Media studies
Reistrup is MA in Media studies. He studied Media Studies and Organisational Development at the Aarhus University from 2005 to 2008 and took his BA degree in 2008. He continued his studies at the University of Copenhagen where he took his MA degree in 2010. He took a part of the post graduate studies at the Dublin City University. His final thesis was published in 2010, it has the title "Entering the real-time web – understanding how companies engage their brands on the real-time web".