Calculation of Credits and Grades
For your master's application, you need the "curricular analysis" with 140 ECTS credits from your undergraduate studies – 118 of those are your best-graded modules and count towards your application grade. All information as well as the form for calculating your application grade are available below.
Credits
ECTS Credits
The "European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System" is an academic credit system based on the estimated student workload required to achieve the objectives and learning outcomes of a module or program of study. The ECTS is the recommended credit system for higher education across the European Higher Education Area.
The ECTS weighting for a module is a measure of the student input or workload required for that module, based on factors such as the number of contact hours, the number and length of written or verbally presented assessment exercises, class preparation and private study time, laboratory classes, examinations, clinical attendance, professional training placements, and so on.
Meaning at TUM
Typically, one academic year corresponds to 60 ECTS credits. A three-year bachelor's program therefore usually consists of 180 ECTS credits, a two-year master's program of 120 ECTS credits.
One ECTS credit point equals an average of 30 working hours. Per semester (about 15 weeks of lectures/courses), the intended number of ECTS credits is 30, meaning 60 ECTS credits per year. But no student is average: You might spend much more time on a course you are not so familiar with, and maybe less on another course which is exactly in your field of interest and expertise.
Form for grade calculation (curricular analysis)
Please download and fill out the form. Then save it as a PDF file and upload the file to TUMonline.
Frequent issues with the curricular analysis form
If you are receiving error messages when filling out the form or if the form that you uploaded to your application was rejected, please download and read our document on frequent issues with the curricular analysis carefully. Most common mistakes are explained there.