Learn today using the technology of tomorrow

If you’ve got big plans, you need the best tools. At Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (HSMW), you’re not just a spectator in the lecture theatre – you’re right at the controls, working with the machines and systems. In our studios, laboratories and innovation spaces, you’ll work independently right from the start, using exactly the same equipment you’ll encounter in professional practice. Make the campus your workshop and kick-start your career with a real head start.

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Europe’s most modern academic media centre

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At the Centre for Media and Social Work (ZMS), you’ll be the producer. This is where TV shows, radio features and cross-media formats are created under real-life conditions. Thanks to our exclusive partnership with industry giant Blackmagic Design, you’ll edit, colour-grade and process your projects using professional post-production suites.

  • The 400-square-metre television studio: equipped with state-of-the-art camera, lighting and sound technology for high-end productions.
  • The virtual production studio: The revolution in film and series production first came to the attention of the wider public with *The Mandalorian*: Virtual Production. Here, actors perform in front of an LED wall rather than on real locations. 
  • Your own radio programme: In our two fully equipped radio studios, you’ll present and produce the daily live programme for the university’s own station, 99drei Radio Mittweida.

On the trail of crime and looking ahead to the future

In Natural Sciences and Computer Science, you’ll be experimenting and programming at the cutting edge. Whether it’s digital forensics, molecular analysis or immersive Software Development – our laboratories offer you the perfect platform to bring your own projects to life.

  • The forensics laboratories: Analyse cyber-attacks in state-of-the-art IT forensics clusters or secure digital evidence using professional hardware and software tools from the field of forensic science.
  • Biotech Laboratory: Examine biological systems at a molecular level using high-precision confocal microscopes for single-molecule research.
  • ā€˜Motion Simulation’ Living Lab: Develop your own VR applications, games or driver assistance systems and test them directly in our full-scale driving simulators.

Your innovation hub for Industry 4.0

In Mittweida, your sketches are turned into real prototypes and marketable innovations. We combine state-of-the-art manufacturing technologies with creative freedom, so that you can actively help shape the production and business processes of tomorrow, starting today.

  • The Innolab: your ideas workshop for engineering and computer science. An open space for creativity and maker culture, where you can independently bring your own projects to life – from the first sketch to the physical model.
  • The Laserinstitut at Mittweida University of Applied Sciences (LHM): Work in an internationally renowned research centre equipped with large-scale, industry-standard facilities for 3D Printing (additive manufacturing) and laser micro-machining.
  • The Training Factory 4.0: Programme and control a fully networked model factory and optimise production processes on the model whilst you’re still studying.

More than just books – your forward-looking digital workspace

This is where the heart of the campus will soon beat: our state-of-the-art new library building breaks with all the old clichƩs; it will be a light-filled, digitalised space, perfectly tailored to flexible, hybrid and collaborative teamwork.

  • Smart working environments: Make use of multimedia group workrooms with interactive screens for your team projects, flexible co-working zones for creative exchange, or comfortable focus zones for your deep work sessions.
  • Digital-first and 24/7: Benefit from a seamless high-speed infrastructure and access millions of digital publications, databases and specialist journals worldwide, round the clock.

Ready for the next step?

Experience the HSMW campus for yourself! Come along to our open days or take the opportunity to go on a personalised campus tour to see for yourself what your future learning environment will be like.

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There are more than just five good reasons to study in Mittweida. The most important one: over 90 specialised degree programmes that consistently focus on practical professional skills. Because, particularly in the age of AI, it’s not just about having learnt the theory, but about successfully applying it in practice.

But your time at university is about more than just acquiring knowledge. The HSMW campus is reminiscent of a US university – a small university somewhere in the Midwest. In Mittweida, everything is within easy walking distance, so you can study more comfortably, in a more relaxed and focused way – thanks in part to affordable rents. Instead of having to finance your living costs with part-time jobs, you can make the most of the vibrant campus life.

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