Requirements

General information about admission here.

Higher education entrance qualification

To qualify for admission to studies at a German higher education institution you must be able to prove that you hold a higher education entrance qualification with which you can be admitted to higher education in your home country. Since 1998, School leaving certificates from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been recognised as equivalent to the German higher education entrance qualification called the Abitur. To convert your grades to the German equivalents use this grading key.

If you finished school before 1997 please visit the Zentrale für Ausländisches Bildungswesen and follow the link "Zeugnisbewertung".

German language proficiency

Before you can take up a course of studies at a German university, you normally have to prove that your German language skills are good enough for studying. You can do this by passing one of the following two German language tests: "Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang ausländischer Studienbewerber" (DSH) or "Test Deutsch als Fremdsprache" (TestDaF). You can only sit the DSH at your German university. TestDaF can be taken at many test centres located in Germany and abroad.

Detailed information on German language tests and certificates, German language courses and test centres can be found on the DAAD website: Deutsch lernen.

 

 

11/12/08