Registration for the assessment procedure takes place online. For this purpose, our Applicant Portal (myFH) will be accessible from 20 January to 15 March.

Any time during the registration period, you can activate the “Direkt anmelden” (Register directly) button at the top of the page, which will direct you to the process for registering for the Applicant Portal, and then to the application.

Once the closing date for applications has passed, you will receive an email from us inviting you to upload your portfolio and the other necessary application documents in PDF format.

You will be able to upload your portfolio and other application documents in an unlocked upload area in the myFH portal around mid/end of March 2024. The exact period will be announced.

Your portfolio should contain compelling samples of your work; if possible, your work should be presented in landscape format as a PDF file (16:9), which you should name as follows:
“Surname_FirstName_Portfolio.pdf”.

Please save cinematic resources in a video format such as mpg, m4v or mov, and check to make sure that they work. These file names should also include your first name and surname.

The data volume limit is 500 MB per file.

• A covering letter explaining your reasons for wanting to pursue the Master’s programme in Design at MSD (no longer than one A4 page)
• A letter of recommendation (no longer than half an A4 page) from a professor explaining why you are suitable for a Master’s programme at MSD
• Your university certificate or a current transcript of grades, including all (preliminary) Bachelor grades, enabling an average grade to be calculated, and, where applicable, proof of having registered for the final thesis.
• A curriculum vitae in tabular form
• Proof of employment, where applicable
• To document the 30 CP that you must complete to bridge the gap in the transition from a 6-semester Bachelor’s degree to a 3-semester Master’s degree, please add a proposal for the bridging scenario you have chosen (see link below).

Please merge your files into PDF format and name each file using your surname, first name and the relevant description.

At the beginning of May, you will be notified of whether you have passed the assessment procedure; you can then apply for enrolment in accordance with the requirements using the notification of conceptual and creative aptitude.

Evidence of your conceptual and creative aptitude is valid for the following application period.

• Successful completion of a Bachelor’s or Diplom degree in a design discipline worth 210 CP and with an ECTS grade of A or B, alternatively, an absolute grade of 2.0 or higher.
  Please note: Applicants who have completed a Bachelor’s degree worth only 180 CP or lasting only 6 semesters will be offered a variety of options for the subsequent recognition of any credit points that may be lacking. The choice of scenarios available is presented in the links below.
• Successful participation in the procedure for determining the programme-related special conceptual and creative aptitude for the Master’s programme in Design.
• Proof of knowledge of the German language (Test DaF4 or DSH2 examination, applicable only for students from abroad)