First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen] - admission restricted
Admission to the First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen] at Osnabrück University is restricted, as demand exceeds the number of study spots available and not all applicants can be offered a place due to a lack of capacity.
For orientation, it is worth taking a look at the selection limits of recent years. These selection limits are the result of the existing admission restrictions and reflect the rankings up to which applicants could be offered a place.
The admission restriction also applies to higher semesters.
The application periods are basically the same - however, the application modalities and selection criteria differ, which are shown below for each semester.
Please note: Different deadlines apply for international prospective students. You can find Information for international prospective students.
First Semester
Application Modalities
The "Foundation for University Admission" coordinates the allocation of study places for the first semester of the undergraduate degree course First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen] and thus helps to avoid vacant study places. The Hochschulstart.de website provides a wealth of information and FAQs on this type of allocation procedure.
A brief summary of the key points!
If you are interested in studying in the first semester of the undergraduate degree program First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen], you must register via Hochschulstart. To register, you must enter your personal data. A BID (applicant ID) and a BAN (applicant authentication number) are then generated, which must then be entered for the application via the university's application portal. Conversely, this means that you can only submit your application via the Osnabrück University application portal once you have successfully registered with Hochschulstart.de. All the steps required in the Osnabrück University application portal are explained there and you will be guided through your application in a secure and informative manner.
Info on logging in to the Application Portal
Are you or were you already a student at Osnabrück University? Then log in with your access data under "Uni-Login"!
You don't have access data yet? Then please register and then log in under "Applicant Login"!
Please note:
Multiple registrations via Hochschulstart.de are not permitted. If multiple registrations are made, only the applications from the last registration will be sent to the universities. All previous multiple registrations will be deleted along with all applications belonging to them and will not be included in the further procedure. A deletion cannot be reversed.
Please be sure to prioritize your submitted applications at Hochschulstart!
In the admission procedure, you will only ever receive the admission offer from the university with the highest priority - i.e. admission offers with a lower priority are immediately forfeited as soon as an offer with a higher priority is received.
The application, admission and enrollment procedure at Osnabrück University is generally carried out electronically. Required documents must therefore be uploaded to the university's application portal in PDF format within the respective deadlines. We would like to point out at this point that Osnabrück University reserves the right to randomly check uploaded documents and to have the original document or a verified document presented.
No special admission requirements are necessary.
Underage Applicants
Applicants who are not yet an adult must submit a declaration of consent (PDF, 16.07 kB) with their application.
If you have submitted your application within the above-mentioned application period in the Osnabrück University application portal and uploaded the application documents there, the staff in the Admissions Office of the University will check your application/documents for completeness, among other things. They will also check whether you meet the admission requirements for the First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen].
Only if the overall result of the examination is positive will a formal allocation procedure follow.
As soon as you have been admitted to the Osnabrück University, this will be displayed in the Osnabrück University application portal as a status change ("Admission offer available"). We therefore recommend that you always keep an eye on the status of your application in the application portal. If you have given your consent, you will receive the formal letter of admission electronically via the Osnabrück University application portal. The application portal also contains information and notes on this. We strongly recommend that you not only keep an eye on the status of your application in the application portal and your inbox there, but also keep an eye on your email inbox. To be on the safe side, always check your spam folder.
If your application has reached the status "offer of admission has been made" and you wish to accept the place, this is also done exclusively electronically via the Osnabrück University application portal. You no longer need to submit any documents by post, but must upload them to the application portal in PDF format within the acceptance and enrollment deadline set in the letter of admission. Osnabrück University reserves the right to randomly check uploaded documents and to request the original document or a verified document.
Don't forget to actually accept the place via the portal!
Once you have accepted the place, completed the enrollment application and uploaded the required documents, the information and documents you have provided will be checked for completeness. You will not be enrolled until this check is also positive overall and you will be notified of this as a change of status ("Enrolled").
You will then receive a welcome letter via the Osnabrück University portal with further information and instructions for your studies, including how to set up your access to myuos.uni-osnabrueck.de, how to re-register for the next semester and how to use your e-mail address and Campuscard. Please make sure that you complete setting up your access within 14 days of receiving the welcome letter.
You can find all information on enrolment in the enrolment regulations (PDF, 461 kB).
You can also find out about the costs of studying.
What deadlines apply when applying for a first semester place on the First State Examination in Law course at Osnabrück University?
If your registration at Hochschulstart was successful, you can apply for a study place in the first semester of a degree program with restricted admission via the application portal of Osnabrück University from 2 May up to and including 15 July (cut-off deadline) .
Please note that if you apply for the First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen], you cannot apply for any other Bachelor's degree program with restricted admission at Osnabrück University in the first semester.
Can a preferred university be specified?
You can only apply to Osnabrück University for one place on a restricted-admission degree program - however, you can apply to up to twelve universities for the same degree program via Hochschulstart. After submitting your application, you can view the status of these applications in the Hochschulstart application portal and prioritize them according to your personal preferences. The best possible admission (option) is determined during the subsequent coordination phase by Hochschulstart.
The selected prioritization plays a decisive role here: due to the dynamic nature of the process, lower-priority offers are not retained, but are eliminated as soon as a higher-priority offer is possible. In short: If you receive an admission offer from a university that you have prioritized higher than all others in the applicant portal, all lower-priority offers will be eliminated.
Urgent recommendation!
Study requests should therefore be checked again in the Hochschulstart application portal by the deadline indicated there and then finally placed in the order of priority actually favored.
Who receives which data/information in the Hochschulstart procedure?
Hochschulstart.de processes selected data received by Osnabrück University. The employees of Osnabrück University only have access to applications sent to Osnabrück University, but not to applications sent to other universities. Data security is guaranteed at all times. Further information on data protection and data security in the DoSV can be found in the Hochschulstart.de privacy policy.
Higher Semester
Places in a higher semester can only be allocated within the scope of available capacity. The decisive factor here is whether the places to be made available in accordance with the current Admissions Regulations are (still) occupied in the higher semester.
Please note that in the case of a valid application, you can only be enrolled in the higher semester applied for if the office responsible for you issues a corresponding placement recommendation and you submit this to the Admissions Office. You will receive information on where to obtain the placement recommendation in your letter of admission - the placement recommendation is therefore not yet required for the application.
Here you will find further information on the procedure for admission to a higher semester and the placement recommendation/credit transfer of academic achievements as well as the relevant forms.
Urgent recommendation!
Before transferring to Osnabrück University, please contact the respective academic advisors/deans of studies to clarify which achievements can be credited and whether practical entry into the higher semester is possible without any problems or loss of time.
Application Period
You can find the application period for an application in the higher semester here.
Application Modalities
For a study place in a higher semester in the undergraduate degree program First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen], you must apply exclusively via the application portal of Osnabrück University! The application portal itself explains all the necessary steps and guides you safely and informatively through your application procedure.
Info on logging in to the Application Portal
Are you or were you already a student at Osnabrück University? Then log in with your access data under "Uni-Login"!
You don't have access data yet? Then please register and then log in under "Applicant Login"!
The application, admission and enrollment procedure at Osnabrück University is generally carried out electronically. Required documents must therefore be uploaded to the university's application portal in PDF format within the respective deadlines. We would like to point out at this point that Osnabrück University reserves the right to randomly check uploaded documents and to have the original document or a verified document presented.
No special admission requirements are necessary.
If you have submitted your application within the above-mentioned application period in the Osnabrück University application portal and uploaded the application documents there, the staff in the Admissions Office of the University will check your application/documents for completeness, among other things. They will also check whether you meet the admission requirements for the undergraduate degree program First State Examination in Law [Staatsexamen].
Only if the overall result of the examination is positive will a formal admission procedure follow.
As soon as you have been admitted to a place at Osnabrück University, this will be indicated in the Osnabrück University application portal as a change of status ("admission offer available"). We therefore recommend that you always keep an eye on the status of your application in the application portal. If you have given your consent, you will receive the formal letter of admission electronically via the Osnabrück University application portal. The application portal also contains information and notes on this. We strongly recommend that you not only keep an eye on the status of your application in the application portal and your inbox there, but also keep an eye on your email inbox. To be on the safe side, always check your spam folder.
If your application has reached the status "admission offer has been received" and you wish to accept the place, this is also done exclusively electronically via the Osnabrück University application portal. You no longer need to submit any documents by post, but must upload them to the application portal in PDF format within the acceptance and enrollment deadline set in the letter of admission. Osnabrück University reserves the right to randomly check uploaded documents and to request the original document or a verified document.
Please do not forget
- actually accept the place via the portal and
- submit the placement recommendation to the Admissions Office! Please note the special features of the placement recommendation! Information on the placement recommendation for the undergraduate degree program First State Examination in Law [state examination] can be found on the pages of the allocation procedure.
Once you have accepted the place, completed the enrolment application and uploaded the required documents, the information you have provided and the documents you have uploaded will be checked for completeness. You will only be enrolled and notified of this as a change of status ("Enrolled") if this check is also positive overall.
You will then receive a welcome letter via the Osnabrück University portal with further information and instructions for your studies, including how to set up your access to myuos.uni-osnabrueck.de, how to re-register for the next semester and how to use your e-mail address and Campuscard. Please make sure that you complete setting up your access within 14 days of receiving the welcome letter.