Professorship at the HdM

Would you like to apply for a HAW professorship at the HdM? Check whether you fulfil the formal requirements and are eligible for appointment according to § 47 LHG Baden-Württemberg:

• Completed university degree (Master's or Diplom)
• special aptitude for academic work (generally a doctorate or, if indicated in the job advertisement, artistic achievements equivalent to a doctorate)
• pedagogical aptitude (e.g. proof of teaching experience)
• Professional experience (at least 5 years of professional experience after obtaining the degree relevant to the professorship (Master's/Diploma), including 3 years outside the university sector)

Do you fulfil all the requirements? Become part of our team and discover our vacancies for professorships.

You do not fulfil every requirement? Please visit our websites On the way to a professorship, Lecturers or Doctoral candidates for more information or contact us personally.

The appointment of professors is governed by the Baden-Württemberg Higher Education Act (Landeshochschulgesetz - LHG). Compliance with the legal requirements is a matter of course and follows a strictly regulated procedure in order to fill the position in the best possible way. It therefore takes several months before the appointment is finally granted or cancelled.

The university forms an appointment committee, which accompanies the entire appointment process and is responsible for drawing up an appointment proposal. Information about the ongoing procedure may not be provided. The composition of the appointment committee is regulated by law in the LHG and comprises at least seven or more members.

• You apply in response to a job advertisement and receive a confirmation of receipt.
• We will review and check your application documents for formal legal requirements and eligibility for appointment.
• If you are shortlisted, you will be invited to a public trial lecture followed by a non-public interview with the appointment committee.
• On the basis of the selection procedure, the appointment committee will draw up an appointment proposal with first, second and third place.
• This is followed by further statements and decisions by various bodies and committees.
• Once agreement has been reached, the Rector issues the appointment.
• If you are not on the nomination list, you will receive a competitor notification with the names of the persons listed.
• If you are ranked second or third, you will receive interim information.
• After written acceptance of the appointment offer, all other applicants will receive a written rejection.
• In principle, the appointment is made as a professor with civil servant status. If the requirements under civil service law are not met, an employment contract will be concluded. The appointment procedure ends with the appointment or the conclusion of an employment contract.

Universities of Applied Sciences provide practice-orientated teaching and further education. They conduct application-oriented research and development. Students are enabled to independently apply and further develop scientific knowledge and methods or to carry out artistic activities in professional practice. The core tasks of professors are accordingly:

• Teaching (18 semester hours per week per semester)
• Participation in academic self-administration
• Applied research (this applies in particular to W3 professorships)

In addition, the full-time duties in accordance with Section 46 LHG Baden-Württemberg include, for example, participation in selection procedures for admission to studies and university examinations, the supervision of students outside of courses to an appropriate extent as well as tasks relating to the quality development of studies and teaching and student counselling.

We are a modern university with excellent facilities and an international network, located on a large research campus in the state and cultural capital of Stuttgart. Like the region, we stand for creativity, innovation and diversity and promote interdisciplinarity, internationality and entrepreneurial thinking.

Advantages of a professorship:

• Great creative freedom that almost no other profession can offer
• the opportunity to discover new things together with others and put them into practice
• meaningful and varied work through self-determined teaching and research
• Collaboration with motivated young people on current, forward-looking topics
• Practical relevance and applied research, including transfer activities and start-up support
• A future-proof job (generally as a civil servant)
• International collaboration with other universities and cooperation partners
• Set your own priorities in research, teaching or academic self-administration
• Instruments to kick-start research projects as well as content-related and administrative support from the IAF and finance department
• Support and advice in the area of teaching from the Centre for Learning and Development (CLD)
• Onboarding measures and new appointments programme of the Center for Learning & Development
• Common understanding of "good teaching" and "good learning" through the HdM teaching mission statement
• Further education and training opportunities (in-house and external), including a management development programme
• the opportunity, under certain conditions, to apply for research semesters and to work part-time, also in the HdM's continuing education programmes

Do you still have questions? If our FAQs do not provide an answer, please contact our HR department or the person named in the job advertisement if you have any questions.

Please only apply online via the link in the respective job advertisement.

All advertised positions are current. As soon as the application deadline has passed, the positions will be removed from the website. You will receive feedback and an invitation to interview in due course after the application deadline.

If you are interested in several positions, you are welcome to apply for them at the same time.

If you wish to make subsequent changes to your submitted application, please send them exclusively to the individual reply e-mail address stated in the confirmation of receipt, which begins with "system" and ends with "@karriere.hdm-stuttgart.de". Please do not reply to the sender e-mail address beginning with "noreply".

Travelling and application costs are not covered. However, you may be able to claim the expenses incurred against tax.

If you wish to withdraw your application, please send an e-mail with the relevant job reference number to the HR department. Please use the individual reply e-mail address stated in the confirmation of receipt, which begins with "system" and ends with "@karriere.hdm-stuttgart.de". Please do not reply to the sender e-mail address beginning with "noreply".

To apply for a professorship at the HdM, we ask you to submit a cover letter, your CV*, your Master's certificate, your doctoral certificate with overall grade** or proof of your artistic achievements equivalent to a doctorate as well as your work references*** or interim references.

If you obtained your degrees outside Germany, please also provide proof of equivalence (e.g. Anabin database).

* Incl. percentage of time spent on each individual activity.
**If no overall grade is shown on your doctoral certificate, please also submit a statement from the first assessor about your performance. We require an additional declaration that you have a grade "better than rite".
*** E.g. proof of three years of professional experience outside the university sector.

The appointment process follows a strictly regulated procedure in order to fill the position in the best possible way. It can therefore take several months from the submission of the application to the final appointment or rejection.

In principle, all professors who are civil servants for the first time are appointed for a probationary period of three years. Upon successful completion of the probationary period, the civil servant status is converted to permanent.

This is similar for tenured professors. They are initially given a fixed-term employment contract, which is followed by a permanent contract if they successfully complete the three-year probationary period.

Salaries are based on the collective labour agreement of the state (TV-L). Depending on the professorship advertised, you will be paid according to salary group W2 or W3 if you are a civil servant. If you are an employee, you will be paid according to salary group W2 or W3. In addition, the W salary offers you the opportunity to receive various types of allowances if you fulfil certain requirements.

You can find the relevant salary tables here:
LBV salary tables for civil servants