Incoming Students Erasmus

For international Students Study at our University

You will study in our campus in Cologne, address:

Hochschule für Polizei und öffentliche Verwaltung Nordrhein-Westfalen
Erna-Scheffler-Str. 4
51103 Köln

Studying at the HSPV requires language skills in German at level B1 according to the CEFR.

Guest students have three options

  1. One semester starting in the second week of September until Christmas.
  2. One semester starting in the first Monday after New Year in January until the end of May.
  3. Two semesters starting in the second week of September until the end of May.

There is a greater variety of choices in courses in German than in English, mainly in constitutional and administrative law, economics for public administration, political sciences, sociology and psychology.  

Most of the courses up for choice are concluded by an exam (usually oral or written exam). The HSPV is committed to provide our guest students with a fair chance to succeed in their exam with an appropriate result. We take into account that it is usually more difficult to study abroad then to stay at one’s home university and collect the credits there. We therefore decide on a case-by-case basis which kind of exam is the right one for our guest students in a specific course. We may e.g. decide to replace a written exam with a presentation.

Housing

HSPV does not run student’s housing facilities. Our administration will nonetheless try to assist our guest students to find an accommodation.

Applications

The application deadline for studying from September on is the 15th of July, the application deadline for studying from January on is the 15th of October. Applications can be made by sending a mail to

 matthias.einmahl(at)hspv.nrw.de or 
 international(at)hspv.nrw.de.

Contact

International Office

Funktionspostfach für Anfragen an das International Office

international(at)hspv.nrw.de