The degree programme in educational sciences provides a diversified competence for expert duties in educational planning, administration and research as well as tutoring and counselling. The students can also qualify as teachers in adult education. The main disciplines in this programme are education, psychology, educational psychology and sociology. The aim of the programme is that the student should achieve a general scientific and professional competence to work in educational tasks.

The student shall:

• Adopt a scientific approach as a basis for his or her professional activities.
• Get familiarized with the tradition, theory and methodological starting-points, methods and concepts of educational and social sciences, especially education and educational psychology, and with the main research results of these disciplines.
• Get a readiness for independent scientific research and critical evaluation and application of research results.
• Achieve a competence for teaching, research, planning and administrative duties and for tutoring and counselling tasks in the various fields of education