Your Master Studies at the HfG

You can find answers to all questions concerning your application here:
Admission Requirements
The Master’s program in Strategic Design is consecutive. The course is of interest to you if you already have a university degree (bachelor, diploma or equivalent) as a designer or in a media-oriented subject. You should have earned 210 ECTS credits in your BA studies. Graduates of a six-semester BA course with 180 ECTS credits have the opportunity to acquire the missing ECTS credits by participating in suitable courses and projects within the university before taking up the first semester of the master’s course.
Your Application Documents
In the Master’s programme we admit first-year students twice a year. The following documents together with the application form must be received by the Registrar’s Office by 15 May or 15 November (cut-off deadline):
- Tabular curriculum vitae
- Authenticated copy of the university entrance qualification
- Certified copy of the university degree qualifying for the profession
- Certificate of exmatriculation / course of studies / Transcript of Records
- A passport photo
- Proof of vocational training, professional practice or internship
If you apply with a foreign university degree, we also need the following documents:
- Proof of knowledge of the German language (TestDaF 4/ DSH 2)
- Recognition of your university entrance qualification/your professional qualification by the Studienkolleg Konstanz
- Applicants from China: Certificate of the Academic Evaluation Centre (APS) of the Cultural Department of the German Embassy in Beijing on the authenticity of the documents
With your application form you submit a project outline. For this you choose a (socially) relevant problem that you would like to solve with the help of a design project. You can find more about the project outline here: FAQ Master
Send the documents to the following address:
University of applied Sciences
Schwabiscn Gmünd
Student secretariat
Rektor-Klaus-Str. 100
73525 Swabian Gmünd
After submitting your application documents, you will be informed by post or email whether you will be invited to the selection interview. Please keep an eye on your mailbox and your email inbox (including spam folder). The selection interview is the second part of the selection procedure. You will receive an invitation to the interview at least ten days in advance. We are currently conducting the selection interviews exclusively digitally. Personal presence is currently not required.