Admission

The TUHH uses the dialogue-oriented service procedure (DoSV) provided by the Stiftung for Hochschulzulassung (Foundation for University Admissions) for all applications for Bachelor’s courses. To familiarise yourself with the different phases of this procedure, please see the information provided here (German only).

You can expect to receive your offer of a place from the TUHH between late July and early August.

If your application is successful, you will receive an offer from the TUHH on hochschulstart.de. This is the only way in which you will be sent an offer.

Once you have accepted your offer on hochschulstart.de, or this was automatically assumed based on your priorities, you will be able to download your notification of admission (Zulassungsbescheid) from the university’s application portal. You are strongly advised to keep a copy.

Please note that if you accept an offer on hochschulstart.de, any open application procedures for other courses will be cancelled, and it will no longer be possible for you to be admitted onto those courses. This cannot be reversed. Please therefore check your offer carefully and decide whether you actually want to take up this course or would prefer to wait for a different offer. Once you have been offered a place on your top-priority course, you will be removed from all other ranking lists for subsequent courses. 

If you have applied to the TUHH for two Bachelor’s courses, it is possible that you will receive an offer for both. Please check your order of preference on hochschulstart.de.

If you receive an offer from the TUHH onto a degree programme with restricted admission, but cannot accept the study place because you want to participate in the German Federal Volunteers Service (Bundesfreiwilligendienst), print out your offer from hochschulstart.de and then apply there to defer your place. You can then apply for prioritised admission next year, at latest the year after next.

Notification of Rejection

Your application may be rejected based on the selection criteria or on formal grounds. If this is the case, you will receive a notification of rejection. If your application was rejected because there was an insufficient number of available places, you will be able to participate in the waiting list procedure.

The waiting list procedure

If an offer was not accepted, either because the applicant decided not to accept the place or because admission was forfeited, the place will be offered to the next highest-ranked candidates as soon as possible. 

Don't miss the deadline for enrolment!

The deadline for enrolment can be found in your notification of admission. You must submit your enrolment application with all necessary documents in the correct form online to the TUHH by this deadline. If you fail to do so, you will forfeit your place. Once you are enrolled, you will receive confirmation of your enrolment with a request to pay your semester fee.

Documents to be submitted on enrolment

The online enrolment application contains details of the documents you are required to submit on online enrolment. Academic and Student Services may require you to submit additional documents. You will be informed if this is the case. In general, the following documents must be uploaded (please note that this list is not exhaustive):

• your university entrance qualification (school leaving qualification, German Abitur certificate, or similar)
• Copy of your identity card/passport/ID
• certificate from your statutory health insurer or notification of exemption from compulsory insurance (see here for more information).
• If applicable,  your certificate of service (voluntary or other) as evidence of your reasons for deferment, as well as your notification of admission from a previous admission procedure (when applying for preferential treatment in the current round).
• If applicable, evidence of previous university studies (e.g. certificate of enrolment, evidence of grades, degree certificates, notification of de-registration). 
• If applicable, evidence of language level. See here for more information.
• Individuals who fall under section 37, paragraph 1, numbers 3 to 7 of the Hamburg Higher Education Act (HmbHG), that is, applicants who hold the German professional qualification ‘Meister’ or ‘Fachwirt’ must provide evidence of having attended a consultation with the relevant study advisers (Studienfachberatung) at the TUHH.
• for minors: a declaration of consent from their legal guardians
• Applicants from the People’s Republic of China, India and from Vietnam must provide an original APS certificate or original confirmation from the German embassy in their home country that their documents are authentic.

No officially certified documents are required. In individual cases, the TUHH reserves the right to verify documents with the issuing authority.