Upon application

Together with your application documents you must submit a certification of your German language skills. This also applies for German nationalswhose mother tongue is not German.

 If your school and university documents do not allow for direct entry into our Bachelor programs the lowest level sufficient for taking the entry exam to the Preparatory College is German B 1 according to the European Frame of Reference). It is not sufficient for direct Fachhochschule entry.

A medium level, e.g. “Zentrale Mittelstufenprüfung ZMP”, " DSH 1 or TestDaF 4*3 TDN is sufficient for taking the “Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang DSH” (German Language Test for  Higher Education Entry) in case your school and university documents do allow for direct Fachhochschule entry.
You can take these language exams with one of the Goethe Institutes or TestDaF centers close to your city of residence. The DSH exam is offered by universities only. In the case of Fachhochschule, DSH exams are offered at the International Study Center at the neighboring Goethe University.

Certifcation of language school applications or mere participation certificates won’t do!!

Upon enrolment

Any applicant accepted for direct Fachhochschule entry must show sufficient language skills  proven by the DSH exam. Equivalent exams are

Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung ZOP or

Kleines oder Großes Sprachdiplom or

Deutsches Sprachdiplom der Kultusministerkonferenz (all of them being Goethe Institute exams)

or

the TestDaF exam.

„DSH, Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang“

You can only take this exam in a German university. Taking the DSH exam in Frankfurt requires the formal admission to one of our programs. Without a pass in that exam on level 2 a student will not be enrolled: admission will expire automatically.

Exemption from this exam is possible only after a personal interview with the Director of the Preparatory College in Frankfurt.

TestDaF (Test of German as a Foreign Language)

Fachhochschule enrolment requires a test result of 4*4 TDN for all programs. One TDN 3 might be compensated by a TDN 5. The test is offered worldwide in TestDaF-centers.