Enter your degree length and total credit hours to see the ECTS your degree maps to, the conversion factor, and what a single course is worth, for any transcript that counts credit hours.
An estimate for planning. uni-assist and each university make the final call on your ECTS.
ECTS measures workload, not course count: one academic year is 60 ECTS. German evaluators read a Pakistani degree as one year shorter than it runs: under anabin a 4-year bachelor's counts as 180 ECTS and a 5-year degree as 240. The converter divides that total by the total credit hours on your transcript and applies the factor to any single course. A 4-year, 136-credit-hour degree gives a factor of about 1.32, so a 3-credit course is about 4 ECTS.
uni-assist and the university run the official evaluation and make the final call. What each program threshold means for you, including the 180, 210 and 240 ECTS cases, is in our guide to credit hours and ECTS. Converting your grade as well? Use the German grade calculator.
One full academic year is 60 ECTS, so 30 ECTS per semester. One ECTS credit stands for roughly 25 to 30 hours of work, including lectures, self-study and exams.
At 30 ECTS per semester, a German bachelor's is 180, 210 or 240 ECTS for three, three and a half or four years. Foreign degrees are rated differently: under anabin, a 4-year Pakistani bachelor's counts as a 3-year German bachelor's, 180 ECTS, and a 5-year degree as 240. Most master's programs ask for at least 180 ECTS, and some ask for 210 or 240.
Take the ECTS your degree counts for (180 for a 4-year degree, 240 for a 5-year degree), divide it by the total credit hours in your degree to get a conversion factor, then multiply the course's credit hours by that factor. In a 4-year, 136-credit-hour degree the factor is about 1.32, so a 3-credit course is about 4 ECTS.
No. uni-assist and the university evaluate your transcript themselves and make the final call. This converter spreads the ECTS anabin gives your degree length across your credit hours, so treat the result as a planning estimate for shortlisting programs.
