Expanded Media, M.A.
Creating media experiences that can impact users' real lives and bring about real change is the focus of the English-taught Master's program in 'Expanded Media'. The focus of such new, transmedia media architectures is the personal experience: Users want to feel personally involved and seek to derive personal benefits from the media experience. Students work in international teams to develop media offerings that explore this potential. In interdisciplinary media productions, they combine real and media worlds of experience and develop a new media language based on the user/audience experience. In the three study specializations of Expanded Storyworlds, Expanded Sound & Music, and Expanded Realities, students have the opportunity to deepen their preferred strategies for conveying a personally meaningful experience to users.
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 |
| Start | Winter semester, summer semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 01.06, summer semester until 01.12 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €382 per semester |
| Practical semester | Yes, mandatory |
| Campus | Campus Dieburg |
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
1st semester
Students focus on combining strategies from different media formats in a transmedia architecture based on the principles of experience design, using digital storytelling and design thinking methods.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
- Conception, direction, and production of immersive media installations, e.g., for trade fairs, museums, or festivals
- Scriptwriting, direction, and production of projects with cross-media story worlds, e.g., for TV or advertising
- Conception and production of complex sound and music projects and products
- Conception and development of technologies and applications for VR, AR, and mixed realities
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hesse), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €382 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A qualified bachelor's or diploma degree (210 CP or 180 CP) in the field of media conception, media design, media production, media development, or a related field of study, as well as an aptitude test. |
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| Language | English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 01.06, summer semester until 01.12 |
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 01.12uni-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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When do I need to apply?
Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 01.12.2026 (48 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.