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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 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

  4. 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

  5. Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Berlin

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

  6. 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

  7. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.Planned

    Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg · Freiburg im Breisgau

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

  8. Lehramt an Förderschulen

    M.Ed.

    Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau · Landau in der Pfalz

    4 semesters German Full-time Winter semester and Summer semester Open admission

  9. Sonderpädagogische Förderung

    M.Ed.

    Bergische Universität Wuppertal · Wuppertal

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

  10. Lehramt Sonderpädagogik

    M.Ed.

    Europa-Universität Flensburg · Flensburg

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

All 16 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. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. Sonderpädagogik (Schwerpunkt Integrierte Sekundarschule)

    M.Ed.

    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Berlin

    4 semesters Full-time No tuition fees

  6. Sonderpädagogische Fachrichtung, Förderschwerpunkt Emotionale und soziale Entwicklung

    M.Ed.

    Universität Münster · Münster

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

  7. Sonderpädagogische Fachrichtung: FSP Emotionale und soziale Entwicklung (Lehramt für Sonderpädagogische Förderung)

    M.Ed.

    Universität zu Köln · Köln

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

  8. Förderschwerpunkt Emotionale und Soziale Entwicklung (Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung)

    M.Ed.

    Bergische Universität Wuppertal · Wuppertal

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

  9. Lehramt für sonderpädagogische Förderung (SoPäFö)

    M.Ed.

    Universität Siegen · Siegen

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

  10. Lehramt für Sonderpädagogik - Profilbildung Sekundarstufe (LAS-Sek)

    M.Ed.

    Universität Hamburg · Hamburg

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

All 95 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.