Our study model – the CORE principle – places active, independent learning in the foreground. In this way, the students acquire the skills they will need in their professional lives. Typical features are five-week blocks in which a specific, practice-related issue is worked on; a variety of teaching and testing methods which are consistently aimed at the learning objective; Educational partnership: lecturers supervise students closely in subject-specific, organisational and personal terms.

Global network of partner universities; More than 70 partner universities for voluntary or compulsory studies abroad (in Europe, America, Asia, Africa and Australia); Possibility of a double degree in the USA for Master’s students; Integration of teaching staff from our partner universities into teaching in Heidelberg as well as sending teaching staff from Germany abroad; Collaboration with the SRH sister university in Paraguay; Two internationally oriented English-language Master's degree courses are offered (enrolment October 2019: approx. 15 countries).

San Diego State University, USA; California State University Fullerton, USA; Kookmin University, Süd-Korea; University of Western Sydney, Australien; Universidad de Chile in Santiago de Chile; Chile; Metropolitan University Prague, Tschechien; Bournemouth University, England; Université Lille, Frankreich; University of Florence, Italien; College of New Jersey, USA.

The SRH Heidelberg University has a modern university building with the best technical equipment (whiteboard, flipchart, projector, moderation walls, computer cluster). All students have access to various software packages, including SPSS, Office 365 and scientific databases (including Statista, EBSCO Business Source Elite, Juris, Back-online).

Our professors conduct independent research in the areas of leadership (leadership and personality, leadership and motivation, leadership and knowledge or women in leadership), controlling as well as restructuring management. In addition, students are regularly given the opportunity to participate in these research activities and/or to publish them together with professors. A considerable part of the faculty's internal research flows into (practical) textbooks and reference books.

The start-up institute of the SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg has existed since 2010. This is aimed at students, graduates (up to 5 years following graduation) and staff of SRH University of Applied Sciences Heidelberg. In teams, at least one team member should have a connection to the SRH (student, graduate, staff, lecturer). In recent years the start-up institute has been able to successfully support student start-ups on a regular basis (including compleatfood, Simon & Bearns, My heart beats vegan).

All courses are structured according to a unique study model – the CORE principle. The aim of the CORE principle is to teach key competencies – instead of pure technical knowledge – as effectively as possible. Therefore there are hardly any classic lectures; instead, the students tackle practice-based issues intensively in each module. Our study model focuses on active, independent learning and combines competence, knowledge and the joy of learning. Gender: Students at SRH University Heidelberg can choose their first name for certain communication channels.