That is possible, and there just was an article in a major paper reporting that the numbers of people using that option has increased substantially (German arti

That is possible, and there just was an article in a major paper reporting that the numbers of people using that option has increased substantially (German article): http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/deutschland-60-000-studenten-haben-kein-abitur-a-1201332.html http://www.spiegel.de/lebenundlernen/uni/deutschland-60-000-... 60,000 students without "Abitur", the traditional path, if you have job experience of "several years" (don't know what that means) you can still study.