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Welcome to the start of your studies in 2025

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Meetings of the Health and Safety Committee 2024
Online series "Options for financing your studies" by ArbeiterKind
Info session series "Well prepared for your studies - Health insurance in Germany"

Shape the FHP of tomorrow
With the Freiraum project, a comprehensive reform process for organisational development is taking place at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam until 2028.
The aim is to improve internal structures, promote interdisciplinary collaboration and use resources more efficiently.
The University Day 2025 was an important step: over 100 participants discussed specific approaches for a sustainable organisational structure.
All details and results can be found online on the project page.
Departments & Degree Programmes at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam
For 30 years, the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam has offered a diverse range of courses with a personal working atmosphere in the departments of Social and Educational Sciences, CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE, Civil Engineering, Design as well as Information Sciences.
Social and Educational Sciences
Department 1 was the first department at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam and is also the largest department with approximately 1,000 students.
CITY | BUILDING | CULTURE
The various degree programmes and focal points of department 2 are interlinked via a cultural and (cultural) design claim.
Civil Engineering
Department 3 has been training young people to become civil engineers for 25 years and has seven laboratories that are used for research and study.
Design
Characteristic of department 4 is the close integration of its degree programmes in Interface, Communication and Product Design and European Media Studies.
Information Sciences
Department 5 is known for its study concept of partially integrative training of archivists, librarians and information managers – also called the "Potsdam Model".
Degree Programmes
Find out about our more than 30 Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes and the various study options – from full-time face-to-face studies to dual degree programmes and part-time programmes.
Latest news
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30 years of continuing education at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences - anniversary celebration of the Centre for Continuing Education
The University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP) is celebrating a special anniversary this year: for 30 years, the Centre for Continuing Education (ZEW) has stood for practical, interdisciplinary and future-oriented continuing education. On 18 September 2025, members of the university, teaching…
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Places still available - Lottery procedure starts
There are still places available at the FHP for the winter semester 2025/26
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Application Start for the "Aufstiegsstipendium – die Studienförderung für Berufserfahrene"
The scholarship programme of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research supports skilled workers with vocational training and several years of practical experience in their first academic degree course.
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Project report "Youth. Lake. Party!" published
In June 2025, students at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (Bachelor of the Social Work (BA) degree programme) worked intensively on current social phenomena in youth work in rural areas. The focus was on the question of how young people in public spaces can be involved in shaping their…