Can you apply for DoSV programmes via uni-assist?

Yes — but only if the DoSV university works with uni-assist. You register in the DoSV portal at hochschulstart.de and apply through uni-assist; there is no "get a VPD first, then apply at hochschulstart" sequence.

#What DoSV is

A coordination procedure run by the Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung for locally restricted (and occasionally unrestricted) undergraduate programmes. Not every programme with an NC takes part; the course search in the DoSV portal shows which ones do.

#Steps with uni-assist

• Register in the DoSV portal and note your BID and BAN.
• Create your application in My assist and enter BID/BAN — without them uni-assist cannot forward it.
• uni-assist forwards positively evaluated applications electronically; the university decides on admission.
• You set priorities and accept offers in your hochschulstart account.

#Watch out

• Some DoSV universities do not use uni-assist; then you always apply via the university itself.
• For medicine, dentistry, pharmacy and veterinary medicine, applicants who are not EU citizens and have no German school-leaving qualification apply directly to the universities, not through the central procedure.
• The DoSV application phase ends on 15 July (winter) and 15 January (summer), but this is not a single deadline for everyone — universities set their own. uni-assist recommends applying at least 8 weeks before the university's deadline.

Source: uni-assist – hochschulstart/DoSV · hochschulstart – international applicants