How to apply

Admission requirements

1. Applicants require a completed university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in a health-related discipline such as:

• Health science
• Medicine
• Pharmacy
• Natural sciences
• Nutritional science
• Psychology
• Social sciences
• Statistics
• Sports science
• Physical therapy
• Economics or Business administration
• Law
• Communication science

...or another health science-related discipline.

2. Good knowledge of mathematics and statistics

3. Advanced competency in English

4. Passed entry test (in English)

Application Process/Required Information and Documents

Applications are possible via our online application portal. It opens on 1 April and closes on 15 May each year. Please mind this deadline!

The entrance examination (aptitude test) consists of a written and an oral part. The entrance examination for the winter semester 2025/26 is taking place on:

May 28, 2025, 11:00-12:30 Lecture Hall, München-Großhadern (written part).

For applicants living abroad submission of GRE score will be accepted instead

June 23-27, 2025 (oral part) The oral admission interviews will be held online in Zoom.

The following documents must be uploaded / the following information entered directly on our online application tool APTE during the application period between 1 April and 15 May each year:

Proof of your Studies:

• Certificate of the bachelor’s degree with a proof of the average grade and explanation of the grading scale together with evidence of the minimum pass-grade required as well as the maximum possible grade in the subject concerned. Please note that we have to reject applications without a proof of average grade which is ≤ 2.5 according to the German grading system certified by your examination office!
• Transcripts of records of the courses you have attended.
• If your documents are not in German or English an official translation has to be additionally provided.
• If you have not yet finished your bachelor’s studies at the time of your application, please provide an official transcript of all examination results to date, and an overall weighted average grade. In case of admission you will receive a conditional acceptance offer as long as your final grade is pending. Please note that at the time of your application you must have completed at least 75 % of the requirements of your bachelor's curriculum (in the case of a 180 ECTS course, this would be 135 ECTS points).

Completed Application Form:

• Please fill in the required information including a short description of your motivation in the space provided on the application tool (not longer than 1000 characters) describing your goals in pursuing graduate studies and completing the master’s programme in Epidemiology at LMU Munich.

Curriculum Vitae:

• Please upload your up-to-date CV in English on our online application tool.

GRE General Test Score (optional):

• In case you are unable to attend the written test of admission at LMU in Munich in May each year you have to provide a GRE General Test result (85th percentile or higher) with your application https://www.ets.org/gre.html (Institute to receive GRE scores: GRE (DI) Code 1502 Institute for Medical Information Processing, Biometry, and Epidemiology). Upload a scan of your GRE result in the space provided on the application tool by 15 May if possible. If you've not yet received the exam result by this date, you can still do it between 26 and 28 May but only for this purpose. Otherwise the applicant portal will be closed from 16 May!

Please note:

• We do not accept applications after the deadline.
• Documents provided by e-mail/ordinary mail or handed in personally will not be considered
• Incomplete applications cannot be processed.
• If your application is rejected, you can apply once again in the application period of the following year.
• You need neither a letter of recommendation nor a proof of English, like IELTS for the application process

International Applicants

For international applicants, who did not receive their first degree from a German university, the process of applying consists of two separate parts. You need to 1) apply to the MSc Epidemiology Programme, as described above, and 2) additionally to the International Office of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in order to get the letter of admission entitling to study at the LMU.

Please submit your application by 15 July via their Application Portal lmu.gomovein.com, open between 15 May and 15 July each year.

In order to complete this process, you also need to upload our letter of acceptance. It will be sent via email around 8 July after having successfully passed the acceptance exam.

More detailed information about the application can be found on the LMU website. A short overview can be downloaded here.

In case you fulfil all requirements and pass the entrance exam you will receive two letters, one from the MSc Epidemiology programme (letter of acceptance) and one from the International Office (letter of admission). Enrolment at LMU is only possible if both parts of the application process have been successful and the applicant can present both letters.

Evaluating your application

Given that you have submitted your application with all the required documents, a selection committee will decide upon your suitability for admission in accordance with the rules of the admission statutes.

We will send you the result of the decision in writing as soon as possible. Please note, the following time table:

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