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Your application to the TU Ilmenau with a foreign certificate - requirements, deadlines and processes
Stephan Fischer
International Study Counselling
+49 3677 69-2023
Building M, 1 Helmholtzring, room 507a
98693 Ilmenau
Enrollment at the University is a prerequisite for admission to a degree program (specialized or pre-degree). Enrollment at the university takes place
A change of program at the same university does not affect enrollment at that university. Only a transfer to the new degree program will occur. Re-registration for the following semester refers to enrollment at the university and not to a specific degree program.
The Enrollment Regulations of the TU Ilmenau regulates the procedure of admission to the study program and to the other courses offered by the universitythe enrollment, re-registration, change of study program and part-time study of students as well as the procedure for admission as secondary students and guest students at the Ilmenau University of Technology.
When applying for a degree program, the university requires the submission of a recognized language certificate as proof of knowledge of the teaching language of the degree program. German or English are the teaching languages offered at TU Ilmenau. Information on language certificates can be found here.
Proof of one of the following qualifications enables applicants with foreign certificates to gain access to the Bachelor's programme
The school leaving certificates from some countries are not equivalent to the German Abitur. Should this be the case, you will be sent to the Thuringian preparatory college in Nordhausen referred to. There you will prepare for your studies in Ilmenau within one year.
For all applicants who are not invited to attend the Studienkolleg, TU Ilmenau offers the Academic Preparation Course, the main component of which is a German course. At the time of application you must already have reached level B1 and continue the German course, because the aptitude test for the pre-degree course requires level B2. The language courses German as a foreign language, which are offered as part of the pre-degree course to prepare for university studies, require level B2. Applicants who have not yet reached this level cannot be accepted at the TU Ilmenau.
Please note that the bachelor's degree with which you start a master's degree course at TU Ilmenau must belong to the same subject area as the master's degree course you want to take.
The TU Ilmenau first compares whether your secondary school leaving certificate (Baccalauréat, Matura, Higher Secondary School Certificate, etc.) also qualifies you to study at university in Germany without any other courses (except language courses). Then the scope and content of your Bachelor's degree will be reviewed.
This can result in three possibilities:
If you already have a language certificate (see here) and can also prove that you have already passed the aptitude test at the TU Ilmenau, you will be admitted to the Master's course.
If you have the necessary language skills and the scope and content of your bachelor's degree qualifies you for the desired master's programme, you will be admitted to the master's programme.
If one of the two above-mentioned proofs is missing, you will be admitted to the Master's program with an invitation to prepare for the academic preparation course (Academic Preparation Course), provided that all other formal admission criteria are fulfilled. Here you can acquire the necessary linguistic and professional knowledge.
If our bachelor's degree is not similar enough to yours, you should better apply for the corresponding bachelor's degree and apply for the recognition of your academic achievements for the curriculum of the TU Ilmenau. Then you are sure that you can meet both the academic requirements of the university and the administrative requirements of the Immigration Act.