You must apply online but also in writing:

Please print off an application form for each desired programme of study and send this, signed, to the university before the application deadline (the university must have received it by this date).

Please send all applications for courses at the Weihenstephan campus to Freising, and all applications for courses at the Triesdorf campus to Triesdorf, and include a complete set of documents for each.

Note: Applicants can only log into the online admissions portal. Please enter your user ID and password.

Start looking for accommodation early, especially if you would like to take up studies at the Weihenstephan campus (in Freising). Helpful tips for doing so and much more can be found in our FAQs.

* For some courses the closing date for the submission of applications may be later.

Please do not wait until the last minute before sending in your application! The sooner you send in your application with the relevant documents, the sooner we can process it and inform you if something is missing.

Places on the Bachelor's degree programmes with restricted admission are allocated using the website hochschulstart.de.

You must first register with hochschulstart.de. You then apply for a place using the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences Application Portal. For further information, go to Hochschulstart on our homepage.

Please apply for the work-study degree programme offered in a combined form involving both training and university study ("Verbundstudium") in the year in which you will begin your training. You are responsible for finding the necessary training location.

To apply for a work-study programme with admission restrictions in the form of combined studies ("Verbundstudium"), you must first register on the hochschulstart.de website and then apply for the work-study option of the relevant course on the university’s Application Portal.

If you began your vocational training in the previous year and if you have an admission letter or notification of deferment from the previous year, please apply for preferential admission. Send this admission letter or notification of deferment with your documents together with written confirmation that the training is ongoing.

If you are planning to undertake a course with intensive practical work ("Studium mit vertiefter Praxis"), you must first apply for the standard course (not the work-study option). As a rule, you can only apply to participating companies once the course starts. You will choose the company yourself. You will find more detailed information on the dedicated webpage for your chosen course, under "Dual (work-study)", or by getting in touch with the contact person for the work-study option listed on the webpage.

All initial applications must be made via the application portal. You enter all the required information into the portal and can then print it out as a PDF document.

The printed application form and all the required documents must then be sent to and received by Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences no later than 15 July of each year. A postmark with this date does not count. The application deadline is a fixed deadline, which means that applications submitted after this date will not be considered in the admissions process. Application forms and supporting documents sent by fax or email will also not be considered in the admissions process.

The following documents must be submitted together with the completed, printed, and signed application form and control sheet:

* A certified copy of your higher education entrance qualification is not required if you are applying exclusively for one or more master programmes.

If your bachelor's certificate is not yet available when applying for a master's degree programme, it can be submitted as follows (subject to change due to the current Corona crisis):

* Bitte beachten Sie, dass das Bachelorzeugnis bis zum genannten Termin bei der Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf eingegangen sein muss.

Multiple applications

If you apply for admission to several degree programmes, you must complete an application form for each degree programme but are only required to send one (!) full set of all the supporting documents per Location.

Admission letters for degree programmes with restricted admission (NC) are made available on Hochschulstart.de. Admission letters for non-capped courses are only sent out by post for applications to higher course semesters, applications from professionally qualified applicants and applications to work-study programmes. Admission letters are also sent out by post for master programme applications. Rejection letters for capped bachelor’s programmes are only issued on Hochschulstart.de, i.e. are made available to download in PDF, after the admission process is completed (starting 24 August 2019).

To view the current status of the admission process, please consult the application portal. Online enrolment starts at the beginning of August.

When you receive your letter of admission, you must enrol by the deadline.

Have you applied for a course with no admission restrictions? With an ‘Offer of admission available’ status, you can register online in the application portal from the beginning of August (see portal for registration cut-off) and then directly print a preliminary enrolment certificate.

For (NC) courses with restricted admission, go into your Hochschulstart.de portal and accept the offer of admission which is displayed there. In order to secure your place in the course, you should then go into the application portal (not the Hochschulstart.de portal) and complete the online registration there. Then you can print out a provisional enrolment certificate.

The application portal will advise you of any outstanding support documents for your application.

Please be aware that you will lose your place if you do not enrol before the deadline, submit the necessary documents before the start of the study programme, or remit the semester fee on time. You will find information about how to remit the semester fee after you have enrolled online.

An initial indication as to whether your international higher education entrance qualification allows you to study at a university in Germany is provided by the anabin database of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Culture or the database on admission requirements of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

If you would like to apply for a Bachelor's degree programme at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences, your international higher education entrance qualification certificates are subject to a preliminary review (Preliminary Review Documentation - VPD) by uni-assist.

Uni-assist checks your international higher education entrance qualification certificates and converts the grades obtained into the equivalent German grades. Uni-assist will also tell you whether you can study all subjects or only certain subjects (i.e. whether you have a general or a subject-specific higher education entrance qualification), or whether you must pass the final assessment exam (Feststellungsprüfung) at a Studienkolleg prior to application for a university place (for a degree programme at our university of applied sciences we recommend preparing for and taking the final assessment exam at the Studienkolleg Coburg).

To apply for the VPD, please submit an application for Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (Bachelor’s – all subjects) in the My Assist portal.

Please note that having your certificates reviewed by uni-assist will incur processing fees. You cannot submit your VPD application until the processing fees have been paid.

After submitting your VPD application, please send the following documents to uni-assist:

• a copy of your ID card or passport
• a higher education entrance qualification* (secondary school leaving certificate)

Also, if available:

• proof of successful completion of a university entrance examination*
• proof of grades achieved from previous study at a university abroad*
• proof of proficiency in German*
• If paying by credit card: the signed credit card form

*Certified copies of these documents in their original language are required. If the original language of the documents is a language other than German or English, they have to be translated by a court-certified translator. Please submit then a certified translation of the original and of the translation.

It takes approximately 4 to 6 weeks to process the documents.
Send the documents for the VPD by post on time before the admissions deadline at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences to:

Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
c/o uni-assist e.V.
11507 Berlin, Germany

You will receive the VPD from uni-assist by post and email. You must submit the original of the VPD

• and the application form for the summer semester to Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences no later than 15 January.
• and the application form for the winter semester to Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences no later than 15 July (work-study degree programme: 1 July).
  The VPD may be submitted by 27 July.