Digital Reality

First-class career prospects await graduates of our Master of Science in Digital Reality. The digital revolution across our societies has given rise to an acute current need for specialists in the arena of digital realities (VR, AR, MR). Our role is to prepare our graduates for high-level positions as movers and shakers of the digital turn.

Beyond the typical points of intersection between media and IT, our graduates are additionally in demand in conventional industries and sectors which have discovered the benefits of digital realities. The spectrum ranges from automotive and plant engineering, media, event technology and lighting design to cultural institutions such as museums. HAW Hamburg’s Department of Media Technology partners with diverse organisations in these sectors and can enable students to get a foot in the door of their future careers via cooperative Master theses and other projects. We also work with universities to provide the opportunity for doctoral studies in our Department.

The course is suitable for graduates with a first degree in IT or computer science, including those who hold a Bachelor’s degree in Media Systems or Media Technology from HAW Hamburg or a comparable qulification. It has a research emphasis and is designed to build consecutively on a first degree.

This degree course is four semesters in duration. The first year revolves around the acquisition of fundamental mathematical and technical knowledge and skills, with an additional focus on issues in digital realities.

Students specialise in their second year. A major project and a research seminar will help you identify a topic for your Master thesis, which you‘ll sometimes go on to complete in a business or organisation.

This course structure allows you to acquire skills in analysing, applying and linking up information in areas relating to digital realities before progressing to focus on a specific research question in line with your particular interests.

Essential:

• A first degree in computer science/IT; we welcome applicants with a Bachelor of Science in Media Systems or Media Technology from HAW Hamburg or those who hold a comparable degree. During your first semester, should you need to, you can catch up on any examinations or modules you had yet to complete.
• Diploma Supplement/Transcript of Records
• International applicants who attained their higher education entrance qualification and their first degree outside Germany are required to demonstrate proficiency in the German language at level B1 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Further required documents:

• Letter of motivation
• CV

Further documents you may submit to enhance your application:

• Proof of relevant practical experience, such as a written reference from an employer or proof of having completed an internship
• Tackle our programming challenge: Our admissions committee has set a programming challenge for our applicants. We invite you to have a go at it and submit your solution.

Selection of applicants for places: We rank applicants on the basis of their overall final grade in their first degree. Demonstrable practical experience may, at the admissions committee’s discretion, augment your grade by up to 0.4, as may a good performance in the programming challenge. For example, if your overall final grade for your first degree is 2.0 (or its equivalent in another system) and you have a year’s highly relevant practical experience and your solution to the programming challenge was outstanding, we may treat you as if your overall final grade were 1.2, which in the German system is higher/better. Your position in the ranking will determine whether we are able to offer you a place on the course.