Switching to a different degree programme with a subject-specific higher education entrance qualification (fachgebundene Hochschulreife)

Students who successfully complete the VSI MINT foundation programme at Saarland University will automatically receive a subject-specific entrance qualification for the Bachelor Plus MINT degree programme. That means that initially these students will only be able to enrol for this one specific degree programme at Saarland University. However, according to Sec. 5 of the Regulations Governing Entrance Qualifications for Saarland University (Qualifikationsverordnung der Universität des Saarlandes) students can acquire the higher education entrance qualification for another degree programme if they have earned 60 ECTS credits from the first year of the programme that they want to switch to (see studying with a subject-specific entrance qualification). Students on the Bachelor Plus MINT programme therefore have the option of focusing during their first two semesters on a subject area of interest and then subsequently switching to the relevant Bachelor's degree programme in that field. The chart below illustrates this process for a student switching to the Bachelor's degree programme in Computer Science. More detailed information about the different STEM degree courses at Saarland University can be found in the relevant study regulations or can be obtained from the respective examination office.

Important: ECTS credits that were earned in the preparatory phase of the VSI MINT programme can be used to count towards your Bachelor's degree, depending on the subject you choose to study.

Example: Switching from 'Bachelor Plus MINT' to the Bachelor's degree programme 'Computer Science'

After successfully completing the VSI MINT foundation programme, you can start studying the 'Bachelor Plus MINT' degree programme. If you plan to switch later on to the Bachelor's degree programme 'Computer Science', you should take the modules shown below. In this example, it is assumed that you passed the written exams at the end of the lectures courses 'Advanced Mathematics for (Science and) Engineering 1 & 2', which are part of the preparatory phase of the VSI MINT foundation programme.

Switching to another degree programme

After successfully completing the above modules, you will acquire the subject-specific higher education entrance qualification for computer science, which allows you to transfer from the 'Bachelor Plus MINT' programme to the Bachelor's degree programme 'Computer Science'.

Note: The lecture courses 'Advanced Mathematics for (Science and) Engineering 1–3' are treated as a single module and replace the lecture courses 'Mathematics for Computer Science 1–3'. However, it is not possible to combine the lecture courses. If you have successfully completed the written exams at the end of the lecture courses 'Advanced Mathematics for (Science and) Engineering 1 & 2', which are part of the preparatory higher education access course, you can take the exam associated with 'Advanced Mathematics for Engineering 3'. If you pass, you will have effectively completed the module 'Mathematics for Computer Science 1–3' and the associated 27 ECTS credits will count towards your degree.