Karlshochschule International University

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Welcome to the Karlshochschule International University homepage! We appreciate your interest in our University and our international Bachelor's and Master's programs.
We view our students of today as those who will shape the world of tomorrow. That is what we prepare them for. We are living in a time of rapid global change. Be it digitization, internationalization, cultural shifts, or climate change – they all challenge us and our open society. Almost every second job in Germany is dependent upon international trade. There is no global transformation that leaves our lives, our economy, or our future unchanged. International managers, therefore, need to have a global mindset to be able to differentiate and integrate a diversity of knowledge. Bringing lasting successful economical structures to life requires strong cognitive personalities with a cosmopolitan orientation.
This is why our Bachelor's programs focus on national and international markets, linking foreign languages with a more in-depth knowledge of significant economic and cultural regions worldwide, business projects, an experimental phase, and a semester abroad. We want to support our students in starting a career in the future in six semesters. Prerequisites for doing so are positive and long-term thinking, future-oriented, respectful coexistence, and a high motivation level.
The Bachelor of Arts entitles students to take up a Master's program at German and international colleges and universities. Our own Master's program in Management combines management competencies with knowledge from two out of eight specializations from which to choose. The intensive connection between teaching and practice, personal development, international and intercultural aspects of the program, lecturers with practical experience, small study groups, and personal, uncomplicated interaction between teachers and students contribute significantly to academic success. Through the ongoing change of perspective and continuing education in responsibility, empathy, sustainability, and expertise, our Master's graduates assume managerial roles and leadership functions in companies and responsibility for and in society.
The unlimited officially accredited Karlshochschule is published in the 2014/2015 CHE ranking in the weekly magazine "Die Zeit," distinguished as one of the best universities. Karlshochschule was re-accredited by the science council for ten years in 2010. In 2014, FIBAA re-accredited all eight Bachelor programs in the field of Management with the premium seal. The Bachelor's programs in the field of society were accredited in 2015 according to the same criteria.
Karlshochschule maintains a manageable size. Every lecturer knows their students personally and supports them individually; this distinguishes us and ensures quality. At the same time, we place great importance on regional, cultural, and economic integration. We always think of responsibility in a sustainable way, which also pertains to our responsibility to students and the college at our location in Karlsruhe.
We are a state-accredited university of applied sciences with approx. Six hundred fifty students, 16 professors, and a network of lecturers from various industries and disciplines. As such, we see ourselves as an international and intercultural hub for collaboration and experience. With our interactive and (co-)creative approach to teaching and learning, we offer profound professional university education and focus on critical thinking and our students' personal development. Because only those who incorporate and embody responsibility in Management and society, those who live it can make a genuine difference. For a new holistic (re-)thinking and (re-)doing.
Our didactic approach is characterized by a triad of instruction, construction, and reflection in the individual modules and units. With the aid of self-regulated, discovery-based, and playful learning and based on a foundation of concentrated and sound knowledge, the students shall be enabled to make their own learning experiences, to integrate their knowledge and skills with previous knowledge and experiences, and to build their qualification and competence profile. We seek to enable them to compare their experiences and perspectives with others and question them critically.
The ability to change one's perspective is an essential educational objective of our University. Our interdisciplinary orientation supports this objective. Learning contents are to be conveyed from various disciplines and, if possible, through interaction and discourse between representatives of different disciplines. The disciplinary diversity of the staff is an advantage that was intentionally created. The concept of integrative modules with a standardized module examination requires and supports close interdisciplinary exchange.
By cooperating with the business community, we pursue the strategic goal of integrating theory and practice as much as possible. The strong practical focus is underlined by the role of the Karlsruhe Chamber of Industry and Commerce as a founding partner and the participation of representatives from the business community in the University bodies. Our future goal is to institutionalize the multitude of bilateral and informal cooperation and increasingly procure third-party funding in the context of research cooperation projects with partner businesses.
We distinguish ourselves by assigning a central role to the students' personality development – not least about leadership ability. Elements of personality development and the acquisition of critical competencies shall be an integral part of all curricula. In doing so, we pursue the strategic goal to individualize our products, programs, and mentoring offers to such an extent that the students can be addressed according to their learning types and develop their different talents and personality in an optimum manner. Modern teaching formats such as eLearning and blended learning shall be used in line with the individualization strategy's intention.
We consider ourselves an international institution with a cross-cultural orientation. Our internationalization strategy focuses on Central and Eastern Europe, Arab countries, South-East Asia, Latin America, and the Anglo-Saxon countries. We offer the languages of those regions as a second foreign language (English: first foreign language) and organize study programs taught in English and study programs where spending time abroad is mandatory. We seek partnerships with comparable universities abroad to enable student and academic staff exchanges and cooperation in the field of research. We make continuous efforts to increase the percentage of foreign professors, guest professors, and students. We aim to enhance the mentoring for and the integration of international students.

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