• International applicants who have already completed a Bachelor's degree in Germany and are interested in a Master's degree programme should apply directly to the relevant Master's examination board (please note the application deadlines of the respective Master's examination board) and then to the Student Admission and Registration for International Students.

• The application deadline at the Student Admission and Registration for International Students is 15.4 for the summer semester and 15.10 for the winter semester. You can find the application for admission to the degree programme in the Download Center on the right.

Irrespective of the date of your prior enrolment, this applies in the case of:

• a previous enrolment in a degree programme

• a previous enrolment in the preparatory German course

• a previous enrolment as an Erasmus or exchange student

Here, the application form exception uni-assist (from the download centre on the right), with all the required documents listed on the application form, must be sent via email to the Student admission and registration for International Students by 15.1 (for an application for the summer semester) and by 15.7 (for an application for the winter semester).

• Please send the application form exception uni-assist (from the download centre on the right) with all the required documents listed on the application form via email to the Student admission and registration for international students by 15.1 (if applying for the summer semester) and by 15.7 (if applying for the winter semester)

•  Application to the relevant faculty that conducts an aptitude test (application deadlines can be found under the following link:
  https://www.uni-wuppertal.de/de/studium/studiengaenge/detail/msc-architektur-ein-fach-studiengaenge

• For international applicants who would like to apply early to the Faculty of Architecture, this is already possible from August. If you pass the assessment of qualification, you can then apply to the International Students Office with the corresponding letter of admission in January of the following year. The earliest possible start of studies will then be the summer semester of the following year.
   
  The same applies to the winter semester:
  An application can be made in January via the assessment of qualification procedure at the Faculty of Architecture. If you pass the assessment of qualification, you can then apply to the International Students Office with the corresponding letter of admission in July of the following year.
  The earliest possible start of studies will then be the winter semester of the year of application.

   

Applicants with a German bachelor’s degree

Both of the following application channels must be used:

• Registration as an applicant via the online application portal of the Admissions Office by 15.7.
• Application via the application portal of the Joint Examination Board for Psychology by 15.7.

Specialisation in "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy":

Please note that for the major in "Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy", in contrast to all other German-language majors, German language skills at C2 level are required.

The application portal of the Joint Examination Board for Psychology and further information can be found here: https://www.psychologie.uni-wuppertal.de/de/fuer-bewerberinnen/master-psychologie/master-psychologie-schwerpunkt-klinische-psychologie-und-psychotherapie/Specialisation in "Work, Environment and Health".

The application portal of the Joint Examination Board for Psychology and further information can be found here: https://www.psychologie.uni-wuppertal.de/de/fuer-bewerberinnen/master-psychologie/master-psychologie-schwerpunkt-klinische-psychologie-und-psychotherapie/

(Since you graduated from high school abroad and there is no option for this in the online portal of the Student Admissions Office, you have the following option to avoid the problem: You indicate that you graduated from a German school abroad (we will then correct the data with your enrollment).

Prospective students with foreign university entrance qualification and who would like to enrol in a German-language degree programme have to provide proof of sufficient German language skills before enrolling into the respective degree programme.

The enrolment into a degree programme requires the German Language Test for University Admission (DSH) at least at level DSH-2. If a student took the DSH examination at another university, DSH certificate will be accepted if the respective university’s DSH examination regulations are registered at the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK). (http://www.hrk.de/mitglieder/arbeitsmaterialien/ registrierung- von-dsh-pruefungsordnungen (in German available only).

Admission to the respective degree programme and proof of German language skills at least at level C1 of the “Common European Framework of Reference for Languages” (CFL) is a prerequisite for admission to the DSH examination at the University of Wuppertal.

The DSH examination is offered twice a year in March and September. Applicants are required to pay a fee of €150 for taking the DSH. For detailed information, please visit: https://www.sli.uni-wuppertal.de/en/deutsch-als-fremdsprache/dsh/.

You are exempt from providing proof of the DSH if you passed one of the following examinations: DSDS II German Language Diploma of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs, the Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung (C2), the Goethe-Zertifikat C2: Großes Deutsches Sprachdiplom (GDS) or the Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom (KDS) offered by the Goethe-Institut, TestDaF level 4 in all parts of the examination, the German language examination for university studies “telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule”, a school-leaving certificate from a German school corresponding to a German higher education entrance qualification or the German examination as part of the aptitude test.

For all necessary information on the TestDaF examination, please visit www.testdaf.de (in German available only) or the website of the Language Learning institute: www.sli.uni-wuppertal.de/en.

If you have already registered for or taken part in a DSH, telc Deutsch C1-Hochschule or a TestDaF examination but have not received the certificate by the end of extension period, you can upload or submit the certificate of registration or attendance by the end of the late extension period (31 January or 31 July) at the latest. You will then be given the opportunity to submit the certificate until the enrolment deadline. This deadline does not apply to the Bachelor degree programmes Psychology and Architecture.

In the following cases, you can be exempted from the DSH test by our Language Learning Institute (SLI) if you had your language skills assessed in an interview by the SLI:

• German as a mother tongue
• German nationality
• Not yet completed secondary school education at a German-speaking school
• General certificate of secondary education (Realschulabschluss) from a German secondary school or completion of 9^th grade at a German school abroad
• Apprenticeship in Germany
• Completed German-language degree programme at a foreign university
• Completed German degree course
• At least one year of study at a German university

The following language certificates entitle you to be admitted to the DSH 2 examination at the University of Wuppertal. After passing the DSH 2 examination you can start your degree programme.

• • DSH 1 or proof of failed DSH
  • TestDaF with the result 2x3 and 2x4
  • C1 certificat

The University of Wuppertal offers preparatory German courses to foreign prospective students applying for a degree programme who have a higher education entrance qualification, but cannot provide proof of sufficient German knowledge. Participants are required to pay a fee of €500. The International Center will cover these costs under certain conditions if the applicant is a “registered asylum-seeker”. If the requirements have not been met by the end of the German course; the applicant must pay the fee to the International Center.

Participants of the preparatory German course can be enrolled at the University of Wuppertal for a maximum of three semesters. As “students” in the German course, they require private health insurance. In addition to the German course fee, participants are required to pay the regular semester fee of currently approx. 300.00 euros, which includes the Deutschland-Semesterticket (Deutschland-Ticket for students).

The University of Wuppertal offers German courses at levels A2 to C1. Participants can acquire German language skills at level A1 by taking an online self-study course. Assignment to a course level is based on the result of a placement test. German courses take place all year round and consist of 38 teaching weeks and around 18 lessons per week. During school holiday of North Rhine-Westphalia, no courses take place. The German course concludes with the final examination of the C1 course, which is a prerequisite for taking the DSH examination in Wuppertal.