Application and Entrance Exams

Application for winter semester 2025/2026 auditions is a two-step process:

Step 1: Online application

Applications for the auditions for winter 2025/2026 will be possible online via the University Portal from 1 March to 1 April 2025, 11:59 p.m.

Step 2: Submitting the documents (by post)

Your application for admission as well as the documents to be submitted must be sent by post by 01 April 2025. The postmark counts.

Please note

There will be no aptitude tests for the winter semester 2025/26 in the Bachelor of Music, Bachelor of Music EMP, Master of Music and Concert Examination with saxophone as major subjects, as well as in the Master of Music with ensemble singing as major subject.

The incoming documents will be checked one by one and you will be informed promptly via the portal. Please check the portal regularly.  

For foreign-language applicants for Master Music, admission requires proof of an official certificate of a passed language test type B1 CEFR (minimum level); see § 2a of the enrolment regulations.

Dates of the entrance exams

 2 June to 7 June 2025 (application deadline 1 April 2025)

Special date for Choral Conducting and Master of Church Music will take place on May 27, 2025.

Special date Elementary Music Education  will be held on May 27 and May 28, 2025.

Special date for major subject orchestral conducting will take place from 13 to 14 June 2025

General Deadlines for auditions

• for winter semesters (study start October): 1 April
• for summer semesters (study start April): 1 December

Please note

• The Master's degree programme in Music, major subject Music Education, can only be commenced in the winter semester.
• For the polyvalent two-main subject Bachelor's programme in Music as an Artistic Subject (Music Teaching at Grammar Schools), the first semester can only begin in the winter semester, while university changers can also begin in the summer semester.
• For the Freiburg Opera Studio Information on how to apply can be found here Freiburg Opera Studio.
• In the Master's degree programme in Music, major subject "Orgel – Interprétation à l’orgue" and major subject „Orgelimprovisation – Improvisation à l’orgue“, an application must also be made to the University of Strasbourg (via the portal Mon Master) in parallel to the application to the Freiburg University of Music. For further information, please contact Prof. David Franke. Admission procedures for these majors only take place for the winter semester.

Formal Requirements for the Entrance Examination

• Completed registration form (PRINTOUT) including supplementary documentation
• Passport photo (please stick on the registration form)
• Complete curriculum vitae (in tabular form) with the essential information about the previous education and, if applicable, artistic activity
• Proof of payment of the registration fee of € 50 (not for FAB applications) to the following bank account:
  BW Bank Karlsruhe
  Account holder: LOK BA-WÜ / MHS FR
  Bank code: 600 501 01
  Account number: 749 55301 02
  Reason for payment: 9881663002730, Anmeldegebühr Aufnahmeprüfung (Please indicate!)
  IBAN: DE 02 6005 0101 7495 5301 02
  BIC: SOLADEST600
• High School diploma (if not in German: certified German or English translation)
• For students without university entrance qualification: declaration by applicant confirming willingness to take extra an qualifying examination in addition to the regular entrance examination
• University/college certificates/diplomas (if not in German: certified German or English translation)
• Actual transcript of records
• For FAB applicants: current school certificate stating anticipated high school graduation
• For Bachelor of Music, Master of Music as well as Konzertexamen Freiburger Opernstudio applicants who are not German native speakers: certificate language test level B1; see § 2a of the Statutes on Enrollment
• For minors: statement of consent by legal guardians