FH Aachen

Most international applicants with foreign school-leaving qualifications apply for Bachelor's programmes through uni-assist (the Service Center for International Applicants), which checks completeness and admission eligibility before forwarding qualifying applications to FH Aachen. FH Aachen does NOT use the VPD procedure; applicants submit full documents directly to uni-assist under the standard procedure. Processing usually takes four to six weeks. Applicants from China, India and Vietnam must include an APS certificate among their documents. If a school-leaving certificate is not recognised as a German university entrance qualification, applicants may first attend a preparatory college (Studienkolleg) - FH Aachen's Freshman Programme is one option. Master's programmes are applied for directly via FH Aachen's Online Application Portal (not uni-assist) and have individual, programme-specific deadlines. German-taught programmes require German at admission level (DSH-2 / TestDaF 4x4 / telc C1 Hochschule / Goethe-Zertifikat C2 / ÖSD C2 or equivalent), with at least DSH-1 / B2-level proof required at the time of application; English-taught (IOS) programmes have lower or different German requirements, and the Global Business and Economics programme requires no German proof.

Bachelor's applications via uni-assist: winter semester deadline 15 July; summer semester deadline 15 January. Documents submitted after the deadline cannot be considered. Master's programmes have individual, programme-specific application deadlines published on each programme's pages.

Bachelor applications go through uni-assist when the applicant has no German HZB (documents uploaded to uni-assist, fees paid before the deadline; uni-assist checks completeness and admission requirements). NOT via uni-assist: master's applicants, Freshman Institute graduates and programme changers (direct FH online portal), and applicants from Ostbelgien (separate rules).

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