Visa

Costs and finance

Health insurance

Accommodation

Enrolment

With your letter of admission, you can go to the German embassy in your country to apply for a visa for study purposes or for a German course. In many cases the embassy/consulate will require confirmation of reservation from a course provider in Germany when you make your application for a visa to take a German course.

Important: please do not enter the country on a tourist visa. This type of visa expires after three months and cannot be extended or changed to a student visa.

Visa regulations

DAAD

German Federal Foreign Office

Costs of studying and living

External scholarships

Scholarships of the University Duisburg-Essen

Working during your studies?

It is compulsory for all students in Germany to have health insurance. It is not possible to enrol as a student without proof of valid health insurance. Germany has both statutory and private health insurance schemes. Do you want to remain privately insured during your studies or do you have family insurance or are you aged 30 or over?

Statutory health insurance

In order to enrol in their selected course of study, prospective students require a digital notification of their insurance status ('M10 notification'), which is to be requested from the relevant statutory health insurance provider. Enrolment is only possible when a notification regarding your insurance status has been received from a statutory health insurance provider.

For this notification to be sent digitally, the health insurance provider needs to be given the University of Duisburg-Essen’s reference number (Absender-Nr.), which is H0000277.

Do you want to continue being insured privately during your studies, are you covered by family insurance or are you over 30 years old?

In this case, an M10 notification that shows you are not subject to mandatory insurance from a statutory health insurance provider is necessary. Please contact a statutory health insurance provider of your choice and get information about the legal consequences of an exemption from the statutory health insurance obligation. The health insurance provider will then send the digital notification to the University.

There is no obligation to be insured by a statutory health insurance provider for:

• Those wishing to enrol in a German course
• Doctoral candidates who wish to enrol to pursue their doctoral studies only

If you fall into one of these categories, proof of private health insurance is sufficient for enrolment and you do not need to prove your insurance status via a statutory health insurance provider.

Private health insurance

German language students are not subject to compulsory insurance within the meaning of the German Social Security Code (Sozialgesetzbuch) and must therefore compulsorily choose private health insurance.

Admission to higher education does not automatically come with an offer of a place in a student residence as is common in other countries. This means that you are responsible for organising your own accommodation.

There are different ways of finding a room or an apartment:

Please note the following steps for enrolment:
 

!Please note that we will only enrol you once you have already entered Germany!

email to:    einschreibung-io@uni-due.de
email subject line: Your application number and/or student ID number (if available)

Necessary information:

• Full name
• Date of birth
• Place of birth
• Nationality
• Address in Germany
• Degree you wish to pursue, former studies if applicable for the subject/degree you want to enrol for

Attachments:

• Letter of admission
• Passport picture (JPG) for the student ID card 
• Passport copy
• Highest school leaving certificate or bachelor's degree certificate
• Complete transcript of records
• Language certificates (German, English if applicable)
• APS certificate for China, India and Vietnam
   
• For language course enrolment only: confirmation of registration/participation in a German language course (Registration for an intensive language course in Germany with at least 18 hours of teaching  per week that are usually spread over five days a week.)
• Health insurance ​(for language course enrolment = private health insurance -- for study enrolment = statutory health insurance)
• If applicable, a certificate of exmatriculation from a German university

  You can only be enrolled once we have received
  your complete email (providing all information and attachments as
  mentioned below)!

Semester fee: The semester fee can only be paid after enrolment. You will receive all necessary information. Do not send any money beforehand!
 

Deadlines

Semester fee

Semester ticket

Student identity card

User ID (“Unikennung”)

Student certificate