There are a variety of entry routes to the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management, namely:

• general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur),
• subject-restricted higher education entrance qualification,
• Fachhochschulreife,
• at least two years of professional training in a related field + three years of professional experience in a related field + successful trial study programme (1-2 semesters),
• Vocational training + three years of professional practice + passed entrance examination,
• Successful completion of the master craftsman's examination or further vocational training equivalent to the master craftsman's examination (e.g. further training as an administrative specialist) or
• Degree as a state-certified business economist or state-certified technician.

The Fachhochschulreife can be acquired in different ways depending on the federal state, e.g. through

• Secondary school leaving certificate + two-year specialised secondary school or
• Secondary school leaving certificate + vocational training + one-year specialised secondary school.

If you are not sure whether you can be admitted to the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management: Our Study Service Centre will be happy to advise you.

No. There are no tuition fees. However, if the total standard period of study is exceeded by more than four semesters, fees of 500.00 euros/semester must be paid. Further details and special regulations can be found in the Thuringian Higher Education Fees and Charges Act (ThürHGEG) of 21 December 2006 (GVBl. p. 601), last amended by Article 15 of the Act of 11 June 2020 (GVBl. p. 277, 284).

In addition, fees of 85.00 euros/semester are payable to the student union, 5.00 euros/semester to the student body and 176.40 euros/semester for the Deutschland-Ticket, i.e. a total of 266.40 euros/semester (as of summer semester 2025). For the first semester, there is an additional one-off charge of 20.00 euros for the Thuringian Student Union Card Thoska.

Please apply online. Then submit the required documents to the Study Service Centre at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences. This is possible until 30 September each year if you wish to start your studies in the winter semester, or until 31 March each year if you wish to start your studies in the summer semester. If you fulfil the admission requirements, you can enrol as soon as you have paid the fees for the first semester.

If you are employed for at least 20 hours per week, you can be enrolled on a part-time degree programme in accordance with Section 13 of the Enrolment Regulations. Part-time semesters are counted as half semesters. The amount of the semester fee remains unaffected by part-time study. You can then study with half the workload per semester and take more time for your studies accordingly. However, the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management is an attendance-based programme. Attendance is only compulsory for very few modules. However, the other modules are also designed for on-campus study.

A part-time degree programme will be easy to manage if you have your workplace in Nordhausen or the surrounding area and can arrange your working hours flexibly enough to allow you to attend courses. It is also important that you can be deployed during the internship semesters in accordance with the internship regulations. It is advisable to seek student counselling in advance.

The Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management is not a dual study programme. You can complete the degree programme without a training contract with a public administration. This is the standard case for which the degree programme is designed. However, if a public authority concludes a study contract with you that includes the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management or grants you a scholarship for this, there is nothing to prevent this from the university's point of view.

Coursework and examinations completed at other state and state-recognised universities can be credited upon application, provided that no significant differences in terms of the skills acquired can be identified and justified. It is best to contact the Examination Office at the beginning of your degree programme.

You have acquired competences and skills outside the university sector through your training. Such competences and skills can only be recognised if they are equivalent to the competences and skills acquired through the relevant modules and are to be demonstrated by their successful completion. The criteria for recognition are the content, level and topicality of the competences and skills. Equivalence is generally not given in the case of training as an administrative assistant (level 4 of the European Qualifications Framework) qualifying for activities at intermediate civil service level.

In the case of further training to become an administrative specialist (level 6 of the European Qualifications Framework), however, crediting is possible. Traineeships can only be credited if the activities to be credited are usually carried out by civil servants in the higher non-technical service or comparable employees due to their content and level and practical training of six months in specialised key areas of the career tasks is ensured.

In terms of content, the Bachelor's degree programme meets the requirements of the position paper of the Conference of Interior Ministers of 23/24 June 2005 and the recommendations of the Conference of Interior Ministers of 4/5/6 December 2024. It is therefore a degree programme that directly qualifies you for the career path of the higher non-technical administrative service in Thuringia (Section 22 (2) of the Thuringian Career Path Act - ThürLaufbG). You acquire the career qualification by the authority that wants to make you a civil servant recognising this in accordance with the career law of the federal government or the respective state. This is a formal procedure under the responsibility of the hiring authority. After successfully completing the Bachelor's degree programme in Public Business Administration/Public Management, it is not necessary to take a separate examination in order to acquire the career qualification.