36 monthsProgramme duration
3,000 EURTuition Fee/year
30 Sep, 2026Application Deadline
OctStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Development Studies
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Students enrolled in the ‘Gerontology, Health and Care’ degree programme apply multidisciplinary approaches to dealing with general and specialised issues related to ageing and age.
The Bachelor’s degree programme comprises the interdisciplinary subject-specific and method-related handling of the disciplines of gerontology, nursing sciences and care, ethics, and thanatology, geriatrics and (geronto) psychiatry, health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation, as well as the scientific reference disciplines. In light of legal and socio- or health-political framework conditions and developments, the Bachelor’s degree programme deals with the working fields of gerontology and the profession of rehabilitative, curative, and palliative nursing, support, and care for people who require nursing and people with chronic illnesses in different phases of life.
Bachelor graduates will be able to deal with the content of the working fields of gerontology and the profession of nursing for people in many different nursing situations while considering legal, social, and socio-political conditions and developments.
As a teaching degree, the Bachelor’s degree programme in gerontology, health, and care will ensure the basics of professionalism and quality for future teachers in vocational schools with the corresponding subject area. It conveys specialised, specialised didactics, vocational-pedagogic, and education studies knowledge and skills for this purpose. The specialised didactics and vocational pedagogic courses consider the special requirements for training in vocational schools.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Development Studies
Degree
BA
Study Level
Undergraduate
Study Mode
On Campus
Students enrolled in the ‘Gerontology, Health and Care’ degree programme apply multidisciplinary approaches to dealing with general and specialised issues related to ageing and age.
The Bachelor’s degree programme comprises the interdisciplinary subject-specific and method-related handling of the disciplines of gerontology, nursing sciences and care, ethics, and thanatology, geriatrics and (geronto) psychiatry, health promotion, prevention and rehabilitation, as well as the scientific reference disciplines. In light of legal and socio- or health-political framework conditions and developments, the Bachelor’s degree programme deals with the working fields of gerontology and the profession of rehabilitative, curative, and palliative nursing, support, and care for people who require nursing and people with chronic illnesses in different phases of life.
Bachelor graduates will be able to deal with the content of the working fields of gerontology and the profession of nursing for people in many different nursing situations while considering legal, social, and socio-political conditions and developments.
As a teaching degree, the Bachelor’s degree programme in gerontology, health, and care will ensure the basics of professionalism and quality for future teachers in vocational schools with the corresponding subject area. It conveys specialised, specialised didactics, vocational-pedagogic, and education studies knowledge and skills for this purpose. The specialised didactics and vocational pedagogic courses consider the special requirements for training in vocational schools.
Admission Requirements
- If applicants cannot present a German language certificate with their application, they must pass the DSH examination at Heidelberg University, with a minimum score of DSH-2.
- If the applicant’s foreign higher-education entrance qualification (Baccalauréat, GCE - A & O-Levels, etc.) is found to be equivalent to the German higher-education entrance qualification (usually Abitur), the international applicant can be directly admitted to the university, if not the applicant will be required to pass an assessment test.
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