During their undergraduate studies at KSH, students receive instruction in educational fields with have a high level of social relevance. We encourage them to get actively involved in the university and society. They benefit from close contact between lecturers and students and a personal learning environment. The degree programme combines scientific principles with a strong practical orientation; the transition to a career is a smooth one, thanks to a broad network of practice partners.

In the Master's degree programme, students develop specialisations based on their existing expertise and lay the fundamentals for their individual, scientific career. The close and research-oriented exchange with teaching staff and the high level of practical relevance in study content rank among the values put to practise at KSH. As a profile university, we shape the further development of young professions in the social, health and education fields and qualify our graduates for leadership tasks.

KSH pursues a comprehensive internationalisation strategy that opens up global learning and exchange opportunities. Through internationalisation@home and Erasmus@home, students experience this on their own campus, including in the form of English courses and guest lecturers. Thanks to structured mobility windows (long-term and short-term mobility), regular recognition of study achievements and personal support, students can embark on an adventure abroad – at over 60 partner universities in Europe and worldwide.

The KSH has extensive and versatile technical equipment that students can use to design their projects in a creative and practice-oriented manner. These include professional cameras, a variety of microphones, as well as greenscreen and lightbox, which can be used to realise high-quality video and podcast productions. In addition, KSH uses Moodle and Opencast as central software solutions to provide digital learning materials and for use in project design.

One of the special characteristics of the university eligible to grant the doctorate is the strong anchoring of the HRK research priorities in a people-oriented research mission statement. The two focus areas "Childhood, Youth and Family Research – Interdisciplinary" and "Care/Participation Research – Ethics – Digitalisation" rank in the top group. Integration into regional and supra-regional networks always takes place in the sense of an application-oriented research approach.

Diversity is one of the values lived in everyday university life (e.g. hardship applications in application procedures, mentoring programmes, gender-appropriate toilets, spatial accessibility, parent-child rooms and the assistance of international students) and in the range of courses it offers (e.g. diversity, internationality and social inequality). With an interdisciplinary working group on sustainability and student initiatives, we are improving the ecological and social framework at the university – a nature-based study offer in social work was recently added to the portfolio.