• Successful completion of a first degree in human medicine or dentistry
• Successful completion of a master’s program in natural sciences
• Successful completion of an equivalent course of study at a recognized educational institution in Austria or abroad, which provides the conditions for participating in the PhD programs at Innsbruck Medical University. 

All documents and transcripts issued by the foreign university must be translated if they are not in German or English. Please consider our guidelines regarding the authentication and translation of documents.

Deadlines for submitting documents:

• In order to ensure that citizens from Austria and other EU- citizens are admitted within the respective admission deadlines (deadlines of admission), they must submit their complete documents for a check until 15.04. in the summer term, and until 15.11. in the winter term, respectively.
• In order to ensure that Non-EU and EWR-citizens are admitted within the respective admission deadlines (deadlines of admission), they must submit their complete documents for a check until 15.02. in the summer term, and until 15.09. in the winter term, respectively.
• If a deadline falls on a Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, the deadline is on the next working day (Monday to Friday) acc. to §33 AVG.

Authentication and translation of documents

• Apostille: Documents / certificates issued in one of the member states of the Hague Authentication Convention must only be authenticated by apostille applied by the competent authority in that Country.
• No authentication for countries with bilateral agreements
• Double authentication (diplomatic authentication): In the case of all other countries, the authentication of documents must be performed in a strictly sequential order. The Austrian representative authority in the country where the original documents have been issued must always be the final authentication authority.

TRANSLATIONS  Documents issued in a language other than German or English require to be translated by a court certified translator. Please note that all authentication clauses must be translated and the translator’s signature must be authenticated by the competent authority (e.g. Foreign Ministry) (this does not apply to translations produced by a sworn translator in Austria). The translations must be attached inseparably to the authenticated documents.