Admission restriction

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

For these admission-restricted courses of study, the study places are allocated according to a special selection procedure.

Selection procedure (Bachelor and teaching degree)

Who gets a study place?

The selection takes place according to a defined procedure and is carried out in this 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 only as quotas . 

The sorting (the ranking) of the applicants on these quotas is carried out according to specific criteria (see below), which vary depending on the quota. Only the best applicants of the respective quota will be granted a study 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 is placed is the so-called cut-off rank. The value of the relevant selection criterion of the last applicant admitted forms the so-called cut-off value, colloquially also known as the "numerus clausus"(NC).

NC results of the last years

It is not possible to answer in advance with which limit value one still receives a study place in the respective quota, since it always depends on the ratio of free study places to the number of applications in the current procedure. At the end of an application procedure, you can be informed with which value the last admission (limit value = NC) was made (detailed example below). This information is published per application procedure for all degree programs with restricted admission and for all quotas.

NC results of the last years: Forward

Selection quotas

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

1. quotas for special applicant groups

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.

2. quota "selection procedure of the university

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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2.1 Degree programs in which a subject grade is also assessed:

In some degree programs, 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 study program.
Currently, there is only one study program that has 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. 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.

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 program in the main procedure. Among the applicants with an average grade of 2.0 - without waiting period - the decision had to be made 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 who demonstrated 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 were lucky enough to draw lots were admitted.

    For the degree program in Industrial Engineering and Management, admission was 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 were admitted who had 7 half-years of waiting time*.
    • Of the applicants with 6 half-years of waiting time, only those who also have at least a 2.7 average grade were admitted.

    <hr>*Due tochanged legal regulations, from now on no more than seven semesters of waiting time will be included in the calculation of the waiting time (see §5 HSchulZulG HE). Therefore, waiting periods beyond seven semesters no longer improve the chances of obtaining a place at university.

    Selection procedure (Master)

    1. quotas for special groups of applicants

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

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

    2. quotas selection procedure of the university

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

    2.1 Degree programs in which a subject grade is also assessed:

    In some programs, however, other selection criteria are used in addition to the bachelor's grade, such as (aptitude test, education or training, special qualifications from the bachelor's degree) are included and evaluated.

    The overall distribution at a glance (Master)

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    Move-up and lottery procedure

    Often, after the main procedure has been completed, some study places remain unfilled and a Nachrückverfahren is carried out. The rejection notices are therefore only sent out after the move-up procedure.

    In some study places there are also still a few study places unoccupied after the completion of the Nachrückverfahren. These are then drawn by lot. In most cases, these are study places for which the commitment on the part of the applicants was subsequently withdrawn. Those who have not previously applied for this study course can also take part in the lottery procedure . However, the chances of obtaining a study place are often very low. 

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