Admission restriction

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An admission restriction means that only a certain number of study places are available in a degree program and the demand from applicants - specifically the number of applications - exceeds this supply of study places. How high this number is depends on the available teaching staff and facilities.

For these degree programmes with restricted admission, places are allocated according to a special selection procedure.

Selection procedure (Bachelor and teaching degree)

Who gets a study place?

The selection is based on a fixed procedure and is carried out in the same way by all universities:

After the application deadline, in a first step - the so-called main procedure - all applicants are grouped according to certain characteristics and assigned to one or more lists - hereinafter referred to as quotas .

The applicants on these quotas are sorted (ranked) according to specific criteria (see below), which vary depending on the quota. Only the best applicants in each quota receive a place. The applicant who is the last to receive a study place in the respective quota forms the so-called admission limit. The rank number on which this applicant stands is the so-called borderline rank. The value of the relevant selection criterion of the last applicant to be admitted forms the so-called limit value, also known colloquially as the "numerus clausus"(NC).

NC results in recent years

It is not possible to say in advance with which threshold value you will receive a place in the respective quota, as it always depends on the ratio of available study places to the number of applications in the current procedure. At the end of an application procedure, you can be informed of the value with which the last admission (limit value = NC) was made (detailed example below). This information is published for each application procedure for all degree programmes with restricted admission and for all quotas.

NC results in recent years: Forward

Selection quotas

Most study places are awarded in the university's selection process. However, some study places are reserved for special groups of applicants.

1. quotas for special applicant groups

The special applicant groups include

  • Applicants from non-EU countries,
  • hardship cases and
  • second-chance applicants and
  • Applicants who belong to an A, B, C or D/C squad formed at federal level by a federal association of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and are supervised by an Olympic training center and
  • Applicants who have been offered a study place in previous application procedures but have not accepted it due to service.
    The following services, among others, can be considered if they last at least six months: Federal Voluntary Service, Voluntary Social or Ecological Year, Voluntary Military Service.

2. quota "Selection procedure of the university"

Most study places are allocated according to this quota. The ranking is usually based on the criterion "grade of university entrance qualification". In most cases, this is the average grade of the Abitur or the Fachhochschulreife
.

2.1 Degree programmes for which an additional subject grade is assessed:

In some degree programmes, other criteria (school subjects, aptitude tests) play a role in addition to the grade of the university entrance qualification. The weighting between the criteria can vary depending on the degree program.
There is currently only one degree program for which there are additional selection criteria:

3. quota waiting time

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. If necessary, 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 programme, 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 entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences) will play the decisive role as a subsequent ranking criterion.

The overall distribution at a glance (Bachelor)

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Applicants with an average grade of at least 2.0 and a waiting period of at least 1 semester were admitted to the Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme in the main procedure. Applicants with an average grade of 2.0 - without a waiting period - were selected by lot.

This means that

  • all applicants with an average grade of 1.9 were admitted.
  • Of the applicants with an average grade of 2.0, only those with at least 1 semester of waiting time were admitted.
  • Of the applicants with an average grade of 2.0 and no waiting period (waiting period = 0), only those who had the luck of the draw were admitted.

    Admission to the Industrial Engineering and Management degree programme is granted in the main procedure to those who have at least 6 half-years of waiting time and also at least an average grade of 2.7.

    This means that

    • all applicants with a waiting period of 7 half-years* were admitted.
    • Of the applicants with a waiting period of 6 semesters, only those with an average grade of at least 2.7 were admitted.

    *Due toa change in the legal regulation, no more than seven semesters of waiting time will be included in the calculation of the waiting time with immediate effect (see §5 HSchulZulG HE). Waiting periods of more than seven semesters therefore no longer improve the chances of obtaining a study place.

    Selection procedure (Master)

    1. quotas for special applicant groups

    Some study places are reserved for special groups of applicants: These are

    • cases of hardship and
    • Applicants who belong to an A, B, C or D/C squad formed at national level by a federal association of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and are supervised by an Olympic training center.

    2. quotas Selection procedure of the university

    In principle, places are allocated according to the grade of the Bachelor's degree.

    2.1 Degree programmes for which an additional subject grade is assessed:

    In some degree programmes, however, other selection criteria are taken into account and evaluated in addition to the Bachelor's grade, such as (aptitude test, training or further education, special qualifications from the Bachelor's degree).

    The overall distribution at a glance (Master)

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    Succession and lottery procedure

    After the main procedure has been completed, there are often still some unfilled study places and a succession procedure is carried out. The rejection notices are therefore only sent out after the succession procedure.

    In some cases, a few study places remain unfilled even after the succession procedure has been completed. These are then drawn by lot. In most cases, these are places for which applicants have subsequently withdrawn their acceptance. Those who have not previously applied for this degree programme can also take part in the lottery procedure. However, the chances of obtaining a place are often very slim.

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