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Social Policy and Social Work, Department

Fachbereich Sozialwesen (Köln)

Katholische Hochschule Nordrhein-Westfalen

Fachbereich Sozialwesen (Köln)
Wörthstraße 10
D-50668 Köln
Telephone: +49 221 7757-0
https://katho-nrw.de/standorte/standort-koeln
KatHO NRW/Köln
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Basic information

Total number of students at the department

1,190

Number of master degree students (w/o teacher qualification)

150

Support during the study entry phase

Total score for support in the study entry phase

12/16 points

International orientation

Outgoing students

1.0%

Job market- and career-orientation

Percentage of teaching by practitioners

30.2%

Percentage of teaching by practitioners, master's

5.0%

Bachelor theses in cooperation with work environment

33.6%

Master theses in cooperation with work environment

47.2%

Research

Cooperative doctoral degrees (in three years)

1

Third party funds per professor

20,333 €

Students' assessments on undergraduate, presence-learning-courses

Career and practical orientation
Learning and working spaces
Teacher support
Support in studies
Courses offered
Study organisation
Exam organisation
Digital learning
Rooms
Library
Overall study situation
Return rate of the questionnaires

56

Further information provided by the department

Special features regarding teaching in the bachelor's degree programme

Self-referential, exploratory, research-oriented and practical and project-related learning; Close, personal contact between students and teaching staff; personal atmosphere conducive to learning; Teaching staff easy to reach; No overcrowded events; extensive support and guidance from all phases of study; Student Advice Office; Guidance and supervision through Work Placement Office/representatives and International Office/representatives; Extracurricular courses such as "Summer School".

Special features regarding teaching in the master's programmes

Independent, self-reflective, exploratory and research-, practice- and project-oriented learning; Personal contact between students and teaching staff; personal atmosphere conducive to learning; small groups; Extensive support and advice; Digital tools; Extracurricular courses.

Special features regarding the international orientation

Erasmus University Charter, DAAD/promos programmes; Bachelor's degree course: 10-15 outgoing students each winter semester who complete the practical components of their studies abroad (usually the practical module 21 “Fields of Action”, 100 practical days in the 5th semesters). In the Master's, the mobility window is built into the 3rd semester. Structural simplifications for international mobility are put in place for the time periods mentioned. Stays abroad are also encouraged outside these windows.

Exchange universities for stay abroads

Gordon Academic College of Education Haifa, Israel; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal; Universidad Pablo de Olavide UPO Sevilla, Spanien; Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Schweiz; Universidad de Deusto, Spanien; University of Bethlehem, Palästina; University College Copenhagen, Denmark; Monmouth University, USA; University of Hyogo, Japan; Pontificia Universidad Católica de Ecuador, Quito; Catholic University of Zimbabwe.

Special features regarding the equipment

Web-based campus management system (HIS), central campus portal for students, teaching staff and non-teaching staff (ILIAS for study, teaching, non-teaching staff, Web-ex, BigBlueButton and ELVI for video conferences and online-based teaching). Use of digital resources (blended learning/e-learning) in studies and teaching, correspondingly very good room facilities, Audimax (218 seats), "networked library" (online research and ordering, full-text databases); (IT) service offices and blended-learning teams providing advice and support, research software and infrastructure, skills lab, accessibility.

Other special features

Best Practice Club "Family in the University" (students with children/caring relatives), student room with games corner, service office for students (IT), concept for the promotion of university engagement and self-government, practice office, international office, alumni work, advice and support for refugees in the “ready, steady, go” project, cooperation with the KHG (Catholic University Community), graduation ceremony, children's university, summer school, discrimination-critical diversity-sensitive university, development of a tactile guidance system, sustainability department/strategy.

Further information on research activities

Further information about study entry phase

Information on access restrictions

Website of the Student Council

online-application

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Last Update 2026: Data collected by the CHE Center for Higher Education