Subject-Specific Preparation of Your Stay
At RWTH you can find excellent students, good lectures and difficult exams. And of course an impressive richness and variety in resources, as for example hardware and software, professors and cooperations.
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Finding suitable courses for your exchange stay at RWTH may be a challenging task.
Please remember the following rules when preparing your learning agreement:
- at least 60 percent of your selected courses must be offered by your designated faculty at RWTH.
- you will need to meet the language requirements of the courses. Please find out about the language requirements for exchange students in advance.
- you should select only courses from your own level of study unless you have received a special permission from your host faculty.
- your initial learning agreement does not replace registration for courses. Registration will take place at the beginning of the semester on the RWTH Online platform.
- in case of any questions about courses, credits, language requirements for a specific course, exams, transcripts, and brief subject-related questions please contact the Departmental Coordinator of your host faculty at RWTH.
How to Find Courses and Modules - and Filter According to Different Teaching Languages
1. Access the Course Catalog
Go to RWTHonline, continue without logging in, and click on Courses.
2. Choosing the Right Semester
Select the semester in which you are expected to study at RWTH Aachen University - if this is not yet possible, please select the previous winter or summer semester, depending on whether you are coming in the winter or summer semester.
3. Finding the Right Course Catalogue for Your Course of Study
Select your course of study under Curriculum. Several options will be displayed, so please select either the corresponding "Bachelor 1 subject" or "Master 1 subject". Exception: Medicine – here Medicine Staatsexamen, Model Course of Study, with the most recent year, which is indicated in square brackets.
4. Finding Courses in Your Desired Language of Instruction
The courses can be filtered by language of instruction using the filter function. Some courses have the same name, but different course numbers - these courses belong to the same module. The second line indicates the type of course. The most common course types are VL (lecture), UE (exercise), or SE (seminar). The results can also be filtered by course type.
5. Information on Individual Courses and Modules
By clicking on a course you can find more information, e.g. description, information about ETCS, etc. Scroll down to Status within Curriculum and search for your course of study. Next to the course of study you will find a blue year which you can click on. A list appears in which the selected course is highlighted. The heading that is marked with an orange cross is the name of the module the course belongs to - in the same row you will find a symbol that looks like an open book and will take you to a description of the module by clicking on it.
Faculty specific information for incoming students including course offers and selection
Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences
- Department of Mathematics
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Physics
- Department of Chemistry
- Department of Biology