Type and Weighting of Subjects
The following list contains an excerpt on the type and weighting of subjects (supplemented at the 397th meeting of the Executive Board on 18 April 2024) decided and approved by the Executive Board in its 393rd meeting on 22 February 2024 for the selection decision in admission restricted undergraduate degree programs and applies to the selection procedure in the 2024 academic year.
In the selection decision, the result of the higher education entrance qualification (HZB) is weighted at 60% (average grade or score) and the best grades of the last four school semesters in two subjects shown in the higher education entrance qualification are weighted at 20% each according to the following table (§ 3 of the General Regulations on the Selection Procedure for the Allocation of Study Spots in Undergraduate Degree Programs (PDF, 295 kB)).
The following grading table is used as a basis:
| Points | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade | 0,7 | 1,0 | 1,3 | 1,7 | 2,0 | 2,3 | 2,7 | 3,0 | 3,3 | 3,7 | 4,0 | 4,3 | 4,7 | 5,0 | 5,3 | 6,0 |
The subjects listed here each count for 20%:
| Schools | (Partial) degree programs | Subject | Teaching subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cultural and social sciences | Geography | German | Geography or History |
| History or History | German history | German history | |
| Educational and cultural studies | Elementary Social Studies and Science/ SP1 Work-Economy | German | Politics-Economics2or English |
| Elementary Social Studies and Science/SP1Biology | German | Biology | |
| Elementary Social Studies and Science/SP1 Geography | German | Geography | |
| Elementary Social Studies and Science/SP1 History | History German | German History | |
| Elementary Social Studies and Science/SP1 Physics | German | Physics | |
| Elementary Social Studies and Science/SP1 Politics | German | Politics-Economics2 or English | |
| Social Education | German | Pedagogy or Politics-Economics2 | |
| Sports | German | Sports | |
| Mathematics/Computer Science/Physics | Mathematics | German | Mathematics |
| Biology/Chemistry | Biology | German or Mathematics | Biology or Chemistry |
| Linguistics and literature | German studies/German | German or | Foreign language |
| Human Sciences | Health Sciences | German or | Biology or Chemistry |
| Law | First State Examination in Law [State Examination] | German | Mathematics |
1SP=focus
2Equivalent school subjects in other federal states for politics and economics
- Lower Saxony: Politics and economics (politics; law; economics)
- Baden-Württemberg: Social studies; economics (only as an optional subject, except for vocational grammar schools: business grammar school, technical grammar school, home economics grammar school)
- Bavaria: Social studies; economics and law
- Berlin: political world studies
- Brandenburg: political education
- Bremen: Politics; Law; Sociology; Economics
- Hamburg: social studies; economics
- Hesse: Politics and economics; PoWi
- Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Social studies
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Social Sciences; Law
- Rhineland-Palatinate: Social studies (together with history and geography forms the subject of social studies)
- Saarland: Politics (in the qualification phase: with a fixed proportion of History)
- Saxony: Social studies/legal education/economics
- Saxony-Anhalt: social studies; law; economics
- Schleswig-Holstein: Economics/Politics
- Thuringia: Social studies, economics and law (Thuringia)