Applied Media and Cultural Studies, M.A.
The master's program in Applied Media and Cultural Studies (AMKW) imparts a holistic media and cultural science approach, which enables you to become active in the cultural or media field and provides you with specific reflection skills in dealing with media-cultural complexity taught. They look behind the scenes of current media culture in order to be able to help shape it in the future.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.06 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €326.80 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
- Theory: conveys a sensitivity to concepts and enables a professional reflection of our complex lifeworld from a media and cultural studies perspective.
- Methods: teaches concrete ways of behaving and allows an empirical approach to understanding, describing and explaining our media-cultural world.
- Cultural Education: points out concrete ways and possibilities to use participatory approaches to our media-cultural world and make them usable.
- Management: enables the holistic participation of our media-cultural world, including economic, legal and technical skills.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The graduates of the Master's degree program are qualified according to their individual focus
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- to act in cultural and media-savvy occupational fields (eg in television stations and in radio, in the publishing industry, in press and public relations in associations and commercial enterprises, in market opinion, media culture and social research , editorial and journalistic)
- to immerse yourself in cultural, media, but also cultural-political and pedagogical fields of work,
- to undertake a scientific or artistic activity at the university,
- to take up a doctoral program (in the form of a cooperative dissertation or at a university),
- to enter the higher service (the master's degree is the entry requirement to the higher service).
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Saxony-Anhalt), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €326.80 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | The prerequisite for admission to the Master's degree program is a first professionally qualified university degree equivalent to at least 180 credits according to the ECTS (European Credit Transfer System). |
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| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 15.06 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application directly to the university until 15.06Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 4Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.06.2027 (244 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.