Science and Technology Studies: Economies, Governance, Lifefull time

Degree
Master of Arts
Master
Standard period of study (amount)
4 semesters
Location
Frankfurt am Main
Deadlines
May 2025 (Germans and inhabitants)
August 2025 (Non-EU)

Overview and admission

Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Area of study

Cultural Anthropology

Focus

current processes of science, economics and technology development from a cultural-anthropological perspective, Infrastructure and Technology-Based Governance, Digital Technologies, Topologies and Metrological Approaches, Biosociality and Biological Citizenship, Biobanks, etc. within the Context of Biobanks and Prevention Regimes, Biocapital and Financialisation of Ecological Processes and Organisms

Annotation

Application deadline: 01.04. - 15.05. for the winter semester

Admission modus

Without admission restriction

Admission requirements

Admissions are decided by the Admissions Committee appointed by the Examination Board on the basis of the grade in the first professionally qualifying degree (60%) and the assessment of the letter of motivation (40%). Approval requires an overall assessment of at least 7.0 aptitude points Evidence of professionally qualifying degree Evidence of a 6-semester Bachelor's degree in Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, Sociology, Human Geography or a degree in the same or a related discipline (180 ECTS) Applicants with a 6-semester Bachelor's degree from other disciplines may be admitted if the Admissions Committee recognises the qualification as equivalent after an equivalence assessment.

Lecture period
  • 22.04.2025 - 25.07.2025
  • 13.10.2025 - 13.02.2026

Application deadlines

Winter semester (2025/2026)
  • Enrollment deadline for Germans and foreign students

    as per letter of acceptance

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

    01.06.2025 - 31.08.2025 (Universitywide deadline)

  • Application deadline for Germans and inhabitants

    01.04.2025 - 15.05.2025

Languages of instruction

Main language

English

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