Good Bachelor's graduates, whether from Lübeck or from another university, should go on to study for a Master's degree. The bachelor's degree allows you to gain a foothold in a company and make progress there, but only the master's degree offers the space to develop the skills that are important in the course of a professional life in the long term. Master's students acquire specialized and in-depth knowledge beyond Wikipedia and standard textbooks.
The Master's degree program in Mathematics in Medicine and Life Sciences at the University of Lübeck is research-oriented. This makes it the entry ticket to the world of science and a prerequisite for a doctorate. In the Master's program, students are "very close" to research and it is quite realistic that the results of a good Master's thesis will be presented at a relevant specialist conference and published in a specialist journal.
The course focuses on the mathematical modeling of issues, particularly in medicine and the biosciences, which enables simulations, predictions and qualitative investigations. This allows students to tackle challenging research problems at an early stage and learn interdisciplinary cooperation, e.g. with physicians, biologists and physicists. It is not uncommon for the results of Master's theses to be published at international conferences or in international journals.
Type of Study
FulltimeStandard period of study
4 SemesterCredits
120 ECTSCourse language
GermanAdmission period
Wintersemester 01.05. - 15.09.
Sommersemester 15.11. - 15.01.
Admission Requirement
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Further information on the admission requirements can be found in the degree program regulations.
The Master's degree lasts two years. During this time, mathematics is studied in depth in the basic subjects and prepared for scientific work in research or industry. The Master's thesis takes six months to complete.
By emphasizing the fundamental subjects, graduates gain a broad knowledge base that prepares them for future developments and makes them highly versatile. They are not only trained to meet the needs at the interface between the life sciences and computer technology, but can also be deployed with today's increasingly necessary "training on the job" in the respective core areas such as mathematics, computer science and biotechnology. As a result, the spectrum of possible future activities is wider than a degree course in the core areas alone can offer.
Some of the teaching modules are accompanied by internships, which are intended to provide an insight into experimental work in the natural sciences and also focus on the analysis and modeling of experimentally obtained data. Students are involved as early as possible in the interdisciplinary work of the institutes and their cooperation with university and non-university institutions.
In mathematics, students are given an overview of biosignal analysis, mathematical methods of image processing and stochastic processes and can acquire specialized knowledge in various areas of mathematics such as analysis, numerics, stochastics or discrete mathematics.
Life Science
Image Processing
Genetic Statistics
If you meet the admission requirements, you can apply via the online application portal.
A Bachelor of Science is required for admission to the MML Master's program. This can be from a university or university of applied sciences. Depending on the curriculum of the completed Bachelor's degree, students may be required to complete special modules from the compulsory catalog of the MML Bachelor's degree.
You can find all the important information about starting your first semester here.
A Bachelor of Science is required for admission to the MML Master's program. This can be from a university or university of applied sciences. Depending on the curriculum of the completed Bachelor's degree, students may be required to complete special modules from the compulsory catalog of the MML Bachelor's degree.
The relatively high proportion of compulsory elective courses in the Master's degree program is intended to give students the opportunity to choose the course content according to their personal interests and to acquire the specialist knowledge required for the Master's thesis. When selecting courses, prior consultation with the course coordinator or the Master's thesis supervisor is highly recommended.
Project internships can be carried out externally at universities, in companies throughout Germany or abroad. However, you need to take the initiative to find a job. It is advisable to use the contacts of institutes at the university. Alternatively, it is of course possible to carry out project internships within the university at institutes or clinics.
The application form for the project internship must be completed and submitted with all documents to the chair of the examination board before the start of the project internship. In general, a lecturer at the University of Lübeck must be named who is also the official supervisor for external projects.
Students have a total of three examination attempts per module. The examination should be attempted after the examination requirements have been met, but you are free to choose between the first and second attempt. If you have attempted an examination once and failed, you are obliged to take it again on the next possible examination date. Failure to appear is considered another failed attempt.
An examination that has been passed once with at least 4.0 cannot be repeated.
The examination board is made up of professors, academic staff and students. It decides on the interpretation of the examination regulations and deals with cases that may not be provided for or covered in the regulations.
Contact the examination board if something unforeseen happens during your studies, such as a prolonged illness or problems with examinations. The committee can (of course only in truly exceptional situations) grant special permission and make special arrangements for you.
Typically, you should contact the chairperson of the committee directly; he or she can decide many things directly and the committee does not always have to hold lengthy meetings.
Statutes of the degree program.
Examination dates and other formalities for examinations are uniformly regulated for all Bachelor's and Master's degree programs.
Forms and information sheets, e.g. for issuing the Bachelor's thesis, cover sheet for the Bachelor's thesis or registration for the colloquium for the Bachelor's thesis, can be found on the general forms page of the Examinations Office and the special page for mathematics-related forms.