Curriculum Analysis
For general information on the aptitude procedures for Master's programmes at the TUM School of Life Sciences, please click here.
To request your curricular analysis, please go to your desired degree programme in the navigation bar on the left.
Important information
Application number: Before you start with the curricular analysis, please first create an applicant account in our campus management system TUMonline. After you have successfully created this account, you will be assigned an applicant number. This always starts with 1- followed by an eight-digit number sequence (1-00XXXX). You will need the application number to identify your Curricular Analysis.
Saving and submitting the Curricular Analysis: Each subject group must be saved individually after editing, otherwise the entries will be lost! When you have finished, please check to see that all your entries are correct and complete and then send the form ONLINE. Then upload a pdf version to your TUMonline account.
++ Your application will only be processed if all required application documents have been received in the Campus Management System TUMonline by the deadline. Applications with incomplete application documents will be excluded from the selection process. ++
The curricular analysis is an overview of the core scientific competences you have acquired in your previous studies.
In accordance with Annex 2 of the Examination and Study Regulations for the Master's degree programme, the committee uses the curricular analysis to assess your suitability for the Master's degree programme you have chosen. This assessment is based on the core competences of the corresponding Bachelor's degree programmes at the TUM School of Life Sciences.
After registering for the programme-specific curricular analysis, you will automatically receive an e-mail with a code that you can use to start the curricular analysis.
You can find your application number in your TUMonline account.
To do this, call up the "Applications" section of your business card in TUMonlin. You will be taken to a page with an overview of your applications, where you will see your application number at the top.
The applicant and application numbers are only generated when an online application is submitted. You can then enter these numbers in all documents if they are required. You can then upload the documents in your application. The documents can be submitted after the application has been sent until the end of the application deadline. Please use the application status in TUMonline.
Application - Status
Applicant number: 2-01XXXXXX
Application number: 1-00XXXXXX
Master of Science programme: I XXX
Start of studies: Winter semester 20xx/xx
The 'European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System' is an academic system of credit points and is based on the estimated workload that students need to achieve the objectives and learning outcomes of a module or degree programme.
At the Technical University of Munich (TUM), 60 ECTS credits earned correspond to one academic year (2 semesters).
A three-year Bachelor's degree programme therefore usually comprises 180 ECTS, a two-year Master's degree programme therefore 120 ECTS.
One ECTS corresponds to 30 hours of work.
Credits (also credit hours, units) earned at a foreign university are converted into ECTS using a conversion factor according to the formula.
F: Conversion factor
60: are the 60 ECTS that must be earned on average per academic year at TUM.
C: stands for the total number of credits of the external study programme
J: is the length of the external study programme in years.
If the grading systems of the grades achieved at universities or equivalent institutions of higher education do not correspond to the grading system of the Technical University of Munich, the grades are converted according to the so-called modified Bavarian formula (see APSO §16 (6)). This formula is: maximum grade minus achieved grade, divided by maximum grade minus lowest pass grade. The result is multiplied by three and 1 is added.
You can find a tool for converting grades according to the Bavarian formula here:
If your grades are not available as numbers, you can assign a number to each grading level for the conversion.
An example: A grading system grades performances with A+, A, B, C, D and E (fail). A+ is the best grade and D is the worst grade with which a performance can still be passed. In this case, you can assign ascending numerical values from 1 to the grading system for the conversion:
- A+ corresponds to 1
- A corresponds to 2
- B corresponds to 3
- C corresponds to 4
- D corresponds to 5
- E corresponds to 6
Then enter 1 (corresponding to A+) as the "Best grade" at your university and 5 (corresponding to D) as the "Lowest passing grade". If you then enter the value that corresponds to your performance in the original numerical system as "Your current overall grade", you will receive your grade in the German grading system.
In this case, please calculate your student workload for the relevant modules.
The student workload is the amount of work that students have to do for their degree programme. At the TU Munich, one ECTS is awarded for a workload of 30 hours (1 ECTS = 30 working hours). A full-time academic year with 60 ECTS therefore comprises 1800 hours.
The workload is calculated from the attendance time in the courses and the self-study time for a module.
For all Master's degree programmes of the TUM School of Life Sciences (except MSc. Engineering Ecology and MSc. Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning), you may list all achievements that you have completed in your previous studies, including Master's degree programmes, provided that you can prove your grades and credits by means of a transcript of records and have uploaded them to the applicant portal.
In this case, please mark the modules accordingly when registering (e.g. Module X (M.Sc.); Module Y (B.Sc.)
For the Master's degree programmes in Engineering Ecology and Nature Conservation and Landscape Planning, please only list achievements from your basic Bachelor's degree programme.
If you have taken "combination modules" such as "Fundamentals of Biochemistry and Cell Biology" with 5 credits in your degree programme, you can enter the module in several categories (category Biochemistry and category Cell Biology), but must then split the credits according to the categories (e.g. 3 credits for Biochemistry and 2 credits for Cell Biology).