The selection process
Our Ranking and selection system
Your chances to get selected for the destinations of your choice depend primarily on the overall number of candidates and for which destinations they have also applied. In other words, if the destination you have applied to is a popular choice among the applicants, you will end up competing over it against numerous other applicants.
Our ranking system is conceived to allow a fair competition among the applicants.
In some rare instances we will organize an interview with you if it comes to decide between 2 candidates with similar profiles.
The ranking system is organized around one quantitative part and one qualitive part:
- Quantitative part (grades, academic performance and language skills)
- Qualitative part (statement of motivation, extracurricular activities)
Allocation of the points according to our Ranking System (max. = 220 points)
- Academic Performance 0 – 120 points
- Motivation: 0 - 50 points
- English proficiency: 12 - 25 points
- Local language proficiency (optional): 0 - 25 points
I have submitted my application, what happens next?
Please check the right coloumn under "News" for the actual current notification calendar!
January: we assess all the applications and establish a ranking.
February:
- 1. Week: We will contact the applicants whose 1st choice was granted. You then need to accept of decline the offer within 7 days.
- 3. Week: We will contact the applicants whose 2nd choice was granted. You then need to accept of decline the offer within 7 days.
March:
- 1. Week: We will contact the applicants whose 3rd choice was granted. You then need to accept of decline the offer within 7 days.
- End of the month: we will contact back all applicants via email and inform them about how to proceed next (we will also announce the date of the Information event, which will typically take place after the start of the Spring Semester).
- Starting at the end of March: we will submit the nomination of the selected candidates for the Fall Semester to the respective host institutions.
April - May: The host institutions will get back to the nominees and instruct them how to proceed with registration at their institutions.
June: Erasmus students will receive and sign their “Grant Agreement”.
Please note that the notification calendar may slightly vary from year to year.
June:
- 1. Week: we assess all the applications and establish a ranking.
- 2. Woche: We will contact all applicants. You then need to accept of decline the offer within 7 days.
- Erasmus students will receive and sign their “Grant Agreement”.September: Nominierung aller ausgewählten Bewerber*innen für ihre jeweilige Gastuniversität
October-November: The host institutions will get back to the nominees and instruct them how to proceed with registration at their institutions.