Information on Application and Enrolment

A higher education entrance qualification is a general prerequisite for admittance to a programme of study.

The DAAD database on admission requirements allows international students to check whether they meet the requirements for the degree programme of their choice in Germany.

The anabin database can help you establish if your qualification (school certificate, certificate of university attendance in your homeland) qualify you to study at university in Germany: www.anabin.de – official site with authoritative information on the assessment of foreign qualifications (information in German language)

Admission to a Master‘s programme requires a good university degree completed in a related field.

Please note, that the language of instruction at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences is German in nearly all programmes and courses, except the Bachelor's programme Sustainable Resources, Engineering and Management (StREaM) and the Master's programme Water Engineering. Foreign applicants have to prove adequate language skills in German.

Programmes of the departsments Applied Human Sciences and Social Work, Health and Media

Evidence of the necessary German language skills can be provided in the form of:

• Goethe Certificate C2
• DSH II
• DSD II
• TestDaF (minimun 16 total points & minimun level 3 in the examination modules) 
• TELC Deutsch C1 Hochschule
• ÖSD C2 (Österreichisches Deutschzertifikat)

Programmes of the departsments Economics, Engineering and Industrial Design and Water, Environment, Construction and Safety

Evidence of the necessary German language skills can be provided in the form of:

• Goethe Certificate C1
• DSD II
• DSH I
• TestDaF (minimun level 3 in the examination modules)
• TELC Deutsch C1 Hochschule
• ÖSD C1 (Österreichisches Deutschzertifikat)

For some degree programmes you must also fulfil additional (special) admission requirements. Please check our course descriptions to find out this information.

If you establish that university entrance is not possible with your certificate/certificates or if the standard of your German language skills does not make you eligible for university admission, then please contact a preparatory college ("Studienkolleg"). 

Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences does not have its own preparatory college. The state-run preparatory college responsible for our institution is located at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Köthen. It specifically prepares foreign applicants for a course of studies in Germany.

In Magdeburg you can find a private preparatory college: Europäisches Studienkolleg der Wirtschaft (ESKW)

Application documents

• Certificate of higher education entrance qualification and its translation (including the overview of subjects and grades)
• Proof of having passed a university entrance exam (If you have passed an university entrance exam in your country of origin, please submit the relevant certificate.)
• Proof of study periods and translation and ist translation
• Evidence of the necessary language skills
• Curriculum vitae (complete, chronological)
• Passport (The copy only needs to contain the page with your picture and your personal data.)

The application via uni-assist is an online application. Upload your certificates in their original language and as a translation into German or English. Translations must be carried out by a certified translator and must be stamped and signed. 

More information about assembling your documents

Notices of admission

On restricted admission Bachelor’s programmes that begin in the winter semester, notices of admission to the degree programme are sent out from the beginning of August. If not all places on a restricted admission programme are allocated during the main procedure, a second-chance procedure takes place. Applicants who received a rejection notice from the main procedure have the option to take part in the second-chance procedure, from which they may obtain a university place after all. When the first rejection notices are sent out, applicants are asked whether they would like to participate in a second-chance allocation procedure.

Applications for unrestricted admission degree programmes are processed continuously.
For courses where passing an aptitude test is an admission requirement, applicants are informed of the outcome after evaluation of the examination in the Department.

Enrolment

Once you have received an admission notice please reply accepting your university place, submit the required documentation, and transfer the payment of the semester fee. Only then is your enrolment complete.