Application for the MA in Applied Design Research

The master’s degree programme begins in mid-March each year at the start of the summer semester. The application period always runs from 15 November to 15 January.

Acceptance criteria

The requirements for admission to the master’s degree programme are:

Documentation of completion of a design-related degree programme (bachelor’s degree or the German degree known as “Diplom”) with a grade of “good” or better, i.e. a grade point average of at least 2.5)
Documentation of participation in a degree programme with 210 ECTS points that included a minimum of 6 theoretical semesters of study and one practical semester (or a practicum that lasted at least 18 weeks)
If you have finished a degree programme with a minimum of 180 ECTS points, but have not yet completed a practice-based semester, you can make up this requirement during the first year of the degree programme.
For international applicants, documentation of German-language knowledge as demonstrated by level 2 of the German language examination for university entrance (DSH) or level 3 of the test of German as a foreign language (TestDaF)
Successful completion of the admission process (application via the application portal of the Munich University of Applied Sciences, submission of digital work samples via NINE, application interview)

Information about applying for the master’s degree programmes at the Munich University of Applied Sciences

Application process

Students must complete the following steps before they will be accepted to the master’s[A1] degree programme at the Department of Design:

Submission of application via the application portal of the Munich University of Applied Sciences during the application period: Input data, upload documents and transmit the application!
Registration and submission of digital work samples (portfolio) to the Department of Design during the application period: After registering, students can use the upload tool NINE to submit their work samples here. Changes to the submissions may be made during the entire application period.
Successful completion of the application interview

Important information about the application process

Please keep the following information in mind: To become a valid participant in the process, students must submit their applications via the general portal of the Munich University of Applied Sciences, register online and submit their portfolio to the Department of Design!
Please register at an early stage and plan enough time for your work to be uploaded. This will prevent a bottleneck from developing at the end of the application period. The parallel streaming of more than 800 applications has the potential to overload the beta-phase server whose performance is not scalable. In addition, it may take up to an hour to upload approximately 35 examples of work. For this reason, we urge you to upload images several days before the application period ends.
You will not find any send button when you upload your work onto the internal department server (in contrast to the inter-university registration system Primuss)! You simply have to upload your work.
If the application cannot be submitted online for understandable reasons, an explanation of the reasons must be submitted with the application documents before the application period ends and credibly elucidated.

Portfolio

You will use your portfolio to apply for the master’s degree programme in applied design research. Your portfolio must receive a positive assessment before you will be invited to an application interview.

What should you include in the portfolio?

Letter of motivation and a CV

Optional with photograph
Format: Input via the form field

Work samples

A max. of 25 work samples
Format: .png, .jpg, .gif, .pdf (Please note: For technical reasons, the pdf file must absolutely include the ending “.pdf”!
Dateigröße: max. 50 MB

Please note: When you upload your work samples, you can also include a few explanatory sentences about the work.)

Application interview

The (digital) application interview is conducted by the MA examination commission (consisting of 3 professors). You will be informed by email in advance about the time and date of the examination and the detailed structure of the test.

Academic advisers

We hold regularinformation events where you can learn more about the master’s degree programme in applied design research.

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