If you have arrived on this page through a search engine and you don't know whether you need to use uni-assist to apply, please use the interactive 'How to apply' guide on this page, or visit the overview page about applying and enrolling.
The deadlines listed above are the dates by which your complete application and the uni-assist fee must reach uni-assist. If there is a delay, for instance, in your bank transfer, causing you to miss the deadline, your application will not be considered for the current application round!
We recommend that you complete your application and pay the handling fee at the earliest opportunity.
Once you have collected together all the required documents, you can apply as follows while the application period is open:
Your application documents should comprise:
Uni-assist charges 75 euros to process your application to one university, and 30 euros for each additional university you apply to. Please pay the application handling fee directly to uni-assist.
If your application and documents package is incomplete, uni-assist cannot process your application. Please pay the application handling fees on the day that you submit your application. Uni-assist commences processing your application only after the fees have been received. This also means that the fees need to reach uni-assist before the application deadline.
There are comprehensive FAQs on the uni-assist website.
If your academic record meets all formal requirements for the programme of your choice, then uni-assist will forward your application to the University of Passau. You will receive an email when this happens.
The University of Passau will then contact you with an offer of a place of study (Zulassungsbescheid) or a rejection (Ablehnungsbescheid), along with instructions for how to enrol (if applicable). The offer letter will also tell you what you need to do next – specifically, when you have to complete enrolment.
Before you can begin your studies at the University of Passau – usually at enrolment (matriculation) – you will be asked to present not only scans but the actual documents which you uploaded to uni-assist. When you do, please submit certified copies of your certificates – never originals!
If you are applying for an undergraduate degree programme and if your secondary education is not recognised as equivalent to a general university entrance qualification in Germany, then one possible outcome is that the University sends you a conditional offer of a place of study.
In that case, the offer will require you to complete and pass a one-year preparatory course at a Studienkolleg. The preparatory course will finish with a Feststellungsprüfung (university qualification exam). If you pass this exam, you will receive an indirect university entrance qualification ('indirekte Hochschulzugangsberechtigung')
You can check in advance whether this scenario is likely to apply to you: use uni-assist's university admissions check tool. This will let you know whether your secondary school qualification will be recognised as university entrance qualification, whether it entitles you to attend a preparatory course, or whether you need to obtain other qualifications first. If the admissions check tool indicates that you will have to attend a Studienkolleg, you must still apply to a German university first. You cannot apply directly to a preparatory course as these only accept students referred by universities.
If you need to pass a preparatory course before you can enrol at the University of Passau, you will be sent an invitation to attend an entrance test at the Munich Studienkolleg. You will then be automatically assigned to the preparatory course that suits your chosen degree programme at the University of Passau. If you pass the university qualification exam at the end of the one-year course, you can enrol directly on your chosen programme at the University of Passau.
If your application fails to meet the requirements of your chosen degree programme, then uni-assist will inform you of this. You will be able to apply for the next intake.
If you receive an offer of a place of study at the University of Passau, and if you then fail to enrol on the programme in time, we will keep your data on file for one year. After that time, the data will be deleted.
Uni-assist stores your data for four years. During that time, your data is only accessible to uni-assist and the universities you choose to apply to. After four years, your data is deleted.
If you'd like to know how your academic results are translated into the German system of academic grades, you can use the calculation tool below. If your native system doesn't use numbers for academic grades, but, for example, letters, then you must first turn the grades into numbers.
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The above tool uses the formula decided upon by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs. It is known as 'modifizierte bayerische Formel' (modified Bavarian formula).
Please note: academic grading systems vary significantly between countries. The calculation tool has been created for your convenience. Its results are not legally binding, but a guideline for general information purposes only.
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