Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is a public university of music, drama and media in Hannover, Lower Saxony. Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media is a public specialist university bringing performance, composition, music education, acting, media management, communication research, musicology, and doctoral study into one institution. Its institutional development includes 1897 — a private conservatory was founded in Hannover, establishing the university's principal institutional root. Early teaching emphasized professional instrumental, vocal, theory, and pedagogical training. Today, its academic profile is shaped by instrumental and vocal performance, composition, conducting, church music, jazz, popular music, music education, music theory, acting, musicology, media management, communication science, journalism and media research, and artistic excellence. The location is important because The main Neues Haus campus sits beside central Hannover, while acting and media programs use Expo Plaza facilities; students connect with state opera, radio and television, orchestras, theaters, schools, festivals, research centers, agencies, and Lower Saxony's creative and media economy. The course portfolio represented in this master file contains 13 undergraduate entries and 13 postgraduate entries, with subject combinations consolidated under their parent degrees where appropriate. Undergraduate examples include Artistic Music Training, Voice and Opera, Composition, Conducting, Church Music, Artistic-Pedagogical Training, while later entries cover Acting, Media Management, Communication Science. Postgraduate study ranges from Artistic Music Training, Voice and Opera, Composition, Conducting, Chamber Music, Children's and Youth Choir Conducting to Media and Music, Communication and Media Research, Solo Class. Each course remains a parent qualification, and specializations are recorded within the course entry instead of being misrepresented as separate degrees. Admission is controlled at program level. Applicants use the current university portal and follow the exact program procedure, including document review and, where required, recordings, repertoire, scores, portfolios, media evidence, academic prerequisites, live audition, acting assessment, interview, theory, or language tests. Applicants must verify the teaching language, entry semester, subject prerequisites, selection procedure, and document route before submission. International school or university qualifications may require external evaluation, certified translations, APS documentation for applicable countries, or additional evidence of academic equivalence. Master's committees can request module descriptions, portfolios, writing samples, professional experience, or interviews. Doctoral entry is separate from bachelor's or master's admission and normally requires a viable research proposal, eligible supervision, and formal acceptance by the responsible faculty. Regular consecutive degree study has no general tuition. For winter 2026/27, the semester contribution is €413 at Neues Haus and €445 at Expo Plaza; students must also budget for applications, audition travel, instruments, scores, media production, and personal project expenses. These institutional charges do not include rent, health insurance, food, learning materials, residence formalities, project costs, or personal travel. Special tuition can apply to continuing-education, distance-learning, joint, second-degree, or long-term study formats when the relevant law or program regulation provides for it. Funding may include BAföG for eligible students, the Deutschlandstipendium, DAAD and Erasmus+ mobility support, foundations, research employment, or university-specific awards, but every funding application is assessed independently from admission. Career preparation reflects the university's subject mix and does not constitute a guaranteed placement scheme. Students can improve professional readiness through internships, applied projects, research assistantships, employer events, language development, entrepreneurship services, international mobility, and an externally partnered thesis.