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With the completion of the repayment of start-up investments, the consolidation of the German Film School in Elstal near Berlin is progressing. As the private film school reports, after almost six years of teaching operations it has thus reached an important milestone and can now reduce the fees.
“Through this positive development, we are in a position to reduce tuition fees by a good 16 percent,” explains Filmschool President Prof. Dr. Bernd Willim. From the 2006 summer semester (start: March 1), the three-year compact degree program for the state-recognized “Diplom Digital Artist” will cost all new entrants around 34,000 euros in the least expensive variant instead of around 41,000 euros previously. The German Film School has also reduced the tuition fees for the innovative, two-year advanced degree program Character & Design Development – they were reduced from around 17,000 to 16,300 euros.
For monthly installment payments, the reduced tuition fees mean a reduction in the monthly burden of around 33 percent, from 1,448 euros previously to 970 euros, the university calculates. “As a result, we are finally offering the persistently large number of interested parties the opportunity to complete the training for the state-recognized ‘Diplom Digital Artist,’ which is elite in the best sense,” Willim explains. To finance the training, there are also innovative options for financing studies through major banking institutions. Thus, among others, Deutsche Bank, Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, several savings banks and Deutsche Kreditbank would recently or shortly be offering special student loans that make funding of up to 800 euros per month possible.
In addition to the fee reduction, the German Film School is preparing another consecutive degree program. It is titled “Virtual
World Design & Development” and is to be offered as a three-year Bachelor-
degree program, supplemented by the master’s degree program “Virtual
World Design & Development” as well as the master’s degree program “Virtual World
Research.” All study offerings can also be booked individually. They are connected with the broad-based “Merkaba” research project launched by the film school in 2004.
