Uni-assist application for bachelor graduates from outside Germany

The obligation of this step does not depend on your nationality. It only depends on the fact whether you have got a German bachelor's degree or not. The reason is that FH Wedel does not have the expertise to evaluate foreign documents. This is done by the national organisation uni-assist who does this for a lot of German universities. Alternatively, you may try to get an APS certificate via the embassy if this is available in your country.

Make sure that you pay the processing fee to uni-assist. Otherwise, uni-assist will not process your documents.

You have to send uni-assist all documents relevant for your bachelor degree, further all language certificates. If you are not sure which documents to submit, you must inquire uni-assist, not FH Wedel. If you want to apply in a facilitated way in Step 2), you must apply to uni-assist in this step explicitely for FH Wedel and the study programme IT Engineering. Otherwise, you need to provide us more documents in Step 2).

Uni-assist will answer with a VPD (Vorprüfungsdokumentation). The VPD mentions a file number and your GPA according to the German education system. An electronic file attached to your file number is available by FH Wedel officials only if your VPD is issued for FH Wedel explicitely. This file is not visible by yourself and includes more information than the VPD. The file also includes electronic copies of all documents you have sent to uni-assist. This is the reason why you need not send us additional documents in Step 2). However, FH Wedel will not be informed by uni-assist when uni-assist sends you the VPD. This is your responsibility!

If you submit in Step 2) a VPD not valid for FH Wedel explicitely, we will not have access to any document you submitted to uni-assist. We will also not get the additional information about your language abilities and the ECTS credits you achieved. In this case, you must send us the necessary documents yourself, and we will always assume that you have got 180 credits only (which is the standard by uni-assist for more than 95 % of our applicants anyway). The same holds if you apply with a APS certificate only. So a VPD not valid for FH Wedel has the same value for us as an APS certificate.