In an increasingly interconnected, knowledge-based world driven by unprecedented rapid digital transformation, more and more students are considering options beyond the traditional.

Set up to address precisely this requirement, and to cater for new opportunities, the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences (MAKS) carries out research that is informed by and applicable to a knowledge-based economy driven by digital transformation. This research informs the academic programmes offered by MAKS that are highly relevant to an evolving  array of rewarding career trajectories.  

Opening up a world of new directions, be it in academia, in industry or the arts, MAKS offers a number of taught programmes at diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

These include programmes in the areas of media and communications, digital arts, marketing communications, the management of knowledge and information, and cognitive science. The Faculty also provides study-units for other faculties as well as study-units for visiting students.

The Faculty’s diverse research streams, which have attracted significant European Union research funding, continue to pursue the investigation of knowledge creation, its accumulation and transfer, and its multiple uses in society.

MAKS embraces cognitive neuroscience and social science research as theoretical frameworks for communication, as well as different forms of digital media expressions and social structures that make the dissemination of knowledge possible.

The Faculty is housed in a recently refurbished building that includes a Digital Arts Lab and Art Room, a Cognitive Science Lab, an Immersion Lab, an Audio-Visual Library, lecture halls, seminar rooms, and meeting areas.