Online enrollment/ document upload
Please note: Starting with the winter semester 2023/2024, you are no longer required to submit enrollment documents by mail to the Student Registration Office. You must now upload all required documents in digital form to the campus portal at the end of online enrollment. In order to be able to process your enrollment as quickly as possible, we would like to ask you to upload only complete documents.
The lists below only apply to you if you are an "external*external" prospective student or are no longer currently enrolled at TU Dortmund University. Otherwise, please use (after successful re-registration for the next semester) the application for change of studies.
- Mandatory: university entrance qualification (e.g. Abitur)
- Mandatory: notification of health insurance about insurance status. Further information can be found here.
- Enrollment requirements: Certificate of passed aptitude test(s) / proof of enrollment requirements
- Have you already studied at another German university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university. (The threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)
- You have already studied at another German university? Certificate of no objection from the previous university
- You want to enter a higher semester? Completed "Application for Recognition of academic qualifications", signed by the responsible examination board.
- Mandatory: university entrance qualification (e.g. Abitur)
- Mandatory: Notification of health insurance about insurance status. Further information can be found here.
- If applicable, enrollment requirements: Certificate of passed aptitude test(s) / proof of enrollment requirements
- Have you already studied at another German university? Certificate of exmatriculation from the previous university (the threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)
- You have already studied at another German university? Certificate of no objection from the previous university
- You want to enter a higher semester? Completed and signed "Application for Recognition of academic qualifications" by the responsible examination board
- Have you completed a period of service (German Armed Forces, civilian service, FSJ)? Certificate of service (German Armed Forces, civilian service, FSJ)letter of authorization
- Mandatory: Proof of a German university degree usually by the bachelor's degree certificate. Alternatively, a signed confirmation of the bachelor's degree stating the overall grade and the graduation date in an
- Mandatory: University entrance qualification (e.g. Abitur), exception: The certificate of entrance qualification to a university of applied sciences or foreign school leaving certificates do not have to be submitted.
- Mandatory: Notification of health insurance about insurance status. Further information can be found here.
- Mandatory: Enrollment requirements met? Here you will find an overview of all necessary enrollment requirements
- You have already studied at another German university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university (the threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!). The exmatriculation certificate can be submitted later for enrollment in the case of Master's admission.
- You have already studied at another German university? Certificate of no objection from the previous university
- Do you want to enter a higher semester? Completed "Application for Recognition of academic qualifications", signed by the responsible examination board.
- Mandatory: Proof of a German university degree usually by the bachelor's degree certificate. Alternatively, a signed confirmation of the bachelor's degree stating the overall grade and the graduation date
- Mandatory: University entrance qualification (e.g. the Abitur), exception: The certificate of entrance to a university of applied sciences or foreign high school diplomas do not have to be submitted.
- Mandatory: Notification of health insurance about insurance status. Further information can be found here.
- Mandatory: Enrollment requirements met? Here you will find an overview of all necessary enrollment requirements
- Have you already studied at another German university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university (the threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)
- You have already studied at another German university? Certificate of no objection from the previous university
- You want to enter a higher semester? Completed and signed "Application for Recognition of academic qualifications" by the responsible examination board
- Have you completed a period of service (German Armed Forces, civilian service, FSJ)? Certificate of service (German Armed Forces, civilian service, FSJ)
- Mandatory: Final certificate of the First State Examination from NRW in or (in case of a state examination outside NRW) the recognition via the district government or certificate of equivalence of the State Examination Office as First State Examination or (for students of the LPO 1994/2003) proof of the intermediate certificates. Note: In the subject combination of the above-mentioned study program, it is mandatory to have studied English/Anglistics together with another subject; the other subject may not have been German or another foreign language.
- Mandatory: Notification of health insurance about insurance status. Further information can be found here.
- Mandatory: university entrance qualification (e.g. Abitur certificate)
- Mandatory: Confirmation from the Institute of English and American Studies that theadmission requirements have been met(PDF form for admission to the additional study program Bilingual Teaching and Learning). Personal appearance at the Institute is required.
- Have you already studied at another university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university (the threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)
New enrollment
If you are newly enrolling at TU Dortmund University for your doctorate or if you are re-enrolling at TU Dortmund University after exmatriculation, you must submit the following documents:
- compelling: signed "Application for enrollment". This must be printed out after online enrollment.
- Mandatory: University degree certificate (e.g. Master's degree, diploma) as an officially certified copy.
- mandatory: admission to doctoral studies. proof of admission by a certificate from the doctoral committee.
- If applicable, already studied at another German university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university (the threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)
Transcription for already enrolled students
If you are already enrolled as a student at TU Dortmund University, you can submit an application for a change of study directly to the Registrar's Office:
- mandatory: application for change of studies
- mandatory: university degree certificate (e.g. Master's degree, Diplom) as an officially certified copy
- compulsory: admission to doctoral studies. proof of admission by a certificate from the doctoral committee.
- If applicable, already studied at another German university? Exmatriculation certificate from the previous university (The threat of exmatriculation is not sufficient!)