Working with art and design – and with people: The bachelor in Arts and Design Education offers a strong foundation for direct entry into a career in socioculture, art, design and cultural education, or embarking on an Master.
Factsheet
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts FHNW in Arts and Design Education
- Study mode
- Full-time
- Learning mode
- Onsite
- ECTS credits
- 180
- Next start
- 14.9.2026
- Duration
- 6 semesters
- Teaching language
- German (B2 or equivalent), partly in English
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Stay abroad
- Possible
- Application fee
- CHF 200.- (incl. aptitude assessment and enrolment)
- Semester fee
- CHF 750 (CH); CHF 1.000 (EU); CHF 1.250 (Not-EU/EFTA)
At a glance
- The programme enables students to use artistic and creative working methods to provide sustainable and diversity-sensitive educational stimuli, open up spaces for reflection, apply research-based working methods and accompany transformative educational processes.
- Students experiment with materials, working methods and hybrid, multimedia processes.
- The programme is linked to intensive, enjoyable, experimental artistic and creative practice in the students' own projects.
Why study this?
Goals and benefits
Career prospects
Structure and programme contents
The Study programme
Target audience
Infrastructure
Blog
International
International Office
Exchange programmes offer students and staff the opportunity to network and develop both within Switzerland and internationally. The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW maintains partnerships and accredited agreements with universities and academies in Switzerland and abroad.
Programme Head & Lecturers
Contact
Prof. Beate Florenz
Studiengangleiterin BA / Professorin für Kunst- und Designvermittlung
- Phone
- +41 61 228 41 26
- beate.florenz@fhnw.ch
Requirements and admission
Admission requirements
Information of the aptitude assessment + dates + study regulations
FAQ online registration
Advising and information events
Contact
Prof. Beate Florenz
Studiengangleiterin BA / Professorin für Kunst- und Designvermittlung
- Phone
- +41 61 228 41 26
- beate.florenz@fhnw.ch
Information events
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Registration
Thank you for your interest in studying at the Basel Academy of Art and Design. The application deadline for a Bachelor's degree programme beginning in the fall semester 2026/27 has expired on February 15, 2026. The next application window for the fall semester 2027/28 opens on November 1, 2026.
Arts and Design EducationSeptember 2026
- Date
- 14.9.2026
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application start
- 1.11.2025
- Final application date
- 15.2.2026
Arts and Design EducationSeptember 2027
- Date
- 20.9.2027
- Duration
- 6 Semester
- Place
- Campus HGK Basel
- Application start
- 1.11.2026
- Final application date
- 15.2.2027
Campus HGK Basel
FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Basel Academy of Art and Design
Freilager-Platz 1
4142 Münchenstein near Basel