German Degree Translation
Translate Your German Degree or Diploma
A NAATI-certified English translation of your German university certificate — Bachelorurkunde, Masterurkunde, Diplom, Magister, Staatsexamen or Promotionsurkunde — is required for every Australian skills assessment, professional registration and university admission. We translate qualifications from every German Universität, Technische Universität, Fachhochschule and Kunsthochschule.
Why your German degree must be translated
Skills assessors and Australian universities compare your German qualification to Australian AQF equivalents. An accurate NAATI-certified translation preserves the level (Bachelor, Master, Diplom, Staatsexamen, Promotion) that determines your outcome.
- VETASSESS positive skills assessment for subclass 189/190/491
- Engineers Australia Chartered and Migration Skills Assessment
- ACS ICT skills assessment
- AHPRA registration for medical, nursing and allied-health graduates
- Postgraduate admission at Australian universities
- Employer verification and professional licensing
NAATI Certification
What is a NAATI Certified Translation?
Our translation reproduces the certificate exactly — degree name, Fakultät, ECTS framework, academic title (B.A., B.Sc., M.A., M.Sc., Dipl.-Ing., Mag., Dr.) and date of conferral — with a NAATI-certified translator's stamp accepted by every Australian assessing authority.
- Required by the Department of Home Affairs
- Accepted by universities and government agencies
- Ensures your application is not delayed or rejected
Flat rate
Instant price · Under 24-hour delivery
If your document contains multiple pages, each page is charged at $59. Your final page count is confirmed on upload before payment — no manual quote and no callback wait.
- $59 per page, shown upfront
- No manual quote — order immediately
- No waiting for a callback
- Under 24-hour delivery is standard, not a paid rush upgrade
- NAATI-certified and accepted Australia-wide
- Delivered digitally by email
Frequently asked questions
Who issues a degree certificate in Germany
German awards include the Urkunde conferring the degree and the Zeugnis recording results; assessors generally expect both, along with the Diploma Supplement where issued.
German civil-status records are issued by the Standesamt of the district where the event was registered. Current extracts are issued on standardised federal forms; older records may be Abschriften from the Familienbuch, and documents from the former GDR carry institution names that no longer exist and are translated historically.
What your certified English translation reproduces
Every certified translation we issue is a complete rendering of the source document — not a summary. For a German degree certificate that means:
- Award title in the original language, followed by a literal English rendering
- Field of study, faculty and the awarding institution's full legal name
- Date of conferral and the graduation or register number
- Classification, honours or grade of award where the certificate states one
- Accreditation or ministry recognition wording printed on the document
- Rector, dean or registrar signatures, embossed seals and security features
German names, dates and script
German uses the umlauts ä, ö and ü and the ligature ß, which Australian systems transliterate inconsistently as ae/oe/ue or strip entirely — Müller may appear as Muller or Mueller across documents. Dates are day.month.year, and academic titles are treated as part of the legal name in German records.
Seals, stamps and legalisation
Standesamt seals, the registrar's signature and, for documents used abroad, an apostille issued by the relevant Landgericht or administrative authority. Multilingual extracts under the 1976 Vienna Convention are common and, as with other EU forms, still require NAATI certification for Australian use.
How Australian agencies read this document
Assessing authorities use the award title and conferral date to establish qualification level. We keep the original title intact and give a literal English equivalent rather than asserting an Australian AQF level, which is the assessor's decision to make.
Central to skills assessments for subclass 189, 190 and 491, to employer-sponsored nomination evidence, to postgraduate admission, and to points claims for overseas qualifications.
What we check before certifying
Most delays are caused by the source document, not the translation. These are the issues we look for on German degree certificates and raise with you before the file is certified:
- Umlaut transliteration differing between the passport MRZ and the certificate, producing an apparent name mismatch
- An Abschrift aus dem Familienbuch used where the agency wanted a current Geburtsurkunde
- Academic titles recorded as part of the name in Germany but not in Australian records
- Translating the diploma but not the transcript, when most assessors require both together
- Claiming an Australian equivalence on the translation itself instead of leaving it to the assessing body
- Older award titles from superseded education systems rendered as a modern equivalent, which misstates the qualification
Pages, pricing and turnaround
A degree certificate is usually one page at $59 and pairs naturally with the transcript. Order them together and both come back in the same certified bundle, typically within 24 hours.
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$59 per page shown upfront. NAATI-certified. Delivered under 24 hours.