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ECTS Credits and Contact Hours the DA may also be exempt from attending certain core
The Sommerhochschule grants courses covering the same material as the courses they
credits according to the European took at the summer school. The decision on such exemp-
Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The tions can only be made by the respective department
allocation of the ECTS credits to the chair in economics, law, history and political science
Sommerhochschule courses is during the individual advisory sessions at the beginning
based on the amount of work ne- of the academic year at the DA.
cessary for a course. For information concerning the DA please visit:
• Each European Studies course www.da-vienna.ac.at
corresponds to 4 ECTS credits.
• The Arbitration Academy course
corresponds to 8 ECTS credits.
• Each German language course
corresponds to 6 ECTS credits.
The lecture time per course is re-
presented by contact hours. (Each
contact hour consists of 45 minutes
class time.)
• Each European Studies course
consists of 32 contact hours.
• The Arbitration Academy course
consists of 64 contact hours.
• Each German language course
consists of 64 contact hours. Exams and Grading System
Final examinations are given in all courses. Courses are
graded using the Austrian grading system: 1 (very good);
2 (good); 3 (satisfactory); 4 (sufficient); 5 (failed). Addi-
tional final grades are: W (withdrew from the course
with permission), AU (audit) and NG (not graded).
The grade points given in the transcript provide an
opportunity to differentiate performance within each
of the stated grades.

Grade and grade points are as follows:

Austrian Grade Grade Points
Cooperation with the Diplomatic 1 89 – 100
Academy of Vienna: Attending the 2 76 – 88
summer school increases the 3 63 – 75
chances of admission within the 4 51 – 62
highly competitive application 5 0 – 50
process at the Diplomatic Academy
(DA). Students who proceed to study The Sommerhochschule reserves the right to exclude
in the Master of Advanced Interna- students from the summer school in case of improper
tional Studies Program (M.A.I.S.) at behavior.

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