FAQ

Admission requirements for studying at the Wine Campus are a certificate of higher education entrance qualification, entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or a professional qualification recognized as equivalent.

There is no numerus clausus.

If you do not yet have your Abitur certificate, you can enclose the last (half-year) certificate of your school education with your application in order to obtain provisional admission for the prosemester. The final certificate must be submitted after receipt.

Studying without a (Fach-)Abitur

In Rhineland-Palatinate, it is possible to study with a vocational qualification ("studying without Abitur") under certain conditions.

A master craftsman's certificate or comparable advanced training qualifications provide you with a general university entrance qualification. Before enrolling, you should arrange a consultation at the Wine Campus.

Other professionally qualified persons receive a subject-specific university entrance qualification under the following conditions

• Completed vocational training with an overall grade point average of at least 2.5
• Counseling interview before enrollment

The application documents include:

• Completed and signed online application form
• Copy of the training contract for winegrowers
• Curriculum vitae (please include signature)
• Officially certified school leaving certificate
• For students without a high school diploma: Proof of previous training (vocational school certificate and examination certificate as well as proof of 2 years of employment)
• For previous studies: certificate of no objection, certificate of exmatriculation and certificate of grades
• Proof of previous training or internships, if applicable
• Proof of military service / federal voluntary service or similar, if applicable

This is how it works:

• First fill out our online application form and send it to us by e-mail. Following your online application, you will receive a PDF with your completed form by e-mail.
• Print out the PDF and sign it.
• Send it back to us by post with the rest of your application documents.

All application documents should be received by our registrar' s office at Wine Campus Neustadtby July 15 of the year in which you wish to begin your training.

The EuropeanCredit Transfer and AccumulationSystem (often abbreviated to ECTS in English) 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's phase (3-4 years) and a Master's phase (a further 1-2 years), which have replaced the Magister and Diplom courses of study (4-5 years) in German-speaking countries.

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

HIS stands for Hochschul Informations System (University Information System). After logging into the portal, you can access your e-mail account, library user service, teaching platforms and many other applications. 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 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.