Requirements for enrollment

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

The distance learning program in Speech Therapy at Fresenius University is aimed at trained speech therapists.

A university entrance qualification is required, such as a baccalaureate diploma or a technical college entrance qualification.

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

If you do not have a baccalaureate diploma or technical college entrance qualification, you can still enroll. In this case, in addition to your speech therapy training, you must demonstrate at least two years of relevant professional experience and pass a university entrance examination (HZP).

Study Contents, Modules, and Specializations

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

The study plan is structured as follows:

• 4th Semester: Introductory project for self-organized learning, academic work, 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, therapeutic aspects of the life span of seniors, adults, and children & adolescents, evidence-based practice in speech therapy, basics of statistics & classical test theory
• 6th Semester: Science and research in speech therapy, elective subject (Introduction to Business Administration or Health Economics), Bachelor's thesis

Study Concept and Process

We are convinced that exams in the form of traditional written tests are not suitable for accurately assessing the competencies you have actually acquired. Therefore, in this degree programme, you will hardly find any written exams in traditional form. We monitor your progress throughout the studies through assignments, online presentations and reports, or so-called e-portfolios. This means no travel required for exams and less exam stress – thus, providing a fair opportunity for outstanding performance evaluations that correspond to your actual knowledge and competencies.

Balancing studies, work, and life presents a significant challenge. Therefore, the support in this crucial phase of your life is essential: the support from family, understanding from your company, and especially the personal, consistently service-oriented guidance from your university. That's why we rely on a unique interdisciplinary coaching team made up of professors, lecturers, and study coaches. Your personal study coach is your contact for all study-related matters. Whether by phone, email, or through the messenger in studynet – your study coach advises and actively supports you on your path to a successful degree. Together, we create the necessary balance and the conditions for your continuous growth in studies – achieving something that initially seemed out of reach.

Whether at home or on the go, on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone – your campus is always with you. Our studynet learning platform serves as a lecture hall, seminar room, campus, and cafeteria. "Social Learning" is the key: a holistic learning experience that builds entirely on dialogue across a variety of media formats.

For example, with features known from your familiar social media platforms: Connect with each other and exchange messages through the messenger. Stay up to date with the Activity Board, your onlineplus Timeline. And find out from your personal Learning Analytics what you have accomplished and where you stand. At the kick-off studycamp, open learning camps, and optional on-site events, we create opportunities to deepen and expand your contacts in the onlineplus world. This way, you experience an active learning community that accompanies you throughout your studies and beyond, providing you with a valuable network also as an alumnus of Fresenius University.

In onlineplus, studying is a method. Structure and pacing characterize the learning organization in onlineplus, providing a clear orientation that fundamentally distinguishes it from conventional distance learning programmes. You can start flexibly at a time of your choice and are guided through similarly structured learning units, modules, and semesters based on our study magazines, the studymags, through individually planned milestones.

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

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