Higher education entrance qualification
Admission to a German institution of higher education requires a higher education entrance qualification. To enrol at a university, students must have a general or subject-restricted higher education entrance qualification or pass an aptitude test or an examination for talented/gifted students. The two latter options, subsumed under "admission without a formal higher education entrance qualification" in official higher education statistics, are particularly common among students at colleges of fine arts and colleges of music. To enrol at a university of applied sciences, students must have a general higher education entrance qualification or an entrance qualification for universities of applied sciences or pass an aptitude test or an examination for talented/gifted students.
