24 monthsProgramme duration
3,000 EURTuition Fee/year
15 May, 2026Application Deadline
Oct, AprStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
MEd
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Economic issues play a central role in our daily lives: economic growth, wage inequality and unemployment are featured just as frequently in the media as financial crises, emissions trading or the consequences of globalisation. At the same time, we must all make numerous economic decisions in our private and professional lives. Students in the economics programme focus on analysing and answering these and similar questions.
The degree programme component in economics in the Master of Education is designed to prepare students to become teachers of economics as a school subject in German secondary schools (Gymnasium). The degree programme component builds on students’ knowledge of economics, as gained in the preceding Bachelor’s degree programme, by equipping them with additional knowledge and skills in the subject and in specialised didactics.
Graduates of the programme are familiar with the economic models and concepts required to teach economics at secondary school level. Graduates are therefore able to recognise economic problems, behaviours and conflicts on a micro and macro level; they can provide systematic explanations for these, and are able to draw on appropriate models for analysis.
As well as gaining specific knowledge of economics, students benefit from interdisciplinary approaches to develop their understanding of selected neighbouring subjects, or gain practical experience in the field of economics.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Education and Training
Degree
MEd
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Economic issues play a central role in our daily lives: economic growth, wage inequality and unemployment are featured just as frequently in the media as financial crises, emissions trading or the consequences of globalisation. At the same time, we must all make numerous economic decisions in our private and professional lives. Students in the economics programme focus on analysing and answering these and similar questions.
The degree programme component in economics in the Master of Education is designed to prepare students to become teachers of economics as a school subject in German secondary schools (Gymnasium). The degree programme component builds on students’ knowledge of economics, as gained in the preceding Bachelor’s degree programme, by equipping them with additional knowledge and skills in the subject and in specialised didactics.
Graduates of the programme are familiar with the economic models and concepts required to teach economics at secondary school level. Graduates are therefore able to recognise economic problems, behaviours and conflicts on a micro and macro level; they can provide systematic explanations for these, and are able to draw on appropriate models for analysis.
As well as gaining specific knowledge of economics, students benefit from interdisciplinary approaches to develop their understanding of selected neighbouring subjects, or gain practical experience in the field of economics.
Admission Requirements
- The admission-restricted sub-study program in Economics within the Master of Education requires a teaching-related Bachelor's degree in a corresponding economics sub-study program within a polyvalent Bachelor's degree program, a Bachelor of Education ("teaching qualification for secondary school") or a (sub-)study program with essentially the same content or at least an equivalent qualification comprising at least 2 credit points (CP) in the field of subject-specific didactics and at least 74 CP in the field of economics .
- Of the 74 ECTS credits, at least 40 ECTS credits must be allocated to the following areas of economics studies :
with at least 6 credit points required from each of these areas.
- Reading skills in English that enable the reading of study-relevant original language texts and are usually proven by the high school diploma or by the corresponding certificate from the head of a course in which the language skills were acquired.
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