Would you like to take on management tasks in hospitals, health insurance companies, the pharmaceutical industry or in the pharmaceutical trade and learn the necessary tools of economics and business administration? Then we have good news for you: The new Health Economics and Management degree programme will start at Ostfalia in the winter semester 2026/27.
What can you expect on the programme?
The course provides you with in-depth knowledge of health economics and business administration, supplemented by key skills and elective modules for further specialisation:
- Economics and business administration
- Management skills and methods
- Financial management and accounting
- Law and private commercial law
- Service management
- Business mathematics
- Health economics and public health
- Quality management in healthcare
- Project management and care management
- Information technology and digitalisation in healthcare
- Data analytics and methods of data evaluation
- Organisational and personnel management
- Research methodology and scientific work
- Key skills: communication, teamwork, diversity skills
- Compulsory elective modules: e.g. health insurance, nursing, hospital, healthcare industry, current health economics or health science issues
Practical and flexible
Case studies are integrated throughout the course, in which you work on practical tasks together and often in cooperation with regional healthcare organisations. The 13-week practical phase in the final year of the programme allows you to apply the knowledge you have acquired directly in a healthcare institution.
Blended learning with online and attendance phases helps you to combine your studies with work or family commitments and supports your self-directed, practical learning.
Career prospects
This degree programme will qualify you for specialist and management roles in the healthcare sector, in particular for the management of facilities such as hospitals, care facilities, health insurance companies and service providers in the healthcare sector.
The course will enable you to analyse business and health economic problems, develop practical solution strategies and make responsible decisions.
It is also possible to work in management consultancy, for associations or in projects relating to healthcare and healthcare policy.
Your degree programme at Ostfalia
Apply now for the Bachelor's degree programme in Health Economics and Management
- Degree: Bachelor of Arts
- Study start: Summer and winter semester
- Location: Wolfsburg
- Faculty: Healthcare
- Type of study: attendance, full-time, blended learning