Social Work
Semester Start Date: 1st October
450 € / month (Status 04/2025)
Full-time: 6 semesters
180 ECTS
Courses taught entirely in English.
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Social Work (B.A.)
Social work stands for responsibility. It is consistently committed to the individual well-being and social participation of people. As a human rights profession, it strengthens self-determination and self-efficacy, promotes the health integrity of disadvantaged people, ensures social cohesion in the community and fights against poverty and for social justice.
Social work needs well-trained professionals who are able to respond professionally to the challenges and crises of our time. Up-to-date specialist knowledge, first-class methodological skills, reflection skills and a respectful, strength-oriented attitude are the indispensable key qualifications for future social workers.
The Bachelor's degree course in Social Work (B.A.) offers students a modern and stimulating learning environment designed by proven academics and practitioners. The lecturers provide well-founded specialist knowledge about the help that is suitable for the most diverse forms of disadvantage in the numerous fields of social work.
As a social work student, you will be able to analyze problems, conflicts and crises with confidence and reflection and develop viable solutions. You will learn the right support methods and know which helpful prevention approaches exist in the social and health care system. After graduating, you will have matured as a person, be well equipped to enter one of the exciting fields of practice and work with other professionals to help people at risk and society.
The Career Center at Medical School Berlin offers optional language courses for a fee, ranging from A1 to C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), to support students in gradually building their language skills up to the required proficiency level.
The course corresponds to the state-recognized Bachelor's degree course in Social Work and is taught in English. The change notifications to the Senate Administration and the Accreditation Council are currently being processed.
Study
Upon completion of the three-year Social Work degree program at MSB, you will receive a Bachelor of Arts degree. and full recognition as a state-recognized social worker/social pedagogue (B.A.) in accordance with the Social Professions Recognition Act (SozBAG). German language skills at level C1 of Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) must be provided.
Yes, this is what distinguishes MSB. With the modern concept of blended learning, a sensible mixture of face-to-face study, virtual teaching and self-study, you can study both on the Berlin campus and at your own personal place of learning. Because our quality standard course in social work must have both. Without attendance, students cannot be professionally supervised and content cannot be taught in a methodically diverse way. Social interaction and exchange in groups as well as self-awareness exercises must be experienced and reflected in presence on the campus. This is the only way to learn how to work with people and for people. The social must be taught socially in the natural social space.
Nevertheless, according to today's teaching standards, quality also means integrating virtual teaching formats into the course in a didactically meaningful way. At MSB, you will study according to a reliable, clearly structured timetable with flexible proportions of classroom teaching, online teaching and guided self-study. Each teaching format is interrelated and follows a common thread with comprehensible learning objectives. At MSB, virtual learning means developing your own learning style under guidance and training as a learning strategy in order to reach a goal-oriented conclusion.
Yes, that is also guaranteed. For a good theory-practice transfer, we encourage you to work in a social institution during your studies. Despite studying full-time, you only have to study three days a week. In addition, you are only on campus once a month during the so-called attendance week. The remaining three weeks are spent studying virtually at your favorite place of learning. In short: you have the best opportunities to work alongside your studies and to choose your learning places individually.
Study content
Social work is a so-called related science. This means that its science is made up of different disciplines and is enormously diverse. Accordingly, the course also has extremely broad and exciting curriculum content, which imparts comprehensive knowledge from these disciplines. This includes teaching content from education,psychology, social science,sociology, medicine, health science, philosophy and law. You become familiar with numerous specialist topics and practice-oriented approaches, such as the basics of developmental psychology or socialization and learning theory, background information on mental illness, suicidal tendencies or the consequences of trauma, professional action in the context of early help, child protection and child endangerment, methods of violence intervention or approaches to health prevention and concepts for designing inclusive educational and support processes. The history of social work will also be part of your repertoire.
You will also get to know the legal foundations and issues of social policy or research approaches in gender studies and intersectionality. You are confronted with ethical, moral and cultural issues and need to develop a professional attitude. In addition, you will gain a sound overview of the practical fields and methods of social work (individual case work, social group work, community work) and learn the computer-aided application of qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Social work consists mainly of communication and interaction. Language and conversation are therefore among the basic skills. MSB teaches you not only the basics of communication and therapy schools. After completing your studies, you will be able to apply specific techniques from systemic and solution-oriented counseling or psychodynamic pedagogy. This will enable you to conduct difficult conversations and be able to moderate collegial team meetings, lead multi-perspective case conferences and apply methods of self-reflection. This also includes learning mindfulness techniques to maintain one's own mental and emotional health.
The Social Work degree program consists of a clear and logical sequence of modules that all students on the course complete. In addition, you can choose from a wide range of interdisciplinary elective modules and compulsory elective modules. This gives you the opportunity to give your studies an individual focus and gain knowledge in specific subject areas.
The study-integrated practical semester (internship) is compulsory for all students in order to obtain state recognition. It lasts one semester (20 weeks) and usually takes place at the end of your studies. During the internship, you will be supervised by a teacher from the university and regularly take part in supervision groups.
Career
The Social Work (B.A.) degree program gives you the opportunity to go straight into practice or continue your studies. Or both. Because the MSB Master's degree program allow you to combine studies and work, just like the Bachelor's degree program.If you initially only want to go into practice, as a state-recognized social worker you can choose from any field of practice. You can get started in all areas of social work with independent, church or public organizations. Whether you work with children, young people and families or the elderly - the choice is yours, because you are needed everywhere. People with specific problems such as social-emotional impairments or disabilities, mental illness, addiction or delinquent behavior also need your help.
If you want more right away, a subsequent Master's degree will qualify you for leadership and management positions in practice as well as for an academic career with the possibility of a doctoral study program.
After completing the Bachelor's degree in Social Work, you can choose either the Master's degree in Social Work (M.A.) or the Master's degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology (M.Sc.).
In both degree programs, you have the opportunity to complete the integrated and certified further training in systemic counseling or systemic coaching.
The admission requirements are:
Entitlement to study in accordance with § 10 BerlHG (general higher education entrance qualification, subject-specific higher education entrance qualification, entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or comparable qualification) or
Admission to higher education for vocationally qualified students according to § 11 BerlHG
For foreign study applicants possibility of further studies according to § 11 BerlHG
A pre-study internship of at least one month in a recognized social and healthcare institution
The MSB degree program is NC-free. Following your application, we will check your personal motivation in an individual admissions interview.
The possibilities for financing a university degree are diverse. Each student must individually decide which option is best suited to their personal situation. We have compiled some examples for you.
Contact
MSB Medical School Berlin – Hochschule für Gesundheit und Medizin
Rüdesheimer Str. 50
D-14197 Berlin
+4930 7668375 -619
More information about the Bachelor's degree in Social Work can be found on the university website.
Flourish and Grow at MSB Medical School Berlin
MSB Medical School Berlin is a private, state-recognized university located in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. The philosophy of MSB is based on the growing demand for qualified professionals in the healthcare market and the need for practice-oriented academic training. We offer highly innovative and market-driven degree programs with a focus on health and medicine, enabling students to meet the challenges of future interdisciplinary healthcare. In our degree programs, in addition to teaching fundamental competencies, interdisciplinary and especially subject-specific professional skills are emphasized.
Teaching at MSB takes place in three faculties. Students can pursue either application-oriented bachelor's and master's programs leading to a university of applied sciences degree (Faculty of Health Sciences) or academic programs leading to a university degree (Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Natural Sciences). In 2020, MSB received official recognition from the Berlin Senate Chancellery – Science and Research to offer medical training at a university level. Since then, the MSB has offered the state examination program in Human Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine in cooperation with Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch. The program meets all quality standards for medical education in Germany, concludes with the state examination, and entitles graduates to obtain a medical license (Approbation).
With the implementation of the new Psychotherapists Act on 01.09.2020, psychotherapists can now be trained through a direct degree program followed by further specialization. MSB supports this new path and offers all necessary steps under one roof, up to the start of a professional career. Students who began their bachelor's studies before this date can still complete their training as psychological psychotherapists under the old model during the 12-year transitional period. The IPB Institute for Integrative Psychotherapy Training Berlin, as a state-recognized training institute within MSB, offers training to become a licensed psychological psychotherapist as well as a child and adolescent psychotherapist.
Personal Support
To best support your potential, MSB promotes small study groups, lives the principle of "open doors," and thereby creates space for engagement, ideas, and growth to ensure university life remains innovative and exciting. MSB fosters a very personal atmosphere. Professors and students know each other, and faculty and university management are always approachable. There are no fixed office hours. Every email is answered, and there is always time for a conversation. Our Career Center and International Office are available to provide advice and support as you prepare for a career in the healthcare sector.
Research and Teaching – Theory and Practice in Synergy
Being professionally competent and using expertise responsibly are essential qualities for future professionals in the healthcare sector. At MSB, highly qualified academic teaching staff collaborate with experienced partners from practical fields. This prepares you optimally for your future societal responsibilities. In line with the concept of research-based learning, you will participate in the university's scientific activities and, during your work-oriented studies, become familiar with relevant healthcare practice fields through MSB’s cooperation partners. Teachers and students are in continuous dialogue and mutually supportive interaction.
Broadening Horizons Beyond Your Own Field
Studying at MSB also takes you beyond the classroom. Through excursions, internships, and interdisciplinary projects, you will gain and appreciate new perspectives. Throughout your studies, you will regularly collaborate with fellow students and lecturers from other disciplines in joint projects and courses. In all degree programs, students also acquire important social, communication, and reflective skills that are essential for success in healthcare and for shaping their professional environment in interdisciplinary teams.
Room for Growth and Development of Potential
Studies at MSB are not subject to numerus clausus (NC). At MSB, motivation and talent are more important than grade point average. In an individual admission interview, you have the opportunity to demonstrate your commitment and social skills to MSB.
A Unique Learning Atmosphere in an Exciting (Health Policy) Environment
The university building on Rüdesheimer Straße, in the quiet district of Wilmersdorf, offers a unique learning and working atmosphere with its listed rooms, a new building connected to the historic structure, and a spacious park area. And all this in the heart of Berlin – a city where cultural, social, and societal trends are set, including in the healthcare market. The region offers a wide range of healthcare-related institutions, such as opportunities for internships and project-based studies, collaboration with practice partners, or career entry after graduation.