Convert credits to the ECTS system
Map your home-system credits, hours, or units onto Europe's standard ECTS scale, used by every German university.
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How this works
- Describe your degree
- Enter your credits or lecture hours
- See your ECTS total
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Common questions
There is no universal official ratio. The ECTS baseline is 60 credits for one full academic year. A university can compare the full-time annual credit load and the documented workload, then apply its own recognition rules. Use the target university's published method when it provides one.
It depends on the program. A 3-year Indian Bachelor does not automatically count as 180 ECTS: each German university converts Indian credits with its own method, and a 3-year degree often lands at about 140 to 160 ECTS. The university also checks whether the degree and institution are recognised and whether the subject content matches. Programs whose own admission pages say "three years" or "six semesters" in words are the safe picks; where a program only says "at least 180 ECTS", ask it in writing before you apply, and check your anabin record.
One ECTS represents 25 to 30 hours of student workload, including lectures, lab sessions, self-study, group projects, and exam preparation. A typical full-time semester carries 30 ECTS, equating to roughly 750 to 900 hours of work, or about 40 hours per week across a 20-week semester (lectures plus exam period).
They can recognise non-European study, but the conversion is decided by the university or faculty. The ECTS reference is 60 credits for one full academic year. For individual course recognition, the university can also compare learning outcomes and workload.
Yes. German universities use Leistungspunkte (LP) and Credit Points (CP) interchangeably with ECTS; one LP equals one ECTS, one CP equals one ECTS. The Bologna Process harmonised them in 2003. Some older German programmes still print "Semesterwochenstunden" (SWS) on transcripts; SWS is not equivalent to ECTS, since SWS counts only contact hours, not total workload.