FAQ

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Here you will find all information about starting your degree programme.

You can find detailed information about the course of your degree programme on the page of your degree programme.

In principle, the following applies: Examination registration takes place during the pre-semester period. The examination period is in the first 4 weeks after the lecture period. However, some examinations are sometimes brought forward by the chairs. Information on examination dates and registration can be found here.

The legal basis for the recognition of academic achievements is §12 of the Examination Regulations (external link, opens in a new window). Recognition of courses from other universities is only possible if equivalence to Regensburg courses is established. Courses from other universities are equivalent if the content, scope and requirements of the study periods, coursework and examinations are equivalent. The examination board decides on this equivalence. The examination board is guided by the vote of the professor responsible for the course in question. It is best to clarify with them in advance whether they recognise your courses. If this is the case, submit a written application for recognition of external examinations to the Examinations Office. The application for recognition of external examinations can only be submitted if you are enrolled in the respective Bachelor's or Master's degree programme at the University of Regensburg.

Cases of hardship include all life circumstances that make studying difficult and for which the student is not responsible

• Illness or caring for a seriously ill relative at home
• Hospitalisation
• Pregnancy or parental leave
• Disabilities or chronic illnesses
• Death in the close family environment

When?

In general, reasons for a case of hardship must always be reported immediately, at the latest 8 weeks before the start of examinations within the current semester. The same applies to changing life circumstances if a case of hardship has already been granted.

How?

The case of hardship that has arisen must be reported to the Examinations Office for Business and Economics with the relevant supporting documents.

The notification includes:

• Evidence are medical certificates, in cases of doubt official medical certificates
• Birth or death certificates
• an informal letter describing the situation and the desired relief

Where?

The contact person for the informal letter is the Chair of the Examination Board.

Depending on your circumstances, you may be granted study concessions, for example

• Suspension of the counting of study semesters
• Extension of the processing time or submission deadline for examinations or assignments
• Needs-based adaptation of the circumstances or form of examination performance
  

Special hardship treatment always affects the future study situation. Events that occurred in the past and in another degree programme are not taken into account. For example, if there was a case of hardship during the school years, then this must also be taken into account during the school years. If the case of hardship persists after the school period and during the study period, it must also be taken into account during the study programme.

The UR has a central contact point for pregnant women and mothers (external link, opens in a new window).

Students at the University of Regensburg who have already achieved 150 CP or more in their Bachelor's degree programme can take course examinations in the Master's programme totalling up to 24 CP before completing their Bachelor's degree programme.

The purpose of this regulation is to avoid a possible idle period in the final phase of the Bachelor's programme and thus an unnecessary extension of the overall study period. The examinations taken in advance can then be credited later, after the students concerned have been admitted to a Master's degree programme, as credits in this Master's degree programme within the framework of the conditions applicable to it.

The transfer of credits from the Master's degree programme to the Bachelor's degree programme is only permitted with very strict restrictions. For example, courses from a compulsory module or courses that are a compulsory part of a Master's specialisation module may not be transferred. In general, the approval of the examination boards is required for the transfer.

There is a basic and orientation examination so that you can quickly find out whether you have made the right choice of degree programme. this examination consists of 6 modules with a total of 36 credit points (CP).

• You must pass the basic and orientation examination after the 2nd semester.
• If the modules of the basic and orientation examination have not been passed by the end of the second semester, the basic and orientation examination is failed for the first time.
• It can be repeated once until the end of the following semester. If the modules of the basic and orientation examination have not been passed by the end of the following semester, the basic and orientation examination has been definitively failed.
• If the basic and orientation examination has been definitively failed, this also prevents the student from studying another degree programme regulated in the same Examination Regulations.

The deadline for completing the basic and orientation examination is not interrupted by a change of degree programme, further information can be found here(external link, opens in a new window) (external link, opens in a new window).

The modules to be completed for the basic and orientation examination vary from degree programme to degree programme. A total of 36 ECTS must be completed:

• Business Administration: the module groups "Quantitative Fundamentals" and "Fundamentals of Business Administration"
• BEP: the module groups "Fundamentals of Business", "Fundamentals of Economics", "Quantitative Fundamentals", "Fundamentals of Social and Business Psychology"
• DB: the module groups "Fundamentals of Business Administration" (6 CP), from a compulsory elective module group (12 CP), "Quantitative Fundamentals" (6 CP), "Fundamentals of Digitalisation" and "Technologies & Management of Digitalisation" (12 CP)
• IMMO: from the module groups "Quantitative Fundamentals" and "Fundamentals of Economics" or "Fundamentals of Business Administration"
• VWL/iVWL: from the module groups "Quantitative Fundamentals" and "Fundamentals of Economics"

The BVU is the joint virtual campus of the Bavarian universities, universities of applied sciences and art colleges. Courses from the BVU programme are therefore offered by a Bavarian university. Consequently, when crediting BVU courses in the elective courses in, exactly as many ECTS credits are possible as courses from other universities.

Important first: You must also be enrolled for repeat examinations.
However, enrolment is only necessary until the work has been completed, i.e. the deadline for submitting the thesis (and not the registration or correction) counts.

According to §15 (6) of the current Examination Regulations, a maximum of 18 credit points (BWL, VWL) or 12 credit points (WI, IMMO) can be taken in the elective module with Bachelor courses (only those that have not already been taken in the Bachelor after individual approval by the responsible professor). This regulation applies to Bachelor's courses at the University of Regensburg and is intended to prevent too many courses from the Bachelor's programmes being taken in the Master's programme. It is generally advisable to clarify the creditability of the courses with a Regensburg university lecturer from the respective institute before studying abroad. Accordingly, it is also possible to take upper-level Bachelor's courses abroad during the Bachelor's programme, but then not include them in the Bachelor's programme in order to import them later in the Master's programme as an elective module.

Introductory Events for New Students always take place in the first week of lectures in the winter semester and can therefore be completed every winter semester. For the certificate of achievement, please direct your questions to the chair organising the course.