Graphic Design (MA) - Masters - Budapest Metropolitan University - Apply and Study - Univacity (2024)

Overview

During our Master's Program, you can become a graphic designartist who is able to respond to actual situations and present creative andartistic solutions, and who is able to create and implement high-quality workon every job platform.

We are a flexible, fresh-minded program, our virtue isopenness. With the help of our faculty of renowned, leading professionals invarious fields of Graphic Design, we give you maximum scope to find yourindividual style and build your own artistic brand.

We invite you as fellow creatives to join us in a good mood, an artistic institution that encourages teamwork, integrated design practice,state-of-the-art design thinking, and a good atmosphere, which underpins thecreative work with the right theoretical knowledge.

Practical Opportunities During Education

From the archaic classical printing and reproduction-graphicsprocesses to the most modern digital printing machines, our students have attheir disposal technical and technological possibilities that allow them toproduce the results of their design work in the Workshops and Studios of theDepartment, whether it is 3D printing, laser cutting, Risograph printing orbookbinding. The cross-disciplinary project-based teaching methodology alsoextends our students' skills towards integrated designing processes. With thehelp of our collaborative partners, our students take part in real-lifeassignments that allow them to gain professional experience by working withclients during their training.

The training will give priority to:

·individual consultations, mentoring by teachers;

·focus on practical work and creativity;

·creative solutions to realistic, real-life,often challenging problems, actual tasks;

·teamwork alongside individual achievement;

·an integrated, cross-disciplinary project-basedteaching methodology.

Educational Opportunities

·the ability to solve problems with a practical,functional design focus

·design knowledge that can be used across allgraphic design interfaces

·innovative graphic solutions based on freedom ofexperimentation

·innovative solutions based on individualidentity, but which can also be developed in teamwork

·socially sensitive communication strategybuilding and creative thinking that reflect social problems

·the methods of Design Thinking

·a practice-oriented, creative design attitude,able to respond to real-life, real-world situations

Specialization

Specializations are launched only if a sufficient number ofstudents wish to join the specialization.

Graphic Design specialization

Our master's program builds on the experience you gained inyour bachelor's degree, giving you the practical, real-world skills that youneed to pursue Graphic Design at a high level. Choose this specialization todevelop your individual artistic voice in traditional Graphic Design surfacesand new media fields. We prepare you for your career, so you can design andexecute the most impactful, multi-faceted creative visual messages in all areasof Graphic Design.

What can you study with us?

Typography, logo, pictogram, identity, packaging, book, poster and web design, branding, identity design, infographics, and info design

Main Topic:

Graphic Design Studio Practice; Creative Graphic Design Studies; Experimental Design; Data Visualisation; Branding; Product Design; Complex Design; Print Media; Web Design

Graphic Art specialization

If you are looking to develop your own independent artisticexpression and if you are looking to develop your excellent manual skills inillustration, comics, book covers, posters, and book design, choose the GraphicArt specialization!

What can you study with us?

In addition to complex Graphic Design and typography tasks, you can also study unique and reproduced graphic genres, art book design, creative bookbinding, Pop-Up book design, and manual and digital illustration.

Main topics:

Graphic Design Studio Practice; Reproduction Graphics; Book Design; Poster Design; Graphic Design Techniques; Illustration Design; Comics; Creative Graphic Design Studies; Experimental Graphics; Graphic Installations.

Career Opportunities

• Independent artist, graphic designer, illustrator, and graphic artist
• In graphic studios, and creative agencies as Art Director or Graphic Designer
• Work in the online and print media as an illustrator, image editor, artistic head, DTP editor, or web designer

Applicants must possess a bachelor's degree with CGPA > 2.50/4.00 OR 3.0-3.5/5.00

A copy of your international Passport Bio-Data Page.

WAEC Certificate

Bachelor's Certificate (ND & HND)

Bachelor's Transcript (ND & HND)

Passport Photograph

Upper-intermediate command of English (equivalent to IELTS 6.0+ or TOEFL 79+ level, but no certificate required)

Curriculum Vitae

Two reference letters.

Statement of Purpose in English (A letter that states the Applicant’s Purpose for choosing the Program ).

• The second semester involves your specialization. You can develop your knowledge focused on the selected area, in all surfaces of Graphic Design, or in Graphic Art and illustration
• The third semester includes complex, integrated design processes, experimental design tasks in both specializations
• In the fourth semester, your instructors help you to create complex visual messages as a result of the research process, to implement the myBRAND portfolio and the diploma work

3200 EUR/semester for EU students (includes the Member States of the EU, EEA, and Turkey)

Registration fee:100 EUR

Enrollment fee:100 EUR

Health Insurance:150 EUR

Two semesters of tuition fee payment required