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Application deadline for Master's programmes
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Applicants who need to attend the preparatory German language course before
Deadlines for persons with a German university degree
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- Z = Restricted admission
- Z* = Probably restricted admission
- B = Special admission requirements includes, among other things,
- different admission procedures and deadlines
- various language requirements
- vocational training or experience
| Subject | Winter semester 2025/2026 | Summer semester 2026 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z | B | Beginning students | Transferring students | Z | B | Beginning students | Transferring students | |||||||
| Start | End | Start | End | Start | End | Start | End | |||||||
| Advanced Nursing Practice | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| Applied Economics and Data Science | Z* | B | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Art and Media Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Biology | Z* | B | 15.05.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Business Administration: Management and Law | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Business Informatics | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Chemistry | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Comparative and European Law | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | ||||||||
| Computing Science | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Cultural Analysis | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Data Science and Machine Learning | Z | B | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Digitalised Energy Systems | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Dutch Linguistics and Literary Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Ecumenism and Religions | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Educational Science | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Education and Research Management | B | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | ||||
| Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Engineering Physics | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | ||
| English Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Environmental Modelling | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| European History | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations | Z* | B | 15.09.25 | 15.12.25 | - not possible - | Z | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | |||||
| European Master in Renewable Energy | Z* | B | 15.01.25 | 15.04.25 | - not possible - | Z | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | |||||
| German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| German Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Health Services Research | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| Hearing Technology and Audiology | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship | B | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | ||||
| Integrated Media - Audiovisual Media in Practice, Theory and Instrumentality | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Landscape Ecology | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Language Dynamics: Acquisition, Variation, Change | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Law and Information Systems | B | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | ||||
| Law in a Sustainable and Digital Europe | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | - not possible - | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||||
| Marine Environmental Sciences | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| only in reasonable cases | ||||||||||||||
| Marine Sensors | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| only in reasonable cases | ||||||||||||||
| Mathematics | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Microbiology | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| Molecular Biomedicine | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Museum and Exhibition | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Music Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Neurocognitive Psychology | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Neuroscience | Z* | B | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Philosophy | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Physics | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Physics, Engineering and Medicine | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Rehabilitation Counseling Education | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Risk Management and Financial Analysis | B | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 01.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 01.03.26 | ||||
| Slavic Studies | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Social Sciences | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | ||||||
| Sport Science | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Sustainability Economics and Management | Z* | B | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | 01.06.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Sustainable Renewable Energy Technologies | Z* | B | 15.08.25 | 15.01.25 | 15.05.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Water and Coastal Management | B | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | 01.06.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.12.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
Deadlines for persons with an international university degree (outside Germany)
Earlier application deadlines will apply for degree programmes:
- Microbiology M.Sc.
- Molecular Biomedicine M.Sc.
- Neurocognitive Psychology M.Sc.
- Neuroscience M.Sc.
- Pflege – Advanced Nursing Practice M.Sc.
These changes can only be made available in the overview following approval by both the Presidential Board and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK). The changes will become effective following publication in the Official Notices of the University of Oldenburg. For this reason, the effective version with the planned changes will probably be published at a late stage.
Please be sure to check this page regularly for the current deadlines.
Legend
- Z = Restricted admission
- Z* = Probably restricted admission
- B = Special admission requirements includes, among other things,
- different admission procedures and deadlines
- various language requirements
- vocational training or experience
| Subject | Winter semester 2025/2026 | Summer semester 2026 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Z | B | Beginning students | Transferring students | Z | B | Beginning students | Transferring students | |||||||
| Start | End | Start | End | Start | End | Start | End | |||||||
| Advanced Nursing Practice | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | B | - not possible - | at any time | 31.10.25 | |||||
| Applied Economics and Data Science | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | |||
| Art and Media Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Biology | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Business Administration: Management and Law | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | |||
| Business Informatics | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | ||||
| Chemistry | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Comparative and European Law | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | ||||||||
| Computing Science | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | ||||
| Cultural Analysis | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Data Science and Machine Learning | Z | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Digitalised Energy Systems | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | |||
| Dutch Linguistics and Literary Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Ecumenism and Religions | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Educational Science | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | ||||
| Education and Research Management | B | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | ||||
| Engineering of Socio-Technical Systems | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.12.25 | |||
| Engineering Physics | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.06.25 | Z | B | 15.08.25 | 15.12.25 | 15.08.25 | 15.12.25 | ||
| English Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Environmental Modelling | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| European History | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| European Master in Migration and Intercultural Relations | Z* | B | 15.09.25 | 15.12.25 | - not possible - | Z | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | |||||
| European Master in Renewable Energy | Z* | B | 15.01.25 | 15.04.25 | - not possible - | Z | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | |||||
| German as a Foreign Language / German as a Second Language | B | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| German Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Health Services Research | B | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| Hearing Technology and Audiology | B | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship | B | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | ||||
| Integrated Media - Audiovisual Media in Practice, Theory and Instrumentality | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Landscape Ecology | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Language Dynamics: Acquisition, Variation, Change | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Law and Information Systems | B | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | ||||
| Law in a Sustainable and Digital Europe | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | - not possible - | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.10.25 | ||||||
| Marine Environmental Sciences | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| only in reasonable cases | ||||||||||||||
| Marine Sensors | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| only in reasonable cases | ||||||||||||||
| Mathematics | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Microbiology | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||
| Molecular Biomedicine | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.10.25 | |||
| Museum and Exhibition | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Music Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Neurocognitive Psychology | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.10.25 | |||
| Neuroscience | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.04.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.10.25 | |||
| Philosophy | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Physics | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Physics, Engineering and Medicine | B | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Rehabilitation Counseling Education | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Risk Management and Financial Analysis | B | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 01.08.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | 15.11.25 | 01.02.26 | ||||
| Slavic Studies | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | ||||
| Social Sciences | B | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | 15.03.25 | 31.08.25 | B | - not possible - | - not possible - | ||||||
| Sport Science | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Sustainability Economics and Management | Z* | B | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Sustainable Renewable Energy Technologies | Z* | B | 15.08.25 | 15.01.25 | 15.03.25 | 15.07.25 | Z | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 15.01.26 | |||
| Water and Coastal Management | B | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | 15.03.25 | 30.09.25 | B | - not possible - | 15.11.25 | 31.03.26 | |||||