BEd Vocational and Business Education (Berufliche und Betriebliche Bildung) at Justus Liebig University Giessen

Programme overview

Leads to the career goal of teaching at vocational schools via a Bachelor's degree and a subsequent Master's degree. Students choose a vocational specialism and a general-education teaching subject.

Faculty: Fachbereich 03 - Social and Cultural Sciences | Department: Zentrum für Lehrkräftebildung | Duration: 6 semesters (3 years), 180 CP | Study mode: full-time; German-taught | Intake: Winter semester | Location: Gießen, Hessen, Germany

What you will study

A combination of different subjects and vocational specialisms; two Bachelor programmes are distinguished by their vocational specialism group.

Career pathways

The Bachelor's degree is polyvalent: it allows direct entry to work or continuation to the Master's; only after the Master's degree can one apply for the preparatory service (Vorbereitungsdienst).

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission: no admission restriction (no NC). A recognised higher education entrance qualification (Hochschulzugangsberechtigung) is required; foreign qualifications are checked via anabin. No pre-study internship is required. Applicants with a foreign entrance qualification must also meet the German-language proof requirement. Application deadlines for winter semester 2027/28 are not yet published. Sport as teaching subject requires a passed aptitude test before enrolment; English, French, Spanish, Catholic and Protestant Religion and History require language proof as set out in the study-prerequisite annex. A vocational field internship of 52 weeks full-time is compulsory and must be proven by registration of the Bachelor's thesis.

Intake: Winter semester

Duration: 6 semesters (3 years), 180 CP

Apply through the official page: https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/studium/bewerbung

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