Online application College
Dear applicant,
We are delighted of your interest in studying at Leuphana University of Lüneburg: Please read through the following details attentively one after the other before filling out the online application:
Who can apply?
With this online application all German and foreign prospective students who have acquired a German higher education entrance qualification or passed the suitability test (Feststellungsprüfung) at the preparatory college can apply for the first semester.
Applicants with a higher education entrance qualification acquired abroad must apply via uni-assist (Arbeits- und Servicestelle für internationale Studienbewerbungen), which will pre-check their supporting documents for Leuphana University of Lüneburg.
You will find information on the application procedure via at www.leuphana.de/en/college/application/international-applications.html.We recommend that you inform yourself about our admission requirements on the following website before submitting in the application form: www.leuphana.de/en/college/application/entry-requirements.html.
What can I apply for here?
An application is only admissible for a restricted-admission Major (all Majors are admission-restricted) and, as the case may be, for a restricted-admission Minor in Leuphana Bachelor or for one of the three possible Teacher Training Courses.
What is the online application process like?
On the following pages, please first enter your personal data for your study application. Before entering your data, please read the relevant information, which you can display using the links on the relevant pages. To navigate within the online form, please use the navigation elements "Next" and "Back" at the bottom of each page and not the "Forward" and "Back" buttons of your browser!
After completing your data entry, you will receive the applicant number of your application and a printable cover letter. Student Services must receive cover letter by the application deadline on 20th of August 2020 (deadline: the postmark constitutes proof of sent date).
You will receive the postal address together with the covering letter after completing the online application. Please also note that you must submit the cover letter in the original.
You must submit the following documents supporting the information you have provided together with the cover letter. The list of documents to be submitted will be displayed again at the end of the online application.
Checklist: Documents which you may need --as the case may be-- to enter into the application form
- Certificate of university entrance qualification
- Documents proving any previous studies (current certificate of enrolment or exmatriculation certificate)
- Documents on any examinations taken at a German higher education institution
- Documents about a possible double study (enrolment certificates, preliminary and intermediate examinations, etc)
- Documents on any periods of professional activity after acquisition of the higher education entrance qualification
- Copy of your identity card and of the dgti card, if you state your first name according to the supplementary card of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Transidentität und Intersexualität (dgti) (German Society for Transidentity and Intersexuality)
We recommend that you have these documents ready before completing the online application. Please also inform yourself about our admission requirements and our admission criteria, in particular our extracurricular services, on the following website: www.leuphana.de/bewerben/fuer-ein-studium/bachelor.html. This information will make it easier for you to complete the form.
Technical notices
Please note that you cannot save your entries while you are filling in the application. If you break up your application prematurely, your entries will not be stored.
Please also note that your entries will be lost if the page remains idle for 30 minutes. Therefore, please collect all the documents necessary for the application before starting the online application process and carry it through without long interruptions. Please always remember to confirm your entries by clicking the „continue“ button“
The online application offers the possibility to go back to a previous step while entering the data. If you have corrected your data in this manner, please use imperatively the “continue” button, or your changes will not be saved.
We wish you plenty of success with your application
Your Student Services Team
Data protection information according to Art. 13 and 21 GDPR
We take data protection seriously. We process your personal data (hereinafter referred to as "data") in accordance with the legal requirements and aim at making this procedure transparent. This is a brief explanation of how, why, and on which legal basis we protect data in connection with the use of our website. Furthermore, this informs you about contact persons and your rights in connection with data processing.
Name and contact information of the person in charge:
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg represented by its President
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg
Contact information of the data protection officer Leuphana Universität Lüneburg:
- Data Protection officer -
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg
E-Mail: datenschutz@leuphana.de
Purpose and legal bases of data processing:
- We use the data requested in the online evaluation process to carry out the public interest tasks of access and admission procedures for studying at Leuphana University of Lüneburg. Data processing is necessary to fulfil these duties.
The legal bases for this processing is the following:
- § Section 3(1, 1) of Lower Saxony Data Protection Act (NDSG), Art 6(1,1,e) of DSGVO in connexion with Sections 17 and 18 of Lower Saxony Higher Education Act (NHG),
- Lower Saxony Higher Admissions Act (NHZG),
- Lower Saxony University Procurement Regulations
- General Regulations of Leuphana University of Lüneburg for entry and admission to the "Leuphana Bachelor" for all admission-restricted part-courses,
- Admissions regulations of Leuphana University of Lüneburg for all Bachelor programmes (2 subject bachelor), which teach teacher training,
- General Regulations of Leuphana University of Lüneburg for admissions for all Bachelor programmes which teach teacher training (2 subject bachelor), as well as
- § 2(3,1, No 8) and Schedule 1 of the Matriculation Regulations of Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- We will also use your telephone number, mobile number and e-mail address for the purpose of informing you at short notice of any missing documents and of the application and selection procedure. In addition, after completing the online application, we will also send the application form for your documents to your e-mail address.
This data processing is carried out on the basis of your consent voluntarily given in the course of the online application process in accordance with Art 6(1,1,a) of DSGVO.
General information:
In principle, we keep your data for ourselves and make them available only to those employees who need them for their work within the scope of fulfilling their tasks. This does not apply if we are legally obliged to pass on such data. Furthermore, we reserve the right to have some of these activities carried out by third parties if they offer sufficient guarantees that suitable technical and organisational measures will be implemented in such a way that data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements and guarantees the protection of your rights.
Further information:
In principle, we keep your data for ourselves and make them available only to those employees who need them for their work within the scope of fulfilling their tasks. This does not apply if we are legally obliged to pass on such data. Furthermore, we reserve the right to have some of these activities carried out by third parties if they offer sufficient guarantees that suitable technical and organisational measures will be implemented in such a way that data processing is carried out in accordance with the legal requirements and guarantees the protection of your rights.
Even if you do not make use of the rights below, your data will only be stored by us for as long as is necessary for the purposes mentioned above. This does not apply if, in deviation from this, a longer storage or retention period is prescribed by law or required for law enforcement within the statutory limitation periods. If data is only stored for the aforementioned purposes, access to the data is limited to the extent necessary.
We would like to inform you that the provision of your data is neither required by law nor by contract. If you do not provide your data, this may result in you not being considered in the application process.
Your right to object pursuant to Art 21 of DSGVO:
If we process your data within the scope of paragraph 1), you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.
In this case, we will no longer process this data unless we can prove that there are compelling reasons for the processing that are worthy of protection, that your interests, rights and freedoms prevail, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Your right to revoke your declaration of consent:
As far as we process your data on the basis of your consent according to paragraph 2), you have the right to revoke it at any time with effect for the future. This means that the lawfulness of the processing, as far as this has taken place on the basis of the consent up to the revocation, is not affected. The declaration of revocation can be made informally and requires no justification. If you revoke your consent, this will not result in any disadvantages for you.
Your further rights:
You have the right to request information from us about the processing of data concerning you In addition to a copy of the data, this right to information also includes the purposes of the data processing, the data recipients and the storage period.
If incorrect data is processed, you can demand the rectification of this data from us immediately. If the legal requirements according to Art 17 or 18 of DSGVO are met, you also have the fundamental right to immediate deletion or restriction of the processing of the data. If the legal requirements according to Art 17 or 18 of DSGVO are met, you also have the fundamental right to immediate deletion or restriction of the processing of the data. Please note that a limited processing of the data may not be possible under certain circumstances.
If we process your data on the basis of your consent pursuant to paragraph 2 above, you may also exercise your right to data transfer under the conditions set out in Art 20 of DSGVO.
To exercise your above rights, please contact us at:
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Studierendenservice (Students Services)
Mr. Heiko Kaddik
Universitätsallee 1
21335 Lüneburg
E-Mail: heiko.kaddik@leuphana.de
Should you have any further questions, our data protection officer will be happy to advise you.
If you have data protection complains of a legal nature, please turn to data-protection officer for Lower Saxony
data-protection officer for Lower Saxony
Prinzenstraße 5
30159 Hannover
E-Mail: poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de
Here you have the possibility to download the data protection information as pdf document.