Glo­bal Po­li­ti­cal Eco­no­my and De­ve­l­o­pe­ment (Master)

If you are interested in a preliminary assessment of your documents or if you need a letter of preliminary suitability, please send all required documents (see step 2, application) in pdf format to [email protected]

Your documents will be checked and you will receive feedback by the program's coordinators via email.

Step 2: Ap­p­li­ca­ti­on

For your application to be considered by the Admission Board of the department Global Political Economy please proceed as follows:

Visit the website of uni-assist and register as applicant.

Fill in and upload the application form on the website of uni-assist.

Print out and sign the application form and send it to uni-assist attaching the following documents:

Statement of objectives/Motivation letter for studying GPE (in English)

covering at minimum your academic background in the field, your career plans, your social-political experience and your interest in global political economy (3 pages max.);

Proof of one year of voluntary or paid practical social-political work (for example, in party politics, university politics or policy-oriented civil society organizations). You can prove your practical social-political work experience for example by submitting a certificate of participation in a project of a social-political organization or a formal letter from your (former or current) employer or supervisor that specifies the duration of your work and your duties.

Curriculum Vitae;

All certificates proving the required command of the English language;

Official authentications of the following documents

Your certificates of studies and completion of studies listing all subjects and grades in the original language;

Your secondary school leaving certificate in its original language, including a listing of all subjects and grades;

Your university entrance examination certificate listing all subjects and grades in its original language;

Translation of your documents, if the language of the mentioned certificates is not German or English. You are advised to contact the embassy or consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany on this matter.

Applicants from China, Mongolia and Vietnam have to provide a successful APS test for their application to be considered.

Information on standard official authentication is available here.

Incomplete applications will not be considered. Therefore, make sure to hand in all of the above mentioned documents on time to uni-assist.

Pay the application fee to uni-assist. Detailed information on how to transfer the application fee are available here: www.uni-assist.de/fees-payment.html.

Follow up the communication with uni-assist. To avoid that emails are deleted, add uni-assist to your mail account and check your spam folder.

Forward all uni-assist emails to the GPE coordinator ([email protected]), so assistance can be provided if needed.

Your application will not be processed until you have handed in all required documents and have paid the application fee. The sooner you apply, the sooner your application will be processed.

You will have to cover the application fee even if your application does not meet the requirements set out. We offer a preliminary assessment of application documents in order to establish if there is a chance that an application will be rejected. However, this assessment is not legally binding. Your application will still be evaluated by uni-assist and the University of Kassel.

uni-assist checks whether you meet the formal requirements for admission to study at the University of Kassel. You will receive the result after about 4-6 weeks by e-mail and by post. If the formal requirements are met, your data will be forwarded to the University of Kassel.

If you do not meet the formal requirements for admission, your documents will not be forwarded to the University of Kassel.

Procedure when the documents are available at the University of Kassel

The application will first be formally examined: Have all documents been submitted? Are the formal requirements met?

Upon completion of the formal examination, the application is forwarded to the examination board of your chosen degree programme.

In the next step, the examination board checks whether the substantive requirements for admission are also met. The examination board decides on the equivalence of the subject matter, the acknowledgement of previous performance, it decides on admission and rejection and, if necessary, imposes conditions regarding content.

The examination board reports the result back to the Master's Office digitally.

Should it be discovered in the course of the procedure that documents are missing, the applicants will be informed of this by email. The email will state the deadline for submission.

Depending on the Master's programme, it may take up to six weeks before you receive the result. Please refrain from making any enquiries during this period.