Disenrolment

For a period of two months, you will still be able to access your university email account (Uni-Account@email.uni-freiburg.de) in addition to ILIAS and HISinOne. During this time, you can also download study certificates from your student account.

After two months, your account and email inbox will be deleted. You will be notified by email 14 days before deletion. After this period, the Registration Office will charge a fee for issuing certificates.

In order for us to be able to contact you after your university email account has been deleted, e.g. for legally required graduate surveys, we ask that you always keep a current private email address in your HISinOne account. If you do not wish to be contacted for survey purposes, you can indicate this in your account.

If you are a first-year student and decide not to study one day before lectures begin, your enrolment will be cancelled (i.e. you will not be disenroled) and any semester fees and tuition fees you have already paid will be refunded.

By cancelling your enrolment, you are permanently giving up your place at the university. The semester fee can only be refunded if the cancellation was requested in writing up to one day before the start of lectures and the bank details were provided on the application form.

It is not possible to cancel your enrolment and receive a refund of the semester fee after the start of lectures.

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  Application for cancellation

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Disenrolment ends your membership at the university, but it does not end your existing examination rights. Your examination rights only end when you pass or definitively fail the examination.

You can only take examinations at the University of Freiburg if you are (still) enrolled at the time of the examination.  

Exception: Students who have left the university but are still in an examination legal relationship and have to repeat an examination, or whose examination is considered not to have been taken due to approved withdrawal, may still take the examination in question. This does not apply to final theses.

If you wish to disenrole after your last examination, please note the deadlines for the reimbursement of contributions and fees.

If you have any questions about the examination legal relationship, please contact the examination offices. The addresses of the examination offices can be found under “Advice” in the programme profile in the degree programme finder. If you have any questions about de-registration, please contact the Registration Office in the Service Center Studium.

Fill out the application for disenrolment and either hand it in personally during office hours at the Registration Office or send it by email to studierendenbuero@zv.uni-freiburg.de.

Please ensure that the form is completed in full and that the so-called “clearance note” (no outstanding fees or loans) from the university library is included: this can be a written confirmation with the university library’s stamp on the de-registration form itself, or you can request the clearance note by email from the university library: info@ub.uni-freiburg.de. In this case, please attach the email to your de-registration application as proof.

You do not need to return your student ID card; it will automatically lose its functions 60 days after disenrolment. If you do not return the card to us for disposal, we ask you to dispose of it properly yourself in the interests of sustainability (collection point for electrical appliances).

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  Application for disenrolment

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In principle, you can submit a request for disenrolment at any time and will normally be disenroled at the end of the respective semester (the summer semester ends on 30 September, the winter semester on 31 March).

Disenrolment is usually effective at the end of the semester. In special cases, disenrolment can take effect immediately:

• Employment contract (proof)
• Application for citizen’s income (proof)  
• Termination of studies after examination
• Change of university, if the start of the semester at the new university (e.g. private universities) is before the end of the semester at the University of Freiburg.

A refund of semester fees and/or tuition fees is only possible in certain cases and within certain deadlines:

• Application for disenrolment for special reasons before or within two weeks after the start of the semester (summer semester 1 April, winter semester 1 October): refund of the semester fee and, if applicable, the tuition fees. The date of disenrolment is determined to the exact day.
• Application for disenrolment for special reasons within one month after the start of lectures: refund of the administration fee and the student union fee. The social contribution to the student union is not refunded. The date of disenrolment is determined to the day.
• Application for disenrolment for other reasons after the start of lectures: no refund of semester fees and, if applicable, tuition fees possible; the date of disenrolment is the end of the respective semester.

No, disenrolment always applies to your entire degree programme. However, you can submit an application to change your degree programme before the beginning of studies and, if the relevant requirements are met, switch to another degree programme if you are enrolled in multiple degree programmes, or terminate one of your degree programmes if you are enrolled in parallel degree programmes.

Please note that you must also apply by the deadline if you wish to change to a degree programme with restricted admission.

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  Application to change degree programme or subject [de]

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A certificate of disenrolment, which you may need, for example, as proof for the pension insurance, child benefit or BAföG office, or if you wish to apply to another university, will be sent to you by email by the Registration Office once your application for disenrolment has been processed. Upon request, we can also send it by post. The certificate is not available via HISinOne. You can either submit your application for disenrolment in person during office hours at the Regisatration Office or send it by email to studierendenbuero@zv.uni-freiburg.de. In any case, please ensure that the application has been completed in full and that the so-called “clearance note” (no outstanding fees or loans) from the university library is included: as written confirmation with the university library’s stamp directly on the disenrolement application. You can also request the clearance note by email from the university library: info@ub.uni-freiburg.de. In this case, please attach the email to your disenrolment application as proof.

If you have been officially disenroled (see also ” Disenrolment ex officio” on this page), you will only receive your certificate of disenrolment once you have submitted a formal application for disenrolment to the Registration Office.

If you re-register during the grace period by paying the semester fee but do not pay the late fee, you will be officially disenroled due to the outstanding amount.

According to Section 63 (1) of the Baden-Württemberg State Higher Education Act, preliminary proceedings pursuant to Sections 68 to 73 of the Administrative Court Regulations do not take place in the event of disenrolment pursuant to Section 62 of the State Higher Education Act. This means that you cannot appeal against the disenrolment, but the permissible legal remedy is to file a lawsuit with the Administrative Court.

In many cases, questions regarding the disenrolment notice can be clarified and answered in advance. We therefore ask you to contact the Registration Office if you have any questions or before filing a lawsuit.