Country Requirements

 

Germany

Required Documents
  1. Transcript- Official transcript of courses/subjects taken and grades/marks earned.
  2. Degree or Graduation Certificate/Diploma- Official Attested degree or graduation certificate/diploma showing degree conferred and date awarded.
  3. Translation- A certified English translation if your documents are not in English. Translations should be literal (precise word-for-word) not interpretive.
  4. Transcript/Diploma Supplement- Official transcript of courses/subjects taken and grades/marks earned, or diploma supplement.

U.S. Bachelor Equivalency
  1. Bachelor Degree (Bologna)- A Bologna compliant Bachelor's degree of three or more years (180 ECTS credits).
  2. Diplom/Magister/Vordiplom- A University Diplom, Magister Artium, or Vordiplom plus one year of additional study.

PLEASE NOTE
  1. Please Note- Student records, including your transcripts and certification of degree, submitted to the university become the property of the university and cannot be returned to or copied for the student or released to a third party. Please do not send your only original copy of your transcripts/degree certificate. For complete information regarding UCF's Transcript and Evaluation policy, visit our International Applicants page . If you have specific questions about your documents prior to submission, please contact our evaluators at gradevals@ucf.edu


Document requirements, and equivalency information, may vary from institution to institution within a given country.  As a result, we may require additional information depending on the particular institution and educational system.

If documents are written in a language other than English, a certified translation in English must be provided together with the original language records.  Any translated record should be literal and not an interpretive translation.  Acceptable English translations may be provided by sworn court-approved translators, qualified translators working within university foreign language departments, and from reputable translation agencies.

Academic credentials should be mailed to:

UCF College of Graduate Studies
Millican Hall, Room 230
PO Box 160112
Orlando, FL 32816-0112

If sending through FEDEX/UPS: 

UCF College of Graduate Studies
4365 Andromeda Loop N.
Millican Hall, Room 230
Orlando, FL 32816-0112

NOTE: In addition to these requirements, your program may require that applicants submit an outside course-by-course evaluation with GPA calculation. We accept evaluation from World Education Services, Inc., www.wes.org., and Josef Silny and Associates, Inc., www.jsilny.com.

To verify whether or not an outside evaluation is required for your specific program:

  1. Visit UCF's Graduate Application Deadlines and Requirements page at https://graduate.ucf.edu/application-deadlines-and-requirements/ Click on the specific program AND track (if applicable) you are applying to
  2. If an outside evaluation is required, you will see the following statement; "Applicants applying to this program who have attended a college/university outside the United States must provide a course-by-course credential evaluation with GPA calculation. Credential evaluations are accepted from World Education Services (WES) or Josef Silny and Associates, Inc. only."

If you have any questions, please contact us at gradevals@ucf.edu.