International Prospective Students

Please inform yourself about the program your are interested in:

Further information about each study program can be acquired at the following events:

• Yearly Viadrina Day,
• Yearly Polish Open House Day,
• Yearly BIDS-Schnupperstudium.
• Get in touch with one of your home country ambassadors

All dates for prospective students can be found here.

 

Study Programmes

Prepare your documents in good time, i.e. all the required documents and forms.

Please, be aware!

• Depending on the bachelor's program additional documents may be required.

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Important for the Application for the 1^st Academic Semester and the Enrollment for a Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg":

• All required documents must be submitted by the end of the deadline at the latest (see Step 3)!
• Documents are accepted without official certification if it is currently not possible to obtain them.
• Translations must be issued by a sworn translator. Such translations are not necessary if the original document already is issued English or German.

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Important for the Enrollment for the 1^st Academic Semester and Completing the Enrollment for Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg":

• If you meet the requirements for studying at the Viadrina, you must accept your study place by enrolling or completing the enrollment (see steps 4+5), respectively.
• We reserve the right to request certain documents in paper form from you, in addition to the regular enrollment documents. This applies in particular to officially certified copies and sworn translations of certificates, as well as the originals of language certificates. Information on official certification and sworn translations can be found on our website.

Required documents & forms

Application for 1^st Academic Semester: >> via uni-assist ! <<

Applicants who do not have German citizenship and do not have a German university entrance qualification (secondary school diploma, e.g. Abitur or equivalent) can only apply via uni-assist! Please do not send any documents to the Viadrina!

uni-assist is a cooperation consisting of German universities that processes the applications of international students at Viadrina. Detailed information about uni-assist you will find at http://www.uni-assist.de/index_en.html.

• The application has to be done online via uni-assist!

• The application process is described in detail, step-by step at www.uni-assist.de/en/how-to-apply. Please follow these instructions.
  

You will find information on the papers, i.e. all necessary documents and forms, in Step 2.

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Enrollment for Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg": >> at the Viadrina ! <<

Applicants who do not have German citizenship and do not have a German university entrance qualification (secondary school diploma, e.g. Abitur or equivalent), and who would like to start either at a higher academic semester, or apply with a "Studienkolleg" ("Feststellungsprüfung"), send their documents directly to Viadrina.

• The enrollment has to be done online in viaCampus!
• After submitting the online registration, a PDF file will be generated.
• Page 1 is your request for enrollment. You can print this out and personally sign it by hand or provide it with a digital signature. You must submit this request together with the required documents.
• The information on pages 2 and 3 is for your personal records. These pages do not need to be submitted.
• We accept the documents either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!

You will find information on the papers, i.e. all necessary documents and forms, in Step 2.

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Deadlines for Application and Enrollment:

• For winter semester:   from 01. June until 15. July
• For summer semester:   from 01. December until 15. January
  

For the summer semester, an application for 1^st academic semester as well as enrollment with "Studienkolleg" ("Feststellungsprüfung") is only possible for the following bachelor's programs held in German language:

• "Kulturwissenschaften"
• "Internationale Betriebswirtschaftslehre"
• "Rechtswissenschaft" (first legal examination [state examination]) incl. degree "Bachelor of Laws".

An enrollment for a higher academic semester is possible for the winter as well as for the summer semester.

Important!

• Please note possible changes to the application deadlines, depending on the degree program you want to apply for or enroll in. It is not possible to do this before!
• All required documents must be submitted by the end of the deadline at the latest!
  This means:
• When applying for 1^st academic semester, your complete documents must have been uploaded at uni-assist! It will not be accepted if you send your documents scanned by email to uni-assist!
• When enrolling for a higher academic semester or with "Studienkolleg" ("Feststellungsprüfung"), your complete documents must have been submitted to the Viadrina! We accept the documents either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!

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What next?

You have submitted your application in time by post: What happens next?

Your application or enrollment will now be assessed. You will receive the result of the assessment within 6 weeks after the end of the application/enrollment period as well as further information from us, especially about enrollment.

Application for 1^st Academic Semester: >> via uni-assist ! <<

uni-assist examines whether your documents meet the requirements for completeness and form and whether you have a university entrance qualification. This can take up to 3 weeks.

• If the result is negative: You will receive information about this from uni-assist.
• If the result is positive: Your data will be forwarded to Viadrina and processed further here by the admissions office.
• As soon as the processing is complete, you will receive your access data for your viaCampus account by e-mail in order to enroll (see Step 4).
• Please note the status changes and the comments from the admissions office in your viaCampus account. You will always be informed about these status changes by e-mail.
  

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Enrollment for Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg": >> at the Viadrina ! <<

The Viadrina examines whether your documents meet the requirements for completeness and form and whether you have a university entrance qualification.

• If the result is negative: You will receive a rejection from us.
• If the result is positive: You will receive further information from us.
• Please note the status changes and the comments from the admissions office in your viaCampus account. You will always be informed about these status changes by e-mail.

If you have received confirmation of a study place and/or information about enrollment from us by e-mail or in viaCampus, you can enroll or complete enrollment, respectively. General information can be found in your viaCampus account and also here.

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Enrollment after Successful Application for 1^st Academic Semester:

The enrollment has to be done online in viaCampus.

• You will receive the access data for this by e-mail from the admissions office (see "What next?")
• After submitting the online registration, a PDF file will be generated.
• Page 1 is your request for enrollment. You can print this out and personally sign it by hand or provide it with a digital signature. You must submit this request together with the required documents.
• The information on pages 2 and 3 is for your personal records. These pages do not need to be submitted.
• We accept the documents either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!
  

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Completing the Enrollment for Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg":

Please check in viaCampus if you possibly need to submit any missing documents.

Important!

• We reserve the right to request certain documents in paper form from you, in addition to the regular enrollment documents. This applies in particular to officially certified copies and sworn translations of certificates, as well as the originals of language certificates. Information on official certification and sworn translations can be found on our website.

viaCampus

You must have valid health insurance to enroll at a German university!

Applicants from within the European Union:
You do not need a German health insurance policy. Your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is valid for study in Germany. If you do not already have this card, you will need to order the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) from your insurance company in your home country well in advance.

Applicants from beyond the European Union:
For you, a German health insurance policy is obligatory. After you arrival in Frankfurt (Oder), you will have to set up such a policy with a German health insurance company.

Please inform yourself about the program your are interested in.

Attention: Our fee-based master's degree programs have separate application procedures! Please inform yourself on the relevant pages of these courses:
Mediation und Konfliktmanagement (deu)
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (eng)
Schutz Europäischer Kulturgüter (deu)

Achtung: You are interested in our DEUTSCH-POLNISCHES JURASTUDIUM
In this case please follow the relevant application information!

Further information about each study program can be acquired at the following events:

• Yearly Viadrina Day,
• Yearly Polish Open House Day,
• Yearly BIDS-Schnupperstudium.
• Get in touch with one of your home country ambassadors.

All dates for prospective students can be found here.

Study Programmes

Prepare your documents in good time, i.e. all the required documents and forms.

Please, be aware!

• Depending on the master's program additional documents may be required.

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Important for the Application for the 1st Academic Semester and the Enrollment for a Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg":

• All required documents must be submitted by the end of the deadline at the latest (see Step 3)!
• Documents are accepted without official certification if it is currently not possible to obtain them.
• Translations must be issued by a sworn translator. Such translations are not necessary if the original document already is issued English or German.

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Important for the Enrollment for the 1st Academic Semester and Completing the Enrollment for Higher Academic Semester or with "Studienkolleg":

• If you meet the requirements for studying at the Viadrina, you must accept your study place by enrolling or completing the enrollment (see steps 4+5), respectively.
• We reserve the right to request certain documents in paper form from you, in addition to the regular enrollment documents. This applies in particular to officially certified copies and sworn translations of certificates, as well as the originals of language certificates. Information on official certification and sworn translations can be found on our website.

Required documents & forms

Application for Master programmes "Digital Entrepreneurship" and "International Business Administration"
>> via uni-assist ! <<

Applications for Master programmes "Digital Entrepreneurship" and "International Business Administration" are processed by uni-assist. Fill out the online application at uni-assist. For your application via uni-assist you need all required documents and forms (see Step 2), plus eventually necessary documents for uni-assist. Inform yourself accordingly!

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Application or Enrollment for all other Master programmes:
>> at the Viadrina ! <<

• The enrollment has to be done online in viaCampus!
  • When applying online for a degree programme with restricted admission, certain documents and/or forms have possibly to be uploaded.
• After submitting the online registration, a PDF file will be generated.
  • Page 1 is your request for admission or enrollment. You can print this out and personally sign it by hand or provide it with a digital signature. You must submit this request.
    • In case of enrollment it must be submitted together with the required documents.
    • In case of application only the request must be submitted, as all other documents have to be uploaded before.
  • The information on pages 2 and 3 is for your personal records. These pages do not need to be submitted.
• We accept the documents as uploads, and if this is not possible either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!

You will find information on the papers, i.e. all necessary documents and forms, in Step 2.

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Deadlines for Application and Enrollment:

• Master of Digital Entrepreneurship
  • for winter semester:    01. - 31. May
• International Business Administration (M.Sc.)
  • for winter semester:   01. - 31. May
    
  • for summer semester:   01. - 30. November
• All other Master programmes
  • for winter semester:   01. June - 15. July
  • for summer semester:   01. December - 15. January

There may be different deadlines for postgraduate courses. And for some Master programmes, applications are only possible for the winter semester. Please inform yourself accordingly.

Important!

• Please note possible changes to the application deadlines, depending on the degree programme you want to apply for or enroll in. It is not possible to do this before!
• All required documents must be submitted by the end of the deadline at the latest!
  This means:
• When applying via uni-assist, your complete documents must have been uploaded at uni-assist! It will not be accepted if you send your documents scanned by email to uni-assist!
• When applying or enrolling at the Viadrina, your complete documents must have been submitted to the Viadrina! We accept the documents either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!

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What next?

You have submitted your application in time by post: What happens next?

Your application or enrollment will now be assessed. You will receive the result of the assessment within 6 weeks after the end of the application/enrollment period as well as further information from us, especially about enrollment.

Application for Master programmes "Digital Entrepreneurship" and "International Business Administration:
>> via uni-assist ! <<

uni-assist examines whether your documents meet the requirements for completeness and form and whether you have a university entrance qualification. This can take up to 3 weeks.

• If the result is negative: You will receive information about this from uni-assist.
• If the result is positive: Your data will be forwarded to Viadrina and processed further here by the admissions office.
  • As soon as the processing is complete, you will receive your access data for your viaCampus account by e-mail in order to enroll (see Step 4).
  • Please note the status changes and the comments from the admissions office in your viaCampus account. You will always be informed about these status changes by e-mail.
    
    

Application or Enrollment for all other Master programmes:
>> at the Viadrina ! <<

The Viadrina examines whether your documents meet the requirements for completeness and form and whether you have a university entrance qualification.

• If the result is negative: You will receive a rejection from us.
• If the result is positive: You will receive further information from us.
• Please note the status changes and the comments from the admissions office in your viaCampus account. You will always be informed about these status changes by e-mail.

If you have received confirmation of a study place and/or information about enrollment from us by e-mail or in viaCampus, you can enroll or complete enrollment, respectively. General information can be found in your viaCampus account and also here.

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Enrollment after Successful Application:

The enrollment has to be done online in viaCampus.

• Application via uni-assist:
  You will receive the access data for this by e-mail from the admissions office (see "What next?").
• After submitting the online registration, a PDF file will be generated.
  • Page 1 is your request for enrollment. You can print this out and personally sign it by hand or provide it with a digital signature. You must submit this request together with the required documents.
  • The information on pages 2 and 3 is for your personal records. These pages do not need to be submitted.
• We accept the documents either in paper form or scanned by e-mail to: zulassung@europa-uni.de! In the case of paper form, the postmark does not count, i.e. the documents must be received at the Viadrina by the end of the deadline at the latest!

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Completing the Enrollment:

Please check in viaCampus if you possibly need to submit any missing documents.

Important!

• We reserve the right to request certain documents in paper form from you, in addition to the regular enrollment documents. This applies in particular to officially certified copies and sworn translations of certificates, as well as the originals of language certificates. Information on official certification and sworn translations can be found on our website.

viaCampus

You must have valid health insurance to enroll at a German university!

Applicants from within the European Union:

• You do not need a German health insurance policy. Your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) is valid for study in Germany. If you do not already have this card, you will need to order the European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) from your insurance company in your home country well in advance.

Applicants from beyond the European Union:

• For you, a German health insurance policy is obligatory. After you arrival in Frankfurt (Oder), you will have to set up such a policy with a German health insurance company.

Students wishing to study at Viadrina should apply for a visa for study purposes at the German consular mission in their home country in good time before entering the country.

Exempt from this regulation are students from:

• the states of the European Union and
• countries with which different regulations have been agreed upon (Honduras, Iceland, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and USA).

You can find information about the regulations that apply to you on the website of the German Foreign Office. There you will also find information on visa requirements or exemptions for entry into the Federal Republic of Germany.

Do not enter Germany as a tourist!
It is not possible to convert a tourist visa into a long-term residence permit in Germany.

Please make sure that you receive a "multiple entry" visa.

Due to the border location of Viadrina, not only dormitories are located on the Polish side; many courses are also offered in the joint institution of the European University Viadrina and the Adam Mickiewicz University, the Collegium Polonicum. Therefore, in any case, you should apply for a Polish visa in addition to the German visa. Inquire in time at a Polish consular representation.

Please make sure that you apply for a "multiple entry" visa, which entitles you to cross the border several times!

You can find information about the regulations that apply to you in Germany on the homepage of the Commissioner for Foreigners.

Timetables are availabe from the web site of the Deutsche Bahn. Usually, trains are going every 30 minutes from Berlin to Frankfurt (Oder) and are called "Regionalexpress" (RE1). Be aware that the trains can have different destinations, depending on the time. They either go directly to Frankfurt ( Oder ), or via Frankfurt (Oder) to Eisenhüttenstadt or Cottbus.
Please, makes sure to get off the train not at the train station "Frankfurt (Oder) - Rosengarten" but at the next stop "Frankfurt (Oder)".

If you are coming via Poland you can reach Frankfurt (Oder) directly by train.

After the arrival at BER, you can either take a taxi or train (FEX, RE7 or RB14) to reach the train station "Ostkreuz". Tickets are available at the ticket-booth. From this train station, you have a direct connection (RE1) to Frankfurt (Oder). You can check the details regarding the train connection here.

Applicants from countries with agreements on social and health insurance do not need a German health insurance policy. This usually applies to all applicants from within the European Union who have a statutory health insurance in one of the countries supporting the European Health Insiurance Card (EHIC). Please inform yourself in advance if this applies to you.

In this case, your EHIC is valid and sufficient. You have to order the EHIC from your insurance company in your home country well in advance. In Germany, you need to present the EHIC to a German health insurance company who will provide you with the necessary insurance certificate for the university.
Here you will find the link to the AOK portal for online applications.
Here you will find the link to the TK portal for online applications.

Attention!

Please send an email with the following information to either Franziska.Herschelmann@tk.de or anke.lanzky@nordost.aok.de to receive the insurance certificate for university:

• Your first name, surname and your gender
• Your german adress (including c/o, appartment number etc.)
• Full name of our university (European-University Viadrina)
• A scan of your EHIC (a blue EU health card, mostly for EU students).

 

• For you, a German health insurance policy is in most cases obligatory. After your arrival to Frankfurt (Oder), you have to get such a policy from a statutory German health insurance company. As soon as you are insured, this company will provide you with the necessary insurance certificate for the university.
• Please, do not buy a health insurance in your home country as those usually do not comply with the legal requirements and, therefore, are not accepted! If you need any kind of insurance document within the application process for a visa, please contact us.
• There are multiple statutory health insurance companies in Germany and you can select any of them, however, we generally recommend either AOK Nordost or Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) as we and our students have gad a great experience cooperating with them. For more information, please view the linked websites.
• If you are coming from Turkey and have the AT11 document, you do not need to obtain a German health insurance as the AT11 is fully sufficient. For the matriculation, you will simply need to show the document to a German health insurance company who will provide you with the necessary insurance certificate for the university.
• Here you will find the link to the AOK portal for online applications.
• Here you will find the link to the TK portal for online applications.

Attention!

Please send an email with the following informations to either Franziska.Herschelmann@tk.de or anke.lanzky@nordost.aok.de to receive the insurance certificate for university:

• Your first name, surname and your gender
• Your german adress (including c/o, appartment number etc.)
• Full name of our university (European-University Viadrina)
• A scan of your AT/11 (health document, mostly for Turkish students).

• For applicants (and students) who are aged 30 and above or who have been studying for more than 14 semesters, the duty to have a compulsory insurance ends. You have to conclude a statutory or privat voluntary insurance instead.
• In exceptional cases the duty for a compulsory insurance can be prolonged. Please inform yourself in time

 

• Health Insurance for International Students in Germany
  Here you can find further information on the health insurance system. There can be found useful information for international students and guest lecturers. The content is available in ten languages.
• Health Insurance in Germany – The German Healthcare System
• There are several insurance companies which you can contact directly. If you are searching for a certain insurance company you will find respective information.
• DAAD-Insurance Office
  For more information you can contact the DAAD-Insurance Office.

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Additional Insurances (recommended)

Privat liability insurance

• This insurance is not a compulsory insurance, but one of the most important voluntary insurances. In the internet you can find numerous offers of insurance companies.
• The private liability insurance pays for harm that accidently has been caused to the property or health of others (e.g. a traffic accident as cycler). The costs for such can reach millions and endanger ones financial situation.

Accident insurance

• If you are around at the university for study purposes you will be covered by an accident insurance of the Viadrina.
• In your spare time the accident insurance of the Studentenwerk will apply.