Requirements for Enrollment

With your Bachelor's degree in Occupational Therapy, you can work, for example, in the management of therapeutic practices or in the field of occupational prevention and health promotion.

The distance learning programme in Occupational Therapy at Fresenius University is aimed at trained occupational therapists.

A higher education entrance qualification is required, such as a high school diploma or a technical college entrance qualification.

In addition, you must have completed a professionally recognized training in occupational therapy with the permission to use the professional title of occupational therapist.

If you do not have a high school diploma or technical college entrance qualification, you can still be enrolled. In this case, in addition to your occupational therapy training, you must have at least two years of specific professional experience and pass a university entrance examination (UEE).

Study contents, modules, and specializations

By recognizing your vocational training, you skip the first 3 semesters in full-time studies and only complete semesters 4, 5, and 6.

The course schedule is structured as follows:

• 4th semester: Introduction project for self-organized learning, academic writing, empirical work, project management, health promotion & prevention, evidence-based practice, ethical aspects in therapy & research
• 5th semester: Interdisciplinary field of action, scientific methodological competence in professional practice, therapy-related aspects across the lifespan of seniors, adults, children & adolescents, evidence-based practice in occupational therapy, fundamentals of statistics & classical test theory
• 6th semester: Science and research in occupational therapy, elective subject (Introduction to Business Administration or Health Economics), bachelor's thesis

Study concept and procedure

We are convinced that examinations in the form of written tests are not suitable for assessing your actual acquired competencies. Therefore, in this degree program, you will find hardly any written exams in traditional test form. We test your learning progress continuously and online through term papers, online presentations and reports, or in so-called e-portfolios. For you, this means: No travel effort for exams and less exam stress – and thus a fair chance of excellent performance evaluations that correspond to your actual knowledge and competency level.

Balancing studies, work, and life is a major challenge. Thus, support during this pivotal phase of your life is crucial: the backing of family, understanding in your company, and especially the personal, consistently service-oriented support from your university. Therefore, we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team consisting of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact 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 way to a successful completion of your studies. This way, we jointly create the necessary balance and the condition for you to continuously 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 is also 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 familiar social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange messages 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 accomplished and where you stand. At the kick-off studycamp, open learning camps, and optional events on site, we create opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts in the world of onlineplus. Thus, you experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and will continue to be a valuable network for you as an alumnus of Fresenius University.

In onlineplus, studying is a method. Structure and pacing characterize the learning organization in 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, by individually planned milestones.

This way, you learn in manageable stages that provide regular moments of success and new motivation in your studies. The onlineplus recommended study plan offers you the flexibility of numerous adjustment options that you can tailor to your personal learning style, preferred study times, and your own pace. Thus, you find the exact study program that suits you.

You have full transparency at all times: At any given point, you see your individual learning progress, what you have already achieved, where you currently stand, and exactly what lies ahead. The innovative and intuitive study format lays the foundation for the feasibility and success of your entire online study.