in International Contexts, Elective Area
• 4th Semester: Psychology for Executives, Master's Thesis

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

Study Concept and Process

We believe that exams in the form of written tests are not suitable for reflecting the competencies you have actually acquired. Therefore, in this course, you will find hardly any written exams in written form. We assess your learning progress continuously and online through assignments, online presentations, and speeches, 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 skills.

Maintaining a balance between study, work, and life is a major challenge. Therefore, the support during this crucial phase of your life is even more important: the support of your family, the understanding in your company, and above all, the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. This is 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 through the messenger in studynet – your study coach advises and actively supports you on your way to a successful degree. Together, we create the necessary balance and thus the conditions for you to constantly grow in your studies – and achieve something that seemed so far away 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 serves as an auditorium, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social Learning" is the keyword: a holistic learning experience that consistently focuses on dialogue along with the use of a variety of different media formats.

For example, with many features familiar to you from your usual social media platforms: Connect with each other and interact through 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 and where you stand. Through the kick-off studycamp, open learning camps, and optional on-site events, 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, studying is a method. Structure and timing characterize the learning organization at onlineplus, providing a clear orientation and fundamentally differentiating it from conventional distance learning programs. 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, with 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 offers you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options that you can tailor to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and your own pace. This allows you to find exactly the right study program for you. With full transparency at all times: At any point, you can see your individual learning progress, what you have accomplished, where you currently stand, and what lies ahead. The innovative and intuitive study form thus lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online study.