Fine Arts, M.F.A.
With the Masters degree, the HFBK offers students a course of study centred around the student’s own planned artistic and/or scientific development, allowing issues of interest, working methods and processes to be critically analysed, deepened and to become differentiated.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 06.03 |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €333.60 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
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
Students will have access to workplaces in studios. They will be intensively supported by tutors in developing their projects, through individual and group discussions. The scientific studies on offer will sharpen their ability for critical reflection with regard to their own artistic issues, methods and ways of working, as well as supporting ongoing research projects. Exhibition projects and events within and outside the university context will educate the students in dealing professionally with forms of presentation and with processes of distribution. On completing their degree, students will present their artistic and/or scientific work, which will also be documented in an accompanying publication, in front of a large audience.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hamburg), international students | €0 |
|---|---|
| Semester contribution | €333.60 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Admission requirements for the master's degree in "Fine Arts" with the degree Master of Fine Arts is a technical college or university degree. |
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| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 06.03 |
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 06.03Send 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.
Questions about this programme
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When do I need to apply?
Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 06.03.2027 (143 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.