Required German language skills for international applicants - Bachelor degree programmes

This is how well you must speak German to study at our university if you did not graduate from a school in Germany. Here is the list of accepted proof of German language skills:

ProgrammeGerman language requirementsFurther language requirements
  • Architecture
  • Civil Engineering and Dual
    Sustainable Development
  • Environmental Engineering
Goethe-Zertifikat B2, telc B2-Zertifikat,
ÖSD B2-Zertifikat, DSH 1, TestDaF 4 x 3, DSD II (B2/C1)
 
  • Applied Computer Sciences CVH
  • Buiness Administration
  • Business Administration (joint programme)
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Computer Science
  • Geoinformatics
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechatronics
  • Mechatronic Systems CVH
  • Regenerative Energy Systems
  • Land Surveyment
  • Business Information Systems
  • Business and Industry Information Systems CVH
  • Industrial Engineering and Management
  • Industrial Engineering and Management (joint programme)
Goethe-Zertifikat C 1, telc C1 Hochschule,
ÖSD C1-Zertifikat, DSH 2 oder TestDaF 4 x 4
 
KIA + KIS-programmesSame as for the normal bachelor's degree 
  • International Business and Management
Goethe-Zertifikat C 1, telc C1 Hochschule,
ÖSD C1-Zertifikat, DSH 2 oder TestDaF 4 x 4
and in the selected language:
Language test or B2 level: Stufe GER B2
  • Clinical Research Management
  • Occupational therapy
  • Health sciences
  • Health-related social work
  • Health economy
  • Midwifery
  • Speech therapy
  • Management of sustainable innovations in the healthcare sector
  • Sustainable management in the healthcare industry
  • Physiotherapy
  • Nursing
  • Nursing science
TestDaF 4x4, DSH 2, Goethe-Zertifikat C2, Feststellungsprüfung Studienkolleg, Telc C1 Hochschule, DSD 2, ÖSD-Zertifikat C1 

If you have a university entrance qualification, you can apply for exemption from the requirement to prove your German language skills by taking a language test if you

- have completed at least 2 years of vocational training in Germany;

- have successfully completed a year of study in German-language degree programmes;

- have German citizenship and are studying or working in Germany;

- submit a language test exemption certificate from another university