Are you looking for the person who is responsible for you at the Central Examinations Office? You can find your contact person under Contact persons.

The Central Examinations Office would like to continue using and expanding digital processes in the future. Therefore, please continue to submit all types of documents in digital form.

The possibility of sending documents by mail or by dropping them in the outside mailbox at the Central Examinations Office is also still available.

If necessary, an individual appointment for a personal visit on site can be arranged - by telephone or e-mail - with the contact person responsible for you in the Central Examinations Office.

We currently accept all documents and assessments in digital form without exception. Please send them as scans by e-mail to the responsible contact person in the Central Examinations Office. In case of documents which need to be signed, please have them signed first and then scanned with the signature, thank you.

Please send us all applications, papers or other documents digitally. Please send them as scans by e-mail to the responsible contact person in the Central Examinations Office. If a signature is required, please first sign the document and then scan it with your signature, thank you.

Without exception, all documents are accepted as scans in digital form.

For the organizational handling of examination matters, more and more degree programs are using online services. Here, examinations can be registered, grade certificates/transcripts of records can be issued, or overviews of already registered exams can be viewed easily and independently of opening hours.

Click here to get to the online services.

You can download grade certificates via the online services. If you need a signed grade certificate, you can receive it from the responsible contact in the Central Examinations Office.

In addition, the Central Examinations Office can provide you with further examination-related certificates for other authorities and institutions.

The examination regulations are the legally binding basis for your studies.

The module manual supplements the respective examination regulations and describes the contents of the individual modules in detail. The module manuals can be found on the websites of your department.

Subject-specific regulations govern the contents and requirements of the degree program on the basis of the examination regulations of the teacher training degree programs.

The individualized standard program duration hasn’t been increased again since the beginning of the Summer semester 2022. Previously, the individualized standard program duration had been increased for all students enrolled in the Winter semester 2021/22 and/or Summer semester 2020 and/or Winter semester 2020/2021 and/or Summer semester 2021.

In principle, registration for the exams must take place up to two weeks before the exam.

Your examination regulations govern the deadlines that are binding for you. There may be deviations.

As a rule, you can register via the online services. In principle, please wait for the confirmation of your registration (right column "Status"), because in some cases the system checks whether you have already fulfilled the requirements for participation in the examination.

If online registration is not possible for examinations with individual examination dates, please use the registration forms provided by your team. You can find out about any deviations in the registration modalities on the team pages.

Even in case of technical problems, the registration must be communicated to the Central Examinations Office in due time.

In principle, the following deadlines apply:

• Oral exams: until one week before the exam date
• Written exams: until one day before the exam date

Your examination regulations govern the deadlines that are binding for you. There may be deviations.

As a rule, you can deregister via the online services. Please always wait for the confirmation of your deregistration (right column "Status"). If online deregistration is not possible for examinations with individual examination dates, please use the PDF deregistration form. The signature of the examiner is required here.

Even in case of technical problems, the deregistration must be done in time. Please also use the PDF deregistration form. Outside office hours, deregistrations can be posted in the outside mailbox (in front of the building at Emil-Figge-Str. 61), sent by mail, or scanned and sent as an e-mail attachment.

The reasons asserted for the withdrawal or failure to attend must be reported in writing to the examination board via the Central Examinations Office without any delay and must be made credible.

Illness on the day of the exam

In the event of illness of the candidate or of a child predominantly cared for by the candidate, the submission of a medical certificate in German is required. In the case of illness of the candidate, the medical certificate must prove the inability to take the examination. The Central Examinations Office regards the submission of the certificate up to 7 days (not working days) after the examination as without any delay.

With the introduction of the electronic certificate of incapacity for work (elektronische Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung, eAU), there will be no electronic transmission to TU Dortmund University in connection with examinations. Therefore, certificates of incapacity for examinations must still be transmitted in the usual way.

For oral examinations, we recommend informing the examiners. The Central Examinations Office does not inform the examiners individually.

Please inform yourself on the websites of the respective teams, to be found under contact persons, about possible particularities of your degree program. There you can also find contact details for the corresponding responsible staff members.

Further below in this FAQ under the subheading "Final Theses (Bachelor's/Master's/Diploma Thesis)", you can find information on the topic of "Extension of Final Theses" (i.e., extension of the processing period of the theses).

Other reasons

If there are other valid reasons why you were unable to take part in an examination or why you subsequently withdraw from an examination that you have taken or started, these reasons must be reported immediately in writing and must be made credible. Immediately in this case means without culpable hesitation on your part. These reasons are always individual and are subject to a case-by-case consideration, so that no general guidelines for the deadlines or the type of evidence can be made. In the case of withdrawals due to illness, suitable attestations must always be submitted in accordance with the respective examination regulations.

Train delays or cancellations, strikes, traffic jams, etc. must be planned for and do not justify withdrawal from an examination.
The travel risk is borne by the students.

Any examination that has not been passed or is deemed to have been failed may be repeated at least once. Details are regulated by the applicable examination regulations.

The examination regulations usually provide for the following or similar regulations:

"If the student proves by medical certificate that they are unable to complete an examination in whole or in part in the prescribed form or within the prescribed period due to a long-term or permanent physical disability or chronic illness, the chairperson of the examination board shall determine in which other form or period the examination shall be completed. In case of doubt, the person or body responsible for questions concerning the interests of disabled students (e.g., the Division of Disability and Studies within the Center for Higher Education at TU Dortmund University (DoBuS)) will be involved.

General information on disadvantage compensation can be found on the DoBuS homepage.

If you have any questions about the procedure, please contact your responsible contact person at the Central Examinations Office or your examination board.

You will find information on the recognition of examination results and other knowledge and qualifications in the navigation under Recognize examinations.

Along with the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen, TU Dortmund University belongs to the University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), founded in 2007. "Better together" - under this motto, the universities and research institutes of the Ruhr Area are growing together more and more.

If you are enrolled at one of the UA Ruhr universities, you have the possibility to attend courses at one of the other partner universities without paying additional fees.

Information on studying within the University Alliance can be found on the UA Ruhr website.

If you are interested, please use the PDF Application for Admission to Courses. You can also find further information on the procedure here.

The prerequisites for registration, the processing time and further examination stipulations are governed by the respective examination regulations, if necessary in conjunction with the module manual or a subject-specific regulation.

Please contact your responsible contact person to inform yourself about the specific registration procedure.

The thesis must be accompanied by a written affidavit.

The processing time is specified in the according examination regulations and cannot be given here in generalized form, as there are too many different regulations.

If you are participating in the digital submission process for final theses, you can refer to this checklist (PDF English Version - Checklist Digital Final Thesis) for all important information.

If you experience difficulties uploading your thesis to ExaBase, please report this immediately to the administrator responsible for your degree program via UniMail. Please send the digital thesis as well as a proof of the problem (e.g. screenshot or photo of the error message) so that it can be traced and technically checked.

For Bachelor‘s, Master‘s and Diploma theses, an affidavit must be submitted.

For Bachelor's and Master's theses, a standardized form of the Central Examinations Office is to be used for this affidavit (PDF form affidavit). This form has to be used without any changes and has to be signed and included as an integral part of the thesis.

The topic of a thesis can only be returned once and usually only within the first 14 days. The exact deadline is regulated by your examination regulations. If you have any questions, please contact the contact persons at the Central Examinations Office.

Extension due to illness

You must immediately notify the examination board in writing via the Central Examinations Office of the illness or the illness of a child for whom you are predominantly responsible. The certificate must be received by the Central Examinations Office within the processing period. A medical certificate in German is required. If you are ill yourself, the medical certificate must prove that you cannot work on the thesis. After receipt at the Central Examinations Office, your new submission date will be calculated and communicated to you (by mail or e-mail).

Extension for other reasons

As a rule, the examination regulations provide that, upon justified application by the candidate, the chairperson of the examination board, in agreement with the supervisor (assessor or examiner), may exceptionally grant an extension of the processing time by up to four weeks. The application for an extension must be submitted to the examination board at least 14 days before the end of the processing period. The exact deadline and the period of time are regulated by your examination regulations.

The basic procedure is as follows:
 You apply for and justify the requested extension in writing. Your supervisor must approve this application. This can be done informally on your application or separately in writing. You submit both together to your examination board. After approval and receipt in the Central Examinations Office, your new submission date will be calculated and communicated to you (by mail or by e-mail).

If you have any questions, please ask your contact person at the Central Examinations Office or your examination board.

• PDF Overview of the examination boards of the subject degree programs
• PDF Overview of the examination boards in the teacher training according to LABG

The examination regulations stipulate which graduation documents are to be prepared and handed out upon successful completion of the corresponding degree program.

In the case of Bachelor's and Master's degree programs, these are usually a certificate, a diploma, a transcript of records and a diploma supplement. For diploma programs, these are usually the diploma certificate and the diploma itself.

Your examination regulations also specify which degree documents you will also receive in English or can receive upon request.

If the Central Examinations Office issues the graduation documents, we will inform you by UniMail as soon as they have been signed and are available. Please confirm your correct address so that we can send you the graduation documents by mail.

If you have any questions, please contact the person responsible for you in the Central Examinations Office.

If your graduation documents are delivered directly by your department, please inquire with them to find out about the current procedure.

If you need duplicates of your previously issued or mailed graduation documents, please use the following application form:

Application for duplicate

Please send us this application in digital form by e-mail to the contact person in the Central Examinations Office responsible for your degree program.

Please refer to the application form for information on the application procedure and the incurred costs.