Abendgymnasium Aufnahme

If you are an adult and would like to obtain the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) and have at least 24 months of professional experience or substitute periods, you can apply to a Second Chance School. Find out more here.

The Abitur at the Abendgymnasium is part of the education offered by the adult school. The evening grammar school is a grammar school course that is geared towards the needs of working adults. The evening grammar school course is divided into an initial phase, a 1-year introductory phase and a 2-year qualification phase, depending on previous schooling.

Teaching is based on the concept of "blended e-learning", i.e. it comprises face-to-face and distance learning phases. Classroom teaching usually takes place at our school three evenings a week. Students who still have to take the 2nd foreign language must come on 4 evenings. The distance tasks, which are made available to you via a learning platform, you work on at home according to your own time constraints.

Depending on your school requirements, the course lasts 3.5 or 2 years until you obtain the general higher education entrance qualification (Abitur).

Attending the Abendgymnasium is free of charge, and you can apply for parent-independent BaFöG for the last 3 semesters of the course.

Are you over 18 years old?

Have you been employed for at least 24 months (even marginally) or can you provide evidence of substitute periods? Do you have a secondary school leaving certificate (MSA) or the extended vocational training entrance qualification (ErwBBR)?

If you then successfully pass the entrance examination in German, English and mathematics, you can attend our evening grammar school.

• Registration form
• Curriculum vitae
• Applicants for the initial phase:
  • Certificate of intermediate school leaving certificate (MSA) or certificate of advanced vocational training entrance qualification (ErwBBR)

• Applicants for the qualification phase:
  • University of Applied Sciences certificate or transfer certificate for the qualification phase

• Proof of professional activity or substitute periods
  • Possible special application

• You are at least 19 years of age in the school year of registration.
• You have obtained the Mittlerer Schulabschluss (secondary school leaving certificate) or the Erweiterte Berufsbildungsreife (secondary school leaving certificate with final examination).
• You have at least two years of professional experience (including part-time) or substitute periods. Military service, civilian service, voluntary social/ecological year can be counted towards the period of employment. The management of a "family household" (at least one child or a person in need of care is part of the household) is considered equivalent to professional activity.
• You have proven your aptitude in the entrance examination. The entrance examination comprises the subjects German, English and mathematics.
• Applicants for the qualification phase must submit a transfer to the qualification phase or a certificate from a university of applied sciences instead of a secondary school leaving certificate. An entrance examination is not required in this case.

During the application deadlines, you can register online for the Abitur at the Abendgymnasium.

• Register during the application period using the adult school registration form. You can find the link under "Further information" - "Forms" - "Adult school online registration".
• The application phase for the initial phase is in the fall, the application phase for the qualification phase in the spring.
• Submit the required documents to the adult school.
• At the information evenings, find out more about the Abendgymnasium and the entrance examination for admission to the initial phase.
• After your application documents have been checked, you will receive an invitation to the entrance test in German, mathematics and English if you meet the requirements. If you pass the test, you will be offered a place at the school.
• Applicants for the qualification phase do not have to take an entrance test.