Aptitude Assessment

The admission requirements for the Master's programme in Transport Economics are mentioned in § 2 of the aptitude assessment regulations (english version: here). 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 from the fields of business administration, economics and quantitative methods (mathematics, statistics, econometrics, operations research, programming, data analytics), of which:
  • from the field of economics at least 15 credit points, including at least 4 credit points in microeconomics
  • from the Department of Quantitative Methods at least 15 credit points, including at least 4 credit points in Statistics and 4 credit points in the subject group Operations Research, Optimization and Programming
  • at least 15 credit points in Business Administration.
• 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 (english version: here). In accordance with § 4 Para. 2 No. 1, the signed "Form for the aptitude assessment" must be submitted with the other documents.