FAQs MIPLC Admission Requirements

All applicants to our LL.M. program must have at least:

• A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in law, economics, business administration, natural sciences, engineering, IT, literature, or media sciences (240 ECTS credits);
• One year of relevant professional experience;
• Very good knowledge of the English language.

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No, you don’t. The program is taught completely in English. All professors and administrative staff speak English. On the other hand, you will not get extra points in the evaluation of your application for your language skills.

To start your studies at the MIPLC, you must have gained at least 240 ECTS credits (generally equivalent to a four-year Bachelor’s degree). At the MIPLC, you will gain 60 ECTS credits, amounting to a total of 300 ECTS credits, which is the minimum required for the Master’s level.

If you have fewer than 240 ECTS credits, e.g. because you only have a three-year Bachelor degree, we can recognize additional credits you have gained from professional experience. You can earn a maximum of 60 ECTS credits that way. However, you must then have at least two years of professional experience: one year for the extra credits, and another year to satisfy the professional-experience requirement.

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Our LL.M. program is a “program of further study” (“weiterbildender Studiengang” in German). Under German law, such programs, which are clearly designed for professionals, are open only to applicants with at least one year of professional experience. It is thus a legal requirement.

If you have fewer than 240 ECTS credits, e.g. because you only have a three-year Bachelor degree, we can recognize additional credits you have gained from professional experience. You can earn a maximum of 60 ECTS credits that way. However, you must then have at least two years of professional experience: one year for the extra credits, and another year to satisfy the professional-experience requirement.

"Relevant" means that your experience should either be related to intellectual property, or to the subject of the qualifying degree. This means, for example, experience as an engineer if your qualifying degree is in engineering, experience in law if your qualifying degree is in law, and so on.

Apart from actual employment in a paid position, we can also accept as professional experience any of the following:

• internships,
• work as a research assistant, and
• the German "Referendariat".

As our program is taught exclusively in English, all students must have a very high level of active and passive knowledge of English. We therefore require all applicants to submit score report sheets for a TOEFL, IELTS, or Cambridge CPE not older than three years.

The acceptable minimum scores are as follows:

• TOEFL - 100 points (internet-based), 250 points (computer-based), 600 points (paper-based);
• IELTS - 7.0;
• CPE - "C".