Are you interested in how to get good employees and how to optimally lead and promote them? Our degree programme in personnel psychology shows you how to answer these questions on a scientific basis and in a competence-oriented way.
Locations
You can study the programme M.Sc. Personalpsychologie at the following locations:
Description of the programme
After your Bachelor's degree, would you like to deepen your competences in the field of personnel psychology, e.g. personnel development and leadership? Would you like to learn more about personnel development measures and how to coach and advise specialists and managers, and even design and implement such procedures yourself? In our study programme in personnel psychology, we will show you how to apply these measures in various activities in the field of personnel, acquisition, development and release and thus sharpen and optimise your qualities and skills in the personnel field even more. This Master's programme can be studied flexibly alongside work and family.
The programme offers you a perfect symbiosis of classroom teaching and practical phases. In the first module of each semester, you study the theory on site, while the second module provides exciting insights into practice. Here you deepen the material and methods learned in the classroom phases. The practical phase is accompanied by blended learning events. This structure is ideal for you, because you combine attendance and practice perfectly with each other.
Why enrolling in this programme?
This degree programme offers an ideal starting point for graduates of corresponding Bachelor's degree programmes, such as our own degree programmes in Industrial and Organisational Psychology (A&O B.A.) and Psychology (Psychology B.Sc.). But even if you have a Bachelor's degree in business administration, you can start with us and give your professional career in the field of human resources another good push.
What can you do with this degree?
It qualifies you for the independent conception and implementation of
- consulting processes
- coaching processes
- change processes
- personnel selection processes
- personnel development measures
- Training and further education measures
Accreditations & awards
The SRH University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia has been system-accredited since 01 September 2021 and bears the quality seal of the Accreditation Council. This certifies that the university has the highest standards in studying and teaching - students have the guarantee that planning, teaching and assessment are carried out according to certified processes. As a system-accredited university, the SRH University of Applied Sciences in North Rhine-Westphalia is entitled to accredit its study programmes independently and with the audited quality management processes. This procedure replaces the previously common programme accreditation.
Institutionally accredited
In 2013, the university received the seal of approval from Germany's highest scientific body, the Science Council. With the accreditation, the Council ensures the quality of research and teaching and checks whether they meet recognised standards. Among other things, the Science Council praises the high level of identification of the teaching staff with the university and the pronounced commitment to teaching and student support. The SRH University in NRW was institutionally reaccredited in 2018. In its vote, the Science Council emphasises the positive development of the university. It also confirms that the university is valued as a cooperation partner in the region by companies and institutions in the social sector.
Award for the teaching and learning model CORE
In 2018, the Stifterverband recognised the CORE teaching and learning model with the Genius Loci Award, the only institutional award for excellent teaching in Germany. With the CORE principle (Competence Oriented Research and Education), SRH created a unique teaching and learning model in 2012 based on scientific findings from learning and brain research.