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International Applicants

Congratulations, you have successfully passed the first and most important step in the application process.
On behalf of the Departments Admission Committee, I am pleased to inform you, that your application for our master program has
been approved. This admission is valid only for the selected semester and programme intake.
Your rem aining steps for a form al adm ission:
This decision is subject to you providing the certified copies of the documents that you have submitted electronically, and, if
applicable, of thus far missing final documents. Should you fail to provide these certified copies, your admission may be revoked.
Furthermore, the next steps of the admission process require that you to pay certain fees. Please note, that these fees have to be
paid by every international student before the application w ill be processed further.
Prof. P. Fromm and Prof. H. Meuth
MSE Program Directors
First of all, please re-check your personal data and correct / update it before sending us the paper documents. This step is
extrem ely im portant, because the provided data w ill be transferred into the university database and it w ill also be used for
sending you the official acceptance letter. Typical problems include:
Correct spelling of your name. For the visa application, the provided name must be identical to your name as stated in your
passport. The same applies for your birth date and birth location.
The first letter of your name must be captial, all other letters must be small.
Make sure, that you have added your phone numbers (landline and mobile)!
Check, that every field contains only the data required for the field. Example ZIP code - a good entry w ould be "22326"
(only the number), a bad entry w ould be "ZIP CODE 22376" (number plus the w ord ZIP CODE")
We w ill not check your data. We w ill also not resend any letters due to w rong personal data entries!
Please submit in paper, as certified documents, and, if not in English, together w ith a certified translation, the follow ing documents:
Docum ents to be

Signed affidavit (template see below )

sent:

Bachelors final or provisional certificate

Transcripts of your Bachelors studies.
English certificate (The TOEFL certificate may also be sent electronically from the TOEFL institute
to the Hochschule Darmstadt. Our TOEFL Institutional Code is 4776, our department code is
Electrical Engineering 66).

Certification:

The certification may be administered by

a German Representation, or by
notary public, or
by having your university sent the documents in a sealed envelope.

Mailing address:

MSE Course Director Fachbereich EIT

Hochschule Darmstadt
Birkenw eg 8
D-64295 Darmstadt
Germany

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In order to ascertain a speedy process, w e recommend you choose a special express courier service that may be tracked.
Latest arrival date is 30.4.
For checking your paper documents and for sending you the application letters by courier you have to pay an administrative fee.
Without this fee, your application w ill not be processed.
Payment rules
Please provide the keyw ord MSE ADMINISTRATIVE FEE, your application num ber, nam e and em ail on the payment
slip (see section bank transfer below ). Otherw ise the payment can not be considered.
The full amountmust be transferred to the given account. Simultaniously send us the certified copies of your paper
documents.
The administrative fee only covers the costs for processing the paper documents and for sending you the admission
letter by courier.
The fee does not cover any costs for presemester classes, housing or semester fees. These fees have to be paid later.
The fee cannot not be refunded.
Fee
The administrative fee is 150
Deadline (for arrival) is 30.04
Please use"MSE ADMINISTRATIVE FEE" as fee description to the bank transfer
A couple of 3 and 4 bedroom apartments are available for our international students. Every student has his ow n room and shares
the kitchen and bathroom w ith other students (Wohngemeinschaft). The apartments are not ow ned by the university. Students
w ho w ant to rent a room have to sign a contract w ith a private company. As the rooms are reserved for you, the rental period w ill
start 01.09 as a fixed date. To apply for a room:
Complete the room reservation form below and send it back to the given adress on the form
Please provide the keyw ords MSE Room Rental, your application num ber, nam e and em ail on the payment slip
(see section bank transfer below ). Otherw ise the payment can not be considered.
We w ill forw ard your data to the housing agency for a binding contract.
Rooms w ill be provided on a first come first serve basis.
We w ill try to consider the requests on the reservation sheet - how ever, w e cannot guarantee any room category or
specific apartment location
The fee w ill cover the follow ing expenses
Rent for the month of September
Deposit
Service Charge
Fee
The room rental fee is 600
Please use"MSE Room Rental:" as fee description to the bank transfer
Latest payment date and refund
15th of June for the reservation form AND fee
Cancelation of your room until 1st of August: 400 can be refunded
Cancelation of your room after 1st of August: no refund w ill be possible
Please note: If you do not apply for a room in time, you w ill have to find a room on your ow n. We w ill not help you. Be aw are, that
housing in Darnstadt is difficult due to the extremely high number of students w e currently have.
Presemester Classes and German classes are a mandatory part of the MSE program for international applicants. The presemester
courses w ill support you to successfully enter the challenging MSE program and the German classes w ill help you both in
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everyday situations in Germany as w ell as significantly improve your chances for an internship and master thesis in industry.
Every semester, you w ill have to pay a semester fee to the university, w hich includes a public transport ticket for the Rhein-Main
region. To facilitate the enrollment process, the first semester fee has to paid up front.
The full amount has to be paid by bank transfer once you are sure that you w ill join the MSE program and of course before the
latest payment date given below . Without this fee, enrollment is not possible.
Please provide the keyw ords MSE SEMESTER/CLASS FEE, your application num ber, nam e and em ail on the payment slip
(see section bank transfer below ). Otherw ise the payment can not be considered.
The fee covers the follow ing expenses:
Semester fee for the first semester
German classes (only international students)
Study books for the German class (only international students)
Presemester classes
Intercultural forum / living in Germany seminar
Fee
International applicants: The presemester courses and German class fee is 725.
German applicants from other universities: The presemester courses fee is 600.
Please use"MSE SEMESTER/CLASS FEE:" as fee description to the bank transfer
Latest payment date and refund
1st of August
No refund is possible, because the courses w ill be booked and have to be paid based on the received fees.
Note: For the next semesters, only the semester fee (around 280) has to be paid.
Bank transfer is the only w ay of paying your fees!
Please transfer the administrative fees in the listed amount to the follow ing account. This amount does not include any possible
transfer charges on either side, w hich w ould have to go on top of it and you have to bear the full costs. Without accurately
identifying your application detail in the transfer reference field, w e cannot credit you for any amount transferred.
Am ount:

see above (Step 3, 4 and 5)

Benificiary:

GFTN e.V., Haardtring 100, 64295 Darmstadt

Account num ber:

339 331 607

Bank sort code:

500 100 60

Nam e of bank:

Postbank Frankfurt/Main

Bank Adress:

Deutsche Postbank AG
Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 114 - 126
D-53113 Bonn
Germany

International bank
code IBAN:

DE64 5001 0060 0339 3316 07

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BIC/SWIFT code:

PBNKDEFF

Description field:

Provide the follow ing information in the description field:

<Fee description - see Step 3, 4 and 5>: name, your APPLICATION NUMBER (very important), email
adress

Transfer fee:

Make sure, that all transfer costs are carried by your bank! (Use "OUR" transfer)

Unfortunately w e cannot provide any other methods of money transfer. If the provided solution does not w ork for you, please ask
a friend in Germany or Europe to transfer the money on your behalf.
Links to templates:
Affidavit
Housing reservation

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