Kommunale Hochschule für Verwaltung in Niedersachsen

Admission is not open to general international applicants. Entry requires prior employment or a training contract (Ausbildungs- or Studienvertrag) with a participating Lower Saxony municipal, district, or church authority. For the Bachelor of Arts, applicants typically hold the German Abitur (or equivalent) and an employment contract with a sponsoring public-sector body. For the Master of Arts, a completed bachelor's degree in public administration and continued public-sector employment are required. APS certificate is not applicable given the employment-based admission model. The institution does not recruit international students in the conventional sense.

Applicants cannot enrol directly: admission requires an appointment, trainee or employment relationship (usually as civil servants on probation) with a Lower Saxony municipality, the state administration or the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, and applications go to that employer, not to the university. Employer application deadlines are typically in summer/autumn of the year before studies begin; vacancies are advertised by each employer.

Restricted civil-service entry, no uni-assist: prospective students cannot apply to the HSVN directly - admission requires an appointment, trainee or employment relationship (usually as probationary civil servants) with a Lower Saxony municipal, state or church employer, and the application is made to that employer, not to the university. No uni-assist or hochschulstart route exists; the International Office supports enrolled students' outward mobility (PROMOS, Erasmus+), not incoming degree applications.

German only. No English-taught programmes offered.