University Name: Berlin (MCNB) Freie Universität Berlin
Application dates: Beginning
Winter semester
Application deadline
15 April to 31 May
Admission Requirements: Academic admission requirements
Admission to Cognitive Neuroscience is highly competitive and bound to a series of necessary preconditions. Applicants necessarily need to meet the following criteria:
Bachelor's degree in psychology, neurosciences, cognitive science, data science, mathematics, physics, biology, computer sciences, or first two parts of the Certificate of Physician Exam (Ärztliche Prüfung) or equivalent
Proof of proficiency in English (details below)
The admission process consists of three steps that run from initial application in April/May to a final admission decision by the end of July (tentatively).
Admission to the MCNB Master's programme follows a downward point-based ranking ranging from 100-0 selection points (SP), with 100 being top score.
Grades of the undergraduate programme will be transferred to a point score up to 60 SP. (For more information, see: student affairs office.)
Promising applicants will be invited to interviews. The admission commission will evaluate the motivation and qualification of prospective students by means of these interviews and award them with up to another 40 SP leading to a maximum number of 100 SP.