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Become a special needs teacher

State-regulated path

Teaching at public schools requires a teacher-education degree for one of the school types defined by the KMK (Master of Education or state examination) followed by the state's preparatory service (Referendariat).

Official source: kmk.org

OWWZ guidance

Special needs teacher education prepares for teaching and supporting pupils with special educational needs.
How is this ordered?

First, programmes whose university states the requirement is met (full qualification before a first stage). Then, first, programmes with one of this goal’s subjects (Special needs education) as main subject whose official name mentions a core topic of the goal – more important core topics first, teacher training last. Then the other programmes with one of these main subjects, the subjects taking turns. Then programmes that have one of these subjects only as a minor, finally programmes of other subjects with a fitting curriculum, by share of the programme. In every step universities take turns in a fixed order that stays the same for each goal and does not follow the alphabet; among the first ten places a university has at most two where others exist. An evaluated curriculum is shown but does not change the order. Not a quality ranking.

Teacher-training programme (first phase of teacher education) – then the teacher traineeship (Referendariat)

By the programme’s degree and subject (official data), not ordered by curriculum.

  1. Sonderpädagogik - Master of Education (Sonderpädagogik)

    M.Ed.

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · Oldenburg

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  2. Lehramt für Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Universität Hamburg · Hamburg

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  3. Lehramt an Oberschulen mit Sonderpädagogik

    State examination

    Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz · Görlitz, Zittau

    10 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  4. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    State examination

    Universität Regensburg · Regensburg

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  5. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg · Ludwigsburg

    4 semesters Full-time Summer semester and Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees for EU students · non-EU: €1,500 per semester

  6. Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung (SP)

    M.Ed.

    Universität Paderborn · Paderborn

    4 semesters German and English Full-time Winter semester and Summer semester Open admission No tuition fees

  7. Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Berlin

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  8. Lehramt für Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Leibniz Universität Hannover · Hannover, Braunschweig

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester and Summer semester Open admission No tuition fees

  9. Lehramt für Sonderpädagogik an Grund- und Förderschulen

    State examination

    Universität Rostock · Rostock

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  10. Lehramt an Förderschulen

    State examination

    Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg · Halle (Saale)

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

First stage (Bachelor) – then a matching Master of Education and the teacher traineeship (Referendariat)

  1. Sonderpädagogik

    B.A.

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · Oldenburg

    6 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  2. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    B.A.

    Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg · Ludwigsburg

    6 semesters Full-time Summer semester and Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees for EU students · non-EU: €1,500 per semester

  3. Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung (SP)

    B.Ed.

    Universität Paderborn · Paderborn

    6 semesters German and English Full-time Summer semester and Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  4. Sonderpädagogik

    B.A.

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Berlin

    6 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  5. Bachelorstudiengang Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    B.A.

    Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg · Freiburg im Breisgau

    6 semesters Full-time Winter semester and Summer semester Restricted admission No tuition fees for EU students · non-EU: €1,500 per semester

  6. Sonderpädagogik

    B.Ed.

    Bergische Universität Wuppertal · Wuppertal

    6 semesters Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  7. Lehramt Sonderpädagogische Förderung

    B.A.

    Universität Duisburg-Essen · Essen

    6 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  8. Sonderpädagogik

    B.Sc.

    Freie Universität Berlin · Berlin

    6 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  9. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    B.A.

    Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg · Freiburg im Breisgau

    6 semesters Full-time Winter semester and Summer semester Restricted admission, aptitude procedure No tuition fees for EU students · non-EU: €1,500 per semester

All 31 programmes for this goal in the finder

Teaching subjects (part of a teacher-training programme)

Teaching or didactics subjects taken as part of a teacher-training programme; on their own they do not lead to the teaching qualification.

  1. Sonderpädagogische Fachrichtung, Schwerpunkt 1: Sonderpädagogik und inklusive Bildung

    B.A.

    Universität Münster · Münster

    6 semesters Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  2. Lehramt für Förderpädagogik mit dem Schwerpunkt Inklusion

    State examination

    Universität Kassel · Kassel

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  3. Geistigbehindertenpädagogik (Lehramt Sonderpädagogik mit Grundschuldidaktik / Unterrichtsfach)

    State examination

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · München

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  4. Geistigbehindertenpädagogik (Lehramt Sonderpädagogik mit Mittelschuldidaktik / Unterrichtsfach)

    State examination

    Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · München

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  5. Sonderpädagogik - Master of Education (Wirtschaftspädagogik)

    M.Ed.

    Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg · Oldenburg

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  6. Lehramt für Sonderpädagogik - Profilbildung Sekundarstufe (ab WiSe 23/24)

    M.Ed.

    Universität Hamburg · Hamburg

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees

  7. Bildungswissenschaften - Integrierte Sonderpädagogik (Lehramt an Haupt-, Real-, Sekundar- und Gesamtschulen mit integrierter Sonderpädagogik)

    M.Ed.

    Universität Bielefeld · Bielefeld

    4 semesters German Full-time, Part-time Winter semester Open admission No tuition fees

  8. Lehramt für Förderpädagogik

    State examination

    Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen · Gießen

    9 semesters German Full-time Winter semester Open admission, aptitude procedure No tuition fees

  9. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik (LAS-Sek)

    B.Ed.

    Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg · Hamburg

    8 semesters German and English Full-time Winter semester Open admission, aptitude procedure No tuition fees

  10. Aufbau Lehramt Sonderpädagogik (ALSO)

    M.Ed.

    Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg · Ludwigsburg

    4 semesters Full-time, Part-time alongside work Summer semester and Winter semester Restricted admission No tuition fees for EU students · non-EU: €1,500 per semester

All 208 teaching subjects in the finder

Related programmes in other subjects do not lead to this qualification. Programmes in Special needs education: Special needs education in the finder

Choose two to four programmes.

Collected automatically from the institutions’ websites; each institution’s own page is authoritative. OWWZ guidance: Editorial orientation by OWWZ, not a statement by any university and no claim about career prospects.