Rostock University of Music and Theatre is a public university of music and theatre in Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Rostock University of Music and Theatre is a public specialist institution in a restored medieval monastery, combining instrumental and vocal music, acting, popular music, composition, pedagogy, teacher education, and academic doctoral research. Its institutional development includes 1947 — a postwar conservatory predecessor began rebuilding professional music training in Rostock. Music and acting education developed through changing institutional structures in the German Democratic Republic. Today, its academic profile is shaped by orchestral and solo instruments, piano, voice, chamber music, composition, music theory, conducting, popular music, music pedagogy, school music, acting, theater education, musicology, and artistic performance. The location is important because The campus occupies the restored St. Catherine's monastery in central Rostock, with halls, studios, theater spaces, and proximity to the Baltic region's orchestras, theaters, churches, schools, festivals, media organizations, and cultural networks. The course portfolio represented in this master file contains 7 undergraduate entries and 9 postgraduate entries, with subject combinations consolidated under their parent degrees where appropriate. Undergraduate examples include Artistic Music Training, Voice, Composition and Music Theory, Music Education, Popular Music with Classical Music, School Music Teacher Education, while later entries cover Popular Music with Classical Music, School Music Teacher Education, Acting. Postgraduate study ranges from Artistic Music Training, Voice, Chamber Music, Composition, Music Theory, Music Education to School Music Teacher Education, Music and Theater Teacher Education – Lateral Entry, Advanced Artistic Examination. 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 online application route and complete course-specific recordings, repertoire lists, scores, academic documents, language evidence, live aptitude tests, auditions, acting stages, interviews, or theory examinations; deadlines differ between music, teacher education, and acting. 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 first bachelor's and consecutive master's study has no general tuition. The published semester contribution is €345.80, including €109 for student services, €10 for the student body, and €226.80 for the Germany ticket; a second master's and specified lateral-entry routes can cost €650 per semester. 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.