International Applicants

Do you want to apply for a full-time course at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich? You can find information about the different subjects and their requirements here.

Please find general information about the study options at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich here.

 

Application

Please hand in your application using the online application system. Click here for further information.

 

Dates and deadlines

Registration deadlines for the entrance examination:

Master Programme Opera Performance:

Bachelor's and Master's Programmes, Excellence in Performance (postgraduate programme), „Meisterklasse" Certificate:        

Master Programme Digital Communication in the Music and Entertainment Industry, Cultural and Music Management:

Study Programmes for Teaching at Primary, Intermediate, Secondary, and Grammar Schools:

12 March               

12 March



31 May 




12 March



Dates for entrance examinations:

Master Programme Opera Performance:

Bachelor's and Master's Programmes, Excellence in
Performance (postgraduate programme), „Meisterklasse" Certificate:        


Master Programme Digital Communication in the Music and Entertainment Industry

Master Programme Cultural and Music Management:


Study Programmes for Teaching at Primary, Intermediate,
Secondary, and Grammar Schools:

May


June

TBA

TBA


July

You can find the registration deadline and dates for Study Programmes at the Ballet Academy here.

Information on the Study Programmes Lighting Design, Wig, Make-up and Special Make-up Effects for Stage and Screen, Musical, Voice (Opera/Music Theatre) Directing and Acting can be obtained directly from the Theaterakademie August Everding.

 


To register for the entrance examination, each applicant must pay a fee of 50 €. With simultaneous applications for several Study Programmes, for each further application a fee of 10 € is due. The fee is due with registration for the entrance examination. Please show that payment has been made when submitting the application form by including a bank statement or paying-in slip. If the payment cannot be proven, it will not be possible to take part in the entrance examination. The fee is not refundable. This also applies if the application is withdrawn.

Bank account details:

Addressee/Recipient: Staatsoberkasse Bayern
IBAN: DE63 7005 0000 3501 1903 15
Swift/BIC: BYLADEMM

Reference: last name, first name, study programme


Information on foreign certificates, leaving certificates and language certificates

1. Foreign certificates
Foreign certificates relating to previous adacemic qualifications and examinations will only be accepted in German translation (exception: certificates in English do not have to be translated). The translation must be made by a publicly appointed and sworn interpreter/translator in the relevant language and be authenticated.


2. Leaving certificates
Please note that leaving certificates must be presented on the day of enrolment in an officially authenticated copy1.

Foreign certificates/documents will only be accepted in German translation (exception: certificates in English do not have to be translated). The translation must be made by a publicly appointed and sworn interpreter/translator in the relevant language and be authenticated.


3. Language certificates (proof of German language skills)

Foreign applicants from non-German-speaking countries and Germans whose native language is not German must prove that they have the necessary knowledge of German to be accepted for the programme. Only language certificates from recognised educational institutions will be accepted.

Click here for list of all accepted language certificates

Language certificates must be presented on the day of enrolment in an officially authenticated copy1. Foreign language certificates will only be accepted in German translation (exception: certificates in English do not have to be translated); the translation must be made by a publicly appointed and sworn interpreter/translator in the relevant language and be authenticated.

Click here for overview of necessary German language skills

With TestDaF certificates the relevant level is required in all four skills. If the requisite level has not been achieved in one or more of the skills, the test will not be accepted. Exception: A TestDaF passed with at least the result TDN 4 in all modules of the test is regarded as evidence of linguistic aptitude for unconditional admission or enrolment in all Study Programmes and degrees.

Foreign applicants from non-German-speaking countries and Germans whose native language is not German will not be enrolled without one of the language certificates listed above.


1 Official authentications can be issued by authorities and notaries who are entitled to issue an official stamp (i.e. the authority issuing the document, city or municipal administration, residents' registration office, etc.). Copies of previously officially certified copies are not valid as proof.


Contact

For questions regarding the entrance examination, please go to the website containing further information on the study programme you are interested in. At the bottom of the page, you can find the person in charge.

Click here for list of all study programmes.