Country-specific requirements for admission

If you only have a secondary-school leaving certificate from Afghanistan, you cannot be admitted to a bachelor's or diploma programme at the University of Vienna. The secondary-school leaving certificate from Afghanistan (12-Grade Graduation Certificate) is not adequate as proof of the general university entrance qualification. The differences to a secondary-school leaving certificate from Austria are too large. Your application for admission will therefore be rejected. 

Exception:
If your secondary-school leaving certificate is from Afghanistan and you also have already studied a degree programme you can submit an application for admission to a bachelor's or diploma programme. Each application has to be processed individually. 

If you have completed your previous education in Australia, you will need the following, depending on the territory:

• ACT Tertiary Entrance Statement or
• ATAR Advice Notice or
• Universities Admission Advice Letter (UAAL)

with Apostille.

Please read the information about the required CGPA and competence check.

If you have completed your  previous education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, you will need your Year 4 certificate.

If you have completed your previous education in Chile, you will need the Prueba de Selección Universitaria (PSU) with Apostille.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in China and apply for a bachelor's/diploma programme, you require a proof of your university entrance exam Gaokao (with at least 70 %) AND the High School Academic Proficiency Test Huikao with Apostille and certification by the APS of the German embassy in Beijing.

China-Macao:

If you have completed your schooling in Macao, China, you will need your university entrance examination results from a Macao higher education institution with Apostille.

If you have completed your previous education in Greece, you will need the Panhellenic Examination.

Please read the information about the required CGPA and competence check.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in Indonesia, you require a proof of your university entrance exam UTBK-SNBT with a result of at least 500 (grade point average) and Apostille.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in Iran and apply for a bachelor's/diploma programme, you require a proof of your university entrance exam Konkûr with full diplomatic certification. 

If you have competed school in Japan you need one of the following proofs:

• Kotogakko AND University Entrance Examination Center Test or
• Kotogakko AND completion of Tanki Daigaku (Junior College) or Koto-senmon gakko (Technical College) or
• Kotogakko AND Transcript of Records of at least one year of study at a recognised university

with Apostille.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in Colombia, you require a proof of your university entrance exam Examen de Estado para Ingreso a la Educación Superior with Apostille.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in the Republic of Korea, you require a proof of your university entrance exam College Scholastic Ability Test with Apostille.

If you have completed your previous education in Croatia, you will need your Year 4 certificate (Svjedožba).

If you have completed your previous education in Malta, you will need the Matriculation Certificate.

The Austrian embassy or the Austrian consulate require a proof of the University of Vienna, before the over-legalisation can be issued? Proceed as follows:

1. Let your documents be legalised by the ministry of education. 
2. Let the documents that were legalised by the ministry of education be legalised by the ministry of foreign affairs. 
3. Apply for admission to the degree programme with these documents within the application period. You will receive an automatic confirmation, that you have applied for admission at the University of Vienna via e-mail. 
4. Provide this confirmation at the Austrian representation and let your documents be over-legalised. This automatic confirmation is accepted as proof. 
5. A few weeks after your application you will receive an amendment request with a deadline for submission (as the over-legalisaiton by the Austrian representation was missing in your original submission).
6. Submit the documents with the full diplomatic certification within the deadline. 
7. Wait for your admission letter. 

If you have completed your previous education in North Macedonia, you will need your Year 4 certificate.

Please read the information about the required CGPA and competence check.

If you have recieved the International Baccalaureate ("IB Diploma"), you must meet the following requirements:

• at least 24 points (admission is not possible with an IB Certificate)
• at least six examination subjects including 
  • a foreign language (this may be German)
  • Mathematics
• at least three of the subjects have to be completed at "Higher Level" 

The subject German in your IB Diploma can only be accepted as proof German language proficiency at level A2. This does not replace the required proof of German language proficiency at level C1. Therefore you must provide a proof of German language proficiency at level C1, before you can be admitted to the degree programme. 

Please note: The issuing country for the IB Diploma is always Switzerland, regardless of which country you attended school in.

If you have completed your previous education in Serbia, you will need your Year 4 certificate (Svedožba).

If you have completed your previous education in Spain, you will need the Prueba de Acceso a la Universidad.

If you have completed your secondary-school leaving certificate in Türkiye, you require a proof of your university entrance exam ÖSYS (applies to Turkish citizens) with Apostille or university entrance exam YÖS (applies to citizens of other countries than Türkiye) with Apostille.

If you have a Ukrainan secondary-school leaving certificate and are applying for admission to a bachelor’s or diploma programme, you will need the NMT (National Multi-Subject Test) with Apostille:

• a minimum of 100 points required in each section
• validity: 4 years
• applies to diplomas awarded starting in the 2021/22 school year
• must be completed in at least 4 subjects

If you receive the General Certificate of Education (GCE/"A-Levels"), you have to fulfil the following requirements: 

• Four general subjects that are independent from one another have to be completed with grade A*, A, B or C (respectively grades 9 - 4). These subjects must include: 
  • a foreign language
  • Mathematics
  • one of the subjects Biology, Physics or Chemistry
  • a subject of the Humanities
• At least three of the four subjects have to be completed at the GCE Advanced level, the fourth subjects at the level of GCSE or IGCSE.
• The Advanced Supplementary Level (AS) is to be equatable with the level of the GCSE under the aforementioned conditions. 

An A-Level in the subject German, can only be accepted as proof German language proficiency at level A2. This does not replace the required proof of German language proficiency at level C1. Therefore you must provide a proof of German language proficiency at level C1, before you can be admitted to the degree programme. 

Please note: The issuing country for the GCE is always the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, regardless of which country you attended school in. If your school is not located in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the legalisation requirements of the country in which the school is situated apply.

If you have results from an academic aptitude test (SAT, ACT or AP), please ensure you upload these together with your high school diploma (combined into a single PDF document).

Legalisation: Is your school not located in the USA? If so, your documents must be legalised in accordance with the legalisation regulations of the country in which the school is situated.

If you have completed your previous education in the Republic of Cyprus, you will need the Deltio Apotelesmaton Ypopsifiou (Pan-Cypriot Examinations).

If you have completed your previous education in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, you will need to provide evidence of the ÖSYS university entrance examination.

No, this is not possible. You have to fulfil the formal requirements. This means that you must provide all required documents in your application for admission to the degree programme. Only apply for admission, if you fulfil all requirements and if you have all required documents. 

You can only apply for admission after you have entirely completed your degree programme. You do not have the final documents confirming the completion of your studies yet? The University of Vienna also accepts a confirmation issued by your educational institution about the completion of studies in combination with your final transcripts/diploma supplement, as long as this also contains the legalisation required for your country.

Confirmations that you will complete your degree programme cannot be accepted (only exception: master's programmes with selection procedure). Provisional transcripts cannot be accepted as well.

Unfortunately, this is not possible as which and if any supplementary examinations are prescribed will only be determined individually during the processing of your documents.

Yes, if you have completed a programme with a duration of at least three years or at least 180 ECTS (e.g. a three-year bachelor programme) at a recognised post-secondary educational institution you can use this as proof of your university entrance qualification.

You can find all the relevant information on our website about secondary-school leaving certificates from a school abroad.