FAQ´s

After registering your data, the Hochschule will forward a welcome e-mail containing access data and a verification link. Please click on the link located at the upper right screen edge and log into the applicant portal.

After a successful login you can start your application.

You can generate a new password via the system.

In certain cases, you can still correct this data yourself. Address corrections and the specification of a new address after relocation are always possible at "personal data".

The correction of UEQ information is only possible within the framework of the procedures with manual admission restriction, by withdrawing the application and changing and reissuing data. After an online enrollment, the details of the UEQ and certain personal data cannot be changed. Data written in gray letters is blocked and cannot be changed.

In this cases, please contact the registrar´s office.

For the Bachelor's degree programme Sustainable Business and Technology, an application is processed directly through our university.

You can find more information here.

For all other degree programmes, applications can only be made via uni-assist.

You can find more information here.

The application process is divided into six steps:
 
1. registration and login at hochschulstart.de - you will receive your identification number (BID) and authentification number (BAN) there  
2. registration at the university's application portal: login to the university's application portal with BID and BAN
3. submission of the study place application in the university's application portal
4. prioritisation of the application at hochschulstart
5. After the offer of admission has been made: Acceptance of the study place at hochschulstart.de
6. enrolment in the university's application portal

Further information on the procedure can be found here.

Checklist for degree programmes with restricted admission and instructions on how to apply can be found here.

BID is the applicant identification number (applicant ID) and BAN is an applicant authentification number. You need this data to connect your application at Trier University with hochschulstart.de. You will receive both numbers when you register at Hochschulstart.

Any public body carrying a seal, e. g. authorities, parish offices, with exception of law firms, accounting firms, societies, are authorized to officially certify.

Please note:  Documents and papers not written in German can only be accepted if they are submitted in translation by a court-appointed or appointed interpreter.

„University Entrance Qualification (UEQ)“ is the higher education entrance qualification acquired outside of Germany, without an assessment test at the International College (Studienkolleg) in Germany.

You must select your personal UEQ from the applicant portal. You will find help for completion of the UEQ and a sub-classification here.

According to the new Rhineland-Palatinate Higher Education Law, professionally qualified persons are allowed to study at universities of applied sciences.

You can find more information here.

Applications to the Environmental Campus Birkenfeld have to be submitted via the online portal.

HZB code number 71.

In some degree programmes, a dual study programme is possible.

To enrol in a dual study programme, you must have concluded a corresponding training contract or internship contract (depending on the study programme) before applying. Please note the requirements of the respective dual study programme.

In the case of training-integrated degree programmes, a longer practical phase is usually completed as part of the training contract before enrolment at the university.

You can find more information on the documents to be submitted under the menu item Checklists.

You find information of the current semester fee here.

If you cannot be accepted, e.g. because your UEQ does not entitle you to study at the HS Trier or you decide in favour of another study place, you will get your money back.

Even if you wish to cancel your enrolment, you will receive part of the money back, provided that this is done by 31 March for the summer semester and by 30 September for the winter semester. If a student ID card has already been issued, the amount for the card (23 €) cannot be refunded and in any case a fee of 25 € will be retained for processing the waiver of study place for degree programmes without admission restrictions and 45 € for degree programmes with admission restrictions.

If you cancel your study place at a later date, a refund is no longer possible.

To apply for a refund, please use the refund application form.

Loss of the student ID

When losing the student ID, you may apply for a new student ID (chip card) at the student service.  The fee for replacing a lost student ID will be 23,00 €

Please pay the contribution to the following account:

Payee: LHK Mainz/ Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld 
Bank: Postbank Ludwigshafen
IBAN: DE45 5451 0067 0009 6236 71
BIC: PBNKDEFF

Purpose of use: „Student Registration Number“, „Last name“, „First name“.