Information Sciencepart time, full time

  • Master of Arts

    Master
    Degree

  • 4 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Berlin

    Location

  • February 2025 (Germans and inhabitants)

    January 2025 (EU), January 2025 (Non-EU)

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Area of study
  • Library Science
  • Information Science
Focus

Data Science, Data Management, Documentation Science, Research Methods and Practice

Target group

Data managers, information managers, librarians

Annotation

The aim of the degree course is to convey in-depth and specialised knowledge in information science through research and the acquisition of methodological skills. A key component of the Master's degree programme is increasingly independent scientific work to acquire the ability to assess new problems in a methodologically reflective manner. In face-to-face teaching, virtual teaching and a high proportion of self-study as well as in intensive research seminars and projects individually and together with others, students acquire the skills that enable them to work in a wide variety of organisations in the public and commercial information sector (e.g. libraries, information infrastructure institutions, information service providers, etc.) or in science. The Master's degree programme at the Humboldt University of Berlin also offers the opportunity to work on interdisciplinary issues. The degree course focuses in particular on topics such as the optimisation of information processes and the development, design and analysis of digital information infrastructures and web-based information systems. It establishes skills in data analysis and processing, in the design and analysis of human-machine interactions, in knowledge and information management, in information communication and scientific communication in digital information environments. Successful completion of the degree course qualifies students for professional tasks in a diversified information landscape as well as in research and development in the information sector, particularly for tasks in public and commercial information service provision or information infrastructure organisations, in the higher-level library service as well as in information science research and teaching.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

For admission requirements, see https://hu.berlin/master

Lecture period
  • 14.10.2024 - 15.02.2025
  • 14.04.2025 - 19.07.2025

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2024/2025)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    - For Master of Arts/Science without admission restrictions: 1 June 2024 - 31 August 2024

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    - For Master of Arts/Science without admission restrictions: 2 May 2024 - 15 June 2024

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    - For Master of Arts/Science without admission restrictions: 1 June 2024 - 31 August 2024

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    - For Master of Arts/Science without admission restrictions: 2 May 2024 - 15 June 2024

Summer semester (2025)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    02.12.2024 - 28.02.2025

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    02.12.2024 - 15.01.2025

  • Deadlines for international students from countries that are not members of the European Union

    02.12.2024 - 15.01.2025

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    02.12.2024 - 28.02.2025

Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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