Application and Admission

• Qualified are students who have completed at least 6 semesters (three years) of university studies and obtained a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, physics or similar.

• We consider applications of candidates able to provide their final degree certificate up to two weeks prior to the official start of the semester.

• Please be aware that IELTS academic (min 6.0), TOEFL iBT (min 85) or UNIcertII are approved for the admission process.
  Oxford Test of English (min 120) and PTE Academic (min 55) may be considered equivalent qualification.
  German Abitur certificate may be submitted as a proof of language level as long as it states the language proficiency level achieved.

• Should you not manage to upload the required language certificate while the application portal is open, your application will be considered incomplete and excluded from the application process. This also includes language certificates with a score that was too low.

After you submit your application, the admission committee will check all documents for completeness. If any of the required documents are missing, you must to submit them until the application portal closes. The submission of missing documents is only possible once. If you do not upload the required documents, your application will be excluded from the selection process.

Mandatory documents

(if one or more of the mandatory documents are missing, your application will be rejected):

• Your transcript of records
• A proof of English language proficiency (IELTS academic (min 6.0), TOEFL iBT (min 85), UNIcertII, Oxford Test of English (min 120), PTE Academic (min 55) or German Abitur certificate)
• For applicants from China, Vietnam and India: APS certificate

Please keep in mind that your qualifying academic degree certificate (e.g. bachelor’s degree certificate) is necessary for enrolment.
If you have not finished your qualifying bachelor’s (or comparable) degree at the time of application, please apply with your current transcript of records and estimate the end of your study.

If no information about your local grading system is included on your transcript of records, please provide additional information.

Optional documents

(in order for us to get a complete impression of you, we would appreciate it if you also submit additional documents):

• CV
• Letters of Recommendation
• Motivation letter
• Rank Certificate
• Confirmation of scholarship

All documents have to be submitted in one PDF file with a maximum size of 10 MB.

If your application is complete, it will be forwarded to the Admission Committee. It thoroughly reviews all documents of every individual application and carries out an equivalence check. This means the committee checks your modules taken in the bachelor's degree for equivalence, i.e. whether admission to the master's programme can be granted on the basis of the subjects in the bachelor's degree.

If you do not pass the admission requirements, your application will be rejected.

Passing the equivalence check does not automatically mean admission. We regularly have far more applicants than study places (around 10 per semester). Therefore, the admission committee ranks all participants on basis of their qualification. Only the top candidates are granted admission.

All other applicants who fit our requirements but were unable to obtain a study place will be placed on the waiting list.

After the application portal closes, we will usually need between two or three weeks to issue admissions and allocate applicants to the waiting list.

Being on the waiting list means that although you meet the admission criteria, other applicants have better qualifications. Subsequent admission depends on how many people, who have already been offered a place, withdraw from it.

Usually, few admitted applicants withdraw, so the probability of being admitted from the waiting list is unfortunately rather low.

If all places have been allocated or you are too far down in the rankings to get a place, we will reject your application and notify you by e-mail.

After admission, you have two weeks to confirm your place at the university. After confirmation, you will be contacted by our LAP Support Team and receive close support in organisational and study-related matters. A tutor will supervise you and help you with these first steps.

For international students this will be:

• Application for a VISA. This should be done as soon as you have confirmed your place as it may take a while for the embassy to process your VISA application.
• Finding Accommodation. We will help you to rent a room in one of our student residences. Please do not travel to Germany until you have signed a rental contract and also only at a date when the contract is valid. It is crucial that you have accommodation before you arrive in Germany. As a rule, it is not possible to organise rooms spontaneously. If you come to Germany without having a (permanent) place to stay, you will have to make your own arrangements about where you will live. We will not be able to help you with this.
• Study counselling for the selection of modules

If we do not receive confirmation, the place will be passed on to the next person on the waiting list. A place on the waiting list also becomes available if you decide to withdraw from your study place later.

Because of legal reasons, it is not possible to transfer the admission to the next semester.

The only way to be admitted in a later semester is to reapply for that semester via the Application Portal and be admitted again. Please be aware that a reapplication does not automatically lead to an admission again. Please use the same e-mail address for all applications.