The Bachelor's program "International Human Resource Management and Organization" (IPO) is a full-time course of study that provides you with a solid business education in just 6 semesters, coupled with a clear focus on human resource management and organization. A high practical orientation, international experience and the acquisition of intercultural skills round off the profile.

At the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, you will study in relatively small groups, so that a very good supervision ratio can be guaranteed. Lectures, seminars and exercises are offered by professors and other full-time lecturers as well as by lecturers from practice. In this way, you will gain knowledge about current research results as well as knowledge from corporate personnel work. In this way, you lay the foundation for a first-class academic education that is ideally suited to the current and future requirements of companies and other organizations.

The degree program is consistently oriented towards the professional field of personnel management and organization. All central areas of responsibility and functions of personnel work are covered from an operational and strategic perspective at the level of a first degree qualifying for a profession. The typical activities of personnel management in companies include

• Personnel marketing,
• recruitment,
• personnel development,
• Operational personnel management (shared services management),
• personnel resource planning,
• international assignments (expats/impats),
• personnel controlling or
• personnel planning.

Graduates also work for external personnel service providers, e.g. as personnel consultants, temporary staff dispatchers, training managers.