Testimonials

"Early study was a great challenge for me. I was able to improve my independence and self-confidence by stepping out of my comfort zone. From a professional point of view, the early study programme helped me a lot in making decisions about my academic career, e.g. choosing a degree programme after my Abitur."

"Early study was the best phase of my school career. Of course it took up a lot of free time, but with a bit of planning and discipline, I was able to combine my studies with time-consuming hobbies."

"Studying early changed my self-image: While I was top of my class at school and tended to be bored by lessons, during my early studies I met people who were better than me at maths, for example. These encounters taught me humility, but also motivated and challenged me. I would recommend the early study programme to anyone interested simply because of the opportunity to meet similarly talented people. It also gives you an insight into studying and university processes, which makes it much easier to start university life later on, even if you decide to study a different subject."

"The early study programme is a great way to assess the level of study at the university. However, it can be frustrating if you don't take enough time to familiarise yourself with the content."

"Early study helped me at a time when I felt quite alone with my niche subject interests at school. Not only did I like the quantity and depth of the subject matter compared to the school curriculum, I also think that this leap into the unknown also prevented me from imagining too much about my head start at school. I was also able to make new friends among the students who shared my interests."

"In my last semester of early study, I felt as though I was already enrolled as a regular student; the Abitur was therefore less of a major milestone in my life and more of a final hurdle that I needed in order to continue my studies. Thanks to this attitude, I spared myself a lot of the stress and panic that many of my classmates found very stressful."

"For one semester, I attended the University of Würzburg on a weekday instead of school. It wasn't a problem for me to catch up on my schoolwork, and the teachers were very supportive. However, I found it difficult to get into the degree programme, the subject level and the intensity of learning is not comparable to school. However, it is probably the same for everyone who starts a regular degree programme. That's why the early degree programme was a great experience for me to get to know everyday university life, and when I started my degree after graduating from high school, I knew what to expect."

"The early study programme was an immensely important experience for me, as my entire family consists of non-academics, so I had no idea what and how things work at a university beforehand. The early study programme also helped me with my choice of subjects, as I failed almost all the exams during the early study programme itself, but didn't want to accept this and therefore started to study the subject properly afterwards ;-) My advice to new early-stage students would be to see the early-stage programme more as a supplement and to continue to concentrate fully on school."

"It gave me a lot of confidence in my own potential and inspired me to pursue an academic career, which I am currently doing."