English and American Literatures, Cultures, and Media, M.A.
If your eyes light up when you hear terms like fiction, literature, art, film, (popular) culture or the media, if you find longer texts more attractive than deterrent and if you are enthusiastic about books, then you are in good hands in a humanities subject. If you are particularly interested in English - after all, a lingua franca that, with around 370 million speakers, is one of the TOP 3 most common mother tongues - the English major is ideal for you.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Admission | No admission restriction: every eligible applicant is admitted |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €179 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
Every applicant who meets the formal requirements is admitted — but places can run out before the deadline, so apply at the start of the window.
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
At the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) you can study English as a one-subject master’s degree in English and American Literatures, Cultures, and Media. As the name suggests, English and American literature, culture and media are the focus of this master's degree. The aim of the subject is to deepen your knowledge of current research questions and methods. At the end of your time at the University of Kiel, you should be able to apply differentiated methodological and analytical skills and thus be able to independently expand your scientific knowledge with valuable content.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
With your master's degree, you are ideally trained for activities in the fields of culture and media. However, you can also use your in-depth linguistic and literary knowledge as well as your knowledge of the history of culture and mentality in English-speaking countries together with your linguistic skills in other areas in your later professional life.
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The design of the degree programs is aimed at a varied education – not only in terms of language – in order to open up a wide range of professional opportunities for the graduates. With the combination of good language skills, subject-specific media skills and well-founded methodological and specialist knowledge, the courses prepare you for the following professional fields:
- School and further education,
- Media, publishing and librarianship,
- Marketing and public relations in companies,
- Translation,
- Cultural Management and Public Relations,
- Tourism and foreign trade relations,
- International organizations and diplomatic service.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Schleswig-Holstein), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €179 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Basically interested in literature and language. |
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| Language | English C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
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 15.01uni-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.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.01.2027 (93 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.