Bachelor of Arts in Design

Recognised secondary school leaving certificate, English language proficiency certificate, Digital Portfolio with work samples

State-recognised and accredited degree

Degree programmes are accredited and state-recognised, ensuring that you benefit from excellent teaching.

Renowned partners

Our exclusive partnerships allow you to learn from industry insiders and to establish valuable contacts with potential employers.

Experienced professors

You will be taught by top-class professors who have a proven track record in both business and academia.

Creative Tools analogue/digital

You will learn to give free rein to your creativity with equipment and software and to find suitable creative tools.

Design and Media Theory

You will learn about the most important design and media theories and examine both fields against the background of digitalisation.

Communication Skills

In order to be able to present your ideas and assess the concepts of others, this module promotes your rhetoric and social skills.

On the way to your Bachelor’s degree in design, you can acquire essential theoretical, design and technical basics at the Berlin location. The creative and digital-oriented degree programme at Macromedia Design University gives you an overview of the forms and requirements of the design process.

You will get to know the most important materials and develop digital and analogue working methods that are indispensable for your career.

1st semester

Modul ECTS

Language Proficiency and Intercultural Sensitivity 5

Innovation by Design 5

Layout and Typography 5

Photography 5

Art, Media and Design History 5

3D Modeling 5

2nd semester

Modul ECTS

Academic Writing and Research 5

Specialisation module 5

Design Pratice and Ethics 5

Strategic Design 5

Creative Tools Analogue /Digital 5

Aesthetics 5

3rd semester

Modul ECTS

Intercultural Communication 5

Project Management 5

Visual and Motion Design 5

Interaction and Interface Design 5

Interdisciplinary Project 10

4th semester

Modul ECTS

Specialisation module 5

Specialisation module 5

Specialisation module 5

Portfolio and Network 5

Orientation Project 10

5th semester (Internship)

Modul ECTS

Communication Skills 5

Student Initiative 5

Internship 20

6th semester

Modul ECTS

Design Gallery 5

Design Research 10

Bachelor Thesis 15

The design degree programme teaches you the basics of design and media theory as well as photography and communication. Numerous practical projects allow you to find your individual strengths, which you can develop in a self-chosen specialisation.

Photo App Campaign

Design students developed ideas for social media campaigns for the Adobe app “Photoshop Camera” to pitch against each other.

Book Fair poster

The students took part in the annual poster competition of the Frankfurt Book Fair and reflected on the host country Georgia.

AR for knowledge development

The students developed an AR app for the Munich Chamber Orchestra that conveys music knowledge to concertgoers in a modern way.

With your design bachelor’s degree, exciting opportunities are open to you in fashion companies, galleries, agencies, publishing houses, labels and in theatre, film and television productions. With your degree, you can start your career in the fashion or design industry.

Editorial Designer

You prepare print and online media in an appealing way and draw readers in with unusual designs.

Web Designer

Today, no company can do without a website – with your expertise, you make sure that users love your sites and are happy to come back.

Social Media Designer

What is shared on social networks attracts attention. With your design ideas, you make sure that posts go viral.

For Media and Communication Design B.A., artistic aptitude may allow admission. Please contact us for more information.

Further, applicants who have not graduated from school with English as language of instruction are required to provide a sufficient language certificate.

For the Bachelor’s programmes taught in English, the following language criteria must be met: TOEFL (iBT) with at least 72 out of 120 points or IELTS with at least 6.0 out of 9.0 or equivalent.

For the Design Bachelor degree programme, you also need a digital portfolio with work samples according to the following criteria:

• Digital portfolio with 10 to 25 design or concept-oriented pieces of work in a portfolio e.g. animations*, drawings, paintings, sketchbooks, photos, computer graphics, websites, short films*; can include text-based works such as creative concepts, concepts for games
• File name: first name, surname and date
• Format: collected in one PDF
• Submission: via e-mail or download link to the student advisors (max. 20 MB)

*Video sequences such as animations/short films:

• File name: first name, surname and date
• Format: MPEG-4 or MP4
• Resolution: longest side max. 1920 px
• Transmission: via download link to the student advisors (max. 500 MB)

Please note: Your work examples should not be older than two years. Design elements and photographs that you did not create yourself must be marked accordingly.