The term NC denotes, first and foremost, an admission restriction. A degree program is restricted if a university decides before the start of a semester that only a limited number of applicants may be admitted. If there are more applications than the limitation allows for, there is a selection procedure in accordance with the above-mentioned criteria.

At the moment all bachelor degree programmes with the exception of Geodesy and Geoinformatics and Smart Building Engineering are restricted.

If you want to apply for the bachelor programme Architecture or Civil Engineering you get extra points for a successful completed technical and subject-specific professional training. Please click the words "Architecture" or "Civil Engineering" and you see for which professional training you get extra points.

For the awarding of study places we use a special conversion system. The grade of your higher education entrance qualification is converted in points (for example: grade 1,0 will be 45 points) and is multiplied with a weighting factor of 3. For the succesful completed technical and subject-specific professional training you get extra 15 points.

In the table below you see which points conform with the grade of your higher education entrance qualification.

The first step consists in ranking applicants - both by grade + successfully completed technical and subject-specific professional training (achievement ranking) and by the amount of time, counted as a half-year or semester, since the applicant has received his Abitur or secondary-school leaving degree (waiting period ranking).

There is no local succession procedure for the study programmes participating in the DoSV.  Study places are allocated during the coordination phase.

The unrestricted degree programmes Geodesy and Geoinformatics and Smart Building Engineering take part in the "Coordinated succession procedure" in the DoSV.

Further information you can find here.

Once the entire succession procedure has been completed, a so-called NC Wert (threshold value) can be established - one according to grade plus a successfully completed technical and subject-specific professional training (only in Architecture and Civil Engineering) and one according to waiting time. Therefore the achievement threshold value corresponds to the number of points (grade + professional training) accrued by the last applicant admitted from the achievement list. The waiting period threshold value corresponds to the waiting time accrued by the last applicant admitted from the waiting list.

A grade point average does not improve according to the amount of time an applicant waits. Threshold values always reflect the relationship between supply (number of places) and demand (number of applicants). Threshold values can only provide information about past, not future, selection procedures. No one establishes a threshold value for a future selection procedure; threshold values are based solely on the grades and waiting times of the last applicants on the admission lists. You can find past restriction values below. There you can also find out about the ratios of places and applicants.