Study places are distributed in accordance with Article 5 of the Bavarian Higher Education Admissions Act and awarded in accordance with various criteria. First of all, all applicants with deferred admission will receive a study place. Of the remaining study places, the advance quotas are established first.

The specific percentage of study places to be allocated to the individual advance quotas is published in the latest valid statute on admissions figures. The following advance quotas are required by law:

• 5 to 10% for foreign nationals
• 2% for exceptional hardship
• 2 to 8% for applicants who have acquired the qualification for their chosen course of study in a degree programme that has not yet been completed
• up to 8% for persons undertaking academic studies combined with vocational training
• 2 to 8% for persons studying for a second degree
• 3 to 10% for qualified professionals with “Abitur” or “fachgebundene” university entrance qualification purusant to Article 88 of the Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act (BayHIG), of which applicants with “fachgebundene” university entrance qualification are allocated study places proportionately. More information about this is on our German website, “Studium ohne Abitur”. The size of this special quota corresponds to the percentage of applicants with “fachgebundene” qualifications to the total number of applicants in accordance with Article 88 of the Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act (= all applications with vocational qualifications).
• Up to 3% for applicants who belong to a group of persons determined by the university by its statutes and who are to be considered or supported in the public interest, in particular for applicants who belong to an Olympic, prospective, supplementary or junior squad 1 of a federal professional association of the German Olympic Sports Federation (top athletes) formed at federal level.

Once these quotas have been deducted, the remaining study places are split between:

• Abiturquote general university entrance qualification
  
  Selection based on the “Abitur” average grade
  
  or
   
• FOS/BOS Quote General university entrance qualification or university of applied sciences entrance qualification
  
  Selection based on the average grade
  
  This is a special quota for applicants that have obtained their university entrance qualification at a “Fachoberschule” or “Berufsoberschule”.
  
  The proportion of the study places to which the special quota relates corresponds to the proportion of applicants who have obtained their university entrance qualification (HZB) at a “Fachoberschule” or a “Berufsoberschule” to the total number of German applicants or applicants with a status equal to that of a German applicant to the degree programme in question.
  
  That means, for example, if 40% of the applicants gained their HZB at a “Fachoberschule” or a “Berufsoberschule” (FOS/BOS) and 60% at a “Gymnasium”, then 40% of the study places will go to the “FOS/BOS Quote” and 60% to the “Abiquote”.
  
  The type of secondary school determines the contingent, not the HZB itself.
   
• for degree programmes with a supplementary selection procedure: 30% based on the selection of the average “Abitur” grade and 70% based on the result of the supplementary university selection procedure pursuant to Article 5 (4) line 1 of the BayHZG.
  
  Please note: A waiting period was last considered in the admission process for winter semester 23/24. Since then, the waiting period is not longer relevant for admission.