Media Design (BME), B.A.
Smartphones, portable game consoles, netbooks - digital means of communication have long since become part of our everyday lives. TV and cinema films are also hardly imaginable without the use of digital media. In the meantime, computer-animated cartoons as well as new digital cinema 3D technologies are quite a matter of course for us to expand our previous viewing habits. While in the print sector it is now the case that no image is published without a prior digital general revision, the demand for high-quality videos on the Internet is also increasing immensely and despite all this progress, we are only at the beginning of a development.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) |
|---|---|
| Duration | 8 semesters, 240 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time, Part-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.03 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €440.99 per semester |
| Practical semester | Yes, mandatory |
| Campus | Campus Expo Plaza |
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 Media Design course prepares students to be able to assert themselves successfully in this dynamic market. In the Design Center you will learn conceptual methods for planning and implementing media projects as well as in-depth and complex specialist knowledge of film, animation/VFX and games. The lectures, seminars and projects focus on: design and media theory, animation/VFX, film, games, visual conception and storyboards, production planning, post-production and visual effects & compositing. Modern equipment such as an HDTV-capable television studio, Blackmagic film cameras, Vicon motion capture, rapid prototyping, 3D laser scanners, 3D and interaction laboratories as well as software products such as Maya, MAX, NUKE, AVID and the Adobe Creative Suite are available for this purpose.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
As diverse as the course is, so extensive is the job market that awaits our graduates. Advertising agencies, television broadcasters, film production companies, Internet service providers, game and edutainment developers and many other areas of the digital media industry ensure a continuous demand for our comprehensively trained all-round talents.
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The graduates will find a wide range of jobs on the job market. Classic employers are advertising agencies, television stations, film production companies, internet service providers, games and edutainment developers. Graduates of the course now work internationally as creative directors, art directors, supervisors, technical directors, animators, character designers, illustrators, storyboarders or as independent agency managers. Their CVs feature employers such as Weta digital, Digital Domain, Moving Picture Company, Cinecite, Double Negative, Ambient Entertainment, Scanline, Ubisoft, EA (Electronic Arts), Goodgame Studios, etc.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Lower Saxony), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €440.99 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.03 |
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.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application via uni-assist until 15.03uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, 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.
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Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.03.2027 (152 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.