Master's application procedure for non-EU applicants

The requirement for almost all Master's programs is a minimum grade from a previously earned Bachelor's degree. Some Master's programs have an admission restriction (NC) or a minimum grade requirement plus admission restriction.

The minimum grade requirements always follow the German grading system.

• If a Master's study program has a minimum grade requirement from a previously earned Bachelor's degree, e.g. the German grade 2.5, you cannot be admitted to this program if your Bachelor's grade is lower than 2.5.
• Admission restriction (NC) means that seats are allocated according to the grade from the previously earned Bachelor's degree, so depending on the grades of the other applicants, you might still be able to get a seat with a lower grade.
• Admission restriction AND minimum grade requirement means that all seats are allocated according to the grade but only to applicants with the minimum German grade of, e.g. 2.5.

Master's programs with admission restriction have, in general, only very few limites seats for non-EU applicants.

In order to verify whether you meet the requirements for admission to the programme before submitting your application, all non-EU applicants need to submit their documents for a pre-check. Pre-check starts each year in February and ends on June 1st.

After successfully passing the pre-check, you will receive instructions and a link to the online portal.

Here you can find the link to the Pre-Check Service https://precheck.go-study-europe.de/(Opens in a new tab) .

In order to verify whether you meet the requirements for admission to the programme before submitting your application, all non-EU applicants need to submit their documents for a pre-check. Pre-check starts each year in February and ends on June 1st. 

After successfully passing the pre-check, you will receive instructions and a link to the online portal.

Here you can find the link to the Pre-Check Service https://precheck.go-study-europe.de/(Opens in a new tab) .

In order to verify whether you meet the requirements for admission to the programme before submitting your application, all non-EU applicants need to submit their documents for a pre-check. Pre-check starts each year in February and ends on June 1st. 

After successfully passing the pre-check, you will receive instructions and a link to the online portal.

Here you can find the link to the Pre-Check Service https://precheck.go-study-europe.de/(Opens in a new tab) 

If you want to apply for the Master's program Scenographic Design and Communication, you have to prepare 2 separate applications:

1. Application for the artistic creative aptitude at the faculty: deadline 15 December for the summer semester or 15 May for the winter semester.
2. Application for an actual place in the program: via our online application portal; the deadlines are 15 June and 15 January.

For this Master program you canNOT apply with a pre-check first. Starting this winter 23/24 intake you can only apply for this program through uni-assist, not directly at FH Dortmund portal!

Please note that this special short Master program with only 2 semesters mostly does NOT fit for non-EU applicants! For example with a 4-year Bachelor's degree acquired in India, Iran etc you do NOT qualify as you can only study in a German Master's with 4-semester duration. And there is only ONE place for non-EU applicants in this program.

Please use this link to go to uni-assist website:

https://www.uni-assist.de/en/

Please switch to the German version of this website for further information on how to apply for all our German-taught Master's programs:

www.fh-dortmund.de/bewerbung-ma-nicht-eu(Opens in a new tab) 

Application is possible directly via our online application portal:

https://portal.fh-dortmund.de(Opens in a new tab) 

For the programs with a pre-check first you can only start the online application after successful passing the pre-check. After passing the pre-check you will receive information on how to apply through our portal. As we have a lot of applicants, please be patient until you receive your result.