Build your own software? Learn how to create all the applications you want – from design through to implementation!
Are you the kind of person who explores topics that range from creating websites and smartphone apps through to robotics? You enjoy using a computer, and you’re curious about how it works? You like problem-solving? You appreciate creativity, and enjoy getting your hands dirty and creating ‘stuff’? If so, you’re the right person to enrol on a degree programme that promises a wide variety of career prospects in software!
You will learn the principles of software design and implementation:
- Systems analysis and design
- Software development: programming languages and technologies
- Software engineering: software architecture, software testing, human computer, requirements engineering and usability interaction
Learn all about technologies such as:
- Databases
- Computer networks,
- Foundations of IT hardware
- Operating systems
- Multimedia technology
- IT security
Other fascinating areas of your studies include:
- Project management and agile development
- Data science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
From your sixth semester onwards you will specialise in Data Science or Digital Transformation.
General university entrance qualification
You can find out which certificates are valid and what you need as on our page Application
Entry qualification – German | A1 |
Entry qualification – English | B2; IELTS 6.5 |
Your studies offer you a variety of opportunities for practical experience. For example, in many of your courses you will apply the theory you have learned directly by engaging in a realistic project so as to be able to pursue it in greater depth. The fifth semester is a practical semester: here you go out to a company and apply everything you have learned so far in a real-life setting.
You can also write your bachelor thesis at a company. A special bonus: our cooperation with industry partners means you can apply as a working student from the second semester onwards.
The Career Service team will be glad to support and advise you on how to stay close to real-life practice. A variety of other events are planned in addition to the regular courses,
- project weeks
- workshops
- practical lectures by external guests
- excursions
- case studies
- project work with other students
- individual coaching
The Software Design programme at Aschaffenburg UAS qualifies you to work as a software professional. The primary focus of this course is on the underlying principles of software engineering and their application to modern software engineering practices. The programme provides you with all the skills you need for your future career in software engineering. You will learn to plan and implement complex software projects efficiently and with a customer focus.
This degree programme equips you to start working life having already completed your practical work with a work placement in a company during the fifth semester. Through our partners, we work with companies to provide students with a practical placement, thereby enabling them to combine theory and practice.
Every great programme involves a blend of practical and theoretical aspects, and academic excellence is important, too. This is one of the reasons you will be required to write a bachelor’s thesis, which is the final element of the course. So in addition to learning how to programme and develop your own applications, you will come away with work experience and a bachelor thesis.
You can either start out in the field of software development and computer science or head a department for quality assurance and process management. With a degree in Software Design, many doors are open to you in the world of digital, including the following careers:
- Software Engineer
- Software Developer
- Software Tester
- Product Manager
- Data Scientist
- Web Developer
- Software Project Manager
- Application Specialist
- Business Analyst
That covers quite a range! Whether freelance or employed: you can work for smaller companies, medium-sized businesses or large-scale companies, as well as in the public sector.
Learn more about our application process. Start online application
If you have any questions about the application, our study office will be happy to help: studienbewerbung(at)th-ab.de
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Questions about the study programme?
Melissa Sommer
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Würzburger Straße 45
Room C1/05/101
63743 Aschaffenburg - melissa.sommer(at)th-ab.de
- + 49 60 21 4206 - 755
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Würzburger Straße 45
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Degree programme director
Prof. Dr. Barbara Sprick
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Würzburger Straße 45
Room C1/04/103
63743 Aschaffenburg - barbara.sprick(at)th-ab.de
- + 49 60 21 4206 - 310
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Würzburger Straße 45