Discontinuation and Credentials Certification

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Discontinuation

If you do not want to renew your matriculation for the next semester, you need to have yourself removed from the register of students.

Discontinuation is necessary if, for example:

you plan to study at a different university,
take a break or discontinue your studies,
you have completed your studies,
your exchange programme has come to an end.

For your discontinuation in the Study Service Center, you will need:

your completed application for discontinuation (including discharge stamp from the University Library),
your bank details and
the name of your health insurance company and your health insurance number (for students with statutory health insurance only).

Download the application for discontinuation or collect it from the Matriculation Office or the Study Service Centre. Most students request their removal towards the end of the semester in question. If you request your removal before the end of the semester, your studies will be considered concluded after the current semester. If you request your removal after the start of a new semester, that semester will count towards your total number of university semesters.

If you request your removal before the end of the semester, please bring your student ID card, the TUcard. It will be validated with your removal date.

Please note: For legal reasons, it is not possible to back-date your discontinuation request. The earliest possible date for your removal is the day on which the Matriculation Office receives your application.

In addition, you must submit your library card to the University Library or have your status changed there.

Please return your Mensacard to the Mensa, which will refund your deposit.

Application for discontinuation [in German] | Matriculation Office contact | University Library

You will get your paid contributions and fees refunded, if you are exmatriculated within one month after the beginning of the lecture period. After this deadline, the contributions and fees can no longer be refunded.

It is urgently necessary to present the TUcard when applying for discontinuation. The TUcard may have to be revalidated.

Study contribution | Semester contribution

With your discontinuation, the university will provide you with proof of your study period for statutory German pension insurance. It is very important that you keep this document safe for future use.

The statutory pension insurance will need this proof to determine your credited period (formerly referred to as the “inactive period”). Your will need to submit it to the German Pension Insurance for them to determine your insurance period.

If you should lose or misplace this document, we can issue you with a copy. The fee for this is currently EUR 10.00.

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Credentials certification

If you want to work abroad after your studies or, if you are an international student, return to your home country, you may need to prove that your German documents are valid.

To do so, the process is as follows:

First of all, the university needs to verify that the signatures on your documents (transcript/certificate) are valid. Please bring the originals to the Matriculation Office.
Only after the Matriculation Office has confirmed the validity of the signatures on your documents can they be certified.
After this, the diplomatic mission or consular representation of the country in which the documents will be used will verify their authenticity.

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