Re-registration

If you wish to continue your studies at the University of Potsdam in the following semester, you must renew your registration. You must complete your re-registration between June 15 and July 15 for the following winter semester, and between January 15 and February 15 for the following summer semester. Late re-registration is possible, upon payment of the associated administrative fee (€10.00), from July 16 to August 31 for the winter semester and from February 16 to March 15 for the summer semester. (Please also note the deadlines in the University of Potsdam’s Official Announcements!)

At the beginning of January and at the beginning of June, an e-mail containing information on re-registration and instructions on how to pay your semester fees will be sent to your University of Potsdam e-mail address.

In addition, you will receive a reminder through PULS during the re-registration period: if your re-registration payment has not yet been completed, a sample bank transfer form for the payment of your semester fees will be displayed on the start-up screen immediately after logging on to your account. This sample bank transfer form includes all individual information, such as the exact amount of your semester fees and the purpose of payment (“Verwendungszweck”). The adminisrative fee for late re-registration will be applied after the expiration of the regular re-registration period, with the sum entered in the personal transfer order template (sample) for re-registration.

When filling out the bank transfer form for your re-registration, please make sure that you always use the current purpose of payment (“Verwendungszweck”) as listed in your re-registration e-mail and in PULS.

With your timely and complete payment of the semester fees you will be automatically re-registered for the new semester, unless other circumstances prevent your re-registration. If your personal or study-related data has changed, you must notify the Office of Student Affairs of any changes prior to the payment of your semester fees.

You can update your University Chip Cards at the validation stations starting February 1 (for the summer semester) and July 1 (for the winter semester).

The printing of a certificate of enrollment (also to be used for BAföG) is available through PULS as of the afore mentioned period.

• You are obligated to pay the complete semester fee, even if you do not need a semester ticket. The fee for the semester ticket can only be reimbursed (for social or other reasons) upon application to the Student Union (AStA) (application deadlines: up to July 31 for the winter semester / up to February 28 for the summer semester; cut-off periods). Please contact only the Student Union (AStA) or the University of Potsdam regarding exemptions from the semester ticket fee. Specific information about valid reasons for an exemption, as well as the online applications, can be found here.
• If students submit a leave of absence application to the Office of Student Affairs, they may also be exempted from paying the semester ticket fees, if they so desire.

Please do not pay a semester fee; instead, please contact the Office of Student Affairs.

If you changed your health insurance provider, we need an electronic confirmation from your new provider. Please contact your new health insurance provider and give them our reference number H0001228 so that they can send the electronic notification (an “M11” message) about the change of your health insurance provider to the University of Potsdam.

Applications for study related changes (leave of absence) should be made prior to the payment of your semester fees within the re-registration period. Please see here for more information on the procedure as well as the required forms.

If you continue to see your personalized money transfer form (please take your bank’s processing times into consideration!) or if you are unable to print your certificate of enrollment through PULS after February 1 or July 1, please check the following:

• whether you still owe a difference
• whether you filled in the transfer form correctly (see your bank statement)
• whether any other documents are necessary for your re-registration
• whether there is a re-registration bar (When there is a re-registration bar, PULS will provide information about this).

If you have questions as to why we were unable to process your re-registration, please contact the Office of Student Affairs.