FAQ

The admission requirement for studying at the Wine Campus is a high school diploma, a technical college entrance qualification, or a vocational qualification recognized as equivalent.

There is no numerus clausus.

If you do not yet have your high school diploma, you can include your most recent (semester) report card from your secondary education with your application to receive provisional admission for the preparatory semester. The final diploma must be submitted upon receipt.

Studying Without a High School Diploma (or Vocational Equivalent)

In Rhineland-Palatinate, under certain conditions, it is possible to pursue a degree with a vocational qualification (“Studying without a high school diploma”).

A master craftsman’s certificate or comparable advanced training qualifications grant you general eligibility for university admission. Before enrolling, you should schedule a counseling session at the Wine Campus.

Other individuals with vocational qualifications receive subject-specific university admission eligibility under the following conditions:

• Completed vocational training with an overall grade point average of at least 2.5
• A counseling session prior to enrollment

In a dual study program, vocational training is closely integrated with academic studies. Practical training periods at the training company alternate with periods at the Wine Campus. For this reason, it’s not possible to pursue a dual study program without an apprenticeship contract with a winery. So you should start looking for an apprenticeship position well in advance. If you haven’t yet found a winery for your training, why not check out our “Apprenticeship Finder”? There you’ll find more than 400 training companies throughout Germany. You can register as an applicant there, and companies will be able to find you more quickly.

If you’ve already completed a winemaking apprenticeship, you can also apply directly for the Bachelor’s program in Viticulture & Enology.

The application materials include:

• A completed and signed online application form
• A copy of the winegrower apprenticeship contract
• Resume (please include your signature)
• Officially certified high school diploma
• For students without a high school diploma: Proof of prior education (vocational school diploma and exam certificate, as well as proof of 2 years of employment)
• If you have previously attended college: Certificate of good standing, certificate of withdrawal, and transcript
• If applicable, proof of prior training or internships
• If applicable, proof of military service, federal volunteer service, or similar

Here’s how it works:

• First, fill out our online application form and email it to us. After submitting your online application, you’ll receive a PDF of your completed form via email.
• Print out the PDF and sign it.
• Send it back to us by mail along with the rest of your application materials.

All application documents must be received by our registrar's office at the Wine Campus Neustadtno later than July 15 of the year in which you plan to begin your training.

The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (often abbreviated ECTS after the English name European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System ) is an instrument that serves to structure higher education studies and makes the weighting of its components transparent. This is intended to help ensure and continuously optimize the quality of higher education . ECTS is used in the European Higher Education Area , which includes the countries of the European Union as well as numerous non-EU countries such as Norway, Switzerland and Israel. ECTS is a central element of the so-called Bologna Process, which aims to harmonize national higher education systems, among other things by structuring courses of study throughout Europe into a Bachelor phase (3-4 years) and a Master phase (a further 1-2 years), which have replaced the Magister and Diplom courses (4-5 years) in German-speaking countries.

A total of 210 ECTS is required for the Bachelor's degree at the Wine Campus .

In order to expand the students' practical know-how, the instructor aptitude test, inter-company instruction and courses offered by the German Training Institute for Agricultural Engineering (DEULA) are offered on a voluntary basis in addition to the curriculum.

At DEULA Rhineland-Palatinate in Bad Kreuznach, two weeks of instruction in the field of applied agricultural technology take place during the prosemester, in which students are taught the proper and safe use of modern agricultural machinery in the field of viticulture and grape processing (e.g. tractors, soil care systems, plant protection equipment).

The lecture times are adapted to the dates of the inter-company training and DEULA courses so that there are no overlaps.

It is possible to receive a discount on the course costs. Detailed information on registration, current dates and the voucher form can be found in OpenOLAT.

The training company sends the originals of the training contract to the responsible authority for approval, depending on the federal state, e.g. to the Chamber of Agriculture or to Regierungspräsidium.

HIS stands for Hochschul Informations System (University Information System). After logging in to the portal, an e-mail account, library user service, teaching platforms and many other applications are clearly available. The Wine Campus can be accessed via the university portal. 

OpenOLAT is the learning management system (LMS) of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society and is made centrally available to all universities in Rhineland-Palatinate by the Virtual Campus Rhineland-Palatinate(VCRP). OpenOLAT can support various forms of web-based learning, teaching and moderation without major didactic restrictions. You can get to know OpenOLAT here.

The 15-month vocational training phase in the training company is known as the prosemester. During this time, you are officially still a trainee. The first enrollment at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society only takes place after the prosemester.

The StudentServiceCenter is the online platform of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. There you can, for example, enrol and re-register for the new semester. You can also find contacts and information about your studies there.