The Bachelor´s degree course of Arts in Education offers three academic years’ preparation for the investigation, conceptual design, organisation and implementation of core pedagogical activities of raising, guiding, assisting or supervising, as well as teaching or instructing. There is a variety of course content to choose from, preparing students to enter a any of a broad range of fields in the profession of education. It is also possible to deepen the degree course by pursuing a Master's degree course.

With a large number of research cooperations and exchange programmes at all levels, FB 5 has a very wide-ranging international network. All of its institutes are involved in European and international collaborations and programmes. The institutes of educational science have cooperate arrangements with partners in Belgium, Finland, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, among others. Individual research projects also establish contacts with African and Latin American colleagues.

Division 5: Educational Science structures its research activities through three profile lines: 1) Normativity in science and the world of life; 2) Education and training under conditions of heterogeneity; 3) Educational processes in the context of organisations. These are linked to existing research projects and define the central research facilities and activities of the department in addition to the research fields. Within the profile framework, FB5 has developed the profile-forming cross-sectional topic ‘Cultures of Transformation. Practice – Language – Competence’.