You choose a vocational specialisation and a teaching subject.

Vocational specialisations:

Engineering Education:Civil engineering

• Electrical Engineering
•  Information Technology
•  Metal Technology
•  Laboratory and process technology

• Economy and administration

Subjects   

• German
• Ethics
• Computer Science (not in combination with Information Technology)
• Mathematics
• Physics (not in combination with Economics and Administration)
• Social studies
• Sport (proof of having passed the aptitude test)
• Technology (not in combination with Laboratory and Process Technology or Economics and Administration)

The aim of the Bachelor's degree programme is to prepare students for highly qualified jobs in the field of vocational education and training. The programme combines engineering or economics content with business education studies in which fundamental knowledge in educational psychology as well as vocational pedagogy and vocational didactics are taught.

The Bachelor's programme is embedded in a consecutive Bachelor's-Master's model and can be continued at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg in the Master's programmes

• Teacher training at vocational schools,
• Vocational Education and Training Management and
• International Vocational Education

be continued.

The Bachelor's degree leads to a polyvalent degree profile. The degree can be continued in Master's programmes at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. In addition, graduates are qualified for, among other things:   

• Engineering or economic fields of activity, especially in connection with fields of activity in the vocational training sector (e.g. teaching/learning materials sector, new media, etc.)
• Specialist and management activities in initial and continuing vocational education and training in the private sector
•  Vocational and qualification counselling or
• Teacher at training institutions in the private sector (e.g. in inter-company training courses, in training for master craftsmen and industrial foremen, in vocational adaptation training).

Interest is expected in studying engineering and technology or economics and in working in the future professional fields.

Note: For admission to the school preparatory service, evidence of relevant practical work experience totalling 52 weeks or relevant vocational training must be submitted following a Master of Education.

Detailed information on the teaching profession at the OVGU can be found here.

You can find more information about studying physics here.

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