Public Management

This continuing education course is designed to enable career progression by examination within Hamburg’s public administration and therefore leads both to a Master’s degree and to a qualification for the corresponding public administration/civil service career track.

The course is aimed at students working as civil servants or employees under collective remuneration agreements in the public administration of the city of Hamburg and is designed to be completed alongside this work on a part-time basis.

This Master’s degree course in Public Management, which is four semesters in duration, qualifies graduates to access the second level (zweites Einstiegsamt) of service class 2 in general administrative services in Hamburg’s public administration. The task of these civil servants/public employees is to respond in a timely and appropriate fashion to complex issues, taking potential impacts into account. This may entail carrying out leadership, management, planning and coordination functions, managing projects, organising and monitoring systems for evaluation, management accounting, securing efficiency, and drawing up regulations and decision-making guidelines for a broad range of scenarios.

To qualify for this course, you need to have worked in the public administration of the city of Hamburg for a minimum of eight years and hold one of a variety of first degrees:

• a Diplom degree in general administration from a Fachhochschule 
• a Bachelor’s degree in Public Management
• a comparable Diplom, Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in law, business/economics, or a social science subject

Students need to have a minimum total of 180 credit points from their first/existing degrees.

Those eligible to apply for a place on this course are civil servants of the city of Hamburg in the first level (erstes Einstiegsamt) of service class 2 in the upper intermediate grade of general administrative services (gehobener allgemeiner Verwaltungsdienst) and employees of the city of Hamburg under collective remuneration agreements who are in comparable positions. Students retain their civil servant or employee status during the course.

We award up to 30 credits for skills attained by students during their prior professional experience and for successfully completing the admissions and selection procedure for this course. Please compile a personal skills portfolio for this purpose and submit it together with your application.

The course welcomes a new intake approximately every three years. This information, including application deadlines, is published on the city of Hamburg’s intranet. An application for a place on this course is tied to an application for an internal job vacancy published by the city of Hamburg.