A wide range of diverse career opportunities await cultural science degree graduates. An intercultural education affords students career opportunities in Human Resources or the organization of international meetings. You could apply your interdisciplinary education to become involved with a creative, multidimensional marketing campaign. Cultural science graduates exhibit a strong analytical capability which is always welcome in a marketing research field. If you are interested in pursuing a specific, unique theme, such as the language variations found in the Caucasus, than a cultural science degree can open up fascinating scientific career opportunities. Scores of graduates are also successfully self-employed as journalists, writers, interpreters, trainers or consultants.

An important component of most of the seminars is excursions from which students can prepare themselves and gain direct insight into day-to-day working operations.These experiences cultivate the problem solving skills learned through a cultural and social science education which facilitate future success. In the study-orientated internships students have the chance to attain career related experiences and investigate different fields of interest. Through the foreign language educational requirement, as well as the obligatory study or employment abroad experience, social and cultural sciences alumni are prepared to step into the competitive professional world of today. The scores of student’s projects are proof of the study program’s practical applications.

The Viadrina thinks of itself as a university of Europe. This atmosphere is palpable through the Viadrina’s function as a bridge between Frankfurt and Slubice and the local academic composition and residential arrangements. Through a semester spent abroad and acquaintanceships with foreign guest students, cultural and social science students build personal international networks. Through the Viadrina’s contracts with around 200 universities world-wide, a semester abroad on a different continent is possible. Every semester you would have the chance to participate in various lectures from guests lecturers conducted in the language of their home country (usually in English, French or Spanish) you may wish to visit.

A course of study in cultural and social science and a related Master’s program in the desired area of specialization creates alumni suitable for an international career field that is in line with the student’s area of interest. The strengthening of a cultural and social science student’s language abilities enhances their ability to look at problems with an intercultural vantage point as well as draw back on their experiences learned during their semester abroad. Numerous alumni are therefore employed in engaging European and international enterprises, institutions and non-government organizations. Many work permanently in foreign countries.