Health Economics – Master of Science University of Cologne

By incorporating the medical, management and system perspective into the programme structure, as a student, you will be prepared for a successful career in healthcare with an all-embracing understanding. The course contents are taught by researchers and experts from the field, and thus, they create a well-founded portfolio of theories, methods and interdisciplinary applications.

With the innovative development of a Health Care Manager track and a Health Care Analyst track, you will have the opportunity to set a focus from the second semester onwards. The tracks recommend courses from the study programme and help you select courses according to your desired career profile.

This Master of Science in Health Economics at the University of Cologne is the only study programme that can provide such close teaching and research cooperation between the Faculty of Management, Economics, and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine in Germany. As a student of health economics, you will have the opportunity to participate in medical studies courses to deepen your knowledge from a medical perspective.

The Health Economics programme gives you an interdisciplinary understanding of the field by concentrating on stakeholder groups that are relevant in health care. Therefore, it covers the management perspective (i.e. business administration), system perspective (economics and social policy) and medical perspective (i.e. professionals and patients).

For specialisation within the study programme, you can choose to study in the Health Care Manager Track or the Health Care Analyst Track. A combination is also possible. The Health Care Analyst Track supports your professional profile for a career in scientific and academic health care institutions. The Health Care Manager Track enables you to specialise for careers in hospital management, quality management or consulting. Analytical-oriented and management-oriented contents are available in each section of the study programme.

• Within this programme, the compulsory core and advanced sections cover the basic skills and knowledge you need for a recommended track specialisation.
• The specialisation section provides you with a diverse range of seminars and lectures, through which you can further develop skills according to your interests.
• The supplementary section serves as an additional section for developing a more specific profile. Modules from business administration as well as from the Faculty of Medicine are available to students.
• The Master’s thesis will be written towards the end of the programme and can be research or practice-oriented, corresponding to each student’s interests.

• Overall grade of at least 2.7 (German grading system) in the Bachelor’s degree
• at least 35 ECTS credits in the fields of Business Administration and/or Economics
• at least 25 ECTS credits in Health Care
• at least 10 ECTS credits in Quantitative Methods

Please find more information and a full list of requirements here.

The semester contribution amounts to approx. 320 EUR per semester. The fee includes a public transport ticket for regional transport throughout Germany ("Deutschlandsemesterticket").

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Accommodation is available through the student union ("Kölner Studierendenwerk") or on the private housing market. Rent for a single room in a student hall of residence is approx. 200 EUR to 300 EUR. Rent for a single room on the private housing market is approx. 400 EUR to 600 EUR.