Media Informatics, B.Sc.
Fascination of interactive worlds: media production, web & mobile, programming. A live stream of an event, an advertising clip in which the real and virtual worlds merge, a smartphone app, an interactive web application – all of these are examples of media informatics products. What are the similarities? On the surface, they ideally look elegant, flawless, colorful, appealing, interesting and uncomplicated. But behind the scenes is often the most modern and quite complicated technology of computer science. This characterizes media informatics - a combination of "technology" and "surface", of computer science and media.
Because only on the basis of the most modern computer technology is it possible to prepare, transmit and process data, texts, images and language in digital form.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 6 semesters, 180 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | No admission restriction: every eligible applicant is admitted |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €279.82 per semester |
| Campus | Campus Friedberg |
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
Media informatics is subject to rapid innovation cycles. In order to be able to start your professional life successfully and to remain successful, you need both: up-to-date, practice-relevant application knowledge and solid basics from a large area from media psychology to mathematics. The broad technical basic knowledge enables the graduates to adapt quickly to new technical developments and to face new challenges in their job.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Every media production and every development of an interactive application offers opportunities for media computer scientists. Therefore, the following examples outline possible professions. It can also be assumed that your own job description will change again during your studies due to the modules and practical phases offered. Your area of responsibility often changes during your professional life.
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Web Agencies
In global networking through the Internet, media computer scientists work at the crucial interfaces; plan, update and maintain communication and information platforms for Web 2.0. Mobile platforms are increasingly coming to the fore here, so that the demand for app developers for smartphones is increasing rapidly.
media agencies
Depending on the focus and client, the range of products from a media agency is very large. Media IT specialists can make decisive contributions to all phases of such media productions. They prepare audio and video material or program 3D animations and create illustration graphics.
Education and training
Education and training is increasingly being supported by electronic media. Media IT specialists create the electronic basis for lifelong learning, develop e-learning systems, work out structures for databases to store and index the constantly growing knowledge.
Other options
Broad training means that media IT specialists can be used in any industry. They also find their jobs in the computer games industry, at TV stations and radio stations or in larger IT companies.
Many graduates also use the knowledge they have accumulated during their studies to set up their own company, be it as a web or software developer or in the field of IT services or IT consulting.
Quite a few graduates remain at the university, deepen their knowledge and skills in a master’s degree, perhaps do a doctorate and/or go into research and teaching.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hesse), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €279.82 |
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 15.07 |
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 15.07uni-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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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 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.