Admission and Requirements

Completed Bachelors degree

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.

Incompleted 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 Credit Points = 145 Credit Points or 210 Credit Points = 170 Credit Points. Please complete this form as proof of your progress and ask the examination office at your university to verify it. Please note: The 81% rule does not refer to your GPA, but to the number of credit points that you must have completed by the time of your application!

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.

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 European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) 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.

60 ECTS in modules relevant to the listed subjects / disciplines:

• Law

International Economic Law

1. International English Language Testing System (IELTS) with 6.5 points
2. Internet-based TOEFL test (ibt, mybest or athome) with at least 79 points
3. Cambridge Advanced Certificate of English (CAE) or Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) with 176 points
4. Pearson Test of English, Academic Test (PTE Academic) with at least 59 points
5. Oxford English Test (Oxford ELLT) with at least 7 points
6. TOEIC test with at least 945 points
7. A university degree or at least a two-year bachelor's degree or a nine-month master's degree in a country where English is the main language of communication, as defined by UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI), including Canada, taught in English.

Native speakers are exempt from providing proof. Proof of points 1-6 should not be older than two years and proof of point 7 should not be older than six years. For English-language study programmes, proof of English proficiency must be available at the time of application.

If you fulfill the admission requirements, you have taken the first step towards your desired Master's degree. The second step is to assess whether we can offer you a place on the programme. If there are more applicants who meet the eligibility criteria than there are places available on a Master's programme, places will be allocated on the basis of a selection procedure. You can find out more about the admission limits and selection criteria here.

Regardless of the country in which you obtained your Bachelor's degree, you apply directly online to Leuphana via myCampus. No application documents need to be submitted by post. Here we have prepared instructions for the registration process on myCampus.