FAQ on Application, Admission and Enrolment

You can find information on the relevant application deadlines here , as well as further and up-to-date information on our application website for bachelor degree programmes and on our application website for master degree programmes

It is possible to submit an application for a bachelor degree programme after the application deadline, provided that there are still places available on the desired programme. This is more often the case for programmes with no admission restrictions. If you are making an application for the winter semester, please contact the Enrolment Office by email from mid-September onwards; if making an application for the summer semester, please do so from early March onwards, stating your preferred degree programme. Hochschule München does not use a lottery system. In general, you can also check the Hochschulkompass study place exchange for information on available places at other universities and higher education institutions.

When making an application for bachelor degree programmes, there is a limit of a maximum of 12 programmes at Hochschule München, or a total of 12 programmes with restricted admission coordinated via Hochschulstart. Further information on this can be found here

With an application for a master degree programme, there is a limit of a maximum of 5 programmes at Hochschule München.

You can find the documents required for each degree programme in the upload section of the application portal. Hover your mouse over the ‘?’ next to the relevant upload slot in the application portal to view further information about the individual documents.

A complete CV covering the period up to the date of application is required. You can find a CV template on our application webpages (bachelor degree programmes , master degree programmes ). It is mandatory to report all periods of prior study (if any), including for the purpose of subsequently issuing statements of total study periods or certificates for submission to the pension insurance agency. This also applies to periods of study during which you were enrolled but did not attend lectures or sit examinations.

If you have not yet submitted an application for any degree programme, you can upload the correct document again in the relevant upload slot. If you have already submitted an application for a degree programme, you cannot upload the document again yourself. In this case, please contact the Enrolment Office. Email for bachelor degree programmes, email for master degree programmes.

Yes, you can submit your application. You can continue to edit the ‘Upload documents’ section on the application portal even after submitting your application, and upload documents up until the deadline specified there. Once the specified deadline has passed, you will no longer be able to upload any documents.

If documents are marked as ‘pending’, this does not mean that there is a problem, but simply that the document has not yet been processed. Should there be a problem with any documents, they will be rejected. A note will then appear on the rejected document explaining the reason for the rejection. You will then have the opportunity to rectify the ‘problem’. Please note that some documents (such as your ID card and, where applicable, others) will only be assessed and processed at a later date and will therefore initially remain with the status ‘received/pending’.

On the application portal, you must specify what vocational training you have completed and when. A field labelled ‘Vocational Training’ will then appear in the upload section. Please upload your certificate of completion (e.g. IHK, HWK) there. Provided the training is eligible for the bonus, the university will then perform academic credit transfer. You can also find further information on this here

Applications for DoSV degree programmes via Hochschulstart (bachelor degree programmes with restricted admission) can only be withdrawn via the Hochschulstart portal during the application period.

You can withdraw applications for degree programmes with no entry requirements by sending us an email for bachelor degree programmes and an email for master degree programmes . However, you can also simply take no further action and, if you receive an admission letter, ignore it.

Registration with Hochschulstart (participation in the DoSV) is only required when applying for first-semester places on bachelor degree programmes with restricted admission, i.e. programmes that have an NC. However, once you have registered with Hochschulstart, you must submit your application via our application portal at Hochschule München, not via the Hochschulstart portal. Further information on the DoSV is available here.

If you are making an application for a master degree programme with restricted admission, you do not need to register with Hochschulstart.

You will receive the so-called BID and BAN after registering on the Hochschulstart portal. When submitting an application via the Hochschule München portal, you must then enter both numbers. You can also find information on the individual steps, for example, in the ‘Application Checklist’ or in the information sheet ‘Information on the DoSV for degree programmes with restricted admission’. Both information sheets can be found on our application website .

Prioritisation means that, if you have submitted several applications through the DoSV, you must rank them according to your priorities. Prioritising applications within the DoSV system can only be done via the Hochschulstart portal. Further information on the procedure can be found on the Hochschulstart website.

You can find an overview of the bachelor degree programmes that require a pre-internship here

No pre-internships are required for master degree programmes. Please note, however, that some master degree programmes require relevant and qualified professional experience. Further information on the individual entry requirements can be found on our Master overview page.

You can find all the key information regarding the required duration of the individual pre-internship here.

You can find all the key information on the required content for each pre-internship here.

You will find a template in our pre-internship list on the second page.

You can find the deadline by which a pre-internship – where required for a degree programme – must be completed in our pre-internship list. If an internship is to be completed before the start of your studies, this means that the internship certificate must generally be submitted by the last working day before the start of your studies at the latest. Only once the certificate has been submitted can final enrolment take place, provided that all other steps specified in the admission letter have been completed within the specified deadline.

A semester generally covers the entire semester period, i.e. both the lecture period and the non-lecture period. This means that the internship can be undertaken during the non-lecture period. You can find the relevant semester dates here .

We can send you a confirmation of enrolment stating that a pre-internship is mandatory before you commence your studies. Please contact the Enrolment Office by email regarding this matter. You will also find this information in our information sheet on the pre-internship and in the relevant study and examination regulations for your degree programme. Please provide your employer with the information sheet or the study and examination regulations.

You can find all the key information about the application process, the necessary steps and the documents required on our website .

To make an application for a bachelor degree programme, you must have your certificate assessed by Uni-Assist. Further information on making an application with foreign academic qualifications is available on our website . The assessment of foreign higher education qualifications for a master degree programme application is generally carried out by the relevant examination board for the master degree programme at Hochschule München. For a number of degree programmes, however, an assessment by Uni-Assist is also required. Further information can be found here.

At Hochschule München, students from non-EU countries are required to pay tuition fees of €500 per semester for a bachelor degree programme and €700 per semester for a master degree programme. Further information on this can be found in our FAQ and in the University Fees Regulations of Hochschule München. Please also note that additional programme-specific fees may apply. You can find information on this in our programme overviews (bachelor degree programmes / master degree programmes).

In principle, all students studying in Germany are required to be covered by the German statutory health insurance scheme. If you do not wish to take out health insurance in Germany, you must apply for an exemption from the compulsory insurance requirement. To do so, please contact a German statutory health insurance provider and apply for an exemption. The health insurance provider will then inform us of the exemption and notify us via the electronic registration procedure. The exemption from the statutory health insurance obligation must also be submitted to us digitally by the health insurance fund.

You can find a list of the German language certificates we recognise here . Please note that language requirements may vary for master degree programmes. If necessary, please check with the programme coordinators or visit our website for further information.

For degree programmes taught in a foreign language, proof of the required language proficiency must be provided in accordance with the level specified in the relevant study and examination regulations. An information sheet on the language requirements can be found here.

You may submit the supporting documentation up until enrolment (i.e. by the end of September at the latest for the winter semester and by mid-March at the latest for the summer semester).

If you are applying for a bachelor degree programme with restricted admission for the winter semester, you will usually receive a written notice in the second week of August; if you are applying for a bachelor degree programme with restricted admission for the summer semester, you will receive a written notice at the end of January. For applications to bachelor degree programmes with no admission restrictions, the timeframe for receiving a written notice varies, depending, amongst other things, on the date your application is received.

If you are making an application for a master degree programme with restricted admission for the winter semester, you will usually receive a written notice in the second half of August; if you are making an application for a master degree programme with restricted admission for the summer semester, you will usually receive a written notice by the end of February. For applications to master degree programmes with no admission restrictions for the winter semester, you will usually receive a written notice by the beginning of August, and for applications for the summer semester, by mid-February.

The notification of admission or rejection is expected to be made available to you on the application portal in the first half of September if you are applying for the winter semester, and from the second half of February if you are applying for the summer semester.

Once the coordination phase on Hochschulstart has ended, the offer of a place with the highest priority will automatically be converted into an admission. This means you cannot miss any deadlines before then (however, an offer of a place will lapse immediately the moment you receive an offer for another degree programme with a higher priority). If you have prioritised other degree programmes higher, please ensure you wait until the end of the coordination phase, as accepting an offer of admission will result in all your other applications being withdrawn from the process. Please be sure to check your order of priority again in the Hochschulstart portal. Once an offer of admission has been automatically converted into an admission based on your order of priority, it cannot be changed retrospectively. Even we, as a university, have no influence over this.

No, this cannot be changed now. Once admission has been granted by Hochschulstart, we no longer have any control over the system and cannot make any further changes there. It is possible to submit an application for a bachelor degree programme at a later date, provided that places are still available on the desired programme. This is often the case for programmes with no admission restrictions. If you are making an application for the winter semester, please contact the Enrolment Office by email from mid-September onwards; if you are making an application for the summer semester, please do so from early March onwards, stating your preferred degree programme. Hochschule München does not use a lottery system.

No, this cannot be changed now. Once admission has been granted by Hochschulstart, we no longer have any control over the system and cannot make any further changes there. It is possible to submit an application for a bachelor degree programme at a later date, provided there are still places available on the desired programme. This is often the case for programmes with no admission restrictions. If you are making an application for the winter semester, please contact the Enrolment Office by email from mid-September onwards; if you are making an application for the summer semester, please do so from early March onwards, stating your preferred degree programme. Hochschule München does not use a lottery system.

If you are making an application for a bachelor degree programme, please contact the Enrolment Office by email or by telephone on 089/1265-5000; if you are making an application for a master degree programme, please contact the Enrolment Office by email to clarify whether it is still possible to make a change.

Only once you have uploaded the photo to your PRIMUSS application portal under ‘Application Progress’ will the green button appear, which you can use to confirm your application for enrolment. And only after you have clicked on the green button will the information on how to pay the semester fee appear. That is why it is important to upload a photo even if you are already studying with us and wish to change your degree programme.

You must confirm your application for enrolment by clicking on the green button in your PRIMUSS application portal under ‘Application Progress’. The button will appear once you have uploaded a passport photo. Please ensure that you follow the order of steps set out in your admission letter.

The deadline for accepting your place on the course is, in principle, a cut-off date. If you have not completed the steps specified in your admission letter by the deadline, your admission will lapse and your place will have already been allocated to another admission candidate. Retrospective acceptance of a place is only possible if all applications for admission to the relevant degree programme have already been processed and there are still places available. Please contact the Enrolment Office (email , tel: 089/1265-5000) to clarify whether it might still be possible to accept your place or enrol at a later date.

You can submit your application for enrolment by clicking on the green button in the application portal. The enrolment declaration, on the other hand, is the third page of your admission letter. You must upload a signed copy of this to the application portal.

The declaration of enrolment form is attached as an appendix (third page) to your admission letter. Please ensure that you use the admission letter for the correct degree programme if you have made multiple applications for degree programmes and received multiple offers of admission.

You must upload a passport-sized photo to the application portal under ‘Application Progress’.

Please ensure that your head takes up approximately two-thirds of the photo, is centred, and that the background is plain. If you are using a passport photo, you may need to adjust the cropping accordingly after uploading it.

You must complete the steps set out in the admission letter in the order specified. This means that as soon as you have completed Step 1 (upload photo), the enrolment application will appear (green button). Once you have confirmed this, you can pay the fee via ePayment.

If you are unable to pay via PayPal or by credit card, you can pay by bank transfer. Please contact us by email (email for bachelor degree programmes , email for master degree programmes ) and we will provide you with our bank details.

If you have made a mistake during the upload and are no longer able to correct it yourself via the application portal, please send an email (email for bachelor degree programmes , email for master degree programmes ) with the corrected details.

Provided that the only thing missing is the digital notification from the health insurance provider and all other steps mentioned in the written notice have been completed, you do not need to worry about the deadline. In this case, we can still enrol you even after the deadline has passed and once we have received the notification from the health insurance provider.

In this case, you do not need to accept your place on a bachelor degree programme with unrestricted admission straight away; for bachelor degree programmes with restricted admission, you should apply for deferral via Hochschulstart. However, please ensure you keep a copy of your admission or deferral notice (for DoSV programmes). If you are applying for a Verbundstudium (academic study combined with vocational training) the following year, please submit your application in the correct form and by the deadline. If you are undertaking military service, you may be able to submit your application as early as one semester later, depending on the duration of your service. When reapplying, please indicate on the online application form that you have already been offered a place or granted admission to this degree programme, and upload the admission letter or deferral notice from the previous year as proof of your provisional admission. You will then be guaranteed your place again. This is known as ‘provisional admission’.

For degree programmes with restricted admission (DOSV), you can either apply for deferral via Hochschulstart or, alternatively, simply keep or save your admission letter and use it as a deferral notice the following year. For degree programmes with unrestricted admission, save your admission letter and use it the following year as proof of advance admission.

We can send you the written notice by email. To do this, we need an email containing your personal details (surname, first name, date of birth) and information about the degree programme and the semester for which you have made an application.

If you decide not to commence your studies after all, please contact our enrolment office (email for bachelor degree programmes , email for master degree programmes ) You may withdraw your enrolment up to four weeks after the start of the semester.

No, your status is not reported automatically. You must actively inform your insurance provider that you will be studying at Hochschule München and ask them to notify us of your insurance status. Even if you are privately insured, your status (in this case, your ‘exemption from the statutory health insurance obligation’) must be reported to us by a statutory health insurance provider. Please refer to our information sheet on health insurance for further details.

Your health insurance status must be reported to us electronically by a statutory German health insurance fund. Please contact your statutory health insurance provider to request this notification. You will find the sender number required on your admission letter. If you are privately insured, you must apply for exemption from statutory health insurance (see the section ‘I am privately insured’).

You will find the university’s reference number for the notification to the health insurance provider on your admission letter.

It is not a problem if we receive your health insurance notification (or notification of exemption from compulsory statutory health insurance) a few days later than the deadline stated on your admission letter. However, we cannot enrol you until we have received the notification. Once we have received the notification, you will be able to see this in your application progress. It is important, however, that you complete all the other steps listed in the admission letter by the deadlines specified.

Please contact your health insurance provider again and quote our organisation number and sender number (on page 2 of the admission letter) and “Lothstraße 34”, as otherwise the registration may be sent to the wrong university. If you have changed your degree programme, you must also state this, as otherwise the health insurance provider will not issue a new registration.

If you have private health insurance, you must obtain a ‘certificate of exemption from compulsory statutory health insurance’. If you have previously been covered by statutory health insurance, you must apply for this from the health insurance company with which you were previously insured. If you have never been covered by statutory health insurance, you can apply to any statutory health insurance company. The health insurance company must notify us digitally of your exemption from the statutory health insurance obligation.

In principle, all students studying in Germany are required to be covered by the German statutory health insurance scheme. If you do not wish to take out health insurance in Germany, you must apply for an exemption from the compulsory insurance requirement. To do so, please contact a German statutory health insurance provider and apply for an exemption. The health insurance provider will then inform us of the exemption and notify us via the electronic registration procedure. The exemption from the statutory health insurance obligation must also be submitted to us digitally by the health insurance fund.

Please submit your registration request to the health insurance provider with which you are insured on the first day of the semester (March 15th or October 1st). If you subsequently change your health insurance provider, please also ask your new provider to notify HM of your insurance status.

Even if you are over 30 years old, you will need to provide proof of health insurance or an exemption from the statutory health insurance requirement, as otherwise we will not be able to enrol you.

You can find all the key information about the central account here.

Your username was displayed to you once when your university account was activated. If you can no longer remember it, please contact Information Technology Services.

Once you have activated your university account, you can download your enrolment certificate yourself the following day via the PRIMUSS student portal. You will find this in PRIMUSS under Services > Certificates.

In very urgent exceptional cases (primarily time-sensitive matters involving embassies or foreign authorities), once you have completed your enrolment, the Enrolment Office can issue you with an enrolment certificate and send it to you by email. You can find the contact details for the Enrolment Office here .

For bachelor degree programmes, the study group for first-year students is automatically assigned by the system upon enrolment. You will then find your study group in the application progress section. If no study group is listed, it will either be assigned directly by the department (e.g. via Moodle) or there is no study group for your degree programme. For master degree programmes, where study groups exist, you will find them on your admission letter.

Depending on the degree programme and the reason for the change, it may be possible to switch study groups. Please send us an email stating your degree programme and the study group you wish to join. We will then check whether a change is possible.

You can find information on multi-factor authentication and help with any issues here .

You can find all the important information about your university email account here .

You can log in to your student account in PRIMUSS using your university ID and the password you have chosen. If you have forgotten your password, you can change it. You can find information on this here. Alternatively, you can send an email to request assistance.

You can get help via the helpdesk

Please contact the relevant Administrative Office of the department. You can find the contact details on the department’s website. An overview of all departments can be found here .