Bachelor in Communication & Multimedia Design
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
Key Information
Campus location
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
4 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
EUR 2,530 / per year *
Application deadline
15 Aug 2024
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* EU students | non-EU students: €8,895
Introduction
Communication & Multimedia Design Leeuwarden teaches you to become a designer – andyou get to determine the direction you want to take. Whether it’s producing interactive advertising campaigns for major brands, creating virtual reality experiences for people with mental health problems, or developing a stylish app for a music festival, you get to choose your focus.
Study at NHL Stenden webinar
Join us on April 11th from 3 pm to 4 pm (CET) for an online webinar where our student hosts will help you on your way with your adventures in the world of international studies. Get guidance, ask questions, and find out what is the right choice.
Career Opportunities
Your future
As a multimedia professional, your role involves being a skilled, selfreflective and ambitious designer dedicated to fostering positive change through your work.
Career opportunities
- App developer blending user insights, technical expertise, empathy, and design skills
- UX designer creating optimal user experiences
- Game designer creating concepts with an eye for the latest trends
- Motion designer crafting audiovisual productions
- Visual storyteller creating dream worlds and storylines for complex matters
- 3D artist for films, games, or advertising
- Animator bringing drawings to life
- Sound designer or music composer for games or films
Curriculum
The practical way you learn
During your studies, you carry out practical assignments from real companies, working in groups and coached by lecturers and professionals with relevant professional experience. It’s a way of learning, an educational concept, we call DesignBased Education. You learn to draw on feedback to adapt your ideas and become more flexible, while also developing your teamwork and leadership skills.
There’s a world to explore
Our international community brings together over 80 nationalities on our campuses. It’s an open environment that will help you broaden your horizons in many respects. And we offer more options to get you ready for an intercultural work environment. For instance, you could do one of the programmes offered by RUNEU or, depending on your degree, do your internship abroad or follow a minor subject in a different country through our Grand Tour or Exchange programmes. You get to put together the right combination of courses and internships for you and develop both your professional and personal skills.
Course structure
- Year 1 – Explore where your talents and interests lie in the broad field of multimedia design. In your first year, you delve into new disciplines, learn from others and work with a film studio, game studio, print agency and digital agency for web & app design and programming.
- Year 2 – In your second, third, and final year, you take control over your study path by choosing the studios you want to follow and when. Explore and develop creative disciplines of interest through challenges, workshops, and projects linked to chosen studios, like Web and App Design, Visual Design, Game Development, 3D, Music & Sound, Film, and Photography.
- Year 3 – Broaden your horizon or specialise your skills by taking a minor. Make optimal use of all possibilities we have to offer in terms of Exchange and Grand Tour minors.
- Year 4 - Spend the first half year to finetune your knowledge and skills and prepare yourself for your graduation project.
Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
If you are thinking about applying to NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, you may be eligible for a scholarship. NHL Stenden offers 2 different scholarships for NON-EU/EEA bachelor students.
NL Scholarship
The NL Scholarship is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Dutch research universities and universities of applied sciences. These scholarships award selected international undergraduate students from outside the EU/EEA with a one-time financial contribution of € 5000.
NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship
The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is a performance-based scholarship for 1st and 2nd year non-EU/EEA students at NHL Stenden.
Rankings
All degrees offered by NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences are accredited by the NVAO in the Netherlands (The Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders).
Facilities
Why study at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences
NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences challenges its students, staff and partners to explore beyond existing solutions and possibilities, to discover and develop their talents so as to contribute to social progress.
- Learn using a practical approach, working in groups on assignments set by industry partners and developing usable solutions
- Get more international opportunities and spend part of your degree studying or doing your internship in a different country, drawing on our global network
- Get the most out of your studies with relatively low tuition rates, well-priced housing (and a housing guarantee) and homely and affordable student cities