Teacher Training in Primary Schools, State Examination
As a primary school teacher, you will accompany young students through their middle and late childhood and not only impart knowledge, but at the same time be significantly involved in their educational process and should support it professionally.
Programme facts
| Degree | State Examination |
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| Duration | 7 semesters, 210 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
| Admission | No admission restriction: every eligible applicant is admitted |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €104 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
Every applicant who meets the formal requirements is admitted — but places can run out before the deadline, so apply at the start of the window.
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
The contents of the modularized course are laid down in the Bavarian Teaching Examination Regulations I (LPO I).
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
After the first teaching examination, there is a two-year practical training course ( preparatory service ) for teaching at a primary school, which concludes with the second state examination . The Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture regularly publishes statements on the prospects for employment in the various teaching areas.
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As a certified teacher, you are also qualified for activities outside of the school service . B. Speaker activities at educational institutions, extracurricular youth education, in-house training, educational activities at specialist publishers and much more. Depending on the combination of subjects, there is a wide variety of opportunities to work on the free labor market and in business. In order to open up these professional fields for you, you should already gain extracurricular experience during your studies, e.g. B. in the context of internships and stays abroad.
With the additional acquisition of various certificates, you can also specifically build up competencies for certain activities in non-school, educational fields of activity . You can currently acquire the following certificates:
- " Museum education " - Museums as places of learning
- " Integration, interculturality and diversity " - helping to shape social diversity
- " Education Management " - Education as a lifelong process
- " Information and Media Literacy " - The networked and hypermedialized information and knowledge society
Another option is the Master’s degree in "Educational Processes" , with which you not only acquire an international educational title, but also apply for a doctorate in educational science or qualify a subject didactics. The master’s degree also offers the opportunity to prepare for extracurricular fields of work in various modules.
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €104 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | A school certificate that gives access to university in Germany — directly or after a Studienkolleg. |
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| Language | German B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to B2 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application via uni-assist until 15.07uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
Questions about this programme
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When do I need to apply?
Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.07.2027 (274 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.