MEd Elektrotechnik in Verbindung mit einer kleinen beruflichen Fachrichtung, Lehramt BK (Electrical Engineering with a minor vocational subject teaching) at Paderborn University

Master's degree for teaching electrical engineering at vocational colleges, combining the major vocational subject Electrical Engineering with one of the two minor vocational subjects Automation Engineering or Information Technology. Master of Education teaching degree for vocational colleges (Berufskolleg).

Faculty: Electrical and mechanical engineering; teacher education (Lehramt)  |  Duration: 4 semesters (2 years); 27 of 120 ECTS in the degree  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Summer and winter semesters (winter semester recommended)  |  Location: Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

What you will study

The 120-credit degree comprises subject content and didactics in this teaching subject (27 credits); subject content and didactics in a second teaching subject (27 credits); educational sciences (23 credits); school placement semester (Praxissemester) (25 credits); master's thesis (18 credits). The school placement semester is normally taken in the second master's semester, covers one school half-year and consists of a school-based part and accompanying university courses.

Career pathways

The M.Ed. completes the first phase of teacher training; after the eighteen-month Vorbereitungsdienst (Referendariat) graduates can work as teachers.

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