Study Type

graduate

Admission semester

Winter Semester only

Focus

Epidemiology, Social Epidemiology, Radiation Epidemiology, Clinical Research, Biometry, Cancer epidemiology, Genetic Epidemiology, Prevention in Medicine and Public Health, Infection Epidemiology

Target group

Epidemiology work takes place at the interface between biomedical research and the health sciences, and generally aims to increasing knowledge with regard to the aetiology and spread of diseases, as well as with regard to diagnostic and prognostic challenges and scientific assessment of healthcare interventions. The course is therefore designed to give graduates high scientific competence and thereby qualify them to be able to methodically analyse epidemiological issues on a national and international level, to formulate research questions and to solve them using epidemiological methods. A further objective is to provide fundamental subject-specific and generic competence for application in scientific teaching and research, in clinical and pharmaceutical research and in public authorities, as well as to improve and ensure the epidemiological personnel structure both nationally and internationally.

Annotation

Germans and foreigners with a German education apply directly to the Department. Please be aware that if you enrol for the Master's degree in Epidemiology you will not be automatically enrolled at the University of Mainz. For an enrolment at the University of Mainz, the normal deadlines and dates of the University of Mainz apply independently of the Master's degree.

Admission modus

open admission

Admission requirements (Link)

Admission requirements

A professionally qualifying academic degree with a minimum grade of 3.0 consisting of at least eight semesters in the field of the Natural Sciences, Medicine or Social Sciences at an higher education institution in Germany (at least 240 ECTS), or an equivalent academic degree abroad. At least one year of professional experience after obtaining the professionally qualifying degree. English language proficiency corresponding to five years of school education completed with a grade of at least “sufficient” or 5 points or a “Test of English as a Foreign Language” (TOEFL iBT) passed with a minimum score of 87. Applicants for the course who obtained neither their higher education entrance qualification at a German-speaking institution nor an academic degree in a degree course conducted in German must provide proof of command of German at the level of the ‘German Language Test for Admission to Higher Education (DSH)’. Passing an aptitude interview

Fees

Fees for students who register for the entire degree course: EUR 7000. Payment in instalments is possible. Tuition fees for visiting students who do not aspire to an academic degree: EUR 2,100 for a basic module, EUR 630 for an elective module, EUR 117 as a daily rate.