Shape Your Future, Starting in Siegen
From movies and podcasts to games, theory or hands-on work: media studies rooted in cultural and social sciences offers broad career paths. In Siegen, you engage with media's history, aesthetics, and cultural impact.
Our bachelor's program blends theory and hands-on practice across visual, audio, digital, networked, and social media. You'll learn to analyze media, understand their contexts, place them in historical perspective, and create your own. We provide cutting-edge facilities like production studios, editing suites, cameras, and our GameLab, plus flexibility to specialize in web tech, games, film, TV, radio, or print.
Supplementary subjects
You have the opportunity to specialize your media studies degree by combining with the following supplementary subjects:
In addition to these supplementary subjects, there are numerous other combination options available to you, even beyond media studies.
Quick Facts
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Start of studies
Winter semester -
Standard period of study
6 semesters (full-time)
12 semesters (part-time) -
Separate application required
No.
Pre-study internship required -
Language of instruction
German
Career Prospects
Your degree prepares you for the dynamic media world—from editing and production to social media, film, TV, games, and communications. The career possibilities are endless.
You'll learn how media functions and how to apply it professionally. Shape your unique profile through diverse electives and internships—for instance, in film studies, game studies, or digital media and technologies.
Student Voices: Insights into the Media Studies Program
Practical, forward-looking, relevant
Before it was even clear what I was going to study, I already had a pretty clear idea of what I wanted to do after my degree: a traineeship in a large media company and then - ideally - a job as an editor.
After successfully dropping out of an English degree course and three years as a freelancer in various editorial offices, I started looking for a degree course that would prepare me for my dream career. I found what I was looking for on the website of the University of Siegen, of all places. "Of all things" because I knew next to nothing about the city of Siegen. Except that there is a well-known, if not very flattering, joke about it.
Nevertheless, just one month later I moved from my home town of Wuppertal to Siegen to study Media Studies. A good decision, as I know today. The course offered a level of practical relevance that I hadn't expected. It also gave me the opportunity to set my own individual priorities and delve deeper into topics that interest me personally.
Another plus: during the semester break, there was enough time for internships in and outside Siegen. Even beyond the internship during my studies. For example, I was able to complete internships at Westdeutscher Rundfunk and Radio Wuppertal during my studies. An internship at the Handelsblatt Media Group first led to a position as a freelancer and then to the opportunity to train as a business journalist at the Georg von Holtzbrinck School.
I am now a permanent editor at Solutions by Handelsblatt Media Group. I still benefit today from the variety of topics I was offered during my studies. After all, I deal with a variety of media on a daily basis. It can be very helpful to be able to draw on basic knowledge from more than just one area. The fact that I can do this is largely thanks to my studies at the University of Siegen.
Media Studies
Before the start of studies, a four-week pre-study internship in one of the central media areas (in particular press, broadcasting, film, advertising, public relations, cultural work, online editing, web and software development, social media, library, or archives) must be completed by 30 September at the latest for studies in the extended core subject and in the core subject. Please note the additional information on pre-study internships.
If you do not have a German Abitur, but do have the entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences, or are already in the middle of your professional life, please find out more
here.
