Do you have any questions about the Bachelor's degree programme in Media Studies? The course coordination will be happy to help you plan your start at TU Braunschweig!
Media Studies is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach that takes into account the constant expansion of the concept of media.
The Bachelor's degree course in Media Studies is based on the three pillars of Media Culture, Communication Studies & Media Contextsand Media Technology. It teaches core media science skills and supplements these with a broad range of basic knowledge in all media-related areas. Students can continue to pursue their own specialization, which they develop over the course of their studies, in one of the subsequent Master's degree courses or in their professional life. The interdisciplinary approach that characterizes both the Bachelor's and Master's degrees enables students to overcome the boundaries between individual disciplines and form innovative syntheses.
In cooperation with the HBK Braunschweig, the Bachelor's degree course in Media Studies brings together the special potential of a technical university and an art academy in an interdisciplinary way. The Braunschweig model combines approaches from cultural studies, media technology and communication studies to create a study profile that is unique in Germany. Students gain scientific insights into the function, production, structure, aesthetics, impact and use of media and can gain personal experience in practical projects.
The core areas of the course include modules from media culture studies, communication studies and media technology. In the area of media contexts, supplementary modules such as media law, business studies, art studies, sociology, media psychology, etc. can be selected. The degree course is combined with a minor subject to further sharpen the profile.
The cooperation between the HBK and the TU enables the special structure of the Braunschweig degree program with its minor subject combinations. You choose a minor subject from the following options:
Media Studies can also be combined as a minor subject with the main subjects of Art Studies or Performing Arts.
Students majoring in Media Studies can choose from a wide range of courses. During the six-semester course, students have the opportunity to spend time abroad at one of the partner universities and complete an internship. Each student sets their own personal focus and thus develops their own individual profile.
Please send your application for the main subject Media Studies to the TU Braunschweig - even if the combination or minor subject is offered by the HBK Braunschweig. Please pay attention to any aptitude tests required for the combination subjects and their special deadlines!
For the main subject Media Studies the application deadline begins on 01.06. and ends on 15.07. (cut-off deadline). You will receive more detailed information on the application procedure from the end of May on the page Your application at TU Braunschweig.
You first apply online and then send the signed form with the other application documents to the Admissions Office of the TU Braunschweig.
ATTENTION: The complete application documents must be received by the Admissions Office by 15.07.
Media Studies as a major subject can be combined with one of the following minor subjects:
Visual Communication (minor subject at the HBK with artistic admission procedure) For the minor subject Visual Communication, the application deadline for the artistic admission procedure is 01.02. to 15.03. at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste!
Depending on the chosen combination of subjects and specialization as well as your own practical experience, the degree course opens up entry opportunities in various fields.
As a graduate with a major in Media Studies, you will be able to pursue a career in culturally or technically oriented as well as application-oriented areas of the media sector. Depending on the combination of subjects with your minor subject, you will be particularly qualified for those professional fields
in which media and art play a joint role (with a minor in art studies): e.g. cultural institutions such as galleries, museums; with a focus on activities such as exhibition design and event management;
in which project-related mediation between designers and clients is required (with NF Communication Design): e.g. marketing, advertising, public relations, web design;
where a greater focus on technology is required (with NF Information Systems Technology): e.g. IT, multimedia, research & development, human-machine interaction;
in which advanced linguistic, textual and narrative skills are required (with NF German Studies), or which require intercultural communicative competence (with NF English Studies): Publishing, journalism (press, radio, television, internet), PR and public relations, cultural management, cultural mediation, education sector.
As a graduate with a minor in Media Studies, you will be able to pursue a career corresponding to your major subject in culturally oriented and application-related areas of the media sector.
When you have completed your Bachelor's degree...
you might join an environmental foundation and be responsible for press relations there
you might do a traineeship at a soccer club in the Bundesliga, e.g. Eintracht Braunschweig
or join "Welt der Wunder" in Munich
you might become a marketing assistant at fritz-kola GmbH
or work in the editorial department of a large publishing house
perhaps work as an online editor
or in corporate communications
... or you may decide to continue your studies with a Master's degree, for example in
