The Ph. D. students of the HSA_ired are employed as research associates and as such, they predominantly finance themselves through research & development work for third-party funds. One part of these works is contract research for companies, while another part is public funding. The Ph. D. graduation typically takes 3 to 6 years.

As a research institute, we are committed to the education of our junior scientists. Therefore, we offer research oriented subjects for project theses in the bachelor and master programmes of our faculties. A number of these projects are performed by students of the Master of Applied Research programme, a joint master programme of bavarian universities of applied sciences, which includes platforms for the exchange of ideas between universities, such as the annual Applied Research Conference (ARC) for students of all member universities.