Health Care Managementdual system, full time

  • Master of Science

    Master
    Degree

  • 3 semesters

    Standard period of study (amount)

  • Ludwigshafen

    Location

  • August 2025 (Germans and inhabitants)

    Please enquire

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Summer and Winter Semester

Area of study

Health Management

Focus

Research Methods, Health Services Research, Evaluation of Health Economics, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Technology, Innovation and Change Management, Performance and Financial Management, Management and Public Relations, Legal Aspects of Innovative Forms of Care, Internationalisation in the health sector

Target group

The guiding principle is to pick up on the structural changes within the health sector and to train specialists for the management of medical care. This course is particularly interesting for Bachelor's degree graduates in Economics or Health Sciences who have sufficient prior knowledge in the fields of Statistics, Evaluation of Health Economics, Management and Controlling, Medicine and Public Health as well as basic knowledge of the German Health system.

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

Bachelor's degree in Economics/Health Sciences or a similar discipline with a grade of at least 2.5 and 210 credit points from the Bachelor's degree or 180 credit points from the Bachelor's degree and successful completion of a preparatory semester at the University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen with 30 credit points. A Diploma degree in Economics/Health Sciences or similar discipline with a grade of at least 2.5 also meets the admission requirements if the following semester periods per week are achieved. Of the 210 CP, at least - 10 ECTS in the field of Statistics, Health Economic Evaluation or Methods of Empirical Social research - 5 ECTS in the field of Public Health/Medicine or proof of completed vocational training in a health profession - 5 ECTS in the field of Fundamentals of the German Health Care System and the Social Code V - 5 ECTS from the field of Information Systems - 10 ECTS in the field of Management and Controlling

Lecture period
  • 10.03.2025 - 14.06.2025
  • 29.09.2025 - 03.01.2026

Application deadlines

Summer semester (2025)
Winter semester (2025/2026)
  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    Until 01.08.2025

    https://www.hwg-lu.de/wissenswertes-zur-bewerbung

  • Deadlines for International Students from the European Union

    No information

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

    There are degree courses with different application deadlines. Please visit our website for information: https://www.hwg-lu.de/service/studierendenservicecenter-ssc/informationen-fuer-studieninteressierte

  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    in accordance with the letter of acceptance

Tuition fee

Fees

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Languages of instruction

Main language

German

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