Applying to the Masters programmes

Bachelors degree or equivalent

To prove that you are suitable to take a master's degree at Leuphana University, you are required to hold a Bachelor degree or at least an equivalent qualification. The equivalence of foreign degrees is determined according to the assessment proposals of the Central Office for Foreign Education and assessed by uni-assist in the application procedure. Please also be aware of the exceptions.

Application without a Bachelors degree

If you have not yet completed your degree at the time of application, you can still apply. To do so, you must prove that you have successfully completed at least 81% of the total required workload in your current course. Depending on the degree programme, 81% applies in relation to the total course credit of 180 CP = 145 CP or 210 CP = 170 CP. Please complete this form as proof of your progress and ask the examination office at your university to verify it.

If the Bachelors degree certificate is not yet available when you apply for a master's programme by the application deadline of June 1st, you must submit it by March 31st of the following year at the end of your first semester. If the proof is not provided in the prescribed time, the preliminary admission will be revoked: At the same time, you will be exmatriculated from the study programme.

If you are completing your Bachelors degree at Leuphana, please submit your Transcript of Records instead of the form.

International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development: For a scholarship, the degree certificate must be available at the time of application in January.

Work and Organizational Psychology: The degree certificate must be received by September in the year in which you are applying.

Scientific Requirements

At Leuphana Graduate School we offer consecutive Masters programmes. This means that you can only apply for a specific programme if your Bachelors degree was in that same discipline and the Masters degree programme builds on and deepens your level of knowledge from your first degree. Previous knowledge of a subject required for a consecutive Masters degree programme is proven by a sufficient number of credit points according to ECTS (CP) in an identical or related discipline.

On the basis of the list of consecutive subjects, you can get a first impression of whether your first degree is subject-related. Please use this list of subjects and the degree programme profile to independently check whether your previous academic qualifications are sufficient for an application. The selection committee decides on your academic suitability for a Masters degree programme on the basis of your Transcript of Records. The committee meets at the end of the application period.

Please note: An individual assessment of your consecutivity cannot be made in advance. There is no possibility to make up credit points not achieved during the master's programme. The necessary credit points must be available at the time of application.

Does your transcript show no credit points?

If your transcript does not show any credit points, please ask your responsible examination office to provide a document clearly stating what percentage of the total study programme your respective courses accounted for.

Another prerequisite for all programmes (except teacher training) is proficiency in English. For the German-language study programmes, proof of German language skills must also be provided. Please also note the exceptions.

Applicants to these degree programmes who neither have a German school leaving certificate (higher education entrance qualification) nor hold their first degree from a German university must prove that they have an adequate knowledge of German when they apply. Proof of German language proficiency can be provided in one of the following ways:

• DSH 2
• TestDaF 4 *

* Only certificates issued by the TestDaF Institute itself or TestDaF-licensed institutes will be accepted.

The equivalents are the following proofs:

• Holders of a university entrance qualification which was acquired at a German-speaking school in Germany or abroad;
• successful graduates of an assessment test at a German Studienkolleg;
• Applicants who have already successfully completed a German language study programme;
• Holders of the language diploma of the Kultusministerkonferenz Stufe II (DSD II) / (Beschlüsse der KMK vom 16. März 1972 und vom 05. Oktober 1973 in in their respective valid versions);
• holders of the Goethe Certificate C2;
• Applicants who have taken a language examination at another German university or at the International Study Centre Heidelberg or the Ecumenical Study Centre Bochum on the basis of the Framework Regulations for German Language Exams at German Universities.
• Holders of a certificate confirming that they have passed the examination "telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule" or telc Deutsch C2;
• Holders of other certificates that have been recognised by the Kultusministerkonferenz (KMK) and the Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK) as proof of sufficient German language skills for admission to higher education.
• Holders of a certificate of successful completion of the German Language Test for University Admission (DSH) with the overall result DSH-1 or the Goethe-Zertifikat C1 on condition that the proof is provided by the end of the second semester at the latest. This regulation only applies if all other language requirements for admission are fulfilled at the time of application.

No certification should be older than 4 years.
 

If your native language is English, then you do not need to provide proof of English proficiency. All other applicants must provide proof in one of the following ways:

• by passing the internet-based TOEFL test (iBT) with a minimum score of 85 points
• by passing the TOEIC test with a minimum of 785 points in listening and reading
• by passing the IELTS (academic or general) 5.5 test
• by passing the Cambridge Advanced Certificate of English (CAE) exam at grade C or better
• by passing modules at a university (at least 30 credit points according to ECTS) with English as the exclusive language of instruction and exams taken in English
• a successfully completed degree in the subject "English"
• School leaving exam of a school with English as the exclusive language of instruction, that qualifies for studying at a university in the respective country

English language proficiency (except for the school certificate) must not be older than 4 years. For programmes in English, proof of English proficiency must be available at the time of application. For programmes in German, the proof can be submitted later until the end of the respective winter semester (31st March).

Please also submit the Proof of English Language Proficiency form for the application together with your certificates.

If you want to prove your English language proficiency via the 30 CP from your university studies and did not complete your Bachelors degree at Leuphana, please fill out this form. Graduates of Leuphana please use this document.

Exceptions in bold, please see additional language requirements below.

German Language Proficiency

Applicants for these programmes do not need to provide proof of German proficiency

English Language Proficiency

If your native language is English, then you do not need to provide proof of English proficiency. All other applicants must provide proof in one of the following ways:

• by passing the internet-based TOEFL test (iBT) with a minimum score of 85 points
• by passing the TOEIC test with a minimum of 785 points in listening and reading
• by passing the IELTS (academic or general) 5.5 test
• by passing the Cambridge Advanced Certificate of English (CAE) exam at grade C or better
• by passing modules at a university (at least 30 credit points according to ECTS) with English as the exclusive language of instruction and exams taken in English
• a successfully completed degree in the subject "English"
• School leaving exam of a school with English as the exclusive language of instruction, that qualifies for studying at a university in the respective country

English language proficiency (except for the school certificate) must not be older than 4 years. For programmes in English, proof of English proficiency must be available at the time of application. For programmes in German, the proof can be submitted later until the end of the respective winter semester (31st March).

Please also submit the Proof of English Language Proficiency form for the application together with your certificates.

If you want to prove your English language proficiency via the 30 CP from your university studies and did not complete your Bachelors degree at Leuphana, please fill out this form. Graduates of Leuphana please use this document.

International Economic Law

The English skills required for the Masters degree in International Economic Law differ from the other Masters programmes. For applicants whose first language is not English, the awarding Universities set a minimum English Language proficiency level. The English tests listed below are acceptable for admission for both EU and international students:

• IELTS Academic 6.5 test with no section below 6.5
• Internet-based TOEFL test (iBT) with at least 92 points and no section below 22 points, in the spoken English section not below 23 points
• Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) with Grade B or better
• Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE)  with Grade C or better
• PTE Academic with at least 68 points and at least 60 points in the written English section

No certification should be older than four years. Proof of English proficiency should be submitted with the application documents. No comparisons with other certification should be made. Please also hand in the form English language proficiency for IEL below.

International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development

For applicants whose first language is not English, the awarding Universities set a minimum English Language proficiency level. The English tests listed below are acceptable for admission for both EU and international students:

• IELTS Academic 6.5 test with no section below 6.0
• Internet-based TOEFL test (iBT) with at least 90 points and no section below 19 points, in the writing section not below 23 points
• Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) with 176 points and no section less than 169
• Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) with 176 points and no section less than 169
• PTE Academic with 60 points and no section less than 59
• Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English: ISEII at Distinction with Distinction in all sub-tests

Psychology & Sustainability

For applicants whose first language is not English, the awarding Universities set a minimum English Language proficiency level. The English tests listed below are acceptable for admission for both EU and international students:

• IELTS Academic 6.5 test with no section below 6.0
• Internet-based TOEFL test (iBT) with at least 90 points and no section below 19 points, in the writing section not below 21 points
• Paper-based TOEFL test (PBT) with at least 575 points and no section below 45 points, in the speaking section not below 55 points
• Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) with Grade C or better
• Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE) with Grade C or better
• University of Groningen Language Center Test B2 - speaking, B2 - writing

No certification should be older than two years. No comparisons with other certification should be made. Please also hand in the form English language proficiency for P&S below.

Work & Organizational Psychology

You can find the necessary English Proficiency for an application in Work and Organizational Psychology on the website of Maastricht University.

The Language Center at Leuphana regularly offers the TOIEC (Test of English for International Communication) Listening and Reading. The test is offered both online and in presence.

Further information and registration

For the Master's degree programmes "Management & Entrepreneurship" and "Management & Sustainable Accounting and Finance", an advance quota of 20 percent is set up for foreign nationals and stateless persons who are not treated the same as Germans according to § 1 Para. 2 Sentence 3 NHZVO.

If there are more suitable applicants than available places for a certain study programme, these places are awarded according to a selection procedure. Certain selection criteria are taken into account, each of which is converted into points. A ranking list is drawn up on the basis of the number of points that are awarded. In case of equal scores, the ranking on the list will be determined by lot (L). Please also note the exceptions.

In the application procedure for the actual winter term the following total points lead to admission:

For all programmes not listed, no ranking took place within the selection procedure. The information is without guarantee. The point values with which admission is granted vary from year to year.

Depending on the programme, the following criteria are taken into account in the selection process:

• Final Grade/GPA of Bachelors degree
• Award of scholarships
• Experience abroad
• Voluntary work
• Ranking among top students

A maximum of 30 points can be achieved with the final grade. If the final grade is not yet available at the time of application, but a minimum of 81 % of all relevant exams has been completed successfully, the preliminary grade point average (GPA) will be considered in the selection procedure.

81 % of the relevant examinations of a three-year Bachelor degree usually correspond to 145 Credit Points according to ECTS. The GPA submitted in the application process will be considered in the selection procedure, even if the final grade subsequently differs from the preliminary GPA.

With accomplishments in the following areas you can gain additional points. You have to submit the necessary documents together with your application. If you do not submit the certificates, no additional points can be awarded; however, this does not lead to a deduction of points. By providing proof of your accomplishments you may achieve a maximum of 11 points.

Culture & Organization

In the selection process for the study programme Culture & Organization, interviews will take place on 19-21 June & 3-5 July 2023. The purpose of this interview is to obtain a personal impression of your interest and your motivation as well as your suitability for the Master's programme in Culture & Organization. Hereby, you can achieve up to 18 additional points in the selection process and thus improve your prospects of a study place in Lüneburg. The 20-minute interviews are conducted online and in English. Invitations to the interviews are sent out by email approximately one week before the interviews. Preparation is not necessary.

International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development

You can find information about the selection procedure on the website of the Glasgow University.

Mangement & Engineering, Management & Entrepreneurship and Management & Sustainable Accounting and Finance

When applying for the Management programmes you can gain a maximum of 18 additional points if you achieve an exceptionally good result in one of the admission tests (TM-BASE (Test for Masters Programmes in Business Administration, Social Sciences and Economics) or GMAT (Graduate Management Admission Test)). The participation in the TM-BASE or GMAT is voluntary.

When registering for the TM-BASE and GMAT, you can specify that your score should be automatically sent to your university of choice. This relieves you of the burden of forwarding your score and allows your application to be reviewed quickly. If you do not wish to have your result sent automatically, please note this in your application to Leuphana (e.g. via screenshot of the application or copy of invoice) and submit the test result immediately to Leuphana Student Services:

• by e-mail: master.managementtest@leuphana.de
• by mail: Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Studierendenservice, Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany

Your test results will be ranked as follows:

Management & Data Science

For the study programme Management & Data Science, it is no longer possible to take the TM-BASE or GMAT as of the winter semester 2021/ 22. Instead, you can achieve up to 18 additional points by achieving an above-average result in our subject-specific online study aptitude test (Leuphana Data Science Online Study Aptitude Test). The Leuphana Data Science Online Study Aptitude Test covers subject-related skills in math, statistics and programming. All applicants who have applied properly will receive an invitation with an access code to take the test. Participation in the test is free and voluntary. The admission test will take place on June 12, 2023, at 2:00 pm (CEST). Applicants should double-check whether their hardware is compatible with the test infrastructure and familiarize themselves with the platform so that they know how it works when they take the test. They can do so by logging into the system at https://dsat.leuphana.de/#/demo-test using the email address they used to apply only. The points are distributed according to the following table:

Psychology & Sustainability

With a maximum length of 1000 words, the following topics are to be considered in the written motivational letter in English:
1.    Which specific abilities and interests make the applicant particularly suitable for the sustainability psychology program? (max. 5 points)
2.    To what extend has the applicant acquired knowledge through his/her previous studies that is directly related to sustainability psychology? (max. 4 points)
3.    How meaningful does the applicant perceive the intersection of psychology and sustain-ability to be on an individual, a societal and global level? (max. 4 points)
4.    To what extend does the applicant have experiences in inter- and/or transdisciplinary research and/or practice (e.g., research project, inter- or transdisciplinary internship, in-terdisciplinary thesis)? (max. 2 points)
5.    Which (professional) goal of the applicant can the double-degree Master’s program help to accomplish? (max. 3 points)

Law

As part of the selection process for this study programme, you will be required to take a written exam. All applicants who meet the admission requirements will be invited to take a written selection test. The selection test will take place on Saturday, 24.06.2023, at 12 noon in the form of a 180-minute written examination in the fields of law BGB AT, law of obligations and property law.

Work & Organizational Psychology

You can find information about the selection procedure on the website of the Maastricht University.

You can conveniently apply online for our study programs. There are two different cases for the online application:

If you have obtained your degree within the EU*, the EEA** or Switzerland or you want to apply for International Economic Law (worldwide degrees), then you can apply completely online directly at Leuphana via MyCampus. No application documents need to be submitted by mail. Please note the application deadlines. Complete the online application by following this link:

APPLICATION VIA MYCAMPUS until 1st June

Please note: Due to an important data migration, the application function via myCampus will not be available on 22nd and 23rd May 2023.

Here you will find an explanation of the registration procedure.

* Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
** Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway

With a NON-EU degree you have to apply through uni-assist, not directly through Leuphana. Relevant for the application deadline is the date on which you submitted your application to uni-assist. Before applying, please read the information about applying via uni-assist. Follow the link to the online application through uni-assist:

ONLINE APPLICATION VIA UNI-ASSIST until 1st May

Exception: If you have an international degree and you are interested in the Masters Programme International Economic Law, please use the direct application through Leuphana.

Here you will find an explanation of the registration procedure.

You have sent your application? Then you are certainly curious about what happens next for you after the application. You can find information about this by clicking here.

1. Registration

Before you can apply, you must register at uni-assist. After registering, you will be asked to provide information about yourself and your previous education. This information will be included in your application.

Once you have successfully registered and completed your profile, you can fill out an application form at uni-assist for the Masters programme at the Graduate School. Please be sure to enter your e-mail address so that uni-assist can communicate with you quickly and reliably and directly clarify any questions that arise.

2. Fill in the Application Form

You can apply by submitting an application for the Graduate School. To create this application, you have to search for Leuphana University of Lüneburg via the applicant portal and enter Master as the degree you are aiming for. You will then see the Masters degree programmes offered at the Graduate School.

Once the application has been activated, you can create an application for the Leuphana Graduate School: For the first semester or lateral entry. You can only apply for one Masters programme. This means that you can only create one application form for the Leuphana Graduate School.

3. Verfication of the Application

Uni-assist charges a processing fee for the verification of your application. Only after you have transferred the processing fee to uni-assist your application will be reviewed. If you meet the admission requirements, your application will be forwarded to the Leuphana Graduate School and you will take part in the selection process. Transfer the processing fee before sending your application and enclose the proof of payment with your application documents. This way you can be sure that your application will be reviewed.

Uni-assist charges a processing fee of 75 € for reviewing your application. If you apply to several universities that also have their application documents checked by uni-assist, each additional application via uni-assist costs 30 €.

Please transfer the fee before sending your application so that you can attach the proof of payment to your application documents. Your application will only be processed at uni-assist after you have paid the processing fee.

Information about the payment of the processing fee

In this year the application via uni-assist will be fully online. This means you don't have to send any documents to Berlin. In case of admission, certified copies will first be required at the time of enrolment.

If the original is not in English, you must also attach an officially certified German or English translation. Translations must be done by a certified translator. You can find out which institutions you can have your documents certified by on the UniAssist website.

For proof of English proficiency with TOEFL or IELTS, you can initially submit a simple print-out. If you are admitted, you will have to submit the original certificate at the time of enrolment.

For the TOEFL, you can go to the homepage of the Educational Testing Service, ETS, and enter your registration code for Uni-Assist (code number 2727) to arrange for the TOEFL certificate to be sent directly to Uni-Assist.

Please note

Do not submit original certificates / documents to Uni-Assist. Application documents cannot be returned to you.

If you have any questions regarding the processing status of your application, please only contact uni-assist, not Leuphana University:

ARBEITS- UND SERVICESTELLE FÜR INTERNATIONALE STUDIENBEWERBUNGEN (uni-assist) e.V.

Monday to Friday | 1 to 3 PM (CET/CEST)
Phone: +49 30 201 646 001

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10829 Berlin
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Please note: All questions regarding the application via uni-assist (step 5) can only be answered by uni-assist!

You're interested in lateral entry or would like to transfer from another university to a Masters degree programme at the Graduate School? Every year, you can apply between April 1 and June 1 (Degrees from EU, EEA, Switzerland and for International Economic Law) respectively between April 1 and Mai 1 (Non-EU degrees) for the third semester (winter semester) and from December 15 to January 15 for the second or fourth semester (summer semester).

Please note: to apply for the second semester you have to prove 20 CP in consecutive subjects for the desired study programme, for the third semester you have to prove 40 CP in consecutive subjects.
In addition, all study requirements for a Master's programme must be fulfilled.

The selection committee decides on the relevance of your first degree. It will review your application after the application deadline. For legal reasons, we are unable to carry out a preliminary check of your documents. Please feel free to use the information material, especially the list of consecutive subjects on our website, to make your own realistic assessment of your suitability.

No, unfortunately you cannot. Consecutivity is an admission requirement and must be proven at the time of application.

No, work experience does not count for consecutiveity. This is because consecutiveity requires that your Bachelors degree (or equivalent degree) is relevant to the subject, so that your Masters programme can build on your previous degree. Work experience cannot contribute to this.

First of all, we would like to note that the requirement of 30 credit points (CPs) related to sustainability is deliberately kept vague, as in principle applicants from the most diverse disciplines should be given the chance to be admitted to the Masters programme Sustainability Science.

In order to demonstrate sustainability relevance, it is of course optimal if the relevance is already visible in the course title, although this is not absolutely necessary. The sustainability relation can also be demonstrated in the module description. It is therefore always advisable to include the module descriptions. CPs acquired through the Bachelor's thesis can be counted for consecutivity, as long as the topic is relevant to the subject, internships unfortunately cannot. However, the required CPs for the proof of consecutiveity do not necessarily have to be proven by the subject with whose degree you are applying for the Masters programme, but can also be provided by additionally taken courses. You can therefore also prove the missing CPs through modules from another degree programme.

No, a CV and a letter of motivation do not have to be submitted and are not included in the selection process. There are exceptions for International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development and Work & Organizational Psychology, which you can find on the pages of the study programmes.

You will not find Leuphana with its degree programmes on the Uni-Assist website until the start of our application periods, because you can only apply then.

In principle, you can only apply for one Masters programme of the Leuphana Graduate School.

No, only the listed tests you can find under the section “English proficiency” are valid.

The semester contribution for one semester currently amounts to 367.55 Euros. This includes, among other things, the ticket for public transportation, fees for the administration and the “Studierendenwerk” (student union). There are no other tuition fees at Leuphana. Exceptions apply to programmes that lead to a joint or double degree. Information on the costs can be found on the respective pages of the programmes.

Part-time study for those who work full time is possible at the Professional School. You can apply for part-time study at the Graduate School. For more information on part-time study, click here.