Database on admission requirements

All fields are mandatory.

In which country did you gain your most recent qualification?
In which country did you gain your most recent qualification?
Grade report
Choose your grade report and answer each country-specific question.

What type of grade report do you have*)?
Grade report
*)Please be sure to always submit an "official transcript of records" of the school or higher education institution with the application, clearly providing information on your subjects and marks as well as your periods of study.

**)This is a degree of academic studies lasting at least 4 years effectively completed as a full-time student at a state-recognised or regionally-accredited higher education institution according to the given study regulations. Admissible Bachelor‘s degrees are the following: Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science and vocational Bachelor‘s degrees (such as: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Pharmacy, Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Science in Engineering etc.)
High School Diploma
Condition:
It is obligatory for your High School Diploma*) to be acquired after continuous attendance of the classes 9 to 12 at a US High School and to comprise a total of 16 "academic units"; in the forms 9 to 12:
- 4 units (3 units are sufficient for 11 forms) English with a minimum grade C: English IV or Honors or AP English,
- 2 units Second Language,
- 3 units Social Studies,
5 units in total Mathematics and Science:
- 2 or 3 units Mathematics with a minimum grade C: Algebra II or Trigonometry and Precalculus,
- 2 or 3 units Science with a minimum grade C: Biology, Chemistry or Physics,
- 2 academic units free to choose.

Does your High School Diploma include all of the "academic units" specified above?
High School Diploma
*)A GED (general equivalency diploma) issued by individual states in the US is not accepted.
additional tests
Have you completed additional tests in the USA?
additional tests
Please always submit the "official transcripts".

*) Until February 2016: A total of 1,300 points must be proven in the two parts "Math" and "Critical Reading". This is not the overall score achieved; this is the sum of points scored in the parts “Math” and “Critical Reading” independent of the results achieved in the “Writing” part.
From March 2016: A total of 1,360 points must be proven in the two parts "Math" and "Evidence-Based Reading and Writing".

**) Starting with the admission deadline for the winter semester 2019/2020, the admission options in connection with SAT and ACT do not apply any more. This means that SAT and ACT results do not lead to a better rating for admission to a German institution of higher education than the High School Diploma without additional certificates.

Your possibility of admission:

With your educational background, you qualify for direct general admission, providing you can prove two years of study at a recognised higher education institution with "college level" courses that meet the following requirements:
- 5 independent general education subjects, thereof English, one foreign language, mathematics, and one natural science subject
- thereof at least three subjects with three ascending semester courses

This information, prepared together with uni-assist e.V., is based on the evaluation proposals of the Standing Conference of Education Ministers (Kultusministerkonferenz), published in the anabin database of the Central Office for Foreign Education (Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen, ZAB). The evaluation proposals serve the respective certification authorities as the basis for deciding which international school diplomas can lead to access of the higher education system in Germany. The information that is found in the DAAD database serves as an orientation for international students, but it is not binding for the certification authorities