New rules for admission to the University of Vienna. Documents for admission to public universities in Austria

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One of important points is the choice of university and direction of study. Stop your choice at the University or the Higher School? It is also necessary to take into account whether entrance examinations or tests are provided at this faculty. Documents for admission to the University of Vienna in 2017, as in previous years, are completed depending on the direction of study and citizenship of the applicant. General requirement for admission to the University of Vienna for a bachelor's degree, regardless of the direction of study, is to provide the following package of documents:

Application form for admission to the university;
Matura/diploma;
Confirmation of an accredited university about your right to continue your studies in the country that issued your certificate/diploma;
A copy of the university accreditation license (required in some cases).

The Austrian University Law of 2002 stipulates that all applicants from non-EU countries, as well as stateless applicants, must provide a certificate of the right to study in this direction in the home country, in the country that issued the matriculation certificate or diploma.

For this it is necessary in the country in which the matriculation certificate or diploma was obtained, fulfill the following conditions (for example, passing entrance exams, an interview, etc.), which are additionally required upon admission to an educational institution.

The confirmation, which is issued by an accredited university in your country, must indicate that you have the right to study as a bachelor without passing further entrance exams, interviews, etc. in the academic year/semester in which you wish to start your studies in Austria (e.g. winter semester 2017) and at your university.

Help from the university must be confirmed by the seal of an accredited university and the signature of the rector, dean or member of the admissions committee. The confirmation must clearly indicate that in addition to the exam, you have fulfilled all the conditions for admission to study (such as an interview, language tests, etc.).

If You on this moment are a university student then you need confirmation from your university that you have the right to continue education in the desired academic year/semester at your university.

The university endorsement must include the following:

Specialty (for example, economics of the national economy, ...;
Legally established duration of study;
Academic degree to be awarded upon successful completion of studies

Students who wish to continue their studies in Austria are advised to provide an academic transcript on the letterhead of the university. There is a possibility of crediting similar subjects according to the curriculum.

Biography (not all universities require it, as a rule, it should describe your educational biography datedly (where and when you studied, what languages you know, your interests, etc.));
Copy of the international passport;
Language proficiency certificate, if any;
One copy of all (sent abroad) documents
If your interests will be represented by us - "EduLight Austria", a notarized power of attorney is required. We will send the form of power of attorney additionally, you can also find it on the websites of universities.

Documents for admission to the University of Vienna in 2017. current requirements.

All documents for admission to the University of Vienna in 2017 (preferably originals) must be certified by an apostille or legalized. Translations into German must also be certified by an apostille. The certificate is apostilled by the Ministry of Education. As a rule, certificates are apostilled by the Ministry of Justice. If you have an apostille on the original, then it is possible to translate and certify the document in Austria by a sworn translator, which is very welcome by universities. As for the “Legalization of documents”, it depends on the country that issued the document. Legalization is a triple certification of a document along the following chain: the ministry that issued the document - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - the Austrian Consulate.

Is it possible to enter an Austrian university right after high school? To enroll or not to enroll in a university in your homeland?

To enter universities in many European countries, you need to study for a year or two at a university in your homeland. The University of Vienna (Universität Wien) accepted my daughter to the Faculty of Chemistry without a certificate that she was a university student and about the subjects she studied at a Russian university (in general, she studied at a university in her homeland at that time for one semester and brilliantly passed the session, but in there was no reference about this in the package of documents).

The basis for her admission was the original certificate of the Moscow school, certified by the Apostille of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and translated into German, and a certificate of compliance with the requirements for a Russian applicant. The documents were reviewed relatively quickly, no additional questions arose. Therefore, according to the same scheme, those Russian schoolchildren who have never studied at Russian universities have the opportunity to enter Austrian universities.

Why Austria?

So we decided that we wanted to live and study abroad. Where? We started by looking for information about countries. The country of study had to meet our modest requirements:

there is an opportunity to enter the certificate without a year or two of study at a university in the Russian Federation;
tuition fees are non-existent or low;
well, and ... you should like the country :)

The first criterion was met only exotic australia with New Zealand, expensive USA, and in Europe only Greece and Austria. weeded out expensive options, and there are two European countries. In Austria, the level of teaching is higher. We both studied German at school. And after Austria made it easier for students to get the right to work, and Greece tightened the conditions for admission in 2011, Austria became the only option.

Who said that the University of Vienna accepts right after school?

At the moment when we learned that there was an opinion that it was possible to enter Austria only by transferring from Russian universities, we already had not only confirmations of enrollment at Universität Wien, but also confirmations of the issuance of student residence permits, and even passports with "D" entry visas.

Before writing this article, I googled this topic. Indeed, many websites say that Austrian universities only consider documents of transfer students who will provide lesson plans for the subjects studied at universities in their homeland. However, other information is found on the net. Here are quotes from various articles about Austrian universities:

Students are enrolled in an Austrian university on the basis of a certificate or diploma obtained in their country

In Austrian universities, as a rule, they enroll without exams - a certificate of secondary education is enough

Documents that an applicant who has graduated from a school or gymnasium has are sufficient grounds for admission

There is an opportunity to enter a university immediately after graduation

A year ago, apparently, we successfully came across only "suitable" articles. Someone, as in the New Year's film "Magicians", learns to pass through walls, "seeing the goal." And someone, not knowing about the obstacle, passes through it without even noticing.

What do you need to enter an Austrian university right after school?

The level of knowledge of the applicant will be confirmed by two documents: a school certificate and a certificate that he or she has the right to study at home.

How to prepare a certificate for submission to an Austrian university?

The certificate must be legalized. To do this, you need to affix an Apostille of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation to the original school certificate, translate the document into German, and notarize the translation. (The apostille of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on a copy legalizes only the notary's signature, and not the document from which the copy was made.)

In our case, the original with the Apostille was sent to intermediaries in Vienna. They made a copy of the certificate and had it certified by a Viennese notary, and also made a certified translation of the copy into German by a certified translator directly in Vienna.

You can do it differently. The student has the right to make a notarized copy of the apostilled certificate and a notarized translation into German of the copy in their home country. And then independently send a package of documents to Austria, to the university admissions office.

Sometimes it is required to send original certificates and diplomas to Austrian universities. Then the university will need to provide:

original document with Apostille;
its notarized copy bound with a certified translation;

Sometimes Austrian universities do not require original certificates and diplomas. Then the university will need to provide:

a notarized copy of the apostilled document, bound with the certified
translation;
another copy of the document - a simple, not notarized one.

What should be written in the certificate of eligibility for the applicant?

Certificate of compliance with the requirements for applicants is not a document state standard, therefore, there are no strict requirements for its text and cannot be. Below is an example help text.

REFERENCE
Confirms that Maria Ivanovna Ivanova was born on 02/29/1993. meets all the conditions of the applicant (or meets all the requirements for the applicant) of higher educational institutions Russian Federation in accordance with the requirements of natural science (or philology, or some other) faculties and has the right to study in all specialties of the above mentioned faculty in _____ semester of _____ academic year.
Base:
1. Certificate of secondary (complete) general education series ________ No. __________ issued on "_____" _________.
2. Certificate of passing the exam: Russian language _____ points, mathematics _____ points,
chemistry ___________ points, biology _______ points.
Help given on request.

As I understand it, compliance with the requirements for an applicant means that the applicant has a certificate of maturity and a passing score for the USE required for the specified specialty. What other requirements can be for applicants?..

However, I am familiar with students who were able to agree on the issuance of a certificate without passing the exam.

Of course, the certificate must be issued on the letterhead of the university, have an outgoing number and date of issue, the name of the person who signed the certificate must be deciphered, and the seal must be viewed.

Will the student be given a certificate from the university, because he does not study at the university?

Will issue. The certificate does not need to indicate that you are studying at a university. The certificate must indicate that you have the right to enter this university in the next semester.

Even if you do not study at a university in your homeland, then you must go to any university that has the same specialty that you apply for in Austria, and independently agree on the issuance of a certificate - in the dean's office, the office of the faculty, in the rector's office - where they will issue will be issued there. We have been given and will be given to you. If you get rejected in one university - go to the second, to the third. I know from experience that it is difficult. And I also know from experience that it is possible.

I advise you to take the text you need with you and walk around the classrooms with it and arrange for this text to be given to you on the official letterhead of the university. It is not always willing to issue such a certificate. Do not blame anyone and do not be offended by anyone. Spend your energy not on grievances and complaints, but on finding a solution. You need help - and you can solve this issue. Those who come before you have coped with this task.

If you did not take a certificate from the well-known Moscow State University or MGIMO with "Pleshka", then attach to it copies of the license for the right of the university to conduct educational activities, as well as a copy of the state accreditation of the university. These two documents are always available on the websites of universities. Well, if some university does not have these documents, then you do not need a certificate from this university.

Our friends, who submitted documents at the same time as us, had problems due to the fact that the university that issued the certificate was unknown, was not in the register, and was non-state.

Is an Apostille required?

A semester before our receipt of such a certificate, translated into German with a notarized translation, it was enough for Universität Wien. When we arrived, the requirements became tougher. Universität Wien began to require an Apostille on such certificates, which was contrary to the law of the Russian Federation, since Apostilles are affixed only to government documents, and such a certificate was not such.

We got around this disagreement in the following way: we made a copy of the certificate from a Russian notary and certified it. Then they took a certified copy to the Ministry of Justice and put the Apostille on the signature of a notary (this did not make the certificate more legal, but it was accepted). Then this copy of the certificate with the Apostille was translated into German and the translation was certified. We also sent the original certificate (without Apostille and translation) to the university, just in case.

Already after we entered Universität Wien, it was rumored that some division of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation was deciding the issue of issuing certificates of compliance with the requirements for applicants. This would be convenient for applicants - there would be no need to negotiate with Russian universities in private. Perhaps these certificates would have been apostilled there.

If (or when) the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation really decides to make life easier for applicants, I ask blog readers to write about it in the comments to the article.

In February 2012, I learned that the university of one of the small Austrian towns did not require an Apostille on the certificate of eligibility for an applicant. A certified translation into German was enough for him. Therefore, check the requirements for the package of documents on the website and in the admissions office of the university you are applying to.

Is it only applicants after school who need this certificate?

When we entered the university, I thought that such a certificate was required from schoolchildren, because they do not have lesson plans with grades that transfer students can provide. Later, we learned that almost everyone needs a certificate stating that an applicant has the right to study in their homeland in the semester for which he applies to an Austrian university.

School graduates send it with school certificates.

College graduates send it with college diplomas.

Transfer students of universities send it with academic certificates containing information about the subjects taken, indicating the names of educational topics, the number of study hours, grades.

Sometimes (not always), some universities, when applying for certain specialties, require university graduates to provide it with university diplomas and / or certificates, regardless of where they are going to study - in another specialty at the bachelor's degree or in the same specialty at the master's degree.

Are there any "cons" in entering after school?

Why did one student study in his homeland for two semesters, provided a lesson plan of the subjects passed and was enrolled in the 1st year of the University of Vienna, and another student immediately after school became a student of the same 1st year without any problems. Where is the justice for the first? Or, what's the catch for the second one?

Maybe in the entrance exams? Transfer students are enrolled in the 1st year without exams - they are credited with subjects taken at the university in their homeland. And school graduates, upon arrival in Vienna and after a certain time for preparation, will have to pass the required number of exams. (How many exams you will need to pass depends on the specialty and university. The decision will be made by the selection committee after reviewing your documents. The selection committee will not answer this question for you in advance.)

Our university, Universität Wien, first invites a student to study, then gives him up to 4-5 semesters to prepare for exams. It will be possible to prepare for them directly in Vienna. My daughter will have to pass, in addition to the German language test, three more exams - mathematics, physics, chemistry in German.

According to the intermediaries, the subjects passed in the first semester at a university in the homeland would not be enough to pass the subjects passed at an Austrian university. However, now we are investigating the question of whether brilliantly passed exams in mathematics and chemistry at the end of the first semester could be credited. Russian university instead of entrance exams to Universität Wien?

If you dream of getting an economic, engineering or some other prestigious education in Austria, but are afraid to take mathematics, physics (or other scary subjects) at German, then, perhaps, it’s better for you not to act after school, but to transfer after several years of study in your homeland with a credit for part of the subjects passed.

If you are not afraid of exams and you consider preparing for them as an opportunity to improve your knowledge in your favorite subjects that you are going to make the profession of your life, no matter in which country you will master this profession, then we are of the same blood. Additional time for preparation - up to 4-5 semesters, depending on the number of subjects - will be a nice bonus. In addition, during these 4-5 semesters you will prepare for exams in Austria, with the legal rights of a university student. If you turn in these items in record time, bravo! If you stretch their surrender for the maximum period - again not bad - you will live large quantity years on a student residence permit, which will bring you closer to permanent residence.

Students and their parents! There are pluses and minuses in every situation. Analyze them. I wish you all good luck and that there will always be more “pluses” in your life than “minuses”!