Stuttgart Media University educates media specialists. With effect from 1 September 2001, it combined the know-how of the former Hochschule fuer Druck und Medien - a traditional education centre for print and media technology - and the Hochschule fuer Bibliotheks- und Informationswesen.
Stuttgart Media University is the only educational institute in Europe to cover every media field and regards itself as a full-service university for the media industry. Its range of courses extends from printing through to the Internet, from design through to business administration, from library science through to advertisement, from media contents through to packaging technology, and from computer science and publishing through to electronic media.