- If you do not yet have a German degree (Abitur, Bachelor, ...), then you usually have to apply for non-restricted courses.
For more information, please contact the Admission Office.
Transfer: Changing your Degree Program
You are studying at RUB and want to change your subject or degree program? Here, you can find out exactly how the transfer works.
Changing your subject or degree program is only permitted if you have the right to study a subject with no admission restrictions (in case of subjects with admission restrictions: if you have a letter of admission). The transfer only becomes legally valid when you apply for a change of subject or degree program at the Registrar’s Office. You must apply online for a change of degree program or subject during the re-registration deadlines, but at the latest by 31 May for a summer semester / by 30 November for a winter semester.
Please note: To change your subject or degree program, you must be re-registered for the following semester; this means that your social contribution must have been transferred and received – expect the respective banks to take up to six days to process your payment.
A New Start or Advanced Semester?
If you are considering changing your degree program, please contact the academic advisory office for your degree program of choice.
Please include an overview of your academic credits to date. The academic advisory office or the examination office can then advise you whether and in what form your credits will be recognized in the new subject/degree program and will make a note of this in the placement certificate, which the Registrar’s Office will use to transfer you.
Placement Certificate Template (PDF)
Please note that the application for advanced semesters differs from the regular application in the first semester.
Make Sure to Check before Transferring:
- Is admission for the new subject/degree program open or restricted?
- Will your current credits be recognized? (see below)
- Can you change to a advanced semester in the new subject/degree program by having your current credits recognized?
- In the case of subjects with restricted admissions: Do the admissions restrictions also apply when changing to a advanced semester?
The Transfer Procedure
Open admission for your degree program of choice? If you already are a student at RUB,
- Enrol online.
- After enrolling online, you will receive a check sheet with additional information and a matriculation number by email.
- With this matriculation number and your date of birth, you can log into the new matriculation information portal.
The necessary documents must be uploaded here by the respective deadline and the application for transfer must then be confirmed.
You will find information on the documents required in each case in the instructions in the upload area of your matriculation information portal.
You will need the following:
- For transferring to a Master’s degree program: written confirmation of compulsory course guidance at the relevant faculty
Find out more on the pages on requirements for the Master's degree and application/admission to the Master's program - If you can be placed in a advanced semester in your new subject/degree program: written confirmation of placement in the advanced semester
Your social contribution must be credited to the RUB account by the time of transfer at the latest.
If you want to transfer to a subject/degree program with restricted admission, please check in advance whether you need to submit an application. Admission restrictions don’t necessarily apply to all semesters. If your degree program of choice has admission restrictions in the semester in which you wish to enrol, you must first submit an application. Please note that the application for advanced semesters differs from the regular application in the first semester.
Once you have received a letter of admission from the Admission Office, accept the admission. The link to changing your subject/degree program is also available in the admissions information portal, and you must use this route.
After enrolling online, you will receive a check sheet with additional information and a matriculation number by email.
With this matriculation number and your date of birth, you can log into the matriculation information portal.
The necessary documents must be uploaded here by the respective deadline and the application for transfer must then be confirmed. For subjects/degree programs with restricted admission, the deadlines stated in your notification of admission apply exclusively.
You will find information on the documents required in each case in the instructions in the upload area of your matriculation information portal.
You will need the following:
- For transferring to a Master’s degree program: written confirmation of compulsory course guidance at the relevant faculty.
Find out more on the pages on requirements for the Master's degree and application/admission to the Master's program - If you can be placed in a advanced semester in your new subject/degree program: written confirmation of placement in the advanced semester. Read more on admission in advanced semesters
Your social contribution must be credited to the RUB account by the time of transfer at the latest.
Read more on re-registration and social contribution
- Requirement: You must have completed and passed all examinations and coursework in the Bachelor's program by 30 September (if transferring to the winter semester) or by 31 March (if transferring to the summer semester).
- Deadlines: Transfers to the Master of Education program are to be made no later than 30 November for the winter semester or no later than 31 May for the summer semester of a given year. Later transfers are only possible in exceptional cases, such as delays in the assessment of the Bachelor's thesis, cancelled examinations or similar. In these cases, you would have to apply for this informally to the Joint Examination Board (GPA) M.Ed. Contact the PSE counseling service for further information.
Additional information
Changing your degree program may make you ineligible for BAföG.
All students who have had doubts about their degree program for a long time are recommended to take advantage of the advisory and support services offered by the Student Advice Centre for those who have doubts about their degree program or who want to drop out.
Registrar’s Office