International Media Cultural Work (IMC), M.A.
Curating – Communicating – Managing – These three terms span the huge field of digital media and its technologies, for which International Media Cultural Work will qualify its students as superbly imaginative leaders and strategically outstanding executives. During the program,students will focus on media aesthetic education and cultural communication to develop expertise in inspiring society to a deeper and critical understanding of media technologies’cultural implications, as well as their social and ethicalphilosophical dimensions. The course’s practical goal is to encourage society and individuals to use media for skillful self-expression, as well as for creative and emancipatory practices. The program is conducted in English. Its perspective is international and intercultural. The students will work in transdiscipline, collaborative, and experimental environments.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Arts (M.A.) |
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| Duration | 3 semesters, 90 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Required English | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter 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 |
| 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 →About the programme
Are you interested in digital culture, art and technology? Do you want to become an innovative leader in this field?
Do you want to make audiences and individuals understand digital media, grasp it, touch it, critically as well as creatively? Do you want to work in a professional field which merges aesthetics, cultural concepts, media technological methods, pedagogical considerations, and managerial steering strategies? If yes, our Master’s degree program International Media Cultural Work might be for you!
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The collaborative spirit in our international team is characterized by diversity and tolerance.
The Master´s program International Media Cultural Work (IMC) addresses to
• Media makers – because they can expand their knowhow and abilities of expression by latest technologies e.g. Fulldome Cinema, VR- and 3D-Audio and other immersive media.
• Media artists and curators – because IMC gets them in touch with new perspectives and latest concepts by which they can deepen their curatorial, artistic and pedagogical approaches, and this will empower them to lead future discourses and practices.
• Journalists – because they’ll experience how imaginatively, unconventionally and creatively they can work in the field of media cultural facilitation and an expanded field of journalism.
• Technology enthusiasts – because they’ll get in touch with the innovative spectrum of latest technologies enabling them to to present digital content in new, stunning ways and facilitating it to the general public.
• Management experts – because this program conveys advanced knowledge and methods of strategies, organization, self organization, finances, negotiation and leadership skills in and with media.
• Networkers – because International Media Cultural Work brings students from all over the world together and enables them to build up directly their individual international networks and intercultural competences.
• Researchers– because they can build up, develop and foster their research interests and abilities, under the qualified supervision of experienced and reknown supervisors in scientific, scholarly as well as in artistic research.
If you want to work successfully in digital media, knowledge and knowhow of the framework is a huge professional bonus. Being aware and being able to steer how media productions and digital culture can be facilitated to society, will ensure the sustained acceptance of high quality production. Based on this, you can develop audiences, foster them, and solidly build up your career and leadership prospects.
What you study
The Master program International Media Cultural Work (IMC) consists of three foundation semesters and possibly an internship depending on the student’s academic history: Applicants with a 7-semester undergraduate or a graduate degree study 3 semesters, while candidates with a 6-semester Bachelor’s degree must complete an internship before their final master project.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Graduates in International Media Cultural Work enjoy an extensive field of career opportunities, including
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- Executive positions (e.g. cultural managers, dramaturges, cultural editors, art educators)
- Independent freelance work (e.g. as curators, consultants, cultural publicists, exhibition designers)
- Researchers (e.g. with independent scientific or scholarly projects)
Employers may be cultural institutions, media companies, educational organizations, or industrial or economic corporations.
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 diploma or bachelor degree is required from the following fields: digital media, media culture, or media pedagogy. |
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| Language | English C1 — 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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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.