Admission restriction

Special applicant groups include

• Applicants from non-EU countries,
• hardship cases and
• second-study applicants as well as
• Applicants who belong to an A-, B-, C- or D/C squad of a national federation of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and who are coached by an Olympic base and
• Applicants who have been offered a study place in previous application procedures but have not accepted it because of a service.
  Among others, the following services of at least six months duration can be considered: Federal voluntary service, voluntary social or ecological year, voluntary military service.

Most study places are awarded in this quota. The ranking is usually based on the criterion "grade of the university entrance qualification". In most cases, this is the average grade in the Abitur or the Fachhochschulreife.
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Around 20% of study places are allocated according to the "waiting period":
The waiting period is the number of semesters that lie between obtaining the higher education entrance qualification (Abitur, Fachhochschulreife and equivalent) and the start of studies. Any semesters in which applicants were enrolled at a German university are deducted. A maximum of seven semesters are counted as waiting time. The key dates are the date of the certificate and the start of the planned course of study. The University of Kassel calculates the waiting period after receiving your application without you having to submit an application. All necessary information is requested in the application form.

For the Psychology degree program, it is foreseeable that only people with the maximum possible waiting period of seven semesters will be offered a place and that even within these applicants a further selection will be necessary, in which the "grade of the university entrance qualification" (Abitur grade/grade of the Fachhochschulreife) plays the decisive role as a subsequent ranking criterion.