FAQs
Yes, you do, unless you are a national of one of the following countries:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States of America, and from the Caribbean Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, or from South American Belize and Guyana.
OR if you have completed at university degree in one of the countries mentioned above or in the European Union (with English as language of instruction for the entire study program).
If none of the above is the case, you have to hand in a TOEFL ibt or IELTS academic test result.
Yes, you can. Simply upload your current transcript of records (complete grade list of all courses you have taken for all semesters you have studied). You can hand in the final degree certificate or at least proof that you have completed your Bachelor’s degree until 15 December of the year in which you start your studies in Hohenheim.
If you are not sure that your degree is going to be considered to be “above average”, you can ask your examinations office to issue a ranking document which indicates your position in order of merit compared to your class mates who graduated in the same year with you.
If your university does not issue rankings, you can ask one of your professors to issue a recommendation letter comparing your academic performance with your class mates, ideally specifying if you belong to the top 10%, top 20%, etc. of your class.
For the format of this recommendation letter see next point below.
No, we don’t. Ask your referee to issue the recommendation letter on the official letter head of the university, indicating his/her name, position, and contact details. The letter has to be signed and should ideally bear a stamp of the university.
Recommendation letters that do not fulfill these requirements will not be accepted.
You can also ask your examinations office to fill out this ranking template.
You can upload reference letters from employers or work contracts, or any other document that shows that you possess
practical / professional experience that could be relevant for the study program.
If you want to include several documents, please merge them into one pdf file.
Please log into the application portal to see further details. Usually it means that a document is missing or that you do not fulfill the formal admission requirements. Generally, missing documents have to be handed in before the application deadline.
If the missing document is your official proof of English or a ranking / recommendation letter then your application will still
be considered by the admission committee even after the official application deadline, and you might be granted a conditional admission. The deadlines to hand in these missing documents are detailed above.
Dr. Ivan Guzman Bustamante