The degree course in Educational Science focuses on the fundamentals and methodology and thus lays the foundation for the subject in its entirety. It ensures that the conditions are met for later expansions, in-depth study and specialisations in the subject. The degree course also prepares students for the Master's degree in particular. The Bachelor's degree programme enables students to apply the skills and knowledge they have been taught and to systematically acquire new, in-depth knowledge in the course of lifelong learning. It can be combined with a wide range of Master's degree programmes.

The focus of the courses offered in the Master's degree programme is set against the backdrop of current processes of change in society as a whole. Requirements and expectations in the field of adult and continuing education, also in view of the increasing proportion of older employees, the integration of people with a migration background, the pluralisation of educational pathways and the heterogeneity of educational biographies, characterise the transfer of knowledge from science to practice. The inclusion of a profile area contributes to individual, career-oriented profile development.

The Erasmus programme is a European exchange programme for students, lecturers and staff in the higher education sector with the aim of cooperation, student mobility and intercultural exchange within Europe. Erasmus allows students to study at a partner university in another European country for a certain period of time (usually one semester to one year) and, in addition to a financial mobility grant for travel and living expenses, they usually also receive recognition for courses completed abroad.

The Core Facility of the Field of Focus 4 (FoF4) "Self-Regulation and Regulation: Individuals and Societies" at Heidelberg University provides all interested scientists with rooms, instruments and other resources for neurophysiological research and offers them the ideal environment for conducting experimental laboratory and real-world studies. The CNSR is listed under registration number RI_00552 in the research infrastructure database of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

Research at the Educational Science Institute focuses on the fields of education and counselling throughout life. Questions in different age cohorts (infants, school age, young adults to older adults) as well as at different access levels (individual, institution, system) are examined using methods of empirical educational research (quantitative and qualitative). Inter-university networking, cooperation with other universities and research institutions as well as with educational practice are of great importance.

Heidelberg University is committed to actively contributing to scientific research, documentation and discussion on climate change and to developing tools, methods and technologies for a sustainable approach to the Earth. With the Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (HCE), Heidelberg University is the first university in Baden-Württemberg to bundle environmental science activities in research, teaching and scientific communication in one centre.