Summer Semester 2025
- Semester length: From April 1, 2025 through September 30, 2025
- Lecture period: From April 14, 2025 through July 19, 2025
- Public holidays:
April 18, 2025 – Good Friday
April 21, 2025 – Easter Monday
May 1, 2025 – May Day
May 8, 2025 – 80th anniversary of the liberation from National Socialism
May 29, 2025 – Ascension Day
June 9, 2025 – Whitmonday - Lecture-free period: Begins July 20, 2025
- Course registration: Begins April 1, 2025
- Allocation of places in courses with limited capacity: Begins April 11, 2025, from 12:00 p.m.
- Applications for a leave of absence: Final deadline May 26, 2025
- Applications for part-time study: Final deadline April 1, 2025
- Registration renewal for 2025 summer semester: Final deadline February 14, 2025
- Registration renewal for 2025/2026 winter semester: Final deadline July 18, 2025
- Registration for auditing students affiliated with a different university (Nebenhörer*innen): From April 1, 2025, through May 9, 2025
For Prospective Students: Deadlines for Applying, Registering, and Enrolling
Undergraduate Degree Programs
- Degree programs with one subject (“Mono bachelor”) and state examination degree programs
Applications for degree programs with limited admission:
From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out from mid-February 2025 onward. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and for enrollment.
Applications for degree programs with unrestricted admission:
From December 1, 2024, through March 1, 2025
Formal notifications to enroll will be sent out gradually throughout the application period. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadline for accepting your study placement.
- Combined bachelor’s degree programs (“Combi bachelor”)
Applications where at least one component (core subject or additional module[s]) has limited admission:
From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out from mid-February 2025 onward. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and for enrollment.
Applications where all components have unrestricted admission:
From December 1, 2024, through March 1, 2025
Formal notifications to enroll will be sent out gradually throughout the application period. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadline for accepting your study placement.
- Degree programs with one subject (“Mono bachelor”) and state examination degree programs
Degree programs with limited admission for the first semester in the degree program:
(including applications for higher semesters)
From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out from mid-February 2025 onward. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and enrollment.
Degree programs with unrestricted admission for the first semester in the degree program:
(including applications for higher semesters)
From December 1, 2024, through March 1, 2025
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out gradually throughout the application period. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadline for accepting your study placement.
- Combined bachelor’s degree programs (“combi bachelor”)
All combinations:
(for all semesters within the degree programm)
From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out from mid-February 2025 onward. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and for enrollment.
- You can find further information on the website for applicants who want to study pharmacy and veterinary medicine: From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
- You can find further information on the website for applicants who have professional/vocational school qualifications or occupational training.
- Applications for reviews of documentation from applicants with professional/vocational school qualifications or occupational training: From December 1, 2024, through May 31, 2025
- The usual deadlines for undergraduate degree programs apply to applicants who have professional/vocational school qualifications or occupational training.
- Deadlines for the admission exam for applicants with professional/vocational school qualifications or occupational training and for preparatory courses can be found on the Studienkolleg website.
- Applications for undergraduate degree programs are only accepted in the run-up to the winter semester and are open from June 1, 2025, onward via uni-assist.
- You can find further information regarding the entrance exam on the Studienkolleg website.
- Applications for external assessment exams or additional exams (without the applicant having first attended the Studienkolleg preparatory course) via uni-assist: From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
- You can find further information on the exchange of study placements website.
- Final deadline April 7, 2025
Master’s Degree Programs
- Applications for master’s degree programs with limited admission (first semester in the degree program):
From December 1, 2024, through January 15, 2025
This application period applies for all semesters within the master’s degree program.
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out from mid-February 2025 onward. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and for enrollment.
- Applications for master’s degree programs with unrestricted admission:
From December 1, 2024, through Febraury 15, 2025
This application period applies for all semesters within the master’s degree program.
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out gradually throughout the application period. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadline for accepting your study placement.
- Master’s degree programs in education
From December 1, 2024, through February 15, 2025
This application period applies for all semesters within the master’s degree program.
Formal notifications of admission will be sent out gradually throughout the application period. Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadline for accepting your study placement.
- Lottery procedure
From February 1, 2025, through February 10, 2025
A lottery procedure only takes place if there are still study places available after the admission procedures have been completed. You can find further information and places on degree programs offered via the lottery procedure on the lottery procedure website.
- Application deadlines for continuing education master’s degree programs:
School Development in Line with Teaching of Democratic Principles and Social Skills:
Applications are only accepted in the run-up to the winter semester and are open from April 15, 2025, through August 31, 2025
European and International Business, Competition, and Regulatory Law:
Applications are only accepted in the run-up to the winter semester and are open from December 1, 2024, through March 15, 2025.
Futures Studies:
Applications are only accepted in the run-up to the winter semester and are open from April 15, 2025, through June 30, 2025.
- Please consult the formal notification of admission for further information, as this will state the deadlines for accepting your study placement and for enrollment.