Advice & contact persons
Zentrale Studienberatung
- is where you’ll find the contact persons for all questions about bachelor’s degree programs, both at the beginning of and during your studies, as well as psychological counseling for students.
Internship counselling
- Dr. Birgit Kletzin is available to students in the social sciences for questions about study-related issues, recognition of internships, and the internship report.
- Dr. Edzard Weber can help economics students by answering questions about study-related issues, recognition of internships, and internship reports.
Financial Aid Officers
- Prof. Dr. Eric Kearney prepares certificates for current academic performance.
- Certificates of current academic performance can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Norbert Gronau. Please address inquiries directly to Dr. Edzard Weber.
- Certificates of current academic performance can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Vera Kirchner.
- Certificates of current academic performance can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Ulrich Kohler
- Certificates of current academic performance can be obtained from Prof. Dr. Fabian Schuppert. According to Germany’s Federal Law on Support for Education and Training (BAföG), students must present a certificate demonstrating satisfactory degree progress up to the end of the fourth semester in order to continue receiving financial aid from the fifth semester forward. The Financial Aid Officers for the respective subjects issue these certificates. Please also refer to the instructions regarding the BAföG certificate of achievement.
Erasmus+ Coordinator
- supports you in preparations for a stay abroad through the Erasmus program, carries out the selection, and can answer your questions.
Student advisory service
- are listed on the degree programs website under your program of study. In addition to the Central Student Advisory Service (Zentrale Studienberatung, or ZSB), which is the university’s general advising office for prospective and current students on all questions regarding studies (preparation for studies, beginning of studies, course of studies, and completion of studies), there is also decentralized academic advising at the faculties. The appointed departmental advisors (professors, lecturers, academic staff) answer subject-specific questions about university studies: for example, about the content, structure, focus of the subject, performance requirements, recognition of previous academic achievements, questions about individual study planning and study organization. In addition to the appointed departmental advisors, all professors also provide subject advising in their areas of appointment.