You can apply to study abroad for a semester once you have studied for one academic year. Various formal examination regulations also apply at Kempten University of Applied Sciences, or possibly language requirements, depending on your degree programme. You can certainly already apply to study abroad for a semester before meeting these requirements, as long as you are likely to do so by the end of the current examination period or before setting off.
Formal examination requirements:
If you are studying for a bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Business Administration, you can already apply to get accepted for a semester abroad as soon as you have earned 45 ECTS on the foundation course.
If you are studying for a bachelor’s degree in the Faculty of Social and Health Studies, you can already study abroad in your third semester, irrespective of your ECTS Credit Points.
Language requirements:
Lectures conducted in English | Lectures conducted in Spanish or French | |
Business Administration | Passes in English I and II | No specifications |
International Management | Passes in English I and II | No specifications |
Tourism Management | Passes in English I and II | Passes in Spanish / French I, II and III |
There are no specifications for any other bachelor’s degree programmes.
There are no specific restrictions to when you can study abroad. However, we recommend discussing the optimum timing with your degree programme coordinator, particularly if you wish to spend the first semester of your master’s programme abroad.
Kempten University of Applied Sciences doesn’t stipulate any specific language proficiency requirements for any master’s students going to study at a host university abroad.
As soon as you have been offered an exchange placement by the International Office, you must provide evidence of the level of language proficiency required by the host university . You can find this information in the info sheet on your chosen partner university (see the search engine).
To gauge your language proficiency level according to the CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages):
Language module at Kempten University of Applied Sciences | English | French | Spanish |
III | B2 | A2 | A2 |
IV | C1.1 | B1.1 | B1.1 |
V | C1.2 | B1.2 / B2* | B1.2 / B2* |
*Depending on the semester, due to varying number of hours per week, group size, level of proficiency.
English Level B2 can generally also simply be demonstrated with an “Abitur” (or subject-specific “Fachabitur”) certificate .
“Intercultural Communications and Language II” for the degree programme in International Management also corresponds with English Level B2.
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