Application and Enrolment

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration and enrolment.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Checklist of documents to be uploaded:

• *University entrance qualification
• *Proof of language skill(s)
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• **Identity document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate
• *Higher subject semester – Classification confirmation

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

Application:

Please apply directly at uni-assist e.V.

Enrolment:

The Admissions Office will send you the access data for our portal viaCampus and information on the further procedure.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Documents to be uploaded for enrolment:

• *Proof of language skill(s)
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• **Identity document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration and enrolment.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Checklist of documents to be uploaded:

• *University entrance qualification
• *Proof of language skill(s)
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• **Identity document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

Cultural and Social Studies (B.A.)

Deutsch-Polnisches Jurastudium (LL.B./Mag.)

International Business Administration (B.Sc.)

Internationale Betriebswirtschaftslehre (B.Sc.)

Kulturwissenschaften (B.A.)

Recht und Politik/Politik und Recht (LL.B./B.A.)

Recht und Wirtschaft | Wirtschaft und Recht (LL.B./B.Sc.)

Rechtswissenschaft (Erste juristische Prüfung [State Exam] /LL.B.)

Wirtschaftsprüfung (B.Sc.) (dual)

does not apply to International Business Administration (M.Sc.) and Digital Entrepreneurship (M.A.)

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for registration and enrolment.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Checklist of the documents to be uploaded:

• *Master entrance qualification
• *Proof of language skill(s)
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• **Identification document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

not applicable for International Business Administration (M.Sc.) and Digital Entrepreneurship (M.A.)

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration and enrolment and note the different deadlines for foreign applicants, because of the longer processing time.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Documents to be uploaded for enrolment:

• *Master entrance qualification
• *Proof of language skill(s)
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• Tabular curriculum vitae
• **Identity document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

Germans and educational residents:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration, application and enrolment within the deadlines.

Foreigners with a foreign university degree:

Please apply directly at uni-assist e.V. and mind the application deadlines!

You will receive the access data for our portal viaCampus and information on the further procedure from the Admissions Office.

Checklist of documents to be uploaded for application:

• Master entrance qualification
• *Proof of language skill(s), if possible, upload with your application, but no later than upon enrolment

Checklist of documents to be uploaded for enrolment:

• *Proof of language skill(s), if not uploaded with the application
• */**Proof of health insurance
• Semester contribution
• **Identification document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

Digital Entrepreneurship (M.A.)

Europäisches Wirtschaftsrecht (LL.M.)

European Studies (M.A.)

German and Polish Law (LL.M.)

Geschichte der Moderne transkulturell (M.A.)

International Business Administration (M.Sc.)

Kultur und Geschichte Mittel- und Osteuropas (M.A.)

Literaturwissenschaft: Ästhetik - Literatur - Philosophie (M.A.)

Soziokulturelle Studien (M.A.)

Sprache - Medien - Gesellschaft (M.A.)

Recht der Wirtschaft (Certificate)

for all applicant groups

Application:

The applications should be sent directly to the program supervisors. Please refer to the pages of the respective degree programme for the application form. Here you will find the deadline for enrollment.

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration and enrolment.

In general, you already submit most of the documents to the programme supervisors with the application.

⇒ Specifically regarding the study programme, please check the additional information and requirements, especially for the proof of language skills!

Documents to be uploaded for enrolment:

• *Proof of language skill(s)
• Semester contribution
• **Identity document
• Study (period) certificate (must include university semesters)
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

*Please note our Information on application and enrolment.
**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (LL.M.)

Master of Compliance & Integrity Management (MACIM)

Mediation und Konfliktmanagement (M.A./LL.M.)

Schutz Europäischer Kulturgüter (M.A.)

As soon as you have concluded a doctoral agreement and this has been confirmed by the doctoral committee, you can apply for enrolment as a doctoral student within the deadlines.

Enrolment:

Use our portal viaCampus for the registration and enrolment.

Checklist of documents to be uploaded:

• Doctoral agreement
• Degree certificates
• Semester contribution
• **Identity document
• *Study (period) certificate
• */**Ex-matriculation certificate

**Not applicable if you are studying at the Viadrina in the semester of application.

• Please do not submit any original documents!
• You will be informed about the enrollment status and missing documents in viaCampus.
• Enrollment form: Please submit only the 1st page (the document itself). Keep the remaining pages and read them carefully!
• Documents must be submitted in German or English.
• Certified documents will be returned after enrollment.
• All submitted language certificates remain with the Department of Student Affairs.

Undergraduate Study Courses

Germans and educational residents:

Regardless of your citizenship, you have a German university entrance qualification or you have the German citizenship and hold a foreign university entrance qualification.

Foreigners with a foreign university entrance qualification:

You are not a German citizen and have a foreign university entrance qualification.

Professionally qualified

Regardless of your citizenship, you have a professional qualification under German law.

Master's degree programmes

Germans and educational residents:

Regardless of your citizenship, you have a German university entrance qualification or you have the German citizenship and hold a foreign university entrance qualification.

Foreigners with a foreign university degree:

You are not a German citizen and have a foreign university degree.

With one of the following university entrance qualifications, Germans and educational residents have the opportunity to enrol in undergraduate degree courses at our university:

• the general higher education entrance qualification,
• the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification,
• the technical college entrance qualification,
• the subject-specific technical college entrance qualification,
• professional qualification (see ‘Professionally Qualified Applicants - University Entrance Qualification’)

For proving your Master Entrance Qualification you have to submit:

• a Transcript of Records to assess the relevance of the (upcoming) university degree or
• your university degree certificate

If no university degree certificate is available yet:
Germans and educational residents submit a confirmation of the Bachelor's achievements - The Bachelor's certificate must be submitted to the Matriculation Office by the end of the first semester.

Foreigners with a foreign university degree please refer to this website.

To enrol in a Master's degree program, we require proof of your Master Entrance Qualification.

You do not yet have your degree, but have completed all the relevant examinations or have not yet received your certificate?

• Please use our form for confirmation of completed Bachelor's achievements or
• a confirmation from your examination office that you have completed all relevant examinations.

An up-to-date study (period) certificate has to be uploaded if you have ever studied or are currently studying at a German university.

This must state your subject semesters and all previous university semesters.

An ex-matriculation certificate has to be uploaded if you have ever studied at a German university outside of Berlin or Brandenburg.

For Degree Programmes in German and for for Degree Programmes in English you can apply at the Viadrina with the certificates given on the following information website...

Proof of insurance status – either statutory insurance or exemption from the statutory insurance obligation – is required for enrollment. To do this, contact a German statutory health insurance company and either have yourself insured (e.g. student) or exempted so that your insurance status can be reported electronically to the European University. The chip card or a paper certificate is not sufficient.

To report the insurance status, the health insurance companies may require the sender number of the European University: H0001747.

No proof of insurance require

• Students aged 30 and over
• Continuing education students
• Doctoral students
• Students getting enrolled at the college

You can take out voluntary insurance at the regular rate. Electronic proof of health insurance is not required for these students.

Professionally qualified applicants must provide proof of their university entrance qualification in accordance with § 10 para. 2 sentence 1 no. 5-11 BbgHG:

No. 5: Certificate of a professionally qualifying university degree

No. 6: Certificate/proof of having passed the master craftsman's examination in a trade

No. 7: Certificate/proof of further training qualification

No. 8: Certificate of competency for the nautical and technical ship service

No. 9: Certificate of completion of a technical school in public sponsorship

No. 10: Certificate/proof of completion of further training in accordance with state law

No. 11: Certificate of completion of secondary school, certificate of completion of vocational training, proof of at least 2 years of professional experience following the training, curriculum vitae

A sworn translation of certificates and other documents is required into German or English. 

A sworn translation ist not required if the original documents were issued in English or German by the relevant institution, e.g. school and/or university, or as bilingual versions, i.e. in the original language with a translation into English or German.

What is a sworn translation?
A sworn translation, also known as an official translation, is a translation that has been prepared by a court-certified translator, also known as certified or sworn translator.

Who is authorized to issue a sworn translation?
A sworn translator is a person with special authorisation as a sworn or publicly appointed/authorised translator. Such a sworn translator is authorised to officially translate documents, i.e. to produce so-called sworn or court-approved translations.

Sworn translators are only authorised to certify translations they have produced themselves, but no other documents, in particular not the original document on which the translation is based.

What must a sworn translation look like?
An official translation contains the translation of the underlying document, which is affixed with the translation mark, the original signature, and the seal of the translator, as well as a copy of the original document that was translated.

Important: You must submit the sworn translation with the translation note, the original signature and the original seal. A copy will not be accepted.

Please note this section in addition if you wish to enrol in a higher semester due to existing achievements!

You must then submit an approved classification confirmation for enrolment.

Who? The procedure applies to all applicant groups.

How You submit an application for recognition of existing external academic achievements (Anerkennung von externen Studien- und Prüfungsleistungen).

Information on the procedure and forms can be found on the Faculty website:

• Faculty of Law
• Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences: You can find the specific examination board directly on the page of the study course.
• Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

Where? The examination board of the desired study course is responsible for the procedure.

When? Submit the application at least six weeks before the end of the applicable enrolment period.

What if
the application is approved: You submit the notification of approval to the Admissions Office, the application for enrolment is finally processed and the recognised achievements are recorded by the Examination Office during the first semester.
The application is not approved: If permitted, you will begin your studies in the first subject semester.
The notification is not received by the deadline: If permitted, you will begin your studies in the first subject semester. Upon receipt, the Matriculation Office will process an upgrade and the Examination Office will record the recognised achievements.

Attention: A different enrolment in the first subject semester is only possible for study courses without admission restrictions and if the study course in question is approved for the first subject semester.