Assessment of international school certificates
Assessment of international school certificates is intended to facilitate the evaluation of school-leaving qualifications obtained abroad and to enable a basic appraisal of their comparability with an Austrian school-leaving qualification.
The assessment issued pursuant to the Recognition and Assessment Act (AuBG) is deemed to be an expert opinion and can be presented when applying for further or higher education courses, training or employment.
The assessment does not replace the recognition of qualifications for access to professions regulated by law (regulated professions). To access such professions, validation or a procedure for the recognition of professional qualifications is required.
In the case of part-time vocational schools, please note that the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF) only assesses school qualifications (part-time vocational school certificates); applications for accreditation of international apprenticeships that grant the right to practise a profession should be sent to the Federal Ministry of Labour and Economy: anerkennung-lehrabschluss@bmaw.gv.at.
Submitting your application
Applications can only be submitted via the electronic application portal ASBB: www.asbb.at/.
Documents required
Please note the applicable certification rules for your original certificates.
Costs
Assessment via the platform www.asbb.at (assessment of school certificates) is free of charge.
The applicant must pay the costs of any translations of the documents required as well as any certification fees.
FAQs
The maximum processing time is 12 weeks – provided that all the documents required have been uploaded. The assessment is usually issued within just a few weeks, depending on the workload of the official dealing with your case.
Please note that if you are requested to submit missing documents, this will delay the process.
No; applications are processed in the order in which they are received.
Please ensure that you have uploaded all the required documents. If you are requested to submit missing documents, this will delay the process.
Unfortunately, this is not possible. For legal reasons, you must submit your application and all supporting documents via the portal www.asbb.at.
Staff at the AST contact points would be happy to help you submit your application.
No. As an authority, the assessment body is not authorised to do so.
Please enclose a translation of the required documents with your application. You can find a list of all sworn court-certified interpreters and translators on the Austrian Association of Sworn and Court Certified Interpreters – ÖVGD website.
No. Certificates in a language other than German must be translated by a sworn translator who is officially registered in Austria. The translation must be officially and firmly attached to the original document or to a certified copy.
You can find a list of all sworn court-certified interpreters and translators on the Austrian Association of Sworn and Court Certified Interpreters – ÖVGD website.
If your diploma or school-leaving certificate was issued in an EU Member State, a translation provided by an officially registered (legally certified) translation agency in the country of issue will be accepted.
If your diploma or school-leaving certificate was issued in a third country (non-EU Member State), you must provide either a translation of the diploma/school-leaving certificate by a translation agency officially registered (legally certified) in Austria OR confirmation of the accuracy of the existing translation from a translation agency (legally certified) in Austria.
You can find a list of all sworn court-certified interpreters and translators on the Austrian Association of Sworn and Court Certified Interpreters – ÖVGD website.
No. Since this assessment is issued for use in Austria, it will only be issued in German.
The following file types are supported: DOC, DOCX, JPE, JPEG, JPG, PDF, PNG, RTF, TIF, TIFF, XLS, XLSX, ZIP. Ideally, documents should be uploaded in PDF format. Please note that the total file size must not exceed 20 MB.
Please enclose proof of your residence status (e.g. a copy of your refugee travel document) with your application.
The BMBWF is entitled to have the authenticity of the documents checked by other institutions.
In most cases, you should be able to obtain a duplicate from the school that issued the original certificate. If you cannot obtain a duplicate for any reason, a replacement certificate may be issued subject to certain conditions.
Applicants can obtain information, advice and support during the entire procedure from staff at the AST contact points.
Input help (a blue circle with a white “!”) is available for most of the information you need to enter and for most steps in the application.
If you have any technical problems, please contact the Help Desk at asbb.helpdesk@srt.solutions.