Communication Design
Online application
for winter semester: Please see attached PDF
for summer semester: 15th January
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Admissions requirements
- general higher education entrance qualification
- subject-restricted higher education entrance qualification
- university of applied sciences entrance qualification
- access to higher education for persons with qualified vocational training and work experience
- access to higher education for persons who have passed a master craftsman's examination or a comparable advanced training examination
- the passed aptitude test
Mappenberatung
Für Studieninteressierte und Bewerber/innen werden innerhalb des Semesters offene Mappenberatungen durch unsere Professoren angeboten.
Sobald aktuelle Termine feststehen, finden Sie eine Übersicht an dieser Stelle sowie im Veranstaltungskalender des Studiengangs unter Aktuelles.
Application process
The degree program has a two-step application process. In addition to participation in the aptitude test, you must also apply via the application portal and submit the required application documents.
Step 1: Aptitude PROCESS (portfolio review)
You must submit the following documents to the Office of Student Affairs by June 1 for the winter semester and by December 1 for the summer semeste:
- application for participation in the aptitude test
- chronological, complete and signed CV
- portfolio with samples of your work (maximum size: DIN A1)
Send your portfolio together with the required documents to the following address (you may also hand in the folder personally):
Mainz University of Applied Sciences
Office of Student Affairs
Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2
55128 Mainz
It is not possible to submit your portfolio directly to the department.
If your portfolio is sent from outside of Germany, the package must be declared as a document shipment.
If your portfolio is evaluated as "passed", you will be invited to take the aptitude test.
StEP 2: Application Procedure
The application deadlines are as follows:
15 July for the winter semester
15 January for the summer semester
If your portfolio has been rated as "passed", you will receive an invitation to the aptitude test on:
Thursday, 3 January 2019
and
Friday, 4 January 2019
We can offer you the following dates for the pick-up of your application portfolios:
Monday, 10.12.2018 to Thursday, 13.12.2018
from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Room H3.02
Thursday, 03.01.2019 and Friday, 04.01.2019
1:00 to 2:00 pm, Room H3.02
Monday, 07.01.2019 to Thursday, 10.01.2019
9:00 am to 12:00 pm, Room H3.02
The portfolios will be picked up at Holzstraße 36 in Mainz.
Portfolios that are not picked up during these times can only be sent to you by regular mail. Please send a postage-paid DHL stamp up to 10 kg to the following address:
Mainz University of Applied Sciences
School of Design Room H3.02
Holzstraße 36, 55116 Mainz
With the request for attention!
Portfolios that have not been picked up or requested by 30.06.2019 will be destroyed.
Important dates
Portfolios can only be submitted to the
Office of Student Affairs of Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2, 55128 Mainz.
You are welcome to submit your portfolio in person starting at the beginning of November 2018 to the Office of Student Affairs in room A1.01 during our office hours or send it to us by post (please ensure that we receive your package by 30.11.2018 at the latest).
Office hours of the Office of Student Affairs
Tue, Thu, Fri 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tue and Thu 1:15 - 5:00 p.m.
Special office hours for portfolio submission from 28.05. -01.06.2018:
Wednesday, 28.11.2018 from 9 am to 12 pm and 1 - 3 pm
Friday, 30.11.2018 rom 9 am to 12 pm and 1 - 3 pm
With reference to Section 31 (3) of the Administrative Procedure Act, the deadline for submitting a portfolio ends on 30 November 2018.
We will not accept any portfolios after 01.12.2018.
Who to contact
Ursula Eiermann
Head of the Office of Student Affairs, Policy Issues
Stefanie Stuck
Degree program staff