In order to facilitate the application process, international students can apply online at KIT.

You can usually apply six weeks before the application deadline of your desired study program.

This means that the portals for the winter semester procedure will open on May 15. You can apply for the Studienkolleg as early as May 1st. You can apply for the Water Science and Engineering M.Sc. and Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics M.Sc. courses from April 1st. The Mechanical Engineering (International) B.Sc. program accepts applications from 01.12. of the previous year. Please apply with as complete a set of documents as possible!

The portals for the procedure for the summer semester open on 01.12. of the previous year. You can apply for the Studienkolleg from 01.11. You can apply for the Water Science and Engineering M.Sc. and Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics M.Sc. programs from 15.10. onwards. Please apply with as complete a set of documents as possible!

Please select the group you belong to:

* Applicants for a Bachelors degree with foreign nationality and German higher education entrance qualification (Abitur, not graduees from Studienkolleg) follow the same application process as German applicants and apply via this portal.

** For all interested (EU and non-EU)

Please note: Applications for Bachelor's degree programmes with restricted admission (NC) require registration at Hochschulstart. Information on this can be found on the Bachelor application page.

APS India

The APS office in India is checking all APS applications regularly. There is no need for KIT to contact APS India..

Nationality in the application portal

Please make sure that you state your nationality correctly in your application! In case of an application with hpchschulstart.de (Bachelor, admission restricted), you also have to fill in your nationality correctly on hochschulstart.de before submitting the application to KIT.

Grade information for applications for NC subjects

International applicants please leave the fields for grades empty. They are not mandatory fields. The International Students Office team will calculate your grade based on the submitted school reports.

Information about the school leaving certificate

Please make sure that you enter "Foreign school-leaving qualification" under School-leaving qualification and "Other general higher education entrance qualification acquired abroad" under Type!

German course at the Studienkolleg

Please note: The German course at the Studienkolleg, which you can select with a check mark, lasts a whole semester. You cannot start studying at the same time. You must prove that you have the required German language skills in order to enroll. If you apply for admission to the German course, this is not an application to study the subject.

Application status

Here we explain the individual status of the application:

• "In preparation" means that the application has not yet been sent. We cannot check your application in this status. Please check all the information in the application and submit it before the respective application deadline.
• "Complete" means that all your documents are sufficient and that the faculty will check your academic suitability in the next step.
• "Preliminarily excluded" can mean several things. Either your application has already been reviewed by the faculty and rejected. Or your application is missing documents. Please follow the instructions in the application portal carefully.
• "Evaluated" is the status of applications for NC subjects before the ranking list is created. You will receive further information in a few days with another status.

Application deadlines

The application deadlines are strict. Applications must also have been submitted to the application portal by the application deadline.  

Please apply as early as possible because getting a visa usually takes at least six to eight weeks.

All deadlines can ba found on the respective page of your preferred study course/subject.

Admission process for Bachelors Degree Courses

Admission process for Masters Degree Courses