Anyone wishing to study at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design from the winter semester 2024/25 can apply from 1 to 15 May. You can apply online. All relevant information on the application process for Bachelor’s and Master’s students can be found here. The link to the digital application portal will also be published here from 1 May.

The only art college in Schleswig-Holstein offers Bachelor students a selection of art and design degree programmes: There are Communication Design, Industrial Design, Scenography / Interior Design, Fine Art and Art Teaching at Grammar Schools. The Master’s degree programmes in Communication Design, Spatial Strategies, Fine Arts, Art Teaching at Grammar Schools and two different Master’s programmes in Industrial Design are also offered: Medical Design and Interface Design.

Students who pass the artistic aptitude test are admitted to the Bachelor’s degree programme in Art or Design. This consists of submitting an artistic portfolio, which can give an impression of your own work, as well as practical design tasks and a colloquium – both of which are completed at the art academy. Depending on the course of study, different requirements apply as to whether portfolios should be submitted in digital or analogue form.

Founded in 2005 as the first and only art academy in Schleswig-Holstein, the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design is not only a place where culturally relevant biographies are made possible. With its project studies, it also offers space for special experiments and realisations. The art academy has had the right to award doctorates since 2007. Today, around 630 students are enrolled in the fields of art and design; they come from more than 30 countries.

Information on the application procedure: https://muthesius-kunsthochschule.de/der-weg-ins-studium
Information on the application portfolio: https://muthesius-kunsthochschule.de/die-mappe

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