Exchange at Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM) – application process for summer term 2018

Exchange application period for the summer term 2018 at TUM started and students are welcome to apply!

1. Semester dates

 Summer term: April 1^st, 2018 – September 30^th, 2018

Courses: April 9^th, 2018 – July 14^th, 2018

Examinations: depends on the TUM department, but often take place between July and end of September 2018. (If you have questions about the time of examinations at TUM – if your students need to do examinations – please contact TUM’s International Affairs Delegates (see point 6). Unfortunately, earlier or extra examination dates for exchange students cannot be arranged! Students need to participate in the regular examinations like all other TUM students!)

Orientation weeks / obtaining TUM Student card: beginning of April before the lectures start

For more information on the dates and deadlines at TUM please see this link.

2. Application documents

1. Official transcript (in English)
2. Curriculum Vitae (CV)
3. TOEFL or IELTS, with minimum score of: TOEFL 550, IELTS 6,5, iBT 100
4. Motivation Letter

Please submit the requirements above to the International Relation Office ITB, Jalan Ganesha No. 17, Bandung due to 6 October 2017, at 14.00 WIB, for further selection process.

3. Language skills

If you want to attend courses taught in German at TUM, proficient German skills are key. If they want to attend courses in English, they should also have excellent English skills. Please note that TUM continue to offer many courses in German language only at TUM (see point 4).

TUM departments request a German respectively English certificate of at least B1 (exceptions: TUM School of Management, School of Education and Center of Life and Sciences in Weihenstephan: here a level of at least B2 is requested).

4. German knowledge

At TUM many of the classes offered are conducted in German. If you\ undertake courses conducted in German and don’t have a reasonable knowledge of German, you could have a problem studying. Even if you will be attending lectures in English at TUM, a basic knowledge of the German language is recommended to make the most of your stay and make daily life in Munich a smoother and more enjoyable experience.

Therefore, TUM always recommend that our incoming exchange students participate in German courses:

1. German courses at TUM
2. Other online courses

5. Courses and language requirements / examinations

If you have questions regarding courses and examination dates at TUM, please have them contact their responsible TUM International Affairs Delegate in their department. TUM departmental coordinators all speak English!

All courses that are offered at TUM are listed at the following link: https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/webnav.ini (important: Students should NOT register in TUMonline by their own! Registration for all exchange students will be done automatically by TUM after they are accepted! Until then they should only use TUMonline without registration!)

To access the course catalogue, you can switch the language to English in the top right hand corner and select «courses» in the search bar. If there are no courses listed for the semester they want to study in (which usually is the case as they are planning their studies in advance of faculty timetabling), they should just choose the same semester for which they are planning to come but for the previous year (the offered courses in each semester usually remain the same).

The main number of courses (at least 60%) you will attend at TUM need to be in the TUM department where they are registered in at TUM. Additionally, youcan choose courses from other TUM departments.

Please note: many courses are only held in German – not in English – and it is very important for students to confirm the language of instruction for the courses they intend enrolling in! In addition, the fact that a course description is written in English does not necessarily mean that the course is also taught in English! You can find the course language in the course description.

Also note again (see “semester dates”): Examinations depend on the TUM department, but often take place between July and end September 2018. Unfortunately, earlier or extra examination dates for exchange students cannot be arranged! They need to participate in the regular examinations like all other TUM students!

6. Further steps: acceptance, admission letter,…

After receiving all students’ application documents TUM will forward them to the concerned TUM department where the final decision of acceptance is made.

After students are accepted by the TUM department, they will receive their official TUM admission letter via e-mail, which will be sent out from December onwards! In the admission letter they can find further information about next steps:

• Every student attending TUM has to pay the Student union fee of € 62 and the solidary contribution for the semester ticket of € 66,50, in total € 128,50 / semester (as of today).
• Additionally, every student needs to have proof of a German national insurance (see “Legal Requirements”) to enroll at TUM (if students are over 30 years old, they do not need an insurance policy for enrollment at TUM).

All detailed information regarding the application process, health insurance, German courses at TUM and in Munich, formalities in Germany, ….etc. can also be found in our attached Fact Sheet or at this link.