Ruhr Master School of Applied Sciences

Why study at just one university? The diversity of the higher education landscape in the Ruhr region is much greater and can be experienced with a Master's degree at the Ruhr Master School, a university cooperation between Fachhochschule Dortmund, Bochum University of Applied Sciences and Arts and Westfälische Hochschule.

Two students work on a mobile robot system.

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Two young men stand in front of an industrial robot in the robotics lab and control the machine.

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Three students work in the laboratory for high-voltage technology at Fachhochschule Dortmund.

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Two students look at a monitor and through a viewing window of a laser melting machine.

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A yellow car can be seen on a large screen. In the foreground, a persona can be seen in silhouette at a steering wheel.

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The shadows of students wearing VR goggles can be seen in front of a large screen.

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A woman works in a laboratory with various liquids.

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A bird's eye view of a yellow racing car. Next to it, students are working on an engine.

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The Ruhr Master School (RMS)(Opens in a new tab) offers Master's students in the fields of engineering, computer science, economics and sustainability the opportunity to study in a networked, interdisciplinary and practice-oriented way. Prospective students can use the course finder(Opens in a new tab) to find out which Master's courses are open to them with their Bachelor's degree. Not only consecutive study programs are possible - the RMS explicitly promotes interdisciplinary thinking.

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On the one hand, the alliance will open up and mutually recognize selected existing courses from the compulsory elective area. In addition, the three universities are jointly developing new teaching formats such as block weeks, intercultural training or an annual international summer school in order to offer components such as interdisciplinarity, internationality and digitalization in teaching in addition to subject-specific topicality.

The Ruhr Master School is funded by Stiftung Mercator.

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The RMS for students

Master's students at one of the three universities can take advantage of the courses offered by the network partners by applying for a second degree (Bochum University of Applied Sciences) or applying for admission as an RMS student (Westfälische Hochschule). With the help of the RMS compulsory elective catalog(Opens in a new tab) , you can choose from the compulsory elective modules approved across all universities for the respective study program - interdisciplinarity is expressly desired. The Master's degree course is thus individualized according to personal interests, skills and career aspirations and enables a corresponding profile for the job market.

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The RMS for teachers

The RMS aims to develop the three partner universities into places of innovative university teaching and is explicitly aimed at the teaching staff of the network partners: We actively support lecturers in the development, organization and implementation of events and projects in cross-university teaching. Joint modules or block events such as the Ruhr Turtle Bot Competition are just as possible as cross-university study programs. The Ruhr Master School team is happy to help.