Regional Management

Whether regional development, regional strategy concepts or economic development, whether moderation, public relations or regional consulting - our students learn the entire competence spectrum of sustainable Regional Management. This is entirely in the spirit of a coalescing and diverse "Europe of the regions", in which the regions in the EU member states are to be promoted and supported in their regional autonomy. From rural areas to cities and metropolitan regions, the focus at the University of Applied Sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf is on shaping a climate-friendly and integrative development of the region with its respective potentials.

After completing your Master's degree, you will be able to deal with conflicts on current challenges such as land consumption, land use, participation, internal development, regional value creation or digitalisation and to moderate different interest groups.

This results in a diverse range of activities:

• Management tasks & staff in regional initiatives or state-public bodies (for example Regional Management, metropolitan regions, eco-model regions).
• Project management in regional development (for example through the LEADER programme)
• Establishment & management of cross-community cooperation & development organisations (e.g. inter-community alliances, integrated rural development)
• Creation of regional development concepts & their implementation support
• Design of regional marketing & economic development tasks (e.g. location marketing)
• Process design & cooperation with various private & public actors

• You can be admitted to the Master's programme if you have completed or will soon complete an undergraduate degree with a grade of at least "good". If your final grade is lower than 2.5, you can apply to us with a letter of motivation - in this case, an examination committee will decide on admission.
• Your basic studies should be assigned to one of the following subject areas: Agricultural Science, Horticulture, Forestry, Landscape Architecture, Landscape Planning, Spatial Planning, Geosciences, Economic Geography, Economic and Social Sciences, Environmental or Nutritional Sciences or another comparable domestic or foreign degree.
• The prerequisite for admission to the Master's degree programme is usually 210 ECTS, which includes a practical semester with 30 ECTS. The programme can also be started with 180 ECTS; in this case you can make up the missing credits from theory or practice.
• If your Bachelor's degree certificate is not yet available, you can submit it by the end of the first semester.
• Before taking up the Master's degree programme, you should provide evidence of practical periods of at least 20 weeks in the form of internships (including practical study semesters with at least 30 ECTS) or work experience. Practical periods during and after the undergraduate degree programme as well as activities that were carried out within the scope of a vocational qualification before commencing the undergraduate degree programme are eligible for credit. "Student casual jobs" are not recognised as practical time.
  If you still lack practical time, you can provide evidence of it until the end of the second semester.
• Most of the courses are held in German. Foreign students whose native language is not German must therefore prove sufficient knowledge of the German language (at least level B2).

• You will receive a high level of professional qualification and strong social skills.
• You will be trained for a very broad spectrum of regional management tasks.
• Active project studies with intensive practical relevance make you very attractive on the job market.