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  • English
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  • 31 Mar
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About the programme

The Master IT-Engineering (MSc) at FH Wedel is a full-time, application-oriented programme taught in English, with a standard period of study of three semesters and 25 first-year places a year. Studies begin on 1 October in the winter semester or 1 April in the summer semester. You choose a focus of study in either IT Systems and Security or Smart Manufacturing. The page highlights job prospects in the Hamburg Metropolitan Area, home to Europe's second busiest seaport and companies such as Airbus, Hapag-Lloyd, Philips and Lufthansa. Engineers with IT skills are sought in the automotive sector, aerospace, medical engineering, automation and many other fields of technological production. Graduates can choose to work on large technological objects such as ships or on small devices such as mobile phones.

Fields of study

General Engineering(Engineering)
Computer Science(Computer Science & IT)

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Requirements

What you need to apply for IT Engineering (MSc) at University of Applied Sciences Wedel (FH Wedel)

English language

IELTS Overall
6.5/ 9.0
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For all English-language study programs, you will require level B2 English in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages ​​(CEFR), but no knowledge of German.

German language

Maximum German grade(lower is better)
2.5

Academic requirements

Completed Bachelor's degree
Required
Minimum ECTS credits
210

ECTS are study credits. One year of full-time study is about 60 ECTS.

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Required

1.your studies need to have included at least 80 credits’ worth of mathematics, information technology, science, and/or engineering. If your bachelor's programme did not contain modules of this kind and value, you cannot be admitted to our IT Engineering master's programme.

2. bachelor's degrees with 180 ECTS credits the only other requirement is that your studies have included at least 10 credits in mathematics, and 5 credits in software development lab courses. Any further necessary adaptation to our master's programme will be accomplished by the additional bachelor modules of our four-semester-curriculum

3.Your studies need to have included mathematics worth at least 20 ECTS credits, encompassing at least 5 credits in engineering mathematics and at least 5 credits in discrete mathematics. You cannot make up for engineering mathematics via our bachelor modules, unless you are sufficiently proficient in German to partake in our German modules. You can make up for discrete mathematics by taking our English bachelor modules. Five additional credits can be made up by taking our Signals & Systems module.

4.You also need to have passed basic software development modules worth at least 10 ECTS credits. These modules have to be made up of laboratory courses, not lectures. If your programming modules have been valued at less than 5 credits, there is no way for you to be admitted to the IT Engineering programme. By partaking in our Programming 2 module, you may make up for 5 credits.

5.You have to provide advanced knowledge in at least one of the object-oriented programming languages Java or C++. This knowledge will be examined in an entry assignment at the beginning of your first semester. You may partake in our module Advanced Object-Oriented Programming to gain this knowledge.

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Tests and documents

Statement of Purpose (SOP)
Required
Curriculum Vitae (CV)
Required
Letters of Recommendation
Required
GRE
Not required
GMAT
Not required
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APS verification

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APS checks your degree papers. You need it if your degree is from India, China or Vietnam.

Prerequisites

1.The immediate admission criterion for the master's programme IT Engineering is a bachelor's degree from a programme in a related field with a GPA of 2.5 or better. Applicants should have obtained 210 ECTS credits which is an equivalent of 7 semesters of full studies.

2.If you, according to these rules, need additional modules, you will most likely need at least 4 semesters, as our three-semester-curriculum is very tight and requires the above-mentioned prerequisites.

Documents checklist

What to prepare for your application to IT Engineering (MSc)

Programme-specific documents

1.Application form

2.Passport Certificates

3. Bachelor Degree Certificate/Provisional Degree Certificate

4.Bachelor Degree Transcripts

5. Bachelor Degree Grading System Certificate

6.Secondary School Certificates(10+12)

7.SOP

8. LOR's

9.CV

10. ECTS Form(if any)

or

1.The registration form and the fully signed contract conditions

2.The VPD for your course of studies at FH Wedel

3.Proof of payment of the registration fee

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How to apply

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Application quick facts

APS

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Application fee

0 EUR

Complexity

Medium

Address

Prof Dr Sebastian Iwanowski, Feldstraße 143, 22880 Wedel (Holstein)

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Costs

Tuition

Over 1,500 EUR

per semester

Semester contribution

N/A

per semester

Application fee

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per application

Estimated year-1 total cost

14,904 – 23,904 EUR

Includes tuition, semester contribution, and estimated living costs. Range accounts for lifestyle differences.

Additional fee information

EUR 2,430.00

523 EUR/month (Non-EU citizens) and 440 EUR/month (EU-citizens) plus transport pass

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Admission outcomes

Community-reported data from MS in Germany students (2018-2025)

Acceptance rate

100%

1 accepted out of 1 total applications

Grade distributionGerman scale (1.0 = best, 4.0 = passing)

AdmittedRejected
1.02.03.04.0

Based on 1 applications from MS in Germany students 2018-2025.

Based on 1 applications from MS in Germany students 2018-2025.

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