The average grade of your school-leaving certificate (Hochschulzugangsberechtigung, HZB) or first degree is of particular importance for admission to a course of study at HWG Ludwigshafen; you cannot change this grade. However, there is the possibility to improve your Verfahresnote, which is the grade with which you are accepted into the admission procedure. The basis for this is Annex 2 of the new statutes of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences concerning the selection procedure: "Selection of foreign nationals or stateless persons who do not have the same status as Germans according to § 1 Paragraph 2 Sentence 2 StPVLVO (§ 5)".

According to this

1. the selection is made according to § 12 paragraph 2 StPVLVO. The procedural grade is calculated from the average grade of the university entrance qualification or the grade of the first university degree minus the total sum of the bonuses according to No. 2 and 3.

2.  Bonuses for special circumstances (max. 0.6 grade values)

A special circumstance is considered to be when the applicant.

a)  receives a scholarship from a German institution for the promotion of gifted students for a course of study (bonus 0.5),

b)  receives funding on the basis of intergovernmental treaties or higher education agreements (bonus 0.5),

c)  enjoys the right of asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany (bonus 0.3),

d)  has acquired the higher education entrance qualification exclusively according to foreign law at a German school abroad (bonus 0.3),

e)  is a graduate of a Rhineland-Palatinate Studien- oder Sprachenkolleg and applies to the HWG Ludwigshafen in the following semester after the final examination of the Studien- und Sprachenkolleg (bonus 0.3),

f)  already had an earlier admission to the HWG Ludwigshafen for the course of study applied for and was not able to take advantage of this admission for proven reasons for which the applicant was not responsible (e.g. visa, illness) (bonus 0.3); the number of earlier admissions is irrelevant for the bonus amount.

g)  provides proof of German language skills at the C2 level when applying for degree programs that only require proof of the C1 level (bonus 0.5).

3.  Bonus based on proof of a general or subject-specific study aptitude test.

Upon proof of the TestAS, applicants receive a bonus on the average grade of their university entrance qualification according to the following table (max. 1.0 grade value), depending on the score achieved:

The bonuses of the core test and subject module are added together. If the subject module was taken in a subject area that does not match the degree program applied for, it will not be taken into account. The allocation of courses to subject modules is done according to the following table