Your Application

1. General application procedure with foreign University Entry Certificates

 

Applicants with foreign qualifications (school leaving or bachelor certificate that are not issued by a German Institution) must apply via web service uni-assist. Except for the degree programmes listed below under 2. & 3.*. Uni-assist e.V. checks foreign qualifications and grades, assesses your language skills and reviews whether you are fit to study at UAS Zwickau with your educational qualifications. This process generally takes up to 4 weeks and they will charge you a fee for this.

Please note you can apply for a maximum of two degree programmes at WHZ on uni-assist.

Applicants with German University Entrance Certificates (that means school leaving certificate or university degrees from Germany) do not need to apply via uni-assist. If you have high school or degree certificates issued in Germany, please refer to the non-international application path.

• Application via uni-assist e.V.

 *The following courses of study/application are excluded:

 

2. Application via application portal

If you intend to apply for a degree programme listed here, please use the application portal and send an email to international.office@whz.de stating that you have applied for one of the following degree programmes:

• Acoustic and technology of musical-instrument construction (master's programme)
• Design (bachelor‘s programme)

Important: A successfully passed aptitude test is required for the admission to these programs. Please find more informationen on the examination here.

 

3. Application via University of Applied Siences Zwickau application portal 

Applying for one of the following degree programmes, please use the application portal and send an email to study[at]whz.de stating that you have applied for a cooperative degree programme.

• CDHAW Shanghai, China (Diplom studies in Industrial Engineering, Automotive Technology, Supply Engineering and Environmental Technology)
• Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China (Masters Program LBA German-Chinese with Double Degree)
• Häme University, Finnland (Bachelor Studies Design/Fashion Design)
• INAI.Kg University Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (Bachelor and Master Studies in Computer Science)
• HTL Austria (Diplom Studies of Electrical Engineering)
• Regional and European Project Development (Tri-national Masters studies)
• Wenzao Ursuline College in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Languages and Business Administration - German Business Communication)
• Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, China (Langauges and Business Administration - German Business Communication)
• Armenian State University of Economics (ASUE), International Black Sea University (IBSU), Krgyz-German Institute of Applied Informatics (INAI.kg), Kazakh American Free University (KAFU) - Management and Information Technology (Master)

 

 

	EU nationals	Non-EU nationals
admission free programmes	31 July	30 June
admission restricted programmes	30 April	30 April

	EU nationals	Non-EU nationals
admission free programmes	31 December	30 November
admission restricted programmes	30 November	30 November

Required documents for an application:

• CV
• Original school leaving certificate in the original language
• officially certified translation of the school leaving certificate (in German or English)
• university certificates and transcript of records, if any
• officially certified translations of university certificates and transcript of records (in German or English)
• proof of sufficient German language skills (please note the requirements for the specific degree programmes)
• proof of other language skill, if required (please note the requirements for the specific degree programmes)
• letter of motivation (only for Masters programmes)

For some countries (PR China, Vietnam etc.):

• the original proof of passing the university entrance exam 
• officially certified translation into German or English of the proof of passing the university entrance exam (in German or English)

For Applicants from India, PR China, Mongolia and Vietnam:

• APS-certificate from the Academic Evaluation Centre/Akademische Prüfstelle
  

Note: All the required documents that are neither in German nor in English must be submitted with an officially certified translation into German or English.

The following language certificates are recognized for the purposes of admission:

• Test Deutsch als Fremdsprache (TestDaf), the following results in the four sub-tests:
  2 x at least level 3 (written/oral expression) and 2 x at least level 4 (listening/reading comprehension)

• Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang (DSH – at least Level 2)

• Deutsches Sprachdiplom (DSD – at least Level 2)

• Goethe-Certificate (C1 or C2)

• Certificate "telc Deutsch" (C1 or C2 Hochschule)

• Feststellungsprüfung (Passed partial exam German in FSP certificate)

The University of Applied Science Zwickau is a TestDaF examination centre, so you can take the TestDaF directly in Zwickau. The Department for Subject-Related Language Training (Fachbezogene Sprachausbildung) offers preparatory German language courses. Find out more here.

Please kindly note that other language requirements may apply. You can find them here.

General admission requirements

Relevant university entrance qualifications are required to study at a German university. You can check whether you meet the requirements for studying in Germany on uni-assist or on the anabin website. 

If, according to the evaluation guidelines of the Central Office for Foreign Education Bonn (ZAB), you are granted an indirect university entrance qualification, you must first complete the one-year preparatory course (Feststellungsprüfung) at the Studienkolleg Zittau/Görlitz.

 

If you do not meet the language requirements for direct university admission but have a German B1 language certificate, you can take a DSH (German Language University Entrance Exam) preparation course at the Studienkolleg Zittau/Görlitz.

Both FSP and DSH courses are free of charge. However, you cannot apply for these courses directly. You must apply for a degree program at our university first.

 

 

Specific requirements

Some degree programs also require specific prerequisites. These can be, for example, certificates or internships and work experience. You will find this information in the description of the degree program (see WHZ courses of study).