Instructions for the crediting of external achievements

You can apply for recognition of all credits earned outside your degree program at the KU and for recognition of credits earned outside the University.

Fill in source module

1 Select type of [external credit transfer]
2 Details of the university abroad (country, city, university)
3 Select [source modules] that have already been credited at the KU
4 [Module incl. module number]
5 Enter original [grade] or other assessment as originally stated
(e.g. "passed", percentages)
6 Enter [ECTS credits] or credit points
7 [Period in which achievement was completed]
8 [Attach proof of performance]
9 [Attach module description]

Information on filling in the source module

1.1
Select [hochschulische Leistung] (academic achievement) if you wish to request credit transfer for academic achievements from Germany or abroad.
Select [VHB] (Bavarian Virtual University) if you have taken courses for which you have registered via the Bavarian Virtual University platform.
Select [VHB (Vorabprüfung)] (preliminary check) if you are planning to take a Bavarian Virtual University course and would like to know whether the course is creditable at the KU.
Select [außerhochschulische Leistungen] (non-academic achievements) if they were not acquired as part of a university program, for example internships, non-academic vocational training, work experience, language courses, etc.

2.1
If your university is not available for selection, please send a message to mobility-online(at)ku.de and wait for feedback before proceeding with the request.

3.1
All modules from an external institution that have ever been credited at the KU for your chosen degree program are listed here. Please note that the target module has already been defined for these achievements. If you wish to apply for one of these achievements to be credited to another
target module, please contact the central Recognition and Credit Transfer Office.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
If your module is not listed here, click on “–keine–” (none) and enter the module title and module number in the [Modul inkl. Modulnummer] (Module and module number) field.

6.1
Please enter the credits here without conversion, as shown in the official documents (certificate, transcript, etc.).

7.1
If the time frame of the examination performance refers to one day, please enter the same month twice as the start and end date.

8.1
Documents issued by the University regarding completed coursework and examinations, usually a Transcript of Records or confirmation for the Bavarian Virtual University, are considered proof of academic achievement. The Examinations Office is entitled to request original documents if necessary. Please attach the English version of the certificates, if available.

9.1
Please attach relevant documents that allow a comparison of the acquired skills (module descriptions, course descriptions, job descriptions, etc.) and highlight (in color) those skills that you consider to correspond to the competence descriptions of the KU modules to be replaced.

10.1 
You have the option of specifying more than one achievement for crediting to a target module.

Fill in target module

1 All important information of the source module
2 All modules of the selected target degree program are displayed here
3 Additional relevant information for the credit transfer procedure can be added in the [Kommentar] (comments) field
4 Display order for multiple comments
5 Overview of the internal credit transfer request 
6 Submit request

Information on filling in the target module

2.1 
All modules of your degree program are displayed here. If you have already successfully passed one of the target modules at the KU and the module cannot be taken multiple times, no further credits can be recognized for this module.
If provided for in your degree program (see examination regulations of the degree program), you can also select areas such as the elective area at this point.