All the information regarding enrollment and the next steps after that can be found at RWTHonline.

Enrollment is online only.

You first apply through RWTHonline. Here you will fill out your enrollment application step by step. You will be asked for the date on which you earned your university entrance qualification, whether you have already graduated from another German university, and what degree you earned, for example. Therefore, please try to have all the information about your education thus far complete and at the ready. If your application is successful and you are admitted to the course, you must first accept the study placement and upload proof of enrollment. You will then enter the remaining details required and finally upload your enrollment application.

Using the information you provide during your application, RWTHonline will determine and inform you of the documents you need for enrollment. Once you have entered all the required information, you will get access to the application for enrollment. You will then need to sign this application and upload it to Selfservice.

RWTH Registrar's Office respectively International Office is responsible for enrollment.

In the download area you will find the application and enrollment deadlines as well as in the self-service view in RWTHonline.

After you have submitted all the required documents, they will be reviewed by the respective clerk. If they are all in order, the last step is the payment of the semester fee.

The information about the payment of the student body and social contribution fee (semester fee) will be shown to you on RWTHonline.

As soon as you have transferred this amount to RWTH Aachen University and it has been received by the University Bursar, you are officially enrolled at RWTH. You will receive a CouponCode from us by email within 48 hours. 

From this point on, you can also print out a BAFöG certificate, progress of studies certificate, or a current certificate enrollment form at RWTHonline as many times as you like. Your student ID card, the RWTH Aachen BlueCard, will be sent to you by mail. As soon as your card has been produced, we will notify you via email at your RWTH address.  ASEAG will send you your Semester Ticket separately in the mail.

You can personally retrieve and print out your enrollment certificate as often as you would like through RWTHonline.  Paper enrollment certificates are no longer distributed by RWTH.

Yes, however this is only possible if courses have not yet started. In this case, the student body and social contribution fee will be reimbursed to you in full. Once courses have started, you have to terminate your enrollment.  In that case, the student body and social contribution fee will not be reimbursed in full.

Semester Dates

No, you can only enroll in a Bachelor or Master course of study.

Current Courses of Study

After registering on RWTHonline, you can update your correspondence address at any time via the "Study/home address" application. To do this, first open your business card and then the corresponding application.

According to the Student Health Insurance Reporting Ordinance (SKV-MV), all students must prove they either have public health insurance or that they are exempt from the health insurance requirement before enrolling at RWTH Aachen University.

We require electronic proof, so please contact the statutory health insurance company of your choice as early as possible to get the process started. They will email the information to us directly. Please give your health insurance provider the following dispatch number (Betriebsnummer) for RWTH Aachen University: H0000784.

We only need the electronic notification from the health insurance company. An insurance card or a written membership certificate will not be accepted as proof. In the download area, you will find further information on this topic.

You will find the documents and proofs you need for your application or enrollment in the application and enrollment wizard of RWTH Aachen University "RWTHonline".

If you do not yet have your Bachelor's degree certificate when you enroll for your Master's degree, you can enroll with a provisional degree certificate.

This certificate must contain the graduation date including the stamp and signature of the university. A 4.0 certificate is not sufficient. For internal transfer students from the Bachelor's to the Master's program, the successful completion must be visible in RWTHonline.

This could be due to the following reasons:

1. Fee not received or
2. Fee received-message not yet received (takes 24 hours).

If neither of the above two possibilities is applicable, please send an email to studsek@zhv.rwth-aachen.de.

If you have any questions about the application form or technical problems, please contact application support.

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In order to study at RWTH Aachen University, you need proof of general university entrance qualification or subject-specific university entrance qualification or proof of qualification through vocational training.

If you want to transfer to another university, the certificate of good standing is usually issued by the examination board of the new university - based on a performance record of the old university. If you actually need a certificate of good standing from RWTH Aachen University, the respective examination board of RWTH Aachen University would be responsible for this.

You can obtain a corresponding certificate either via RWTHonline or from the Central Examination Office.

All information about the certificate of good standing and the responsible contact persons can be found here.

You need to apply for a refund of the semester fee in order to get it reimbursed. A complete refund of student body and social contributions is only possible until the last working day before the start of lectures.

For all information on terminating your enrollment, please visit the page Termination of Enrollment.

Once you have terminated your enrollment, you can download the certificate that says that you have done so in RWTHonline.

Please send the Blue Card to the Registrar's Office of RWTH Aachen University, Templergraben 57, 52062 Aachen.

Please submit the application for leave of absence, including sufficient evidence, to the Registrar's Office by mail or e-mail. The following proofs are accepted:

• Official proof including signature and stamp (reason for leave: internship or semester abroad).

An e-mail is not considered official proof.

Please see this website for all the information on re-enrollment.