Health Management
- Organisation format: full-time
- Language of instruction: German (some courses in English)
- Duration: 4 semesters
- Study places per year: 25
- Start of the programme: September
- Academic Degree: Master of Arts in Business
The health care sector is a growing market; health-related issues are getting more and more important, the health care system , undoubtedly, is a booming area of management.
The demographic development, the progress in medicine technology and the increasing cost pressure together with the demand for efficiency are challenges to be met in health care.
This asks for experts and managers in the health care system who combine knowledge of the specific facts in the health care system with distinctive business and economic know-how.
The Master’s programme aims at both graduates of bachelor’s programmes in health management and graduates of bachelor’s programmes with a business orientation.
Furthermore it appeals to graduates of bachelor programmes in nursing practice, gerontology, medical-technical services, midwifery, computer science in medicine and social sciences.
The aim of the Master’s programme „Health Management“ is to provide -besides strategic management skills in combination with socio-dynamic leadership skills an international insight in the health care sector and cross-linked reasoning under ethical viewpoints.
The graduates of the Master’s programme of „Health Management“ are highly qualified for those management tasks in the health care sector.
Those who think of setting up their own company, e.g. to provide counselling services, will be perfectly tuned in by the Master’s programme. The graduates will operate on the basis of a profound insight in the regional, national and international health care sector and combine health-oriented operations with economic reasoning.