Bachelor of Arts program — Design, Art and Media

The Merz Akademie has been an established university in Baden-Württemberg for over 40 years.

As a place of learning, the institution positions itself between a classic art academy, a design university and a humanities faculty. This positioning is also reflected in the Bachelor’s degree program “Design, Art and Media”, which offers access to a broad spectrum of media technologies and applications, theory, art and design.

The aim of the Bachelor’s degree course is to enable students to become authors in design, art and media: students can combine the study areas of film and video, new media and visual communication or concentrate on one area. However, the aim is always to combine theory, art and technology and to implement the findings in innovative media projects that reveal a unique signature.

Researching, arguing, academic work, reflecting on the context of one’s own work and knowledge of relevant specialist and theoretical discourses are important elements. They are balanced by the compulsory practical semester, during which students acquire practical professional skills – either in Germany or abroad.

The study and working atmosphere at the Merz Akademie and the solid technical equipment encourage experimentation and allow for results outside the mainstream.

Thanks to manageable group sizes, the Merz Akademie enables close contact with lecturers, individual support and a focus on students’ ideas and goals.

In addition to the internship semester, students at the Merz Akademie can also gain experience abroad during a semester at one of the numerous partner universities within and outside of Europe. However, internationalization at the Merz Akademie already begins on campus through the exchange students, the international guest lecturers and the students on the international Master’s degree course.