Excellent preparation for better understanding and positively influencing people’s thinking, experience, action, and decision-making.
Language: English, German.
Want to really understand how human thinking, behaviour, decision-making and experience fundamentally shape a company’s success? In the distance learning programme Industrial and Organizational Psychology at IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU), people are your business.
With your bachelor's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, you'll have the skills to actively influence psychological processes in the workplace. You'll gain deep insights into human psychology, helping you understand how people behave in business environments.
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Your studies in Industrial and Organizational Psychology 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.
As a recruitment consultant, you are an expert in talent. You recruit suitable candidates, conduct interviews and assessment tests, and ensure that companies and applicants are matched perfectly. With your expertise, you prepare well-founded personnel reports and support companies in attracting the best minds for their teams. Your goal: to successfully and sensitively bring people and careers together.
As a management consultant, you use your expertise in business psychology to make companies more efficient. Whether through employee motivation training, smart workplace design, or evaluating employee satisfaction, you actively help to optimize processes and unlock the full potential of teams. Your goal: to create sustainable solutions and make companies fit for the future.
As a coach or mediator, you support individuals and organizations in discovering their potential and resolving conflicts. You guide them in their personal development and help to optimize communication and work processes. With your specialized knowledge, you facilitate sustainable change and strengthen collaboration—always with the goal of finding the best solution for everyone involved.
You can study your degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology in various study forms. This depends entirely on how your individual everyday life looks like and what prerequisites you have when you begin your studies. Here you find a good overview about the benefits of the different forms of study and which model will support you best on your personal path.
You study completely on your own terms. Get the perfect blend of innovative study tools, interactive study formats via video chat (live or on demand) and personal support.
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Good news: The IU is dispensing completely with a numerus clausus (NC). You don't have to go through an exhausting selection process or get credit for waiting semesters, because none of our degree programmes have a NC. We prefer to talk to you personally and together we can find out where your talents and strengths are. And most importantly, the goals you are pursuing with your studies
You can study the bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology as a distance learning programme completely independently and 100% flexibly. Thanks to the virtual learning format with interactive online lectures, your IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU) studies are entirely independent of time and place.
You can complete the bachelor's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology as a dual study programme at the Virtual Campus, which enables you to pursue your dual studies anywhere in Germany.
Yes, we also make that possible at the IU. In addition to the entrance qualification in form of an Abitur or Fachabitur, prospective students without an Abitur also have the opportunity to enter our bachelor’s programme. You can study Industrial and Organizational Psychology without an Abitur if you have completed an advanced training course (e.g. as an IHK business administrator) have a master craftsman's certificate or have at least two years of vocational training and at least three years of professional experience building on this.
The bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology through the distance learning programme lasts 36, 48, or 72 months, depending on which time model you choose.
The dual study programme usually takes 7 semesters. If you need more time and semesters for your studies, that’s absolutely no problem.
Absolutely, because with Industrial and Organizational Psychology you have chosen a Bachelor of Science whose knowledge and skills are the key to the future of companies. The study covers a field that is and will continue to be characterised by dynamism and strong growth. Also, the variety of specialisations within the subject enable diverse employment opportunities after graduation. In addition, graduates in Industrial and Organizational Psychology are urgently needed in almost all companies and the job market offers many opportunities for those educated in this relatively young discipline. Industrial and Organizational Psychology is therefore definitely a profession with a bright future and excellent career prospects.
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A degree opens many doors and creates opportunities for more growth and freedom in your future. You will have more career options than without one and advance much faster because you acquire key qualifications that are incredibly helpful in your specific field. Additionally, some companies prefer candidates with academic degrees for higher-level positions. When it comes to lifelong learning, you are primarily investing in yourself and your professional skills for the future. And: studying can be fun—especially when education (like at IU) takes place the way you want it to.
Studying Industrial and Organizational Psychology means you’ll acquire both psychological and business expertise, enabling you to better understand, interpret, and shape complex processes in the world of business. Through various modules, you can specifically expand your knowledge—such as in psychology and AI, consumer behavior, and organizational development. This is crucial know-how for later applying diagnostic and labor law methods and combining them with management skills. Furthermore, you can deepen your knowledge individually through selected specializations, such as Leadership and Career Planning, Psychology of Personnel Selection and Analysis, Organizational Development and Digital Transformation, Psychology of Purchase Decisions, as well as Coaching and Personal Development.
During your bachelor’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at a university like IU, you learn to analyze interpersonal behavior in a business context and use it to achieve economic goals. Whether in organizational development, marketing, or the HR sector—the fields at the interface between people and business offer countless career prospects.
With your degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology, you’ll become a sought-after contact person for specifically managing business processes with people in mind.
