Your application to the HSWT

You can prove this with a certificate that is valid in Bavaria, i.e. the:

• Subject-related higher education entrance qualification (certificate) or
• General higher education entrance qualification (certificate) or
• Advanced Technical College Entrance Qualification.

If you did not go to school in Bavaria, your higher education entrance qualification is valid if it contains a note stating that the certificate entitles you to study at a university of applied sciences in all federal states by decision of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education and Cultural Affairs. In case of doubt, please contact our general course guidance. Leaving certificates (without Abitur examination) from grammar schools in other federal states cannot be recognized as a Fachhochschulreife in Bavaria, not even in combination with an internship or vocational training.

For the degree programme Agriculture Triesdorf you need a preliminary work placement.

You can find more information in our info sheet.

If you have acquired your higher education entrance qualification or your first degree abroad, you will find information on further necessary documents on the page for international applicants. For example, it may be necessary to provide a language certificate, a preliminary review documentation (Vorprüfungsdokumentation - VPD) or an APS certificate.

Admission for higher semesters can only take place in September / March. Therefore, it makes sense to apply for the first semester and to submit an application for credit immediately after the start of your studies. In this way, you will be placed in the appropriate semester according to your performance and thus achieve the desired progress in your studies. More information on requirements can be found in the information sheet on the recognition of academic achievements.

You can enroll in a degree program at HSWT even without a traditional high school diploma (Abitur or Fachhochschulreife) if you have professional qualifications. On this page, you’ll find all the important information about studying without a high school diploma. 

Before you can apply to HSWT, you have to register on the portal hochschulstart.de. For Bachelor's degree programmes with restricted admissions, the allocation of study places takes place via the allocation procedure of hochschulstart.de. The central allocation office distributes prospective students nationwide in a fair and transparent manner among the study places that are only available in limited numbers (Numerus Clausus / NC).

At hochschulstart.de you will receive your application ID (BIN) and your authentication number (BAN), which you must enter when applying to the HSWT.

Please note: You can apply for a maximum of 12 degree programmes from the entire range offered by the university of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf as well as on the hochschulstart.de portal!

Submit the required documents to the HSWT application portal and include BIN and BAN. For degree programmes with restricted admissions, also upload a certificate of service (e.g. German Armed Forces, voluntary social year) if you have completed a period of service.

If you are applying for a second degree, please also submit a letter of motivation of no more than one page.

The university of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf conducts the admission procedure and sends the results to hochschulstart.de for the actual allocation of study places. You can view the status of your application and any offers of admission in your hochschulstart.de user account.

As soon as you have accepted an offer, you and your other applications are eliminated from the allocation process. Think carefully beforehand about which university place you would like to accept.

As soon as you have received an offer of admission, the enrollment period begins. You can find this on your admission letter and in your applicant account. Admission notifications are always created at hochschulstart.de on Mondays and Thursdays at noon and are therefore not always available at the same time as the study place offer. However, this does not result in an extension of the deadline, which is only a few days due to the strict schedule. It is therefore important that you accept the offer as soon as possible and apply for enrollment both at hochschulstart.de and in your applicant account with us. You must take action on both portals. Missing documents can be submitted after applying for enrollment.

Within the coordinated advancement, free study places can still be allocated. You can only apply for these if you have not yet received admission or have not yet applied.

If you have received a rejection email from the coordination phase but would like to take part in the coordinated advancement process, click on the confirmation link (in the rejection email) for each study offer within 72 hours.

The ranking lists from the coordination phase will then be processed. As soon as an application falls within the admissible range of a ranking list, admission is granted immediately, regardless of prioritisation, and all other applications are eliminated from the process.

A coordinated move-up procedure has not taken place in recent years due to a lack of available places. This is unlikely to change for the time being.

Threshold values after the conclusion of all backlog procedures (winter semester 2025/26)

After completion of the admissions procedure in the restricted-admission degree programmes, the situation in the winter semester 2024/25 was as follows, whereby not all applicants who fulfilled exactly one of the threshold values could be admitted here:

For the Bachelor's degree programme in Applied Informatics, you must provide proof of at least B2 level English according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).

You can find all information about the form of language certificates on the programme page.

In the work-study programme in the form of combined studies, you acquire a vocational qualification and a degree.

To apply, you need a registered training contract in advance. The start of your training should correspond to the requirements, which you can find on the website of the study programme. Please also note the following:

• Apply for a place at the university in the year in which your training begins
• and also in the following year in which your lectures actually begin. In doing so, you apply for preferential admission in the online applicant portal.

In the first year, you must also submit your actual training contract (copy, confirmed by the relevant office) and cooperation agreement (until 01.07.2026) , and in the second year, the certificate confirming the continuation of your training together with your study application.

Note: The cooperation agreement must also be sent in duplicate in paper form by the application deadline for the dual study programme (receipt by the university of applied sciences).

These Bachelor's degree programmes can be studied in the form of combined studies:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Nutrition and Food Sciences
• Horticulture
• Landscape Construction and Management
• Agriculture (Triesdorf & Weihenstephan)

In order to apply for a course with intensive practical work, you must first enrol for the regular degree programme. To do this, you need the same certificates that are required for Bachelor's degree programmes without admission restriction or degree programmes with admission restriction.

Only after you have started your studies, you apply to companies where you will complete your practical training. You choose the company yourself, but your subject advisory service will be happy to help you.

These courses can be taken as courses with intensive practical work:

• Agricultural Engineering
• Agribusiness
• Applied Computer Science
• Biotechnology
• Brewing and Beverage Technology
• Engineering in Forestry
• Horticulture
• Climate Neutral Energy Systems
• Food Technology
• Environmental Engineering
• Engineering Water Management

Check the website of the Master's programme you are interested in for the programme-specific requirements (e.g. relevance of previous studies). If you are unsure, the subject advisory service will help you.

Applicants with a foreign degree must submit preliminary examination documentation (VPD) when applying for our Master's programmes. This requirement can only be waived for the Master's programmes in Agricultural Management (Weihenstephan) and International Master's Programme in Agricultural Management (Triesdorf).

Guest students require the same qualifications as regular enrolled students. For the application you need the following documents:

• completed application form for guest studies
• a certified copy of your higher education entrance qualification
• Details of the courses you would like to take (module number & weekly hours per semester)

The fees for guest studies are calculated per semester on the basis of the weekly hours per semester taken:

• 100 € for 1 to 4 weekly hours per semester resp.
• 200 € for 5 to 8 weekly hours per semester
• 300 € for more than 8 weekly hours per semester.

Courses with a total of more than 10 weekly hours per semester cannot be taken.

Notes: Enrolment for guest studies is only possible insofar as this does not interfere with the studies of regular students. It is not possible to enrol for courses in degree programmes with restricted admissions or for courses that require laboratory or other workplaces.

As a guest student, you do not become a member of the university of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf upon enrolment and are therefore not allowed to take part in examinations. Furthermore, you cannot be enrolled as a regular student at the same time.

Application form for guest students in Weihenstephan

Application form for guest students in Triesdorf

You will find the following information in the application portal:

• missing documents and deadlines.
• the status of your application.
• whether you have received your letter of admission.
• which documents you may need to send by post after admission – and where to send them.

Are you already enrolled at Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences?

• Please do not register again!
• Log in directly with your student account.
• You can apply for a different degree programme under the menu item „Study application“.
• If you are a former student and your student account has already expired, please contact servicedesk@hswt.de.

The use of the applicant portal may only be possible to a limited extent via mobile browsers. We therefore recommend that you do not use smartphones to create your online application, especially when uploading documents.

Documents can usually only be uploaded in PDF format. Therefore, prepare the documents in advance and make sure that they are in the correct format.

Important: You must upload at least your certificate. If you do not yet have a certificate, upload your CV. Certificates received after 15.01. (summer semester) or 15.07. (winter semester) can be sent immediately by 09.02. (summer semester) or 27.07. (winter semester), stating the applicant number, to unterlagen.zulassung@hswt.de.

Valid for degree programmes with restricted admission.

1st procedural step:
Applicants who wanted to start their studies at an earlier point in time but were unable to do so due to service (priority admissions) are admitted first.

2nd procedural step:
Of the places still available, the following are then allocated

• 2% for cases of exceptional hardship
• 5% for second degree applicants
• 10% for foreign nationals and stateless persons who are not equivalent to Germans. Equivalent to Germans are foreign nationals and stateless persons who hold a German higher education entrance qualification and nationals of other EU member states
• 6% for particularly qualified professionals in accordance with Art. 88 Para. 5 and 6 BayHSchG who do not otherwise have a higher education entrance qualification
• 2% for cases in which the qualification for the chosen degree programme was acquired in another degree programme at a University of applied sciences that has not yet been completed.

3rd procedural step:
The remaining study places are allocated as follows:

• 100% according to qualification (selection according to average grade in the higher education entrance qualification certificate),
• 0% according to waiting period (waiting periods after obtaining higher education entrance qualifications are currently not provided for due to legal changes).

If study places are allocated according to the average grade, a special quota is formed for applicants who have obtained their higher education entrance qualification (HZB) at a German Technical Secondary School. The share of the special quota of study places corresponds to the share of applicants with a higher education entrance qualification obtained at a German Technical Secondary School in the total number of German or German-equivalent applicants in the relevant degree programme.

Applications for the International Master in Agricultural Management and the Master in Farm Management (both Triesdorf) are made via a separate online portal.

Different application procedures also apply to the following Master's degree programmes, which are run in cooperation with other universities of applied sciences:

• International Master of Landscape Architecture (Weihenstephan)
  Application via the online portal of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Sciences
• Energy Management and Technology (Triesdorf)
  Application to Ansbach University of Applied Sciences

Please enquire about the application procedure on the websites of the degree programmes and universities of applied sciences listed.

Admission letters for subjects without NC will be made available to all applicants online as PDF files.

It is not possible - for whatever reason - to issue admission letters or pre-admissions earlier than this, neither for German nor for foreign applicants!

Admission letters for applications for NC subjects that run via hochschulstart.de are made available on the Hochschulstart portal as a PDF or - if selected - sent by e-mail.

Rejection notifications for bachelor's degree programmes with restricted admissions will only be sent by Hochschulstart or made available there as a PDF once the admission procedure has been completed.

For Master's applications, you will receive an admission letter as a PDF via the application portal.

You can check the current status of the admission procedure at any time in the application portal. With the start of the online enrolment, admission letters will also be made available online in the application account.

It is not possible - for whatever reason - to issue admission notifications or pre-admissions earlier than this, neither for German nor for foreign applicants!

If you like the admission offer you received on hochschulstart.de, you must click on „accept“ and then apply for enrolment in the HSWT applicant portal. You should take these instructions into account:

• Please note that the enrolment button on the application portal is only visible once you have checked and accepted the admission offer via the Hochschulstart website.
• You do not have to accept the first admission offer on hochschulstart.de, but can wait to see if you receive acceptances for other degree programmes.
• If you have selected several degree programmes with restricted admission, it is important that you prioritise, i.e. put your preferred degree programme in first place. If you receive several admission offers without having prioritised beforehand, the application received first (online) will automatically be set as your priority 1.

After the acceptance of the admission offer on hochschulstart.de, you will then enrol in the HSWT application portal and receive a provisional enrolment certificate.

If you have acquired several higher education entrance qualifications, e.g. the Advanced Technical Entrance Qualification (FHR) and the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) at the German Technical Secondary School, you can decide which certificate you enclose with your application. If we have several higher education entrance qualifications and you do not make a decision, the one obtained first will apply.

You can find more details on this in the information sheet or in the information sheet under point 2 „Procedure“.

In Germany, all students are required to have health insurance.

General note:
Higher-value certificates qualify for lower requirements

This status information shows you that you have completed your enrolment. You can find your provisional enrolment certificate in your account under: Home – Courses – Application.

If documents are missing, you will see this in the portal window „Missing documents“ or „Missing documents for the subject“. Without the documents that are important for admission, such as the higher education entrance qualification for Bachelor's applications, your application cannot be conclusively reviewed.

Please submit the digital health insurance registration (M10) only after enrolment, but in good time before the start of your studies.

Proof of preliminary work placement (if required in a degree programme) is required before the start of studies.

• Please do not register again!
• Log in directly with your student account.
• You can apply for a different degree programme under the menu item “Study application”.
• If you are a former student and your student account has already expired, please contact servicedesk@hswt.de.

Ideally, you will also have internet access while abroad or on holiday. This will enable you to check the application status on the application portal or on hochschulstart.de.

If you are no longer interested in enrolment in a particular case, please withdraw your application in the applicant portal. Please do not pay the semester fee. Think carefully about this step, as you will lose your place at the university for good.

The pre-study internship certificate can be submitted at the latest before the start of the degree programme.

As this is an online enrolment, you can enrol from anywhere with an internet connection.

We do not require any paper documents, except in rare cases where you are explicitly asked to provide them.

For the study programmes at the Weihenstephan Campus:

University of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
ZA3: Studium
Am Hofgarten 4
85354 Freising

For the degree programmes at the Triesdorf Campus:

University of applied sciences Weihenstephan-Triesdorf
Markgrafenstr. 16
91746 Weidenbach

Please remember to transfer your semester fees on time. You can find more information on our homepage.

The payment deadline for applicants ends each semester together with the deadline for submitting documents (application for the winter semester 23 September / application for the summer semester 10 March).
The semester fee must be received in the State Treasury account by the end of the specified deadline. Currently, payment of the semester fee is only possible by bank transfer.
Further information on the payment of semester fees can be found after completing online enrolment and logging back into the applicant portal in the „Student Services“ section.