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Humanity is facing major challenges: Climate crisis, environmental crises, global injustices. The need for people who can work on solutions in companies, NGOs, the media, politics and research is immense. In the Bachelor's degree programme Global Sustainability: Climate, Justice, Transformation (B. A.), you will learn how to face these challenges and develop solutions.

More than just a Management degree programme: we prepare you for your career with a high practical component. Whether you opt for a start-up, global corporation, family business or NGO, with the Management Bachelor's programme you will develop your leadership personality and build a valuable network in the business world during your studies.

In the interdisciplinary Management & Psychology degree programme, you will combine different perspectives from business management and psychology. You will learn how organisations and markets work, how people behave in organisations and as consumers and how you can apply this knowledge in business.

What happens in the field of tension between economics and politics has a profound impact on the lives of all people. On the PPÖ – Philosophie, Politik und Ökonomik degree programme, you will put decisions to the ethical and philosophical test and expand scientific theory with valuable practical experience for your project: Making the world a better place!

Is your goal to become a psychotherapist? Then our Bachelor of Psychology with a specialisation in psychotherapy is the first step in your training. From the very first semester, you will experience in practice what it means to empathise with people. You will learn various therapeutic approaches and scientific methods. With a Bachelor of Science degree, you will have a broad knowledge of psychological theories and specialised knowledge in the fields of clinical psychology and diagnostics.

How do we make informed decisions that move our society forward? The key to this challenge is data. In the Social Data Science (B. Sc.) degree programme, we show you how to gain a holistic understanding of how to use data as a responsible decision-maker in business, politics and society and get closer to your goal of a better future.

In order to improve our society in the long term, we need to understand how politics and business work, as well as the legal framework within which they operate. With this Bachelor's degree programme, we bring together Economics, Law and Political Science. Learn to understand the complex interrelationships and develop solutions for social challenges.

Our Community Health Nursing Master's programme prepares you for a completely new, innovative career in healthcare - with advanced medical knowledge. Join us and help shape the future of healthcare and primary care now!

This one-year Master's degree explores the central question of how ethical action in organisations is possible in the appointments and research fields of health, business and politics. You decide which specialisation you want to focus on!

Do you have a Bachelor's degree, for example in humanities, cultural studies or health sciences, and want to improve your chances on the labour market? We teach you management skills and business management expertise to expand your career opportunities.

As a nursing scientist, work from a scientific perspective to improve quality, transparency and respectful treatment in nursing. Learn from the pioneers of nursing science how to develop innovations and implement them in nursing practice.

Your goal: to change the world for the better as a leader in business, politics and society? On the international PPE Master's programme, you will achieve this goal together with students from all over the world and from a wide range of disciplines.

Have you successfully completed your Bachelor's degree in Psychology or are you about to? With the Psychology Master's programme at Witten/Herdecke University, you are taking the logical next step towards being allowed to practice as a psychotherapist after your studies, to do a doctorate or to go into research.

Do you want to deepen your solid management skills after a predominantly business-related Bachelor's degree? With the Strategy & Organization Master's degree programme, you will consistently develop into the manager of the future.

Do you want to take on more responsibility in a team, in a company or in society? Then the part-time Witten MBA is the right programme for you!

"Fit for practice" is our motto for your medicine degree programme at Witten/Herdecke University. From the first semester onwards, we introduce you to everyday working life using the problem-based learning (POL) method and sound clinical-practical training - covering the full breadth and depth of the medical spectrum.

Our aim is to train you as a dentist with in-depth theoretical knowledge and practical skills - but also with social skills and the ability to reflect.

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