Bachelor Soziale Arbeit (B.A.)

Your studies in Social Work are opening a whole new range of opportunities for you and your career. Be ready to make an impact and to work in an industry as diverse as your learned skills. 

You can study your Bachelor of Social Work in various forms. This depends entirely on how your individual everyday life looks like and what prerequisites you have when you begin your studies. The table provides you with a good overview about the benefits of the different forms of study and which model will support you best on your personal path. 

A university degree can open various doors for you and creates more opportunities for growth and freedom in your future. You can have more career opportunities than you would have without, and you will move up the career ladder much faster because you will be taught certain key skills that will be incredibly helpful in your specific field. Furthermore, some companies prefer academics for higher positions.  Under the aspect of lifelong learning, you mainly invest in yourself and in your professional competences in the future. Plus: studying can be fun - in particular when education (like at the IU) is provided the way you want it to be.

In the Social Work degree study programme, you can specialise in specific fields of social work with elective specialisations that are taught in different courses. These include, among others, Social Management, Digital Skills, leadership functions in social institutions, Social Economy and Social Economics or Social Inequality and Diversity. At the same time as your academic degree, you will receive the title "State-recognised social worker" or "State-recognised social pedagogue" if you have successfully completed the Social Work Practice Project (internship). 

Through the combination of profession-specific and transdisciplinary scientific knowledge and the practice-oriented approach, you will receive a degree that will enable you to act in a solution-oriented manner in everyday practice and to be able to make decisions in the interest of all parties involved. With your bachelor’s degree, various doors are open to you, whether in social work institutions, in the public sector, in an outpatient context or with companies or social organisations. And the best thing about it: your job is absolutely crisis-proof. 

You'll find all of the important information about your study programme and IU International University of Applied Sciences in your personal brochure.