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Applying for Admission to a Course of Study leading to a non-doctoral degree (Bachelor's, Master's, Staatsexamen)

Courses of Study

Before submitting your application for admission, please make sure you have familiarized yourself with the content, admission requirements and possible subject combinations of the degree course(s) in question.

Application Prerequisites

Application Prerequisites

Language proficiency

You will have to show that you have acquired sufficient proficiency in German (or English for courses taught in English) to allow you to embark successfully on a course of study in Germany. 

University Admission Eligibility

You will have to show proof of your university admission eligibility (e.g. school-leaving certificate qualifying you to study at German universities) when you apply for a course of study in Germany. Please consult the Information System for Foreign Educational Qualifications to find out whether your certificates make you eligible for direct entry to universities in Germany. Some applicants are required to attend an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg) before they can embark on a course of study in Germany. To find out whether you must first successfully attend the Academic Qualifying Course, please consult the Information System for Foreign Educational Qualifications and check your certificates. Should you have to attend, the application deadline closes earlier (see "application deadlines"). You apply for an Academic Qualifying Course via uni-assist (all courses of study). You will automatically be allocated to an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg) should you have to attend one. Click here for an overview of how undergraduate courses of study of JLU Giessen are assigned to the focus courses of the Academic Qualifying Course.

Important information on the APS application procedure for applicants from the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, Vietnam and India: For your application, you will also need the notification from the Academic Evaluation Centre (APS) in your home country.

We kindly ask you to refrain from individual requests, as we have no influence on the order of processing.

You must submit the APS certificate via uni-assist as part of your application.

Applicants for human medicine or dentistry who are no German or EU citizens and who do not hold a German or EU university admission eligibility certificate and who therefore have to apply via uni-assist (see "application") may submit additional documents to their application in addition to the minimum application documents (see here) in order to improve the ranking of their application. Further information on the selection procedure and the restricted admission figures ("NC", numerus clausus) of the last semesters can be found here.

How to Apply

Application Procedures

Different application procedures apply. Please identify the applicable procedure below:

 

Uni-Assist (Standard Procedure)

Procedure "Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung (Centre for the Allocation of University Places)"

Procedure "Bildungsinländer" 
  • All persons with a foreign higher education entrance qualification who do not belong to one of the target groups mentioned in the other procedures (see right).

➜ Please note: This group also includes people who have attended an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg) in Germany, as a Feststellungsprüfung is not equivalent to a German higher education entrance qualification.

  • Persons who are applying for Master's degree programmes and hold a foreign higher education entrance qualification and a foreign Bachelor's degree.
  • Persons applying for degree programmes with federal admission restrictions (Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Medicine) and for DoSV degree programmes who belong to one of the following groups:

➜ Germans with a foreign university entrance qualification;

➜ EU citizens & EEA nationals (Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland);

➜ foreign nationals with a German university entrance qualification (please note: the Feststellungsprüfung of an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg) is not a German university entrance qualification);

➜ foreign nationals who live in Germany and whose family members (spouses, parents or children) have German/EU/EEA citizenship.

  • To apply, you must pre-register with the Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung (Hochschulstart) for a BID and BAN.
  • Persons who are not applying for degree programmes with federal admission restrictions (Medicine, Dentistry or Veterinary Medicine) and who also belong to one of the following groups:

➜ foreign nationals with a German university entrance qualification (please note: the Feststellungsprüfung of an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg) is not a German university entrance qualification);

➜ foreign nationals who are applying for a Master's degree and:

have already completed a Bachelor's degree at a German university;

are enrolled in a Bachelor's degree programme at a German university and have completed at least 80% of the required credit points at the time of application.

  • Bildungsinländer must upload the following documents to the JLU application portal:

➜ University entrance qualification (including certified translation into German or English, if applicable)

➜ If applicable, German language certificate according to the language requirements for German-language degree programmes at JLU.
➜ Uni-Assist Procedure ➜ Procedure "Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung" ➜ Procedure "Bildungsinländer"

Application Deadlines

Application Deadlines

Note on German language courses: Applications for a study-preparatory German language course are possible at any time if you wish to apply for an undergraduate degree programme.
Applications for a study-preparatory German language course for Master's applications are only possible during the regular application deadlines for the desired degree program! Further information on language courses and how to apply.

Please note that all applications received by uni-assist within the deadline will be considered in the admission procedure.

Degree courses taught in English
 Medicine/Dentistry Veterinary Medicine All other courses of study

Depending on the semester in which a degree programme is offered, the following deadlines apply:

  • For the winter semester:
    15 June
  • For the summer semester:
    28 February
Application process via uni-assist
  • Application deadline for the winter semester:
    15 July
  • Application deadline for the summer semester:
    15 January
 
Application process via Hochschulstart
  • Application deadline for the winter semester:
    15 July
  • Application deadline for the summer semester:
    15 January

 

 

Application deadline for the winter semester:
15 July

Degree programmes with admission restrictions:

  • For the winter semester:
    15 July
  • For the summer semester:
    15 January

Degree programmes without admission restrictions:

  • For the winter semester:
    15 August
  • For the summer semester:
    28 February

The application deadlines for the M.Sc. Sustainable Transition, M.A. Anglophone Studies, and M.Sc. Economics of Global Risk programs have been extended until August 15, 2024

Individual application deadlines may be extended. You can find the current deadlines here.

 

Application deadlines for an Academic Qualifying Course (Studienkolleg):

  • For the winter semester: 15 April
  • For the summer semester: 15 October

Applications are generally possible from 1 June! Exceptions are Master's programmes taught in English at JLU. The application period at uni-assist for these degree programmes begins

➜ at the beginning of May for degree programmes offered in the winter semester and
➜ at the beginning of December for degree programmes offered in the summer semester.