Business Psychology

Are you interested in human interaction and behaviour - particularly in a business context? You would like to gain competencies in psychological and economic phenomena in small study groups? Your ambition is to obtain a scientifically founded and labour market-oriented degree? Or do you want to improve your career prospects by obtaining additional academic qualifications?

A bachelor's degree in business psychology from the Hochschule Fresenius in Cologne, a state-recognised university of applied sciences, can provide you with a solid basis for achieving your career objectives. In the course, you learn how to transfer knowledge of psychology to everyday business situations and how to use well-founded scientific methods of solving problems specific to economics and markets.

Multidisciplinary studies

The bachelor degree course thoroughly prepares you to meet the demands of the business environment and the labour market. It combines practical psychology disciplines that are relevant for success with economics and is fully geared to the multidisciplinary requirements of the modern working world. The curriculum is comprised of approximately 50% psychology subjects and 40% business administration and legal subjects. Moreover, the student is provided with use-oriented key qualifications so that the basics of expert, methodical and social competencies are set for their future career opportunities.

Practical studies

The six-semester course, leading to the state recognised Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in Business Psychology, focuses on communicating application-oriented course content in small study groups. The course includes a period of work experience to allow students to apply what they have learned in practice.

Targeted studies

The courses of study provide the opportunity of early entry into the occupational fields reflecting personal interests and aptitudes. Two of the following fields are chosen for specialisation after completion of the third semester:
  • Human resource management
  • Market, advertising and media psychology
  • Organisation management
The optional choice of an additional major subject from another course of studies within the faculty is also possible. Health care business management graduates are in high demand as a result of their double medical and business qualification, and they have excellent career and promotion opportunities at health care organisations, medical insurance companies and in the pharmaceuticals industry, for example in:
  • Management and personnel consultancy firms
  • Market research institutes
  • Media enterprises
  • Further education establishments
  • Marketing and personnel departments
Fees

The Hochschule Fresenius is a privately sponsored university whose courses of study are state-recognised, but not state refinanced. Study fees have to be paid for this reason.

Course of studies in Business Psychology
Degree: Bachelor of Arts

Fee: EUR 595.- per month, standard period of study: 36 months