You can find information on the degree programmes offered by HSWT at the respective degree programme web pages. You will find helpful information on the application process under "Further information" in the General information sheet on admissions procedure (in German) and under the FAQ.

Applications for the 1^st semester of the Bachelor's degree programme in Water Technology will not be possible for the 2019/20 winter semester.

If your bachelor's certificate is not yet available when applying for a master's degree programme, it can be submitted as follows:

*Please note that your bachelor’s certificate must have been received by Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences by the specified deadline.

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 by 15 July 2019 (the university must have received it by this date).

The application deadline for work-study (dual) degree programmes that begin with vocational training is 1 July 2019!

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.

* The closing date for the submission of applications is final!

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 following Bachelor's degree programmes are allocated using the website hochschulstart.de:

Freising:

• Biotechnology
• Brewing and Beverage Technology
• Engineering in Forestry
• Food Technology

Triesdorf:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Agriculture, also dual (work-study)

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 by 01 July at the latest. 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:

* Not necessary for applicants for a master's degree programme. Applicants with a higher education entrance qualification from abroad must submit preliminary review documentation (Vorprüfungsdokumentation, VPD) from uni-assist in place of the higher education entrance qualification.

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) will be available to download from Hochschulstart.de. Admission letters will only be sent out by post for degree programmes without admission restrictions and only to applicants for higher semesters, applicants with professional qualifications and training and applicants for work-study degree programmes ("Verbundstudium"). Applicants for master's degree programmes will also receive admission letters by post. Rejection letters for degree programmes with restricted admission (NC) will only be sent out after the end of the admission process (from 24 August 2018) by Hochschulstart, or will be available to download from there as a PDF.

You can check the on-going status of the admissions procedure in the application portal at any time. Online enrolment will be possible from the beginning of August.

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

You must enrol online via the application portal. 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 admissions database 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).

Apart from the online application for the VPD, uni-assist requires the submission of the following documents:

• 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

A free review of certificates is available for refugees through the uni-assist application service under certain conditions (e.g. successful completion of the TestAS aptitude test).
All other applicants must pay a processing fee. Your documents will not be reviewed before you transfer the required amount to uni-assist.

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.