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Bard College Berlin offers high-quality small-group teaching in the humanities and social sciences. Students have the opportunity to pursue rigorous, wide-ranging courses in intellectual history that serve as an indispensable groundwork for study in any discipline.

Our Curriculum

Students can choose from a range of electives in philosophy, literature, film, art history, the practicing arts, and social and economic theory. Language study in German, from beginner to advanced level, is available. The college supports internship opportunities and practical training, and has many established connections with the intellectual and cultural life of Berlin. Bard College Berlin holds its own public lecture and annual conference series, and hosts a civic engagement program. Students arrange regular extracurricular events and run a number of college organizations in the arts and politics.Watch a video about the academics at Bard College Berlin:

Degree Programs

BA in Economics, Politics, and Social Thought
Concentrations: 
Economics Politics

BA in Humanities, the Arts, and Social Thought
Concentrations: 
Art and Aesthetics Ethics and Politics Literature and Rhetoric

BA in Artistic Practice and Society*
*Expected to enroll its first cohort of students in Fall 2023, pending approval from the Berlin Senate.
 

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Bard College Berlin, A Liberal Arts University gGmbH

Mailing address: Platanenstrasse 24, 13156 Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 30 43733 0
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Bard College Berlin is institutionally accredited at the national level in Germany by the Wissenschaftsrat.

In the United States, Bard College Berlin is accredited through
Bard College by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Qualifying students receive both a German BA and an American BA. 
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