Do you have questions about the Master's degree program in Digital Communication and Media Technologies? The degree program coordinator will be happy to help you plan your studies at TU Braunschweig!
Master of Arts (M.A.) or Master of Science (M.Sc.)
Standard period of study
4 semester
Scope
120 CP
Start of studies
winter semester or summer semester
Application deadline
June 01 to July 15 (winter semester) or December 01 to January 15 (summer semester)
Admission requirements
Degree (B.A. or B.Sc. or equivalent degree) in Media Studies, Communication Studies or Media Technology or a comparable course of study. The exact requirements can be found in the admission regulations. If you do not directly fulfill all requirements, admission with conditions may be possible.
Alignment
Research-oriented Master's degree program (acquisition of the doctoral qualification)
Bachelor's degree in Communication Science, Media Science, Media Technology or a closely related degree program
Knowledge and qualifications from the following subject areas amounting to at least 30 credit points, of which at least 10 credit points from at least two of the areas A-D and at least 10 credit points from area E:
A) Mathematical fundamentals
B) Electrical engineering basics (hardware)
C) Computer Science (Software)
D) Communication and communications engineering
E) Communication science/media science
If the 30 credit points are not (yet) available as required, admission may be granted subject to conditions. If you have any questions, please contact the degree program coordinator.
If you have not yet completed your Bachelor's degree, it is also possible to apply with at least 83% of the total required credit points (i.e. 150 of 180 LP or 175 of 210 LP).
Selection procedure If there are more suitable applications than places available, applicants are selected on the basis of their final grade.
Documents to be submitted
Signed application for admission (pdf of the online application)
Complete curriculum vitae in tabular form
Certificate of completion of the BA program (certified copy)
Proof of grades or performance (list of completed modules / transcript of records)
Module handbook of your Bachelor's degree program as proof of the required knowledge and qualifications (as pdf or link)
If you have any questions about the formalities, please contact the Admissions Office directly.
International students If you are applying with an international degree, additional documents may be required. The staff at the International House will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
As a graduate of the Master's in Digital Communication and Media Technologies, you will have project experience and problem-solving skills and will be ideally prepared for leading positions at the interface between technology, media and people.
The interdisciplinary approach and the wide range of elective options in the Master's degree program offer you the opportunity to prepare yourself individually and flexibly for the demands of the job market. You will be qualified to work independently and academically and trained for demanding activities that will enable you to take on managerial and leading positions in media and business enterprises. The degree also qualifies students for a doctorate.
You will acquire skills and specialist knowledge from two very different areas, enabling you to pursue a communication-oriented activity later in your career, such as in internal corporate communication, project management or marketing with insights into technical and IT processes, or a technology-oriented activity, such as in the system development of information and communication systems with the ability to integrate people and society as a relevant factor.
When working in the field of human-machine interfaces, you can contribute your expertise from both fields of study. For example, such expertise is urgently needed in the development of new user interfaces such as augmented reality or displays in autonomous systems.
Last but not least, you will be able to communicate technology and engage in a discursive exchange about technological innovations. The field of science and technology communication, or more generally the transfer from science to the public, is becoming increasingly important. In addition to communication skills and a basic understanding of human and social processing and exchange processes, specialist knowledge of technology and computer science is required. Graduates of the "Digital Communication and Media Technologies" degree program are therefore particularly suited to these activities.
Depending on the chosen specialization and your own practical experience, the course opens up career opportunities in the following areas, for example:
Education and science
Consulting (media and political consulting)
Data science / data analyst
Information technology and communications engineering
(IT) project management & consulting
Journalism (online editing, technical editing, video journalism, science journalism, etc.)
Building on your previous media, communication science or technical studies, you will expand and deepen your profile for the interface between information, media technology and communication in the Master's degree course in Digital Communication and Media Technologies.
You will expand your technical expertise and acquire additional communication science skills, which you will apply in a practical and research-oriented manner to current subject areas. Your fundamental and in-depth knowledge of individual and social contexts of communication and impact processes promotes the transfer to society. The interdisciplinary approach and elective options of the Master's degree program allow you to prepare yourself individually and flexibly for the demands of the job market.
The four-semester course teaches coordinated skills from selected fields of research in communication science, communication technology and media and business informatics.
The core area (compulsory modules)
In the interdisciplinary area, the connection between the core areas of digital communication and media technologies is made clear to you at the beginning of your studies, the added value of interdisciplinary thinking is conveyed and interface skills are promoted. At the same time, you will gain an initial understanding of the different disciplinary perspectives on the subjects of the course. The interdisciplinary module thus also forms a basis for your own specialization in the further course of your studies.
In the field of digital communication, fundamental structures and processes of digital communication are analyzed and researched on an individual and societal level. You will be trained to recognize and assess the social significance and impact of technology - e.g. in the form of social media or language assistants. They learn the in-depth methodological skills and statistical analysis procedures required for this and implement these in their own empirical projects. In the field of science communication research, you will reflect on various normative communication models for the relationship between science and the public and deal with current issues such as the perception of the comprehensibility of experts or the relationship of trust.
In the field of media technologies, you will deal with the basic models and concepts of information and communication technology, software development, methods of probability theory and statistics, the basic functioning and technologies of current communication networks and the conceptual architecture of modern communication systems. You will learn the principles and the current standard of mobile radio, the basic channel, system and signal models of communications engineering and basic knowledge of the field of human-machine interaction.
Project area (compulsory elective modules)
In the communication science or media technology project module, you will apply the knowledge and skills you have acquired in a research project in your chosen study profile. You will further develop new technical and scientific problems or test new ideas in professional tasks.
Specialization area (compulsory elective modules)
The specialization area (23 CP) allows you to focus and specialize according to your individual interests and abilities. For orientation purposes, related profiles are suggested to you when choosing your specialization:
Digitalization and technology
Communication of science and technology
Business communication and information
However, it is also possible to select individual modules according to your interests and career goals, giving you the greatest possible freedom of choice.
Master thesis
The topic of the final Master's thesis can be chosen independently, just like the specialization. The Master's thesis can either focus on media technologies or digital communication. It is also possible to combine the Master's thesis with modules from the specialization area.
