How Do I Apply for Nostrification?

First Steps (BEFORE Submitting your Application)

Please contact Claudia Fritz-Larott at the Office of the Studienpräses of the University of Vienna for:

  • General information, advice and counselling on nostrification issues
  • Information on the individual steps of the nostrification procedure
  • Support for filing your application

Claudia Fritz-Larott
Office of the Studienpräses
University of Vienna
1010 Vienna, Universitätsring 1
Tel.: + 43- 1-4277-12154
Fax: +43-1-4277-12159
E-mail: nostrifizierung@univie.ac.at

Application

After the Office of the Studienpräses has checked your documents you can send your application to the StudiesServiceCenter (SSC) Psychology.

The application can be submitted:

Please keep in mind that we can only accept and process applications that include all the required documents listed below. If you have questions concernig application and/or any of the required documents, please contact the SSC staff member in charge of nostrification (isabella.nerozzi@univie.ac.at) before submitting your application.

Required Documents

  • Application form. The form is available only in German. Here are some instructions for filling in the section Angaben zum Studium: 
    • Bezeichnung des Studiums, das nostrifiziert werden soll: If you have completed both a bachelor’s and amMaster’s degree in Psychology, please list both qualifications.
    • Studienrichtung der Universität Wien, für die die Nostrifizierung erfolgen soll: Psychology.
    • Studienkennzahl (enter both if you are seeking recognition for a bachelor’s and a master’s degree): 
      • Bachelor’s degree in Psychology: 033 640
      • Master’s degree in Psychology: 066 840
    • Angestrebter akademischer Grad (enter both if you are seeking recognition for a bachelor’s and a master’s degree):
      • Bachelor of Science
      • Master of Science.
  • Birth certificate and any certificates of name change (e.g. marriage certificate) if the diploma or transcript is in a previous name.
  • Proof of citizenship, passport
  • Secondary-school leaving certificate or evidence of general university entrance qualification
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Proof that nostrification is mandatory for the applicant's practice of the profession or for the continuation of the applicant's education in Austria
  • Diploma or degree certificate
  • Records of study:
    • Diploma Supplement/Transcript listing all completed subjects
    • Curriculum (documentation of the courses of the degree programme completed, i.e. the official curriculum, student's handbook and/or syllabus)
  • Academic thesis:
    • Diploma thesis/master thesis
    • A 10-page summary in German or English
  • Payment receipt of nostrification fee (€ 150).
    • account holder: Universität Wien
    • bank: Raiffeisenlandesbank NÖ-Wien
    • IBAN: AT083200000000675447
    • BIC / SWIFT: RLNWATWW
    • purpose of payment: Nostrifizierung ER 100000

Translations

Certified translations must be provided for all documents that were not issued in German or English.

All foreign documents and all copies and translations made in a foreign country must additionally be legalised in the issuing country.

Documents from the following countries are exempt from this legalisation requirement: Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Croatia, the Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

Documents issued in Ukraine are not currently required to be legalised.