1.3.3 Trial study

Question

What other possibilities are avaiable for me if I don't posses offical academic qualifications?

Remark: If your high school certificate is recognised in Germany, you do not need this section and can go on to the next one.

Persons without a school-leaving certificate but with a qualified vocational training and work experience can apply for a course of study at TH Lübeck. In the courses of study with restricted admission, 1 or 2 trial students can be admitted per semester (depending on the admission capacity of the course of study). There is no space restriction in the free-admission programmes. In both cases, the following requirements must be met:

Proof of completed vocational training with at least satisfactory grades and at least three years’ work experience in the learned profession (periods of training notwithstanding)
Proof of professional relationship between the training, the work experience carried out and the chosen course of study.
Applications are submitted by filling in the relevant application form within the regular application deadlines.
A limited admission is not possible if the applicant has already been enrolled for a limited period of time at another university in the state of Schleswig-Holstein.

Alternatives to the three years’ work experience requirement include:

a compulsory service in the armed forces, in the Federal Border Guard, in a civil defence association or in an alternative or equivalent temporary service
service in development aid under the Development Aid Act,
the voluntary social year (FSJ) in accordance with the law on the promotion of a voluntary social year or the voluntary ecological year
the independent management of a family household with at least three persons or with at least one person in need of upbringing or care

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