Architecture, Auto-created Degree dipling
The architecture course provides knowledge, skills and abilities for the design and planning of buildings and structures as well as for urban planning. In-depth studies can optionally be carried out on special building planning (residential buildings, public buildings, commercial buildings, social and health buildings and interior design) or on urban and spatial planning, on special principles and methods of monument preservation and in other special areas. The close connection with the landscape architecture course should also be emphasized. The complexity and balance of the theoretical, artistic, technical and ecological components within the training process is a typical feature of the Dresden diploma course.
Programme facts
| Degree | Auto-created Degree dipling |
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| Duration | 11 semesters, 330 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time, Part-Time, Double Degree |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | Admission restriction (NC): a competition of school grades |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €338 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
The programme has an admission restriction: the average grade of your certificate, converted to the German scale, decides. The cut-off changes every year — last year's value shows the order of magnitude, not a promise.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
The course is divided into a two-semester orientation year, a five-semester basic course (including internship semester), a three-semester main course and the diploma semester.
The orientation year serves to convey basic specialist areas of architecture, both in the fields of design and art, as well as construction / technical areas. Essential knowledge and elementary skills for professional activity are conveyed. The orientation year is intended to give students the opportunity to review their decision to study.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
The course enables you to work as an architect. With the qualifications obtained, graduates can, in accordance with the relevant requirements and admission requirements of the Chamber of Architects, exercise an independent practice in architecture and urban planning, work on research projects, or in architecture and planning offices, public administration, construction and planning departments of companies, teaching and research at universities, Universities of applied sciences, the construction industry, architectural journalism and other creative disciplines. Primary areas of application for graduates of the architecture course are private planning and architecture offices, planning and building construction offices at federal, state and municipal level as well as state offices for monument preservation and monument protection authorities.
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €338 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | In terms of technical requirements, in addition to a good general education, applicants should have an interest in artistic design, observation, spatial imagination, creativity and technical understanding. |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application via uni-assist until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.