Study fine arts, architecture, media and design, music and the performing arts in Germany.Universität der Künste Berlin, UdK (Berlin University of the Arts) is a German university founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts. Its root institutions date back to the founding of the Akademie der Künste in 1696.
The teaching offered at the four colleges of Fine Art, architecture, media, Design, Music and Performing Arts as well as at the Central Institute of Further Education encompasses the full spectrum of the arts and related academic studies in more than 40 courses. Having the right to confer doctorates and post-doctoral qualifications, Berlin University of the Arts is also one of Germany’s few art colleges with full university status.
International Networking
As a result of contacts on many levels, Berlin University of the Arts is part of an excellent international network. In all, Berlin University of the Arts cultivates more than 130 international partnerships with other universities, and more than 800 foreign students - corresponding to ca. 20 % of all our students - are currently registered at the university. Annually, more than 100 students from Berlin University of the Arts spend part of their training abroad in the context of exchange programmes. Berlin University of the Arts places the emphasis of international cooperation on the exchange of students and lecturers, but also promotes discourse on further education policies together with leading international universities of art and music.
Teacher Training
In addition to study of fine art and music, Berlin University of the Arts offers the possibility of studying music and fine art with a teaching career in mind. In addition to a main creative subject, the future teachers - within the Bachelor/Master system – study a second academic subject at one of Berlin’s other universities. Berlin University of the Arts is the only institute of higher education in Berlin that trains art and music teachers. Selection is based primarily on entrance examinations in art; teaching takes place in classes made up of students of Fine Art and those training to become teachers.