Social Work

Application for summer and winter semester

Social Work offers for degree-seeking students

• 55 study places in the winter semester
• 54 study places in the summer semester
• July 15: Application deadline for the winter semester
• January 15: Application deadline for the summer semester

These dates are cut-off deadlines, which means that your application documents must be received by this date in order to be considered for the allocation of study places.

Current information on the application procedure.

Start of lectures

• Beginning of October for the winter semester
• Mid-March for the summer semester

the exact dates can be found in the menu item Dates.

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Who gets a study place?

The applicants with the best overall grades will be admitted.

For the winter semester 2022/23 and the summer semester 2023, all applicants who met the admission requirements received an offer of admission.

Selection procedure - how is the overall grade calculated?

At RWU, the admission procedure for this degree program is governed by the Admission and Selection Statutes for Bachelor's programs are applied and carried out on the basis of the application documents. The preparation of a proposal list or ranking list is explained below: from the application documents, the applicant's position on a ranking list is determined according to the following procedure: Calculation of a weighted overall grade according to the formula
[(average grade of university entrance qualification)+(grades German, mathematics and continued modern foreign language)/3] / 2

If there are more applicants than places, 90% of the places are awarded by the selection procedure (best overall grade) and 10% of the places are awarded by waiting period.

Improvements of the overall grade

This overall grade can be improved by a maximum of 0.9 if one or more of the following qualifications are demonstrated:

• Completed vocational training in the field of health and social services: 0.3
• Professional activity in the training occupation of at least 1 year: 0.1. A maximum of 2 years can be credited.

Extracurricular achievements, pract. Extracurricular activities, practical activities and recognized previous experience: 0.2 per qualification, max. 2 qualifications can be credited:

• Relevant internships of at least 11 months.
• At least 2 years of voluntary work or service in social, socio-cultural, charitable or community initiatives or organizations
• A voluntary social or ecological year or voluntary development service of at least 11 months
• Child-rearing period of at least 6 months for children in own household

Move-up procedure

Prospective students often apply to several universities and study programs. As a result, study places regularly become vacant again because an applicant decides to take up another study place. These vacant places are then awarded to those who did not make it in the first place. Places are again awarded according to the ranking list, i.e. first to those with the best overall grade.

Further information about the application and the allocation of study places can be found in the Admissions Office.

Semester fee

Every semester , a semester fee is due for all students upon enrollment or re-registration. This fee is charged at a similar rate by all universities in Germany.

Composition and amount of the fee

Fees for international degree-seeking students and for second degree studies

In BW, a mandatory tuition fee for international degree-seeking students (non-EU citizens) is required since the winter semester 2017/2018. This fee also applies for graduates of other third cycle study programs. Thus, in some cases, a tuition fee must be paid in addition to the semester fee.

Prior to enrollment, applicants from non-EU countries or applicants for a second degree will receive a form to assess whether a tuition fee obligation actually exists.

The amounts and detailed information can be found under Finances.