In 2017, in my Daughter's school, a German language course was introduced as a hobby language. The Goethe Zentrum had partnered with some CBSE schools in Trivandrum and initiated a program, which was held after school, twice a week for 1.5 hours. We encourage our daughter to take up the course. Thanks to the very well-designed course, activity-based sessions, and very talented Teacher Raji Mam, my daughter loved the course and language. She started learning German in class 7 and continued it until class 11, when she cleared the B1 level, which was the maximum level to achieve in the "Jugendliche" category. By that time, we had started thinking about the possibilities of studying in German universities.
2025, she completed her Graduation from MCC Madras University with 83% (Chemistry, Biochemistry, Maths). She had shortlisted around 6-8 German Public universities for PG in Chemistry. She got all her documents in place APS certificate, Provisional certificates. IELTS scores, Proper internships done in all 3 years of her graduation. A few universities she had to apply directly, and few through Uni-assist. Through Uni-assist she got the first mail stating that she meets all the required parameters and is eligible to apply to courses of her choice at the Universities.
One of the universities she had applied to directly rejected her application, stating she does not have the required Credit points for MSc Chemistry. We thought, that's one of the highly in-demand Technical University so probably their credit cut-offs are high. But the same thing happened with all the other Universities, 3 of them asked for the detailed Course structure of the Madras University BSc Chemistry course (Number of hours per paper, subtopics, list of all the Lab experiments done in 3 years) and very politely informed that for certain papers in the Madras University course, did not have the required credit points.
While applying for the course, none of the Universities has given the details of what the minimum credit score/point required to apply. Now, Madras University BSc Chemistry course's total credit score is 150 and one needs 140 credit points to attain a Degree. 4 out of 6 German Universities applied 150 Credit score, which is not enough to pursue MSc Chemistry. And nowhere could I find information on the minimum credit score required in these universities.
And then I asked one of the "Study Abroad " companies about the Credit score required. They took 24 hours to get back to me with the information. They said 180-210 score is required in Public Universities!
So folks, please check the Total credit scores of your course, check the minimum credit required to pursue the course of your choice and then apply . Please note that my daughter's experience through the process had been very good, even though she got rejections. All her doubts and concerns were promptly answered with details of what information University wanted. She was given enough heads-up to submit the documents they were asking for to check the course and credit structure.
It was almost 4 years of planning, preparing and wanting to do PG in Germany that got crushed, but there is nothing much we can complain about, except for the point that universities can clearly mention about the credit points and course structure they are looking for on their course page.
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