Macromedia University of Applied Sciences is a multi-campus university privately sponsored by Macromedia GmbH, based in Stuttgart, with other locations in Munich, Freiburg, Frankfurt/Main, Cologne, Leipzig, Hamburg and Berlin. Due to the central location of Macromedia’s city campuses, we can offer our current 4,500 students a stimulating urban study environment that also permits easy access to students from surrounding regions.
Macromedia University and its sister institution, Macromedia Academy, are part of the international education group of Galileo Global Education, which operates a network of 45 schools and universities for a total of 120,000 students at 85 campuses across 13 countries (see company).
This internationalism also shapes the culture at our Macromedia locations. We have the pleasure of welcoming up to 80 different nationalities to our degree programmes. Overall, Macromedia University offers a wide range of state-recognised bachelor’s and master’s degrees in German and English, currently with 15 degree programmes with 106 specialisations.
The courses offered by our university focus on media, management and communication, digital technologies and design, sports, psychology, games, journalism, film, fashion, music, and acting. Each speciality is linked to international research, or artistic activity, and feeds our knowledge transfer into the economy.
The goal of Macromedia University is to transform students into lasting developers of digital transformation. We aim to educate individuals who will meet the demands of our accelerated society with comprehensive media, multidisciplinary, and intercultural skills, who will shape the industrial and creative landscapes demanded by the economic, cultural, and social life of the future.
We also aim to motivate our students with a culture of lifelong learning. We want to support them in their personal development and enable them to participate in a free, democratic, and constitutional environment.
In a word: Empowerment. We took the most meaningful component of this word to give a name to Macromedia University’s promised service: mPower.
mPower not only represents our promise to our students, but also reflects another dimension: The university’s aim to manage its organisational structure, resource management, and corporate culture in such a way that this framework not only enables innovation, but also systematically promotes it based on sustainable growth criteria.
In an overall social context, we define ourselves as a service provider to our students, as a partner to business and culture, and as a corporate citizen. We encourage critical feedback and open communication from our employees, and we base our work together on the principles of competence, responsibility, and delegation. The following characteristics are particularly important to the corporate culture of Macromedia University of Applied Sciences:
Knowledge-based and entrepreneurial
Innovative and creative
Cooperative and personal
International and networked
We are proud that our university fulfilled the strict requirements of the German Council of Science and Humanities for system accreditation in 2019.
But does system quality ensure the quality of the study experience? Only to a certain extent. That is why Macromedia University of Applied Sciences regularly participates in external evaluations. Above all, they are intended to give prospective students an independent impression of the study experience at Macromedia University.
International University Comparison: U-Multirank
An international comparison is provided by U-Multirank, an international, independent, and web-based initiative from the European Commission that evaluates universities of applied sciences as well as universities. With the evaluation of more than 1,700 universities from over 90 countries, U-Multirank is one of the most comprehensive and detailed evaluation programmes for universities worldwide.
National University Comparison: CHE University Ranking
A nationwide evaluation is provided by the CHE University Ranking. The non-profit CHE Centre for Higher Education Development (German: Center für Hochschulentwicklung) has been compiling systematic information on degree programmes, departments, universities, and their locations every year since 1998. Since 2005, the CHE Ranking has been published in cooperation with the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT.
National University Comparison: Gründungsradar
The Gründungsradar examines and compares the quality of start-up support at German institutions of higher education (HEIs). Moreover, it underlines the important role HEIs play in harnessing innovation and portrays their efforts to foster a dynamic environment conducive to start-ups. Overall, just under 60 per cent of higher education institutions in Germany take part in the survey, which accounts for about four-fifths of all enrolled students. Participating HEIs include almost all HEIs that place significance on the issue of start-ups. The Gründungsradar thus provides a solid data-based foundation for start-up activity and support at German institutions of higher education.
