You have the possibility to submit an application for hardship or an application for compensation for disadvantages and an application for localisation in the public interest. However, these are only approved in extremely rare cases!

Please read the information under the category "Further information and regulations".

You have the option of improving your score by means of a rating. Please refer to the statutes of the respective study program or the checklist for the application under the category "Online application" to find out which activities and certificates each study programs offers.

Before applying, please inform yourself about the criteria for the admission and selection process (checklist + language skills). If you have any questions about the content and subject matter of the program, please contact the contact person of the respective study program.
We are pleased that you would like to apply for a Master's program at HfWU! Almost all of our study programs are admission-restricted - there are more applications than study places and therefore a selection process. With the following overview we would like to help you to study your desired degree program with us. Many successes, we look forward to seeing you!

The application is online and paperless.

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Switch the language selection only within the portal (via the setting on HfWU's application and enrollment portal SELMA from German to English) and disable the machine translation from the browser in the meantime!

a) If  you are applying to HfWU for the first time, register on HfWU's application and enrollment portal SELMA.

b) Are you already a student at HfWU and would like to apply for aMA programs? Then please use the student online portal SELMA for your application and select the admission portal there.

IMPORTANT! Please upload in the upload field "Academic Transcript or Bachelor Certificate" additionally the other mandatory documents (e.g. letter of motivation, etc.) and optional documents for bonification.

If you have a foreign Bachelor's degree, you will need an additional certificate for the above-mentioned courses of study:

• If you are a foreign national: Apply early for recognition of your Bachelor's degree at the Studienkolleg Konstanz.

• If you are a German citizen: Apply early for recognition of your Bachelor's degree at the Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen in Bonn

• In case of Chinese and Vietnamese citizenship: First you need the certificate of the APS. After that, you can apply for recognition in Konstanz.
  Chinese: https://www.aps.org.cn/aps-standort-peking 
  Vietnamese : www.vietnam.diplo.de/vn-de/vertretungen/botschaft
   

Register on the application and enrollment portal SELMA at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen. After completing the registration in SELMA, a user account will be available to you here. For this purpose, please query the e-mail address you provided.

Once you have completed your application for admission online in SELMA, your application will be displayed in the application portal. Here you will see the status changes of your application and, after the release of the ranking lists for the respective study offer, also an offer of admission if there is an admission opportunity for your application. Likewise, you will receive all notification documents only through this account.

In the event of a change in status, you will receive an e-mail notification from SELMA. Therefore, check the mailbox of the e-mail address you provided regularly to stay up to date on the application process.

Have you applied via uni-assist? Then you will receive your decision by mail and have to proceed as shown in the admission letter.

Have you applied via the SELMA portal? Then check your user account. If an admission letter is available, please take the online enrollment in SELMA. A button to do so will now be made available to you. Please also note the links and instructions on your notice. If you are already enrolled at HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen and want to change your degree program, you must change your degree program in the Selma application for enrollment under the item "Confirm desired degree program".

Please note that there is a deadline for enrollment in your admission letter. By the end of this deadline, the signed confirmation of enrollment together with the officially certified copy of your university entrance qualification and the officially certified copy of your Bachelor's/Master's degree certificate must be received by mail at the Student Affairs Department of HfWU Nürtingen-Geislingen in order for you to be enrolled. If you do not meet this deadline, the notice of admission will become invalid and enrollment will no longer be possible.

All students must pay the semester fee (from the Summersemester 2025 155,10 €) each semester within a certain period of time.

Persons/students who are citizens of a country outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) and who wish to study in Baden-Württemberg must pay €1500 per semester (plus semester contribution).

Students who take up a second or further course of study in an undergraduate degree program (bachelor's degree program or degree program according to § 34 paragraph 1 of the State University Act) or in a second or further consecutive master's degree program after a university degree completed in the Federal Republic of Germany must pay €650 per semester (plus semester contribution).

All information on the semester contribution and tuition fees can be found on Financial Issues under the tab "Tuition Fees".