• Final examination
    Upon passing the final examination at VET schools for engineering, arts and crafts and the VET schools for people in employment, graduates boast professional qualifications entitling them to immediately exercise the respective occupations and giving them access to regulated professional activities. The final certificate additionally entitles them – in the case of 3-year VET schools, following completion of a preparatory course – to entry to a subject-related add-on course of the 3rd semester of the VET college for people in employment. Final examinations can also be taken at the end of foreperson courses, building craftsperson schools and master craftsperson courses.
  • Reifeprüfung certificate and VET diploma
    Graduates of the  VET colleges and the VET colleges for people in employment acquire a double qualification: The Reifeprüfung certificate and VET diploma opens up access to university/higher learning sector as well as to immediately exercise professions at executive level in the engineering and arts or crafts sector in industry and trade. 
    A central part of the Reife- und Diplomprüfung examination is the diploma project, whereby the students must examine a topic from the specialist comprehensively and independently. This diploma projects are conducted in the final year under the supervision of experienced teaching staff, in many cases in cooperation with business sphere. This not only enables the students to gain major subject-related experience in real projects but also often make the first contacts for subsequent employment.
  • Diploma examination
    Post-secondary VET-courses     are completed with a diploma examination. As the students at the post-secondary VET-courses have already acquired university/higher education entrance qualifications, the diploma examination comprises the subject-specific modular exams of the Reife- und Diplomprüfung, in particular diploma work.