Cultural Studies: Culture and Organization, M.A.
How are art and culture organized? Why and how are art, creativity and diversity important to ideas and practices of organization and entrepreneurship? How are urban creative spaces and industries designed and atmospherically experienced? And how do digital media change the way we work and interact?
This cutting-edge Masters programme is dedicated to the relationship between culture, the arts and organization. Uniquely, it is both theory-driven and practice-based, combining dialogical teaching with fieldwork-based learning.
The programme introduces cultural and sociological theories as critical lenses for studying contemporary organization and organizing. On this basis, students learn to engage empirically and analytically with organizational and entrepreneurial practices in different sectors, systems, fields and industries of arts and culture.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time, Double Degree |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 01.05 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €352.89 per semester |
| Campus | Leuphana Campus |
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
The courses introduce students to cultural sociology, the sociology of arts and culture, the study of digital cultures and new forms of organizing and of management and cultural entrepreneurship. Steeped in the tradition of sociology and cultural studies, the programme takes a pronounced international approach and engages with up-to-date research and methods. The programme is fully taught in English; in addition, further electives are offered in German.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
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The Masters programme gives students an understanding of the way in which organization fundamentally conditions culture and society, and it teaches methodological and analytical skills for research into the discourses, practices and technologies of organization. The programme provides practice-based knowledge of, and competencies for, organizing culture, and teaches students transferable skills in communication and teamwork. All of these capabilities and skills are in high demand in a wide range of occupations.
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The programme is suitable both for students seeking to pursue an academic career and for those who would like to take on responsible roles in the cultural and creative industry, in the arts, in the media, in the public sector, in urban development or in foundations and charitable organizations.
Qualified students with a particular interest in research have the option of simultaneously registering for the Doctoral Track. Combining the Masters and doctoral phases offers students a unique opportunity to join the scholarly community at very early stage.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €352.89 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A bachelor's degree in a related field. |
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| Language | English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 01.05 |
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 via uni-assist until 01.05uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 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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The deadline is 01.05.2027 (199 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.