Health Economics at University of Cologne

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Some examples of the questions Health Economics students look at include the following: Who are the key national and international players in healthcare? What diseases are significant in terms of health economics and how can appropriate healthcare management help to tackle them? What aspects of evidence-based medicine are of crucial significance when deciding on a therapy? How can health policy measures be assessed? How can the ethical implications of structures and courses of action be assessed? What aspects are relevant in the assessment of conclusions and the evaluation of methodological designs in the context of clinical studies? Cologne is an interesting location for students of the health economy with regard to future job opportunities. In Cologne and the surrounding region, many hospitals, well-known pharmaceutical and insurance companies as well as consulting companies are located. Even during your studies, we offer you access to our cooperation partners. With the completion of the interdisciplinary Master's degree programme in Health Economics, you will be ideally prepared to work in institutions of public and private health care. Your successful completion guarantees you a career entry into higher positions of all institutions of the health care system. You will deal with tasks in the fields of management, administration and association as well as the institutions of health policy management. Further professional perspectives of this interdisciplinary programme include activities in academic teaching and health policy research. Take your professional future into your own hands and benefit from the theoretically and methodically-oriented approach of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences, which combines research as well as teaching with practical experience.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Overall grade of at least 2.7 (German grading system) in the Bachelorâ€™s degree at least 60 ECTS credits in health economics and/or the fields of business administration and economics at least 15 ECTS credits in medicine at least 18 ECTS credits the field of "Methods in Health Economics"