Faculty Information

The Faculty of Social Work, Health Care and Nursing Sciences was part of the Esslingen University of Social Sciences until 30th September 2006. On 1st October 2006, Esslingen University of Social Sciences and Esslingen University of Engineering merged to become Esslingen University of Applied Sciences.

The former Esslingen University of Social Sciences, and thus the Faculty, actually originated in Stuttgart. In 1917, the Social Women’s School of the Swabian Women’s Union was founded in Stuttgart on the basis of a trust instituted by Queen Charlotte of Württemberg. A second institution supported by this trust was the Seminar for Female Youth Leaders, founded in 1930. After their transformation into Higher Vocational Schools in the 1960s, both institutions merged to form the University of Social Sciences in 1972. For many decades, the University, together with Mannheim University for Social Sciences and the Alice Salomon University in Berlin, was one of the three independent, state-run universities with a specific focus on social and health sciences.

Since winter semester 2004/5, all taught courses have been reorganised to conform to the so-called two-stage model, comprising Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.