Archivschule Marburg

Admission to the professional training programmes (Referendarausbildung for higher archival service; Anwärterausbildung for senior archival service) is organised through the participating German federal states (Bundesländer), not through open international applications. Candidates are civil-service trainees (Beamtenanwärter) seconded by their employing state. There is no direct open-admission route for international students seeking a degree programme. The institution is not listed in the standard international application channels (uni-assist, Hochschulstart). Prospective international applicants should contact the school directly or approach the responsible state archive authority in their target German state.

There is no open application: admission requires appointment as a civil-servant trainee (Beamter auf Widerruf) by an archive of the federal or state governments, and applications are made to the employing archives whose vacancies the school lists on its Stellenmarkt job board. The three-year lower-grade training begins annually on 1 September / 1 October with the school course starting each October; the two-year higher-grade training begins annually on 1 May, with the school course starting each January. Each course cohort is a fixed group of 10 to 25 people.

Restricted entry - there is no open or international application route and uni-assist is not used. Trainees are appointed as civil servants on probation (Beamte auf Widerruf) by federal or state archives and are sent to Marburg for their academic course phases; applications are made directly to the training archives that advertise posts on the school's Stellenmarkt job board (stellenmarkt.archivschule.de), never to the school itself.

German only. All initial training and continuing education courses are delivered in German.