Aptitude Assessment

The admission requirements for the Master's programme in Transport Economics are mentioned in § 2 of the aptitude assessment regulations. According to § 2 No. 2, proof of special aptitude for the degree programme must be provided in accordance with § 5. This proof includes:

•  Acquisition of at least 60 ECTS credits with no overlapping content from the subject areas of business administration (BWL), economics (VWL) and quantitative methods (mathematics, statistics, econometrics, operations research, programming, data analytics).
  • at least 15 ECTS per subject area with no overlapping content, as well as
  • 15 non-overlapping ECTS in any combination from the subject areas business administration, economics and quantitative methods
• If there is a total of more than 30 non-overlapping ECTS in quantitative methods, it can be reduced to the same extent:
  •   the required ECTS for business administration by up to 10 ECTS and
  •  the required ECTS for economics by up to 5 ECTS

The admission committee checks the evidence of particular aptitude on the basis of the documents enclosed with the application. The documents to be submitted are described in detail in § 4 Para. 2 No. 1of the aptitude assessment regulations. Please inform yourself. In accordance with § 4 Para. 2 No. 1, the signed "Form for the aptitude assessment" must be submitted with the other documents.