If you are using a mobile browser, you may be unable to use certain functions of the application portal. We would therefore recommend that you do not use a smartphone to complete your online application, and especially not to upload your documents.

Before you begin your application, please ensure that you have the necessary documents ready to upload.

It is generally only possible to upload documents in PDF format. Before starting your application, please ensure that you have the documents in the correct format.

What happens after submitting the online application?

Filling in the online application is the first step in applying to study HSWT.

With immediate effect, you no longer have to submit hard copies of your documents to the university.

Once you have been offered a place at the university, the next step is to register. To do this, you may have to submit documents in a specific format by post, e.g. as certified copies. We will inform you of which documents we require in the application portal.

You can view your application status at any time in the application portal. This is also where you can see whether we require any additional documents from you. We therefore advise that you regularly check your account, your emails and your spam folder.

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.

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 online for preferential admission. Before sending your application, please upload this admission letter or notification of deferment 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.

You should complete your application using the university’s application portal. This is where all the required data will be collected and you will receive a summary of your application as a PDF for your records. Please do not send this summary to the university.

These are the documents that you must include in your online application:

for degree programmes with restricted admission:

• If available: service certificate (e.g. German Defence Force [Bundeswehr], voluntary social year)

when applying for a higher semester:

• 'Antrag auf Anrechnung' request for recognition of credits -> Please refer to the guidelines in the information sheet under further information.

when applying for a work-study programme (only for combined study, 'Verbundstudium')

• Training contract, cooperation agreement and/or proof of ongoing training. You will need to send two hard copies of your cooperation agreement by the application deadline for the dual course (they must have been received by the university by this deadline).
• Admission letter from the previous year (when starting the studies in the current year)

for second degree programme with restricted admission and master programme applications:

• Certified copy of your undergraduate degree certificate
• When applying for a second degree: additional letter of motivation.
• When applying for the Climate Change Management master’s programme: Evidence of English language skills of at least B2 level.
• When applying for the Climate Change Management master’s programme, applicants who completed their undergraduate degree outside Germany also need to obtain a preliminary review document from uni-assist and/or an APS (Academic Verification Office) certificate (for graduates who completed their degree in Vietnam or China).

for professionally qualified applicants (i.e. those who do not have the university entrance qualification, e.g. Meister [technicians], Techniker [engineers], managers [Fachwirte] or those who have completed an apprenticeship plus 3 years of work experience):

• Evidence of a consultation session from the Subject Advisor for the course, certified letter of recommendation certified copy of the further training examination certificate, along with the average grade and confirmation of the number of hours included in the preparatory course (for Meister, Techniker and similar) or certified copies of the vocational diploma and the examination certificate showing successful completion of vocational training, plus evidence of professional practice. For more detailed information, please see the 'Allgemeines Informationsblatt zum Zulassungsverfahren' (General information sheet on admissions procedure).

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

Please note that these dates are subject to change due to the current situation!

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 30 September).

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 uni-assist's My Assist portal. Please send the following documents to uni-assist by post afterwards:

• 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*

*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.

Please note that having your certificates reviewed by uni-assist will incur processing fees. Your VPD application will not be processed until the processing fees have been paid.

It takes approximately 4 to 6 weeks for uni-assist to process the documents, so please send your documents well in advance. You will then receive the VPD from uni-assist by post and email.

You will receive the VPD from uni-assist by post and email. You must upload the VPD

• during your application in our application portal for the summer semester no later than 15 January.
• during your application in our application portal for the winter semester no later than 20 August 2020 (work-study degree programme: 15 July).