The master's program has an application-oriented, scientific profile. This means that it is both practice-oriented and (sufficiently) research-based. The vast majority of graduates will start their careers after graduation and use scientific methods to solve practical, operational problems. There, they will use scientific methods to solve practical, operational problems. Students have been graduating from this program since as early as 2007 and have gone on to achieve prominent leadership and professional positions in business and other social organizations. Careers are often in HR, organizing or consulting, but a good portion lead to broader commercial leadership positions as they advance.

A small number of the graduates want to gain further academic qualifications and start a doctorate, either as interns at a university authorized to award doctorates or in the form of a cooperative doctorate between a university and HWG Ludwigshafen.

The academic degree M.Sc. of the IHRM program allows access to a doctorate under the same conditions as the former university diploma, to which the M.Sc. is legally equivalent, regardless of whether it was earned at a traditional university or a university of applied sciences (HAW) such as HWG Ludwigshafen.

The study area Human Resource Management cooperates on several levels: on the practical side, smaller and larger projects are carried out with companies and other organizations. The focus is on knowledge and technology transfer. This can take place, for example, in the form of the six-month master's thesis in a company. But there are also opportunities for smaller joint projects, studies, consulting projects, workshops or project seminars.

In the area of science and research, the professors and lecturers cooperate with the HR-relevant institutes/research foci of their own university, domestic and foreign colleges and universities, non-university research centers and companies. The focus is on applied research, i.e. the search for new knowledge for existing, practical problems. In addition, the development of new or significantly improved HR business processes, i.e. the implementation and transfer of knowledge, is of great importance.

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