Admission and Studies

The personal situation of disabled and chronically ill prospective students can be taken into account when applying for a study place. In order to give applicants with disabilities or chronic illnesses equal access to studying and an equal admission procedure, you can assert your disability or chronic illness.

Hardship Application

When applying for a degree program with an eligibility assessment procedure (EFV), in which rejection is possible in the first stage, students with disabilities or chronic illnesses have the opportunity to avoid rejection in the first stage and proceed directly to the second stage of the eligibility assessment. If you have a disability or chronic condition that had a negative impact on your school grades, this can be taken into account during the application process. To make use of this provision, you must submit proof of your condition to the Admissions Office. Please upload the relevant documentation as an attachment to your university entrance qualification within your application.

School Report

When applying for a Bachelor's degree program with an aptitude assessment procedure (EFV), students with a disability or chronic illness have the opportunity to provide a school report to prove that one or more disabilities or chronic illnesses have had a negative impact on their school grades. The school at which you received your higher education entrance qualification can issue you with a school report stating the grades you would probably have received without the disability or chronic illness. As this is a hypothesis - what grades you could have achieved without the disability or chronic illness - the preparation of a school report is complex and time-consuming. Not only do you have to submit the circumstances that led to a performance impairment (e.g. months of hospitalization), but you also have to prove how the circumstances affected the average grade.

You must request such a report directly from your school. Please note that the preparation of a school report can take a long time! Therefore, apply for it as early as possible and also enclose all documents on which the school report is based, such as certified certificates and specialist medical reports, with the application to your school.

You must apply for such a report directly at your school. Please note that the preparation of a school report can take a long time! You should therefore apply for it as early as possible and also enclose all documents on which the school report is based, such as notarized certificates and specialist medical reports, with the application to your school.

Bachelor's degree programs with an aptitude assessment procedure (EFV), in which a direct rejection in stage 1 is possible, can use additional knowledge to increase the chances of admission. We therefore recommend that you check whether and which additional qualifications, such as an internship, you can submit for your desired degree program.

Please upload the school report as an additional page to your higher education entrance qualification (HZB) when you apply in TUMonline.

When applying for a Master's degree program, you must always provide evidence of the specific requirements and fulfill the prerequisites. Due to the aptitude procedures for Master's degree programs, special hardship is not taken into account, as the aptitude procedures are not exclusively based on grades but also examine other contents.

However, if you would like to claim circumstances, a disability or chronic illness that have had a negative impact on your Bachelor's degree grade, please upload all relevant documents as “optional documents”.