Student incomings

Erasmus students

You apply for an exchange place as part of the Erasmus program at your home university. If your home university has nominated you at the University of Bremen, you will receive further information about the application process at the University of Bremen from our International Office. You must register in Mobility Online and apply for a guest study program via the University of Bremen's application portal.

Freemover

If you want to take courses and exams at the University of Bremen for one or two semesters as a freemover, you can apply for a guest study program via the University of Bremen's application portal.

To apply, you need confirmation from the receiving department. Please contact the coordinator for International students at the Faculty of Production Engineering via fb04int@uni-bremen.de.

Further information on applying as a freemover and contact persons in the International Office can be found at https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/studies/orientation-application/applying-for-studies/applications-from-abroad/freemover-visiting-students

Course selection

The courses of a semester are usually published in the online course directory only 1 - 2 months before the start of the semester.

If you would like to find out earlier, you can call up the last summer or winter semester in the semester selection. There are usually only minor changes to the courses on offer.

In principle, you may take courses from the entire range offered by the University of Bremen. However, please discuss this in advance with the internationalization officers at the Faculty of Production Engineering.

You can find a list of all English-language courses via the filter function “Search for courses”. The course numbers of all courses offered by the Faculty of Production Engineering start with 04-, courses offered by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics start with 07-.

Learning Agreement

The contact persons at the Department of Production Engineering for coordinating and signing the Learning Agreement are the representatives for internationalization / Erasmus of the department Prof. Lucio Colombi Ciacchi and Svenja Schell. Please use fb04int@uni-bremen.de to contact us.

The University of Bremen is connected to Erasmus without Papers (EWP) via the platform Mobility Online.

Courses

The academic year at the University of Bremen is divided into two semesters:

Winter semester from October 1 to March 31
Summer semester from April 1 to September 30

Courses are held over a period of 14 weeks:

Winter semester: mid-October to early February
Summer semester: early/mid-April to early/mid-July

Courses are mostly held in-person, although some are offered as online or blended learning formats, where part of the course is taught in-person/online and part is self-directed.

For the registration and organization of courses, the University of Bremen uses the Stud.IP learning platform, where you must register with your university account. On Stud.IP, you can create your schedule and register for your selected courses.

Examinations

Examinations for most modules take place after the end of the course period, i.e., in February and March in the winter semester, and in July and August in the summer semester.

Typical examination formats include written exams, oral exams, presentations, and written assignments. The examination format can be found in the module description. It will also be announced by the instructor at the beginning of the course.

Exchange students do not register through the Examinations Office if they wish to take an exam, but rather register directly with the examiners.

Language skills in the language of instruction should be at level B2.

German language skills are only expected if you are taking courses taught in German.