Required Documents for International Applicants

1. Application for Admission form
2. School-leaving certificate with list of grades as well as grade report from the last school year (The documents submitted need to reflect how many years of schooling have been completed.)
   If you have already completed a university degree:
   Diploma or award certificate of a higher education programme of at least three years' duration (Bachelor's or Diploma programme) including proof of the courses attended (Transcript of Records or Diploma Supplement with details of ECTS, credit points or semester hours per week).
3. Transcript of Records (if a university degree programme has already been started)
4. Proof of German language competence
5. Copy of passport (only the page with the personal data)
6. Curriculum vitae

For countries with an additional university entrance examination, this must be submitted.

For example:

• Azerbaijan
• China Gaokao, APS certificate
• Greece: Panhellenic Exam
• Iran: Pre-University Course, Concours
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Colombia: Examen de Estado para Ingreso a la Educacion Superior
• Mongolia
• Morocco: Concours
• Spain: PAU
• South Korea: College Scholastic Ability Test
• Turkey:
  • ÖSYS (concerns Turkish nationals)
  • YÖS (concerns not-Turkish nationals)
• Cyprus: Panzypresian Exam

The Doctoral Schools cover a wide spectrum of research fields in which you can write a thesis. On the website of each doctoral school you can find the subject areas and contact details of potential supervisors.

If one of these people agrees to supervise your thesis, they will give you a letter of confirmation that you can submit as part of the admissions process.

A high school diploma or high school degree is awarded on high school graduation in the United States of America. This diploma alone is not equivalent to a general university entrance qualification.

Additional qualifications are required for admission to a higher education institution in Austria, such as examinations in the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, the ACT or periods of study at a recognised post-secondary educational institution totalling two years.

The high school diploma must be apostilled.

Details:

• Information from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
• Advanced Placement Program (APP)

Further information regarding the procedure, submission deadlines and other required documents is available at: Admission of International Degree Programme Applicants

• Applicants from the United Kingdom must prove completion of four independent, general education subjects with at least the grades A*, A, B or C (or Grades 9-4). At the very least, they must include:
  • one language
  • mathematics
  • one of the following subjects: biology, physics or chemistry
  • one humanities subject
• At least three of the four subjects must have been passed at GCE Advanced Level, the fourth subject at GCSE or IGCSE Level.
• Advanced Supplementary Level (AS) is equivalent to the GCSE Level for the above conditions.
• The International Advanced Level (IAL) is equivalent to the GCE Advanced Level for the above requirements.
• Besides GCSE, IGCSE, GCE or IAL, a language test conducted purely in the English language may not be used to assess general university entrance qualifications.

Details: Information from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research

Further information regarding the procedure, submission deadlines and other required documents is available at: Admission of International Degree Programme Applicants