Study Architecture (Diplom) ✔ TU Dresden

Important information

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Admission requirements

A prerequisite for application is the general high-school graduation certificate (Abitur) or a comparable qualification for admission to higher education.

NC (numerus clausus) selection

General information regarding NC selection procedures can be found here.
A short version regarding the NC selection procedure in English can be found here.

German language requirements

International applicants and German applicants with a foreign university entrance qualification are kindly advised to read the requirements for German-language courses.

Information on Studienkolleg

Applicants with foreign higher education entrance qualifications that do not allow immediate admission to a university in Germany, can attend a Studienkolleg (preparatory college) to acquire the subject-specific university entrance qualification. Please find further information on the Studienkolleg pages.
This degree program relates to the following specialized course at the Studienkolleg:
T-course

Application hints and tips

This degree program participates in the Dialogorientiertes Serviceverfahren (DoSV) – an initiative organized to aid communication between universities and applicants in cases where prospective students apply for multiple degree programs at multiple universities. This means that applicants from Germany and the rest of the EU must have an applicant ID (BID) and an authentication number (BAN) issued to them from Hochschulstart prior to submitting their application to TU Dresden.

General information for the degree programme

The degree program in architecture conveys knowledge, skills and abilities for the design and project planning of buildings and structural facilities as well as for urban planning. Optionally, you can study special building planning (residential buildings, public buildings, commercial buildings, social and health buildings and interior design) or urban and spatial planning, special principles and methods of monument preservation as well as other specialist areas. Especially noteworthy is the close interconnection with the Landscape Architecture degree program. The complexity and balance of theoretical, artistic, technical and ecological components within the educational process is a typical feature of the Dresden diplom program.

Applicants are expected to have a good general education, an interest in artistic design, powers of observation, spatial imagination, creativity and technical skills.

The Student Information and Counselling Service of the Faculty of Architecture provides the opportunity to conduct an aptitude test during an interview.

Study contents

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Professional field

The degree program qualifies students to work as architects. The qualifications gained enable graduates to pursue independent practice in architecture and urban planning, to work on research projects, or to work in architectural and planning offices, public administration, construction and planning departments of companies, teaching and research at universities, universities of applied sciences, the construction industry, architectural publishing, and other design disciplines, according to the relevant requirements and admission conditions of the chambers of architects.

Priority areas of employment for graduates of the Architecture degree program are private planning and architectural offices as well as planning and structural engineering offices at the federal, state and municipal levels. The qualifications meet the requirements of the European Union as well as the regulations of UNESCO/UIA, which means that graduates can work in architectural practice in the EU and worldwide.