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Facts

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Full-time study, 3 semester

Languages of instruction: German, partly English

Currently no tuition fees

Application for summer semester 2026:
from 01.09.2025 until 30.11.2025

Health Care and Nursing Upgrade


From a diploma in Health Care and Nursing to a bachelor


You are a qualified Health Care and Nursing graduate in the upper service and would like to actively develop your career for the future?

You would like to scientifically substantiate your specialist knowledge and nursing skills with a university degree?

Building on your previous training qualification in General Health Care and Nursing, the Bachelor of Science in Health Studies opens up new professional and academic prospects for you.


Then your path begins at the FHV - Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences.
You already have a university entrance qualification or are taking the additional examinations at the FHV. Depending on your previous education, you will be credited with courses for your bachelor's degree in.

A minimum of 120 ECTS (see GuKG § 28 Para. 6) will be recognised for your degree in general Health Care and Nursing.

For people with special basic training in child and adolescent care and psychiatric Health Care and Nursing, other recognition regulations apply under university of applied sciences law. The relevant course administrators will be happy to provide information on this.

Facts

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Full-time study, 3 semester

Languages of instruction: German, partly English

Currently no tuition fees

Application for summer semester 2026:
from 01.09.2025 until 30.11.2025

Health Care and Nursing Upgrade programme details

Career perspectives

Build on your professional experience and advance your academic qualifications – with the Bachelor of Science in Health Studies, you open up new career opportunities in the nursing field. Whether in direct patient care in a hospital, care home or hospice, or in nursing and quality management: your degree provides lasting qualification for responsible roles in the higher-level nursing service.

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