Your Master’s Program in Hamburg

First, please make sure that you meet the admission requirements for the Master’s program in Economics.

When uploading your documents to the application portal, please note the following points:

• For documents not issued in German or English, a certified translation is required.
• Degree certificate or provisional Transcript of Records: 
  • Please highlight the courses, which are manadatory for admission.
  • If you are still studying when you apply and cannot yet provide a final certificate listing your grades, please submit your current Transcript of Records confirming your provisional grade point average. You will then need to submit your degree certificate by the end of the first semester of your master’s program. 
  • Please make sure, that the grading scale of your first degree is available on your degree certificate or the current Transcript of Records. If the grading scale is not clear on these documents, please submit another proof of the grading scale of your first degree. 
• Proof of English language proficiency:
  Applicants who, at the time of their application, are not able to attest their English language proficiency as listed at the admission requirements, must provide a proof of their registration for the next possible test date (e.g., print-out of the online registration). In this case, the deadline for late-submission of the test results will be postponed until 31 May. For late submission, use this link.
• GRE revised General Test or GRE Subject Test Mathematics results (if applicable)
• Letter of motivation (500 words max., in English)
• At least one letter of recommendation from a university lecturer in your first degree program. In general, the letter of recommendation should be drafted by someone who is able to comment on your academic abilities and competencies. Students upload the letters of recommendation as part of their application documents at the application portal. Lecturers, who want to upload their letters confidentially, can submit it at our website.
  
  • International letter of recommendations: The referee must be be a lecturer (at least PhD level) who teaches full-time at your (or another) university. Emeritus professors are also eligible to write a letter of recommendation. Please note that we do not accept references from postdocs/research fellows.
  • German letter of recommendations: The referee must be a (junior) professor. Emeritus professors are also eligible, but emeriti from other status groups are not. Recommendation letters from employees with a doctorate who are permanently employed at the WiSo faculty of Universität Hamburg for teaching and who are not active in research (e.g. postdocs) are eligible, too. 

Once your application has been reviewed, an acceptance or rejection letter will be made available in your STiNE account at the selection "Dokumente" (Documents). Please see the information about the declaration of results and end of acceptance period. An enrollment deadline will be indicated in your acceptance letter - please submit the documents required for enrollment by this date. Detailed information about the enrollment process can be found at the website of the Campus Center.

If you have been admitted, please submit the paper documents required for enrollment to the Application and Admissions Team (Team Bewerbung und Zulassung) by the deadline indicated in your acceptance letter.

All Information about the program is available on the MSc Economics website.

For queries regarding questions in the application portal please contact the Campus Center of the University of Hamburg.

If you have technical problems (e.g. your username or password, etc.) with the online application form, please contact the STiNE support.

For all other questions regarding your application, please check the FAQ section and/or contact the MSc Economics application team(application-econ"AT"wiso.uni-hamburg.de).