BA/BS in Media, Art, Design and Architecture
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands•World Rank #46
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers BA/BS in Media, Art, Design and Architecture, a bachelor's degree in Humanities & Cultural Studies programme in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The programme runs for 3 years. It carries 180.0 credits (ECTS). Teaching is in English. Tuition is EUR 2,694 per year for local students. The next intake is Sep 2027, starting September 1, 2027.
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Information for the 2027/28 academic year · Last reviewed June 2026 ·
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Overview
Is Instagram the new museum? Is living in a tiny house hip or sustainable? How are designers and artists dealing with an increasingly mediated and globalised world?
Pursue a bachelor's degree in Media, Art, Design and Architecture (MKDA-EN) at VU Amsterdam and study the significance and contested histories of images, objects and environments. Media, art, design, and architecture cannot be understood in isolation from each other or outside of the contexts in which they appear.
Five reasons to choose this bachelor:
- A unique interdisciplinary programme, combining and integrating four disciplines.
- You will learn to look, think, write and talk critically about objects, paintings, buildings, films and clips from multiple perspectives.
- You choose your specialisation in your second year: Media, Art, Design or Architecture.
- You will acquire a broad substantive and theoretical basis.
- You will study in the cultural hotspot of the Netherlands.
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Frequently asked questions
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam awards a Bachelor's Degree in the field of Humanities & Cultural Studies on completion of this programme.
The programme runs for 3 years.
Tuition is EUR 2,694 per year for local students.
The programme is taught in English.
The next intake is Sep 2027, starting September 1, 2027.
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