Preliminary inspection documentation by uni-assist (from 01.03.2010)

Application process for applicants with a foreign university entrance qualification:

1. Preliminary inspection documentation (Vorprüfungsdokumentation) by uni-assist

• If you wish to apply for a place on a Bachelor or Diploma course at TU München and have a foreign university entrance qualification, you must first have your certificates inspected by the service centre for international students "Arbeits- und Servicestelle für Internationale Studierende uni-assist e. V.".
• Exceptions: applicants who are already enrolled at TU München and applicants who have completed the "Feststellungsprüfung" at the Studienkolleg.
• This can be done all year round by filling out the following application for preliminary inspection documentation.
• Please have made a certified copy of your university entrance qualification in the original language and (if necessary) a certified translation ( -> detailed information about certified copies and translations).
• Send the completed application for preliminary inspection documentation with the certified copy and (if necessary) translation of your university entrance qualification to:

Technische Universität München
c/o uni-assist e. V.
Helmholtzstraße 2-9
10587 Berlin

• Please be sure to apply for your preliminary inspection documentation in due time:
• January 15th for the summer semester
• July 15th for the winter semester

If this is not demonstrably possible please contact immatrikulationsamt@zv.tum.de.

• When you have sent the documents you are required to transfer a fee to uni-assist. Please note that your application cannot be processed if you do not transfer the fee ( -> further information on the bank transfer).
• Uni-assist will send you the preliminary inspection documentation by post. You must then submit the original of this preliminary inspection documentation to TU München (see below).
• On the preliminary inspection documentation you will see whether you can apply for all subjects (general university entrance qualification) or only for certain subjects (restricted university entrance qualification) and what your German grade equivalent is.
• Some important notes for applicants from the following countries:

China: Please send the following documents to uni-assist:

• school certificate (certificate of 11 or 12 years of school education)
• university entrance examination
• academic transcript

Applicants from China, Vietnam and Mongolia must send the APS certificate.

Österreich: Please send the following documents to uni-assist:

• Reifeprüfungszeugnis
• Jahreszeugnis
• Stundentafel

Südtirol: Please send the following documents to uni-assist:

• Jahreszeugnis (Das Diploma schicken Sie unverzüglich nach Erhalt direkt an die TUM)

Bewerber mit IB (International Baccalaureate Diploma):

• Zur Prüfung bei uni-assist müssen Sie durch Ihre letzten Jahreszeugnisse die Dauer Ihrer Schulzeit nachweisen. Sobald Sie die online-Zugangsdaten zu Ihrem IB erhalten haben, teilen Sie uni-assist diese mit. Das endgültige IB müssen Sie dann später direkt an der TUM einreichen.

2. Online application to TU München

• Parallel to the preliminary inspection you apply online at TU München.

• When you have completed the online-application you must print out the application for admission, sign it and send it in the due time into TU München along with all the remaining documents on your document checklist (German language certificate, simple copy of your university entrance qualification, ...):

Technische Universität München
Immatrikulationsamt
Arcisstr. 21
80333 München

contact: immatrikulationsamt@zv.tum.de