Teaching

Leuphana developed a multi-award-winning study model with three Schools of Teaching and Learning that is still unique in Germany today:

• The College, which provides students with orientation, multiple perspectives, and a solid qualification in their disciplines.

• The Graduate School, which offers master's programmes and oversees doctoral studies.

• The Professional School, a partner for lifelong learning.

All three Schools for Teaching and Learning offer programmes focusing on sustainability. What sets them apart is that sustainability can be integrated as a core theme throughout all studies—both as a major field of study and alongside other disciplines.

A unique feature of Leuphana is its introductory semester: all approximately 1,400 first-year students start their academic journey together in the Leuphana Semester. Alongside subject-specific and methodological introductions, they take three interdisciplinary modules with peers from all degree programmes.

Students should learn to understand complex interrelations in the context of their origin, and to critically classify perspectives in their cultural contingency. In the module “Science Transforms: Responsible Action,” students examine the role and responsibility of science and society in a world undergoing change, focusing on designing a sustainable and desirable future.

• Leuphana Semester

Building on the Leuphana Semester, in Complementary Studies, students can take complementary sustainability-related seminars outside their major. Alternatively, they can choose a major centred on sustainability, which can also be combined with a minor focused on sustainability.

Bachelor’s Studies Sustainability at College:

• Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies
• Environmental Sciences
• Psychology
• Studium Individuale

Minor: Sustainability Science and Spatial Sciences

Masters Studies at Graduate School:

• Sustainability Science: Ecosystems, Biodiversity and Society (M.Sc.)
• Sustainability Science: Resources, Materials and Chemistry (M.Sc.)
• Sustainability Science: Entrepreneurship, Agency and Leadership (M.A.)
• Sustainability Science: Governance and Law (M.A.)
• Management & Sustainable Accounting and Finance (M.Sc.)
• Psychology & Sustainability (M.Sc.) 

Part-time studies and continuing education in sustainability at the Professional School

Masters studies sustainability:

• Professional MBA in Sustainability Management
• Sustainable Chemistry Management (MBA)
• Sustainable Chemistry (M.Sc.)
• Master in Environmental Law: Sustainability Law – Energy, Resources, Environment (LL.M.)
• Governance and Human Rights (M.A.)
• Professional Master in Public Health (MPH)

Certificate Courses Sustainability, Energy & Environment: 

• Decarbonisation Management (20 CP)
• Sustainable Supply Chain Management (20 CP)
• Sustainability management in sports and sports organisations (15 CP)
• Sustainability Assurance (15 CP)
• Practices of Sustainable Chemistry (20 CP)
• Law of the Energy Transition (15 CP)
• Sustainability Reporting and Accounting (15 CP)
• Sustainable Chemistry and Benign by Design (20 CP)
• Sustainable Chemistry and Regulatory Affairs (20 CP)
• Environmental Law (15 CP)
• Circular Economy (20 CP)

The UNESCO Chair “Higher Education for Sustainable Development”has been at the Leuphana since 2015.

Students actively shape sustainability at the university – in seminars, in over 80 initiatives, in the student union, or in self-organised autonomous teaching.

The Student Sustainability Office pools knowledge and advises students.