Welcome to Mainz
Admission of exchange students - Online Application
First of all your home university has to nominate you as an exchange student to our university. We confirm the nomination via e-mail and kindly ask the students to send us the complete application documents, which consist of:
• Online-application (link will be sent after nomination)
• Learning Agreement (page 15) or the Learning Agreement from your home university
• Certificate of health insurance (for EU citizen copy of the EHIC)
• Copy of your passport or ID card
• CV in English or German Language
After completing the online form you will be prompted by email to register with MobilityOnline. After registration please print your application, have it signed by your exchange coordinator and send it together with the required documents.
Please send your application either per email attachment or by post to:
Fachhochschule Mainz
International Office
Fachbereich Wirtschaft
Lucy-Hillebrand-Str. 2
D-55128 Mainz / GERMANY
Or to: sabine.klebig(at)fh-mainz.de
Non EU students will get an invitation letter of our School of Business.
Application Deadline:
15th of June for winter semester (semester 1 )
15th of December for spring semester (semester 2)
Academic Year 2013/2014
The academic year is divided into two semesters at the FH Mainz, University of Applied Sciences:
Study periods
Semester 1 - WINTER SEMESTER 2013/2014*
Classes begin: 30st of September 2013
Classes end: 31st of January 2014 (including examination period)
Orientation: 19th of September to 28th of September 2013
Christmas break: 23rd of December 2013 to 03rd of January 2014
Semester 2- SPRING SEMESTER 2014*
Classes begin: 18th of March 2014
Classes end: 12th of July 2014 (including examination period)
Orientation: 11th to 16th of March 2014
Easter break: 18th to 21st of April 2014
*subject to alterations
Semester break
Students studying the whole academic year from October to July will have a 6 weeks break between end of January and middle of March. Students studying the whole academic year from March to January will have a 10 weeks break between middle of July and end of September.
Enrolment and Semester Social Fee
The enrolment will take place after your arrival during the introduction week. In order to register all students have to pay a social services charge of appr. 250,-€ per semester. Please note that this social fee is not a tuition fee. You will have to pay this fee as all other students at a German university (you cannot enrol at the University of Mainz without having paid this social fee).
The fee allows you to use the dining halls and the Studentenwerk facilities and includes the student ticket, which permits you to use public transportation in Mainz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt and the Rhein-Main area without further costs during the entire semester.
Course selection
As an exchange student you can choose your individual programme from the whole study programme offered by the business department, maximum workload of 30 ECTS credit points per semester (6 courses to 5 ECTS points). Bachelor students select only courses on Bachelor level, Master students only courses on Master level. Courses offered can be found under downloads.
Please contact your home university to make sure that you comply with any requirements stipulated by them, as to which modules you are allowed to take at Fachhochschule Mainz (course contents, course length, study year etc.).
To help you to plan your timetable in advance please fill out a Learning Agreement and send it back to us. The Learning Agreement is binding. Changes of the courses are only possible in case that a course will not be offered or classes will be simultaneously offered. Your individual timetable will be discussed with you after your arrival during the introduction week.
Lanuguage courses - German Language and Culture
At present we have six different levels of the subject “German Language and Culture” on offer. We recommend all students to attend one of the language courses in order to at least acquire basic knowledge of the language. During the introductory week there will be an assessment test according to which students will be allocated into different group levels.
Accommodation in Mainz
In principle, you may stay at any one of the residential accommodation units. Information of the different residences is available on page 20 of the Handbook. Application has to be done online. You will get detailed information after the announcement of your home university.
Responsible for accommodation is the Student Services (‘Studierendenwerk’) in Mainz.
Studierendenwerk Mainz
Wohnraumverwaltung / Eva Gerold
Staudinger Weg 21
55128 Mainz
Germany
E-mail: international(at)studierendenwerk-mainz.de
Application deadline
Please do the online application by 15th of June at the latest (for the winter semester/ semester 1) or 15th of December (for the summer semester/ semester 2).