Bridge the Gap: Indian Credits to German ECTS
Don't let your transcript undersell your hard work. Use these strategic tools to calculate, prove, and present your true academic workload to German universities.
The ECTS Reality Engine
Visualize your true workload. German credits are based on Total Hours, not just lectures.
Use this breakdown in your Workload Declaration below.
Smart Declaration Generator
Create an official "Workload Declaration" to attach to your application.
WORKLOAD DECLARATION & ECTS CONVERSION Student: [Your Name] University: [Your University] Semester Duration: 15 Weeks ECTS Factor: 30 Hours/Credit I hereby declare the total workload for my core modules, calculated as per ECTS standards (Contact Hours + Self-Study). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Module Name C.Hrs S.Hrs Total ECTS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Eng. Math I 4 6 150 5.0 [Subject 2] [X] [Y] [Calc] [Res] [Subject 3] [X] [Y] [Calc] [Res] [Subject 4] [X] [Y] [Calc] [Res] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Signature] [Date]
The Credit Stacker
Interactive Simulator: Stack your subjects to hit the German target. (Note: This is just a demo for example)
Mathematics Modules
Theoretical CS Modules
The SOP Architect
Interactive blueprint for students with average grades. Focus on professional competence, not just academics.
Strategy: The Gap
Don't just list achievements. Pinpoint a specific knowledge gap your past projects/work revealed that ONLY this Master's program can fill. This proves motivation.
The Indian Student's Guide to ECTS Mapping
A step-by-step strategic blueprint to convert your Indian academic effort into the German credit standard.
1. Gather Your Evidence
Collect all Semester Marksheets, your Official Degree Syllabus (the detailed PDF from university website), and your Final Degree Certificate.
2. Find 'Lecture Hours'
Look at your Syllabus/Timetable for 'Contact Hours', 'L-T-P' (Lecture-Tutorial-Practical), or 'Teaching Hours'. E.g., '4L' means 4 Lecture hours/week.
3. Estimate 'Self-Study'
Be honest. For every 1 hour of lecture, how many hours did you spend on assignments, projects, and revising? A 1:1.5 or 1:2 ratio is common for core subjects.
4. Apply the Formula
Use the calculator above: (Weekly Lecture Hrs + Weekly Self-Study Hrs) × Weeks in a Semester (usually 15) ÷ 30 = Your ECTS Value.
5. Find German Req.
Go to the German university's program page. Look for 'Admission Requirements' or 'Modulhandbuch' (Module Handbook). Note required ECTS for each subject area (e.g., '18 ECTS in Math').
6. Map & Compare
Create a table. List your subjects with your calculated ECTS. Group them to see if you meet the German university's subject-specific ECTS total.