Numerus Clausus
At Leuphana College, all majors as well as all teacher education programs have an admission restriction. The familiar Latin term for an admission restriction is numerus clausus ("completed number"). This means that only a certain number of first-year students can be admitted to these majors and therefore admission limits apply.
The special thing about the admission procedure at Leuphana University is that it is not only the final grade that decides who gets a study place. Leuphana College offers the opportunity to score points through extracurricular achievements, participation in a study skills test and, if applicable, participation in a selection interview and thus improve the chance of a study place. This process is explained in detail on the Admissions Process page.
For the individual criteria, you can achieve the points listed below:
- maximum 30 points for the average grade of the university entrance qualification.
- maximum 5 points for extracurricular achievements.
- a maximum of 24 points in stage 2 (depending on the field of study, composed of a study aptitude test, selection interview and mathematics test).
Below you will find the admission limits for previous years. Please note:
- This can only be used as a guide to the admission limits for the current admission process.
- The points of the person who received the last place to be awarded in a degree program determine the new admission limit in that application year.
- Different quotas are taken into account in the admission process, within which separate admission limits apply (best quota, main procedure, waiting period quota).
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