You will find a complete list of the study courses the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences offers here. To get detailed information about the individual courses, please click on the the course and/or on the button Departments in the navigation bar on the left and then go to the desired department/course. If you do not find the information you are looking for, please contact the International Office to have the name and address of the contact person in the department sent to you. Alternatively, you may want to browse the German pages. To do this, click on the German button left to the logo.

The language of instruction at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences is German.

You should make sure you have good German language skills (at least level B1 of the CEFR) before coming to study with us, so that you are able to follow lectures easily and successfully complete your coursework.

One possibility to improve your German skills is the online learning platform DUO.

The academic year in Germany is split into two semesters - winter and summer.

The winter semester starts on the 1st of October and ends on the 31st of March.
The summer semester starts on the 1st of April and ends on the 30th of September.

Lecture period: Classes run from the 1st of October to around mid February in the winter semester and from the 1st of April to around mid July in the summer semester.

In the last weeks of the lecture period and in some cases also in the first weeks following the lecture period, there will be examinations.

After the examination period up to the end of the semester, there is a so-called lecture-free period (semester break) during which no classes are offered. 

The Orientation week for international students is usually about seven days prior to the start of semester. As the orientation is essential for every international student, you should plan to arrive 1½ to 2 weeks before the beginning of the semester.

The most important holidays, on which no classes will be held (and shops and banks remain closed) are:

The current semester dates can be found here.

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Late Summer School

To get your studies off to the best possible start, the University offers the “Late Summer School” every year in September. This two-week programme combines subject-related courses as well as interdisciplinary and intercultural courses with excursions and other free-time activities.

It is an opportunity for you to familiarise yourself with the University, the campus and many of your fellow students even before your study programme begins.

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Orientation week

The Orientation week for international exchange students is usually about seven days prior to the start of semester. As the orientation is essential for every international student, you should plan to arrive 1½ to 2 weeks before the beginning of the semester.

The International Office will inform you about the schedule of the orientation week via e-mail.

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As an exchange student you can usually receive funding through your respective exchange/cooperation program. Please ask your International Office at your home university.

In cases where it is not possible to obtain funding through the program you can look at the database oft the Deutsch Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) for possible DAAD scholarships.

By re-registering you are notifying the university that you intend to study at the university in the forthcoming semester.

You must re-register every semester by paying the semester fee. This must take place within a fixed period of time. The dates are advertised on the website of the Department of Student Affairs.

Once your payment has been transferred to the relevant account, you will receive your new student ID by post. Your certificate of enrolment can be printed off via the online service for students. If you do not make payment within the specified period, you will be de-registered and cannot continue your studies.

Please note that we must have your current address in order to send you your documents. You can check and amend your address details via the online service for students.

If you need additional prints of your enrolment certificate, please visit following website:

Online-Studierendenservice

Please enter your user name and password (same as in the ZKI rooms).

If you are not within the University network, for example, you are at home and want to log in, you have to connect to WebPVN (see box of Online-Studierendenservice below). If you have logged in with your user name and password, the log in for the Online-Studierendenservice is made as described above.

By clicking Studentenverwaltung, you will find the enrolment certificates available for printing.

All relevant information on working while you are a student is available from the web site of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

A comprehensive collection of links to miscellaneous job web sites is offered by the Career Center (DE).

The Transcript of Records will be issued by the examination office after the end of your stay at the Hochschule. It will be in English language and contain all courses that you have attended to. The original will be send to your home university by the International Office.

To get the Transcript of Records you have to hand in a course list within four weeks after the beginning of the semester to the International Office. In the list please write all courses that you are attending to, also the Late Summer School. Please make sure to use the correct title of the course, and for the language course the correct language level, e.g. GFL Vocabulary B2. The titles of the courses and the course codes can be found in the list provided by the International Office. If a course should not be in the list, please state the correct title of the course, leave the course code field blank and inform the International Office.

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