Fachhochschule Dortmund aims to educate young people academically through the quality of teaching, personal support and a cosmopolitan orientation, to accompany them in the development of their potential and to enable them to pursue attractive career paths. The university has a focus on applied sciences and art.
With around 14.000 students, it is one of the ten largest universities of applied sciences in Germany. The course is geared towards application-oriented training. Around 70 degree programs offer bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science, engineering, economics and social sciences, as well as architecture and design.
Established international partnerships enable students to acquire global skills. Research with strong third-party funding and numerous transfer projects create direct access to local companies. At the same time, the university is thus providing sustainable impetus for the science location and the region.
The mission of the university is to offer teaching and research are at the center of our attention, ensure quality of education, offer application-oriented research and development and put research results and scientific finds into practice, create an international and inclusive environment, be a leader in social responsibility, and intensify cooperation and communication within the university community to create a constructive working atmosphere and expanding mutual support.
The university has 8 departments in Applied Social Sciences, Architecture, Design, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, and Economics. It offers 70 educational programs at the Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD level.
The university is highly research-oriented, having attracted over 13.1 million in third-party funding in 2022 alone. Research funding includes EU, federal, and state projects. In addition to research, the university implements numerous knowledge
transfer programs.
The study program "Serious Games and Digital Knowledge" at the faculty of Design is participating in this cooperation. The Bachelor's degree program is a highly innovative, interdisciplinary and bilingual (German / English) Bachelor's degree program at the Faculties of Design, Computer Science and Business Studies. It covers a broad, practice- and application-oriented and professionally qualifying range of skills in all relevant areas of serious games, gamification and digital knowledge and skills transfer. The study program provides students with comprehensive skills in the disciplines of Game Design, User Experience Design, User Interface Design, Digital Storytelling, Media Education & Didactics, Game Studies, Computer Science and Business Studies.