Master Business Education
Basics
Degree
Master of Education (M.Ed.) in Business Education
(Degree for vocational school teachers)
Standard period of study
4 semesters/2 years
Start of studies
winter and summer semester
Admission requirements
Information on the application and admission process
Further documents
Examination regulations, program structures, module guides...
Which contents can I expect in the course of my studies?
- Business Administration
- Economics
- Didactics
- Empirical Research Methods
- Vocational and Business Education
- School Practice
as well as a business administration specialization:
- Finance, Accounting, Taxation, or
- Production, Logistics, Sales
What will I be able to do after graduation?
Our students learn to:
- recognize economic relationships in professional teaching or management fields and independently address them from a scientific perspective, in a problem-oriented and interdisciplinary manner.
- systematically engage with the analysis, design, and management of a company as well as with macroeconomic development.
- understand and pursue various scientific theoretical positions in research.
- reflect on educational processes, learning, and teaching situations, including their prerequisites and conditions.
- utilize knowledge in core pedagogical areas to prepare for teaching activities.
- apply essential concepts of personality development and motivation in their own teaching units and evaluate teaching-learning arrangements in this context.
- demonstrate pedagogical media competence, with particular emphasis on issues of teaching and learning in a digitalized world.
What else should I know?
- Block system with compact teaching, learning, and examination phases
- Extensive choices in specialized professional fields
- Regular integration of practical topics and partners
- Practical semester at a vocational school amounting to 25 credits
- 52 weeks of professional (commercial) experience required for entry into the school preparation service (referendariat)
- Entry possible with a purely business administration background without pedagogical content
- Study location: Duisburg campus
- Numerous international partnerships (International Office)
- Professional study organization and advising
Which career fields am I qualified for?
The aim of the Master's program in Business Education is to lay the foundation for a later qualified teaching career in both school-based and extracurricular business education and training. Most graduates will become teachers at business colleges; however, roles in teaching, training, and human resource development are also common in companies and other educational institutions (e.g., chambers of commerce, universities, educational foundations, consulting firms). Other students may choose a career in educational management, such as in public administration or private educational institutions. A further academic career in educational research is also a possibility.
How can I get more information?
Schedule a consultation appointment!
Dr. Wanja von der Goltz
wanja.vondergoltz (at) uni-due.de
+49 (0)203 379-1793
Contents
The Mercator School of Management developed the Bachelor/Master program in Business Education in order to replace the successful Diplom program Business Education. The primary idea of the study program is to provide students with further qualifications in their present or aspired professional field. The program includes a modern and fascinating range of subjects that profit from a strong focus on current research.
Students will familiarize themselves with relevant research methods and strategies in the fields of business administration, economics, business education and didactics. More specifically, they will develop competences that enable them to examine the economic cause-effect-relations in various management situations, to solve economic problems with the help of interdisciplinary approaches, and to transfer their insights to an educational environment. The Master degree in Business Education is primarily intended to prepare students for the profession of a vocational school teacher (in order to be admitted to the German teaching traineeship - Referendariat - additional 52 weeks of professional experience are obligatory).
In addition to the more theoretical lectures of the program, students will have to attend a practical semester designed to advance their teaching experience and to prepare them for a teaching profession at a vocational school.
Moreover, students will have the option to choose a more specialized field of business administration as their major subject. This elective part is essential for their future teaching activities in the so-called "minor vocational discipline". This minor subject complements the "major vocational discipline" of business administration and economics.
Our faculty offers the following business administration minor subjects:
- Finance, Accounting, Taxation
- Production, Logistics, Distribution
The first two semesters of the program mainly focus on the elective modules in business administration and include only minor compulsory modules in business education and economics. The third semester mostly focuses on the practical school training. The fourth semester rounds off the programm with further modules and the Master thesis (18 credits).