Application

Please check our course catalogue for suitable courses and complete the form learning agreement. Make sure to indicate the course number, course title and ECTS (credits) for each course.

To facilitate your search, please check our info sheet on how to find courses in our course catalogue.

• Important notices:
  • The courses of your exchange semester will most probably not yet be published. Please refer to past semesters, i.e., if you are completing your exchange in fall semester, check the courses of the previous fall semester as most of them will be available again next fall semester.
  • Please note that the semester abbreviations in our course catalogue are as follows: HS = fall semester (Herbstsemester in German), FS = spring semester (Frühlingssemester in German).
  • Apart from courses in your study program, you may also select classes in other programs, even across faculties.
  • At the time of the application, the learning agreement must be signed by your home university as well as yourself. It is not necessary to get our signature. You can also leave the fields of the contact person at the host institution empty (name, email etc.).
• Credits: For exchange students, we recommend selecting courses of 20-25 ECTS. 1 ECTS equals 25-30 hours of work and a full-time semester workload for regular students corresponds to 30 ECTS.
• English-taught courses: The majority of courses in English are offered on Master level. Bachelor exchange students are welcome to sign up for Master courses. Exceptions are possible and we will inform you if there is an issue with your course selection.
• Course restrictions: Please note that further training courses (study programs entitled CAS or DAS) as well as courses in medicine and veterinary medicine are not open to exchange students.

For a successful exchange, CEFR level B2 is required in either English or German (for students of English literature and linguistics: CEFR level C1). We accept the following certificates as proof of your language skills:

• IELTS: 6.0 overall and 6.0 in the writing section
• TOEFL iBT: 80 overall and 17 in the writing section
• Goethe Zertifikat B2
• Similar tests with a comparable score to IELTS 6.0 and TOEFL iBT 80

Please upload your language certificate. If you do not have a language certificate, you may also provide a confirmation from a professor or the language center of your home university stating that you have the required level (your current CEFR level needs to be stated explicitly).

Students from English speaking countries are exempt from this requirement, please upload your passport as language confirmation.

Please note that your passport needs to be valid for another six months after the end of your exchange. Make sure to renew it in time, if necessary.