The overriding goal of the training- and career-accompanying study concept of the Hochschule der Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe is to safeguard the students ability and capability of studying and exercising their job tasks at the same time. With this in mind, a distance education-based learning and counseling scheme has been developed, offering the students comprehensive organizational, technical as well as expert support and guidance during their distance studies. Unlike the traditional distance studying of the text and study materials at home, the students are thoroughly instructed and tutored over the Internet-based learning platform of the Hochschule and carefully prepared for their examinations. This platform serves not only as information terminal and access portal to study materials, but also as self-tuition medium and communication center for students and teaching staff alike.

Via the learning platform, students get access to the quality-secured study materials designed to provide them with the contents of the subjects relevant to the exams. Apart from this, current information and dates can be retrieved. To monitor their progress in learning on their own, students may work on exercises and case studies and receive individualized feedback reports on their state of knowledge after completion of the tasks. Above all, the Internet-based platform shall be a means of communication between the students and the teaching staff of the Hochschule and among the students as well. Its manifold functions such as chat rooms, pin-boards, discussion forum and panels, tutor mails, virtual learning groups and study teams offer the students all didactically essential prerequisites for an efficient and successful graduate distance education. 

In addition to the high-quality distance study program marked by comprehensive counseling and advisory services for all students, the Hochschule offers its students a wide range of events and activities with compulsory attendance in its eight decentralized distance study centers. The aim of these activities taking the form of lectures, exercise courses, seminar courses and case study reviews is, on the one hand, to revise and deepen the contents of the subjects relevant to the exams as well as the specialized knowledge and method competences acquired in the course of the distance studies. On the other hand, they give the students additional room for technical questions and the practice-related application of the learned subjects.