1: Foundation phase (1st to 4th semester)

In the first semesters, you lay the foundations. The focus is placed on modules like business administration, health organisations, medical-scientific basics, fundamentals of organisational and innovation management in the emergency and health sector, and fundamentals of rescue sciences. You also develop basic knowledge and skills in the fields of health economics and HR management in health organisations. You will also learn about the legal and institutional framework conditions in the rescue system, as well as important basics of medical technology and telemedicine. At a later stage, you will attend modules concerned with financing, controlling, project and process management in the clinical and pre-clinical context, emergency medicine, and fundamentals of crisis and disaster management. Digital technologies and applications, and mathematics and statistics become relevant.

2: Internship semester (5th semester)

The 5th semester is intended as the internship semester. You spend the full-time internship in a company of your choice, which will make for a successful career start. Thanks to our close cooperation with partner universities all around the world, and with local and national partner companies, you have a wide variety to choose from.

3: Specialisation studies (6th semester)

In the 6th semester, you choose two specialisations and write your bachelor's thesis. For your specialisation, you choose two general elective modules (AWPM) and two core elective modules (FWPM). For your bachelor's thesis, you work on a practice-oriented research question. In this process, you may apply the knowledge and skills developed in your studies.

4: Final semester (7th semester)

In the final semester, you develop more important know-how for your career in rescue management: e.g., risk management and quality development, interprofessional and intercultural work, leadership and tactics for specific missions.

Different specialisations are offered for the bachelor's degree programme Digital Rescue Management. From the 6th semester onwards, you choose your individual focus and thus already embark on your future career path during your studies. Over the course of the programme, students complete 33 mandatory modules and specialisations of their choice. Two general elective modules (AWPM) and two core elective modules (FWPM) must be chosen respectively.

Students can also choose from our general elective modules (AWPM). These enable you to specialise further.

• Exercise courses and practice projects
• Getting to know and applying new technologies
• Internship semester as an integral part of studies
• Professors with extensive experience in the industry and economy
• Cooperation with companies and industry partners, also internationally
• Possibility of completing your final thesis in cooperation with a company

By the way: You also have the opportunity to complete your internship semester abroad. That way, you do not only develop intercultural competence but also boost your language skills and your career perspectives on the international job market.

• Studying & internships abroad
• More than 200 partner universities in Europe and around the world
• International projects & field trips abroad
• Visiting lectures together with exchange students & held by guest lecturers
• Support by THWS & financial support
• TWIN programme unique in Germany

• Improving language knowledge and intercultural competence
• Getting to know new teaching and studying methods
• Establishing an international network
• Enhancing your independence and flexibility
• Increasing of career perspectives on the global working market

Requirement for admission to the Technical University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt is a valid general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur), a subject-specific higher education entrance qualification (fachgebundene Hochschulreife), an advanced technical college certificate (Fachhochschulreife), a general/subject-specific entrance qualification for qualified professionals, or a comparable qualification from abroad (HZB, university entrance qualification).

Please also see the language entrance requirements.

A pre-study internship of 8 weeks is mandatory. It may be completed after the start of studies (by the end of the 2nd semester).

• Strong interest in technologies and digital solutions that improve rescue operations and emergency management
• Passionate about interdisciplinary work, in particular in the areas of IT, health care, organisation, and social sciences
• Willingness to develop analytical skills to handle complex situations
• Strong interest in questions of rescue management and operational leadership