Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim (Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts) is a public university for music and performing arts in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg. The Mannheim University of Music and Performing Arts unites classical performance, jazz and popular music, dance, pedagogy, media practice and academic research with centuries-old regional music and dance traditions. Institutional development 1756 — music teaching at the Jesuit Seminarium musicum sponsored by Mannheim's court 1762 — formal dance-training antecedent created by the Académie de Danse The academic profile today includes instrumental and vocal performance, composition, conducting, opera, jazz and popular music, dance, dance pedagogy, school music, instrumental pedagogy, music research, media practice, musicology and music education. The location is important because The central Mannheim campus links students to the National Theatre, orchestras, jazz venues, broadcasters, schools, cultural organisations, the metropolitan Rhine-Neckar region and academic partners in Heidelberg. The course portfolio in this master file contains 7 undergraduate and 8 postgraduate entries. Where subject combinations fall under their parent degrees these are grouped together. Undergraduate examples include Music – Artistic Performance, Music – Artistic-Pedagogical Profile, Music Research and Media Practice, School Music, Jazz and Popular Music, Dance, and later entries are Jazz and Popular Music, Dance, Dance Pedagogy. Postgraduate studies are offered in the following fields: Music Performance, Jazz and Popular Music, School Music, Dance, Dance Pedagogy, Soloist Training, Additional Artistic Study and Orchestra Academy. Every course is a parent qualification, and specialisations are recorded in the course entry, instead of being presented as separate degrees. The workbook combines the university’s named Bachelor Music and Master Music structures for individual instruments and performance majors, but retains Jazz and Popular Music, Dance, School Music and Music Research and Media Practice as separate pathways. Program-level admission is employed. Applicants apply online, pay an administrative application fee of €50, upload certified academic and language documents and complete the exact audition or aptitude process. Some instrumental areas have video prescreening prior to live examination. Before submission applicants must check the language of instruction, entry semester, subject prerequisites, selection procedure and document route. International School or University Qualifications External evaluation, certified translations, APS documentation where applicable or other proof of academic equivalence may be required. Master’s committees may require module descriptions, portfolios, writing samples, professional experience or interviews. Entry to a doctorate is independent of admission to a bachelor’s or master’s program and generally requires a viable research proposal, eligible supervision and formal acceptance by the responsible faculty. The semester contribution is published to cost €193. State law requires most non-EU degree students to pay €1,500 a semester, second-degree students usually €650; specialised postgraduate routes may differ. These institutional fees do not cover rent, health insurance, food, learning materials, residence formalities, project costs and personal travel. If provided for by the relevant law or program regulation, special tuition may be provided for continuing-education, distance-learning, joint, second-degree, or long-term study formats. Funding (e.g. BAföG for eligible students, Deutschlandstipendium, DAAD and Erasmus+ mobility support, foundations, research employment or university-specific awards) is available, but each funding application is evaluated separately from admission. Career preparation is in line with the university’s subject mix and is not a guarantyd placement scheme. Internships, applied projects, research assistantships, employer events, language development, entrepreneurship services, international mobility and a thesis developed in cooperation with an external partner can all help to improve professional readiness.