Get a comprehensive understanding of present and future energy systems and the complex interactions of their components. Graduates can analyze and optimize energy system efficiency, availability and safety.

The Master Program in Mobility Systems Engineering and Management offers a unique combination of courses in emerging technologies & systems engineering.

The Master Program in Management of Product Development enables participants to analyze, design, operate and implement product development processes in their companies in an optimized way.

The Master in Production and Operations Management enables engineers to analyze, understand, and manage operations of a manufacturing or service organization, especially in a global context.

The Master Program in Financial Engineering provides innovative solutions of pricing, hedging, trading and portfolio management problems by employing advanced mathematical methods and computer technology.

The Master program "Psychology with focus on Clinical Psychology and Psychological Empowerment" trains graduates for whom a diverse field of activity awaits. Over the course of the five-semester regular study period, in-depth knowledge and skills in clinical psychology and psychological empowerment are combined with health, preventive and economic issues in an innovative and interdisciplinary manner.

In management theory, the idea still prevails that people can be “operated” like machines. What nonsense! You need to understand what makes people tick, how they influence and are influenced by their environment, and how society as a whole is developing in order to be successful in what you do. As an aspiring young person at the Karls, you should be trained for management and leadership functions in companies. But you should also take on the responsibility that comes with this in society. With this qualification, you will understand, accompany and actively shape social and cultural change, no matter what role you want to take on in your professional life.

The master's degree in business and law with a focus on management is aimed at people with a first academic degree in the form of a bachelor's or diploma, for example for graduates of the Bachelor's degree in business administration (BA) from DIPLOMA. The distance learning enables professional specialization and deepening with an international orientation for international corporate management.

The Master's degree in Business and Law with a focus on business law is aimed at people with a first academic degree in the form of a bachelor's or diploma, for example for graduates of the Bachelor's degree in Business Law (LL.B.) from DIPLOMA. The distance learning enables a further technical deepening and specialization with a professional perspective on international management.

Digitalization is not just a technological development – in digital media, people communicate faster and more networked, new types of social structures are formed and a completely new culture is established. This specialization is initially concerned with understanding this digital culture: How do technological structures, platform economic logics and communicative practices interact? What strategies do the individual actors pursue, what are the dynamics of public discourse, how do phenomena such as fandom and hate speech come about? How are the relationships between private and public reconfiguring themselves?

If you want to get ideas out into the world, if you want to advertise products and services, if you want to popularize people and their visions, you have to think in terms of brands and stories. Brands can be many things, a technological innovation, an unpackaged store, an art museum, a mayoral candidate or an environmental movement.

The Master's degree in Creative Direction - Leadership in the Context of Creative Processes (MA) is aimed at people with a first academic degree in the form of a bachelor's or diploma who want to acquire a further academic degree in addition to their profession or other, for example, family commitments.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE offers a unique part-time Master's course which is primarily run as a distance learning program by the Distance and International Studies Center (DISC).

An integral understanding and holistic practice of sustainability go far beyond “green” lifestyles or short-lived hypes. Sustainability combines ecology, geographies, cities, architecture, technologies and politics, and therefore also social and cultural values. Based on sustainability as an integral approach that combines ecological, economic, social and cultural aspects, you will reassess the meaning of prosperity in relation to the “limits to growth”. You apply concepts such as “green growth”, “degrowth” and “postgrowth”.

The Max Planck School of Photonics (MPSP) is a top-tier interdisciplinary graduate school in Germany that provides an integrated MSc and PhD program (2-years MSc + 3-years PhD) in Photonics for excellent graduates from all over the world. We are not a single university, but a network of 19 top universities and research institutions across Germany. Therefore, we combine the knowledge of the best researchers and offer our students a unique graduate school experience: • Full funding and no tuition fees • Excellent teaching and research facilities • Outstanding network of world-renowned Fellows • Additional curriculum bundling the knowledge of our Fellows and preparing you for your career • Very good connections to industry During the "study phase", students undergo a full-time Master's program at one of the three teaching universities within the Max Plank School of Photonics network, thus either the M.Sc. Advanced Optical Technologies - MAOT program at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the M.Sc. Photonics - ASP program in Jena, or the M.Sc. Optics and Photonics - KSOP program in Karlsruhe.