• Information and Society
• Methods of archival science
• Archival typology and history
• Archive management

• Records Management
• Indexing in archives
• Archival Technology
• Archival law/Freedom of information laws

• Historical education and public relations
• Historical auxiliary sciences

• Administrative history
• digital archives
• ICT technologies (compulsory elective module)
• Database archiving (compulsory elective module)
• Meta-description languages (compulsory elective module)
• Organisational development and management techniques (compulsory elective module)
• Edition techniques (compulsory elective module)
• History project (compulsory elective module)

• Digital long-term archiving
• Project management

• Master thesis

The application for the winter semester takes place in odd-numbered calendar years from 22 May to 30 June online in the MyCampus university portal of the Potsdam University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

Documents to be submitted

When applying online, the following documents must be submitted as PDF files in the application portal:

• University degree certificate(s), including Master's and doctoral degrees
• Letter of motivation (up to 3 pages), in which in particular the motivation to study should be explained in a differentiated manner and placed in the context of the applicant's career to date as well as career prospects
• Curriculum vitae in tabular form
• Proof of previous practical work relevant to the degree programme, stating the exact amount of work done per week
• Proof of access to archival work by the supervising institution
• Proof of professional activity in the archives of at least 15 hours per week during the course of study.

Selection procedure

Admission to the Master's programme is decided by a selection committee appointed by the department on the basis of the study and examination regulations and the currently valid statutes for the implementation of the university selection procedure for the Master's programme in archival sciences. The following are used as selection criteria

• the final grade of the first university degree (40 %),
• the type of professional activity (30 %),
• the length of previous professional experience (20 %),
• the type of first university degree and other university degrees obtained (5 %),
• a letter of motivation (5 %).

Applicants who meet the admission requirements take part in the procedure for awarding the 30 study places. In the allocation procedure, the following are deducted in advance from the number of places to be awarded

• all applicants who could not accept an earlier admission due to service and all applicants who belong to the national squad of a national sports association of the German Olympic Sports Confederation,
• 11 % for applicants with a foreign higher education entrance qualification,
• 3 % for applicants who are to be considered on the basis of hardship.

The remaining places are allocated 90% according to the result of the aptitude test and 10% according to waiting time.

Admission

Following the university selection procedure, applicants with an appropriately high ranking will receive a time-limited offer of admission in the MyCampus university portal, which must be actively accepted.

Once you have accepted the offer of admission, you will find your notification of admission in the MyCampus university portal. If you do not accept the offer of admission by the deadline, the ranking list will continue to be processed and the place will be reallocated.

You have accepted the offer of admission and received your letter of admission? Then you have the option of submitting an enrolment application for the winter semester in the MyCampus university portal of the University of Applied Sciences Potsdams.

Once you have submitted your online application for enrolment, please submit the printed and signed application together with all required documents in paper form by the deadline. The day of the enrolment deadline is decisive for the submission of the documents, whereby the date of receipt by post at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam is decisive.

Documents to be submitted

• University entrance qualification
• If applicable, further documents according to the enrolment application form.

Do you have questions about the enrolment process at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam? We have compiled frequently asked questions and answers regarding enrolment and admission.