FAQ

Yes, in general we do accept those certificates if they are recognised as being equal. Please upload them during the application process. We will contact you directly in case of questions.

In principle, we need your average grade by the following dates: for bachelor’s programmes by 15 January or 27 July, for master’s programmes by 15 January or 15 August of the respective year of application. There may be different provisions for degree programmes with open admission. In this case, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Each degree programme has its own provisions concerning the pre-study internship and its content requirements. For more information, please check the overview of FHWS degree programme profiles.

Your VPD (preliminary review documentation) has to be made available by 15 January or 27 July of the respective year of application. There may be exceptions for degree programmes with open admission. In this case, please contact us directly at helpdesk.hsst[at]fhws.de.

Yes, you can apply for multiple degree programmes at a time. If you are admitted to more than one, you can choose freely. Enrolment, however, is possible for only one degree programme. Please note: In case of degree programmes with restricted admission at hochschulstart.de, the number of applications is limited to twelve.

If you want to upload many documents, please put together multiple documents to one meaningful PDF file and choose an explicit name for it.

Please take care to enter all periods of previous study not only at German higher education institutions, but also higher education institutions abroad. Make sure to also enter existing study periods at FHWS. After that, submit your application again.

After being admitted, you accept your study place on the THWS CampusPortal within the enrolment deadline (binding deadline!) by clicking the button "Apply for enrolment" and following the steps through the online enrolment process.

Please read all the steps to be followed during this process on the page Information for 1st year students.

We get numerous applications during the application period and all of them have to be reviewed. This may lead to extended processing times during the application period, so please be patient!
If your status doesn’t change for more than two weeks, please contact us by e-mail to helpdesk.hsst[at]fhws.de and tell us the programme you applied for as well as your applicant number.

If you have been offered admission, the notification of admission will be available for download in the THWS CampusPortal. It will not be sent via email or post.

Please note that for restricted admission programmes (NC programmes) outside of hochschulstart.de (usually NC Master's programmes) and for programmes with an aptitude test (Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Communication Design), you must accept the offer in the status "Admission offer available" by taking the action "Accept offer" before you receive the admission notification (with notification of admission).

If you can’t find the exact degree programme you studied previously, please select the one that is closely related to it. With the help of your transcript of records, we should be able to identify the exact degree programme.

Absolutely! Please apply even if you do not yet have your school leaving certificate/diploma, otherwise the application deadline may expire.

Your application will be given the status resubmitting your application.“preliminarily excluded (missing documents)”. You can add missing documents anytime by the end of the period specified for it by withdrawing your application request, uploading all relevant documents, and submitting the application again.

Please submit a completely signed registration form for guest students (available in German only).
Please be sure to consult the Department of Student Affairs (HSST) first, as there are special conditions for guest students (e.g. no participation in exams etc.).

For detailed information, please check the provided information about language requirements.

In principle, studying more than one programme is only possible for exceptional cases. In addition, the responsible faculty (or faculties) have to approve each individual case. For more information, please check the provided information about parallel studies (available only in German).

Yes, we do. For detailed information about the semester ticket for public transport, please check the web page on the FHWS Card.

If the processing status of your application has changed to "enrolled," IT access data will be provided to you in the THWS CampusPortal in the so-called account letter. From this point, you will be able to use the IT infrastructure of our university.

To retrieve the account letter, log in to the THWS CampusPortal using the login details from your application. The account letter for your student account is available for download under "My Studies -> Study Service -> Notifications/Certificates."

Hochschulstart determines admission offers in a highly dynamic process in which prioritisation by applicants plays a major role. Since the chance for admission depends to a large extent on the acceptance behaviour of the other applicants, FHWS cannot make a statement on this and applicants must be patient.

Even if you receive a letter of rejection at the end of the coordination phase because your ranking is too low, there is still the possibility of receiving an admission offer via an FHWS-internal move-up procedure from mid-September to mid-October at the latest, if there are still places available.

For a simplified presentation of relevant examination deadlines, please see General examination deadlines for studying at THWS

If you have to meet a deadline for taking an exam, please submit the form Application for deadline extension / de-registration from examination(s) as well as a medical certificate immediately (within 1 or 2 days) to the Department of Student Affairs (HSST). Make sure that the medical certificates meets the requirements; see the application form for more information.

In case of errors in your transcript of records, please contact the Department of Student Affairs (HSST).

You can change your contact information yourself anytime in the FHWS CampusPortal. If your name has changed, please contact the Department of Student Affairs (HSST) providing relevant proof.

If you change your health insurance company, please contact your new health insurance company and ask them to send us a new digital insurance certificate.

Please contact the Department of Student Affairs (HSST) in due time. Your examination committee will decide upon late registrations.

The publication date of exam results is specified in the academic calendar issued by the examination board. Delays for singular exams may happen as an exception.

 If you face de-registration, please make sure to apply for another degree programme already before the exam (if you want to continue studying at FHWS). It is important that you have a plan B, as it is not possible to apply after the exam results have been published.

In the THWS CampusPortal, you can identify that the de-registration from an examination has been accepted if the concerned examination has been deleted by HSST. The approval of an extended deadline can be seen in the transcript of records available through the THWS CampusPortal.
In case of rejection of a de-registration or deadline extension request, you will receive a written notification to the address known to us.

Please check your study and examination regulations (SPO) to find out about the requirements. We only need a copy of your internship contract before the internship begins.

Please fill out and submit the application for leave of absence (for family or other reasons) to the Department of Student Affairs (HSST).

You have to apply for grade improvement by completing the application form for grade improvement.

Please note that the Department of Student Affairs (HSST) will perform the exam registration in the FHWS CampusPortal for you once your application for grade improvement was accepted by HSST.

Please note: As a rule, the claim for grade improvement expires 6 months after the first attempt at the examination, i.e. the application must be submitted in the following examination period. An extension of the deadline is excluded in this context.

If you had an accident (at FHWS, at an FHWS event, or on the way to FHWS or home), please complete the accident report for students (available only in German) and submit it to the Department of Student Affairs (HSST). In case of an accident on the way to/from FHWS, please also submit the questionnaire for commuting accidents (available only in German).

The BAföG office will provide all necessary forms and informs about the required periods to be proven. We are happy to assist you in filling out the forms and giving the required information. The form is also available as download in our form centre.

By providing an informal written authorization, you can send your proxy to pick up documents for you.

Information as well as the form to notify us of your pregnancy and explanations in English on how to complete it, are available in our form centre.

In order to register your bachelor’s thesis, you will first need a professor supervising your thesis. Together with this supervisor, you can complete the form to register your thesis which is provided by your faculty. It has to be signed by your supervisor as well as yourself. The requirements have to be met in accordance with your study and examination regulations (SPO). The registration form has to be submitted generally before you start work on your thesis (about 2 weeks before).

Comprehensive information about all courses as well as contact information of your lecturers is available on the pages of your faculty. The Department of Student Affairs (HSST) does not have any information about that.

You can download the enrolment certificate from the FHWS CampusPortal.

At the commencement of studies and after successful enrolment, we will provide the enrolment certificate for the first semester in the CampusPortal no later than 14 days before the start of the upcoming semester.

In the course of your studies, we will provide the enrolment certificate after successful re-enrolment for the upcoming semester after debit of the semester fee.

If you can foresee that you finish your studies at the end of the semester, please do not re-enrol. In case of unforeseen delay, you can re-enrol by bank transfer immediately at the start of the next semester.

You will stay enrolled until the end of the semester, even if you graduated already at the start of the semester.
However, you may submit a special request form to be de-registered earlier. Usually, it is no problem to stay enrolled until the end of the semester, even if you are already employed.

You have successfully completed your studies when the degree grade is published in the online FHWS CampusPortal with legal effect. Please take into account that until the publication of your degree grade, there will also be time needed for assessing your thesis, determining the grade of your thesis by the examination committee and calculating your degree grade.
Generally speaking, your degree grade should be available at the Department of Student Affairs (HSST) about three weeks before the end of the semester to enable graduation by the end of the semester. In case your bachelor’s thesis is the last piece of coursework you have to deliver for your graduation, please discuss this with your supervising professor.

When your degree grade is published in the FHWS CampusPortal, we start finalising your degree certificate and related documents. As it takes some time to create the documents and especially to get them signed, we must ask you to bear with us. 

Upon completion of the documents we will contact you again. You can then collect the documents in person at HSST during office hours, or have a person authorised by procura collect them).

Your degree grade is calculated in accordance with the appendix to your study and examination regulations taking into account the specified weighting factors.

In this case, please contact your HSST contact person.

Please complete the form provided by the German Rentenversicherung including your degree programme and submit it to the Department of Student Affairs (HSST).

The de-registration form is available in our form centre. Please note that de-registering retroactively is not possible.

An overview of your payments to the Studentenwerk is available on request from the Department of Student Affairs (HSST).

If a refund of already paid semester fees can be made in accordance with the statutes of the Studentenwerk, this will officially be initiated by us. A special application for this is not required.

You can contact the Academic Advisory Service. They will advise you and inform you about your opportunities after finishing your studies.