Required Documents

Required documents for application

• Secondary education certificate (proof of school education that allows entry to university)
• University degree certificates with transcript of records – Please note that the certificates have been notarially certified and, if not available, have been translated into English, German or French. A grading scale is required!
  Please note! If the Bachelor’s degree has not yet been obtained, the following regulations apply:
  European and national applicants: must have at least 140 ECTS points on their transcript.
  Non-European applicants: must present at least an official transcript at the time of application, which includes all semesters except for their final semester. Please note: Enrolment is only possible if an official, certified final transcript is submitted by 30.9. at the latest (no provisional transcript is accepted here).
• Proof of practical Bachelor thesis or an adequate Project
  Proof can be provided by:
  – transcript of records for the relevant bachelor’s degree program (if listed with title), or
  – confirmation about thesis registration from the university (if the thesis is not finished yet including date, title and institute of the institute the thesis is being performed, or
  – a summary of the thesis stating the title and the methods used, as well as confirmation from the respective institution where the project was carried out (e.g. in the case of a comparable scientific work)
  Please note: Laboratory rotations during or after the course of study or work in diagnostics or quality control in which the applicant does not work on a project assigned to him or her personally are not sufficient.

• a complete CV (without gaps)
• Proof of English proficiency at level B2 according to the Common European Framework Reference for Languages (applicants whose Bachelor’s degree was taught entirely in English can upload a confirmation from the university and do not have to provide any further proof)
• Letter of application/Statement of purpose
• GRE, GATE or GAT (applies to certain international applicants)
  Applicants with degrees from a country that is not a signatory state of the Lisbon Convention must submit a valid Graduate Record Examination (GRE) , a Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering  (Biomedical Engineering, Life Sciences or Biotechnology, Indian) or a GAT test certificate (Pakistan).

• Additional docs
  Applicants from Pakistan, India, Vietnam and China must also submit the following with their application (these documents cannot be submitted later – non-submission will result in rejection)
  Pakistan: HEC certified documents
  India, China, Vietnam: APS certificate

Helpful link for international applicants: https://www.fau.eu/education/international/from-abroad/application-and-enrolment/