Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences

Applicants must hold a Bachelor's degree (210 ECTS) with an overall grade/mark well above average (such as "with distinction", "excellent" depending on the grading scale) in mechanical engineering mechatronics industrial engineering with a specialisation in mechanical engineering or an equivalent qualification As grading percentages differ substantially between the various countries and universities, we cannot give a minimum required value. All applications are evaluated individually and carefully. For applicants from India, further rules apply; please see: https://www.hs-kl.de/angewandte-ingenieurwissenschaften/studiengaenge/master/mechanical-engineeringmechatronics/application-admission/. Applicants with a degree of 180 ECTS (six semesters, three years) will require additional courses/credits of in total 30 ECTS before the start of their Master's thesis. These credits can be obtained by recognition of additional Bachelor's modules, additional study-abroad modules, work experience after completion of their Bachelor's degree or by successful completion of additional modules at HS Kaiserslautern - University of Applied Sciences. Please consider that the language of instruction in all our Bachelor's programmes is German. The Examination Board will decide on the contents individually. Selection is based on four criteria: 1) academic quality, 2) résumé, 3) letter of motivation and 4) linguistic proficiency. Candidates are advised to follow the instructions described in the "Guidelines for Applicants" on our homepage. Professional experience after obtaining the Bachelor's degree is not formally required (except for applicants holding a degree from a university in India), but it will often strengthen the application. If courses in German are selected and German is not the native language, applicants must have linguistic proficiency in accordance with at least level C1 of CEFR, TestDaF 4, DSH 2 or equivalent. A proof thereof is mandatory (certificate not older than 24 months). If courses in English are selected and English is not the native language, applicants must have linguistic proficiency in accordance with at least level B2 of CEFR, TOEIC Listening 400 and Reading 385, TOEIC Speaking 160 and Writing 150, TOEFL iBT 87, TOEFL ITP 543, IELTS 6.0 or equivalent. A proof thereof is mandatory (certificate not older than 24 months). All applicants whose mother tongue is not German must provide proof of German proficiency at level A2 of CEFR or higher (i.e. Goethe certificate or equivalent, certificate not older than 24 months). This also applies if only English-taught modules are chosen.

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