Application via uni-assist

General Information

International applicants usually have to apply via uni-assist, if they do have a foreign Bachelor's or Master's degree.

uni-assist e. V. supports TU Chemnitz in checking the admission requirements for international applicants. Please visit the uni-assist webpage regarding information about the way of your application.

For application via uni-assist, the following documents have to be submitted:

• proof of high school diploma certificate including transcripts in original language, with proof of translation in German or English language
• proof of successfully completed university entrance examination (not for all countries, please find more information on the website of uni-assist)
• all other proofs of successfully completed university studies at the home country (duration of studies, transcripts, acquired degrees), besides their translations in German or English language
• original APS-certificate or digital verifiable document (only for Chinese, Vietnamese and Indian applicants)
• German language proof if your native language is not German
• you can also apply with your provisional certificate or last year transcript

If all requirements and documents were checked, uni-assist will forward your documents to the university. All applicants who can prove that they have a university entrance qualification ("Hochschulzugangsberechtigung – HZB") receive a report from uni-assist. This documents the determined HZB as well as the converted HZB grade. In case that the formal requirements are not fulfilled, you will receive a respective message from uni-assist.

Application deadlines

• summer semester: October 1st to January 15th
• winter semester: April 1st to July 15th

Uni-assist needs to receive all application documents until the deadline. Please try to start your application at uni-assist as early as possible so that you can be informed at short notice if your documents are complete. Subsequent documents must be submitted by 15th January for summer semester / 15th July for winter semester, otherwise the application will be rejected.

Costs and payment

Please inform yourself at the uni-assist website about the costs for your application.

Exception: application via the online application portal of the Chemnitz University of Technology

Only in the following cases, the application for admission has to be submitted via the online application portal of the Chemnitz University of Technology:

• Applicants of German nationality with a German university degree
• Applicants of German nationality with foreign high school diploma or foreign university degree
• Foreign Applicants with completed entrance examination test (FSP) of a German Studienkolleg or Applicants with a German higher education entrance qualification (Abitur)
• Foreign Applicants with a European Baccalaureate (decision of Kultusministerkonferenz ("Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs of the Länder in the Federal Republic of Germany") of 14.06.2018)
• Foreign Applicants with a German university degree
• Foreign Applicants who finished the preparatory German language course at TU Chemnitz with DSH 2 and former preparatory course admission letter from our university
• Foreign Applicants for an exchange programme or outside such a programme (exchange student / Erasmus)
• Applicants for study course change within the university