Overview of the Faculties

Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (F01)

To master the social challenges of the future we need qualified and committed social pedagogues and social workers. Faculty 01 offers its students well-founded, multi-faceted and practice-orientated courses. Work in the social sector is becoming ever more demanding due to increasingly complex problems. Social sciences offer support and assistance and help shape various social developments. The focus is on finding and initiating adequate, innovative approaches in order to support the culturally or socially disadvantaged. The Faculty of Applied Social Sciences is one of the largest social work training institutions in Germany. It currently has 32 professors, 10 lecturing social workers or social pedagogues, 15 scientific and 3 other staff members and 1500 students. It conducts intensive research activities and receives funds from a variety of sponsors. The faculty currently has three research centres: Intercultural Competence; Social Space Management; Impact of Virtual Worlds. It contributes substantially to the "Migration, Intercultural Education and Organisation Development" competence platform.

Faculty of Applied Social Sciences (F01)

Faculty of Culture Sciences (F02)

The Faculty of Culture Sciences of Cologne University of Applied Sciences comprises the Institute of Restoration and Conservation Science and Köln International School of Design.
In addition to teaching, one major field of the Institute of Restoration and Conservation Science lies in scientific research and the conservation of art and cultural heritage thanks to its many research and project activities and countless national and international collaborations.
Köln International School of Design (KISD) offers a very special type of design course. Based on the Cologne model, the course is based on theme-focused collaboration from the very first day. With cross-semester projects it offers comprehensive study approaches.
The new Master of European Design (MA) course has an international focus and is a joint project with Partner universities in Milan, Stockholm, Helsinki, Paris and Glasgow.

Faculty of Culture Sciences (F02)

Faculty of Information Science and Communication Studies (F03)

The focus of our information science courses is on handling, archiving and processing information and structures of the information sector.
The language-focused courses enable graduates to find solutions at the international interfaces of German or European companies and authorities that require linguistic, transcultural, cultural and business know-how.

Faculty of Information and Communication Science (F03)

Faculty of Economic Sciences (F04)

Thanks to the faculty's traditionally close co-operation with industrial companies inside and outside Germany these courses offer an optimum foundation for starting an interesting career.
Apart from the basic courses students can also take additional courses to obtain further qualifications, e.g. insurance and engineering or business for engineers.

Faculty of Economic Sciences (F04)

Faculty of Architecture (F05)

The architecture course comprises the five focus areas of structural engineering, construction organisation, space and project design, preservation of monuments, urban and regional planning, offering a wide variety of specialisation options.

At the Institute of Technology in the Tropics trained engineers, architects and natural scientists can obtain additional skills on location-focused technologies in the tropics and subtropics, as well as agricultural and industrial production technologies and construction in the tropics.

Faculty of Architecture (F05)

Faculty of Construction Engineering and Environmental Technology (F06)

The extremely interesting courses of this faculty cover a wide range of topics. Structural engineering, road, bridge, dam and sewage plant construction, on the one hand, and the employment of people, machinery and materials at building sites, and utilities and services for residential buildings, factories, common facilities, settlement areas and cities, on the other.
Students learn how to adapt to different requirements of construction practice and react flexibly to changed market situations.

Faculty of Construction Engineering and Environmental Technology (F06)

Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Technology (F07)

The Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Technology (IME) is one of the largest of its kind. Our courses offer great variety, a strong focus on professional practice and are becoming increasingly international.

A large number of companies and institutions are based in the Cologne region - from the manufacturing sector through services and media to the public sector, with some of whom we have long-standing partnerships. For support we can rely on our International Board of Advisors (IBOA) of our faculty , which was founded by leading personalities from large, medium and small enterprises and from associations. This allows us to keep our courses up-to-date, to use modern technologies for practical training and to work on the latest scientific problems. For our graduates this generates an attractive - not just regional - labour market.

With its special fields of automatic systems and electrical energy technology, the electrical engineering course offers two unique specialisations. They deal with complex processes in power stations, in energy and environmental technology, and high-voltage applications.
In our information and communication technology courses the focus is on information processing and transmission with state-of-the-art telecommunications systems, technical acoustics, high-frequency technology and radio and television engineering. Networking and digital transmission methods play an increasingly important role.
The photo engineering and media technology course offered at Cologne University of Applied Sciences is unique in Europe, its central contents being the production, storage, processing and reproduction of static and moving images.

Faculty of Information, Media and Electrical Technology (F07)

Faculty of Vehicle Systems and Production (F08

The car and supplier industries and the manufacturing sector play a key role in the industrial fabric of the major industrialised nations. Marked by continuously rising productivity, constant innovations and strong growth, they are also of major importance in Germany and therefore offer university graduates excellent career prospects.

In its teaching and research activities the faculty represents the entire process from the development to the production of vehicle systems based on product and market orientation.

Faculty of Vehicle Systems and Production (F08)

Faculty of Plant, Energy and Machine Systems (F09)

This faculty is an integration platform that networks the wide expertise of Cologne University of Applied Sciences in the fields of mechanical engineering and plant technology with the corresponding teaching departments. This leads to the constant generation of new interdisciplinary fields. An intensive exchange of ideas and experiences helps enrich our course offerings, promotes practice-focused research and development projects and marks our specific training profile.

The curricula of all our courses are structured according to European standards. Despite the diversity of courses the focus in faculty 09 is on thinking and working in complex contexts and on a responsible use of technology in nature. On top of theoretical foundations, we convey methodical structured know-how, exemplary ways of learning and co-operation in a team by means of complex, practice-focused projects and technical assignments.

Faculty of Plant, Energy and Machine Systems (F09)

Faculty of Informatics and Engineering (F10)

The Faculty of Informatics and Engineering focuses all the necessary know-how for modern and interdisciplinary training both of computer specialists with a wide range of application-focused skills and of engineers with various fields of specialisation. The faculty has an international focus (a very large number of students are completing internships abroad), works even beyond the region with enterprises in the IT hardware and software segments, in the car industry and other sectors, and has strong ties with the regional industry. With its industrial partners it not only co-operates in joint research projects but also in approx. 80 per cent of all diploma and bachelor's theses.

The desire for shorter courses has led to new qualifications. Courses in mechanical and electrical engineering and informatics now comprise many research and study areas that offer various specialisation options.

Faculty of Informatics and Engineering (F10)