Enrolment - Prospective students (international)

General Enrolment Information

By enrolling, students acquire membership at the University of Bamberg.

One of the following is required for studying at the University of Bamberg:

general or
restricted/subject-specific university entry qualification
a qualification recognised as equivalent.

Some degree programmes are subject to admission restrictions (numerus clausus). For these programmes, special admission is required.

Persons with foreign citizenship and foreign higher education entry qualification (certificates) must submit their application via the university portal in due form and time; this also applies if you have a preparatory course (Studienkolleg) certificate. Please contact the International Office with any questions concerning your application.

To ensure that you receive your access data with ample time in advance of commencing your studies, we recommend that you submit your documents for the 2025/2026 winter semester no later than 12 September 2025.
Enrolment is however still possible until 2 October 2025.

>>> Information on re-enrolment

The legal basis is laid out in the Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act (Bayerischen Hochschulinnovationsgesetz), in the University of Bamberg’s enrolment, re-registration and de-registration statutes (lmmatrikulations-, Rückmelde- und Exmatrikulationssatzung), as well as the statutes of the Studentenwerk Würzburg concerning the levying of the basic fee (Grundbeitragssatzung) and the statutes of the Studentenwerk Würzburg concerning an additional fee for students’ public transport at the university location Bamberg (Semesterticket).

The Enrolment Process

Students enrol at the University of Bamberg via the university portal. Please register in the portal and fill in the online form. Please make sure you enter a valid postal address so that we can send your enrolment documents (student ID card).

If you would like to enrol in a master's degree programme, you first need to apply.

Your application for enrolment (pdf file) is available in the university portal under the heading “Application” (homepage -> To my application).
Please print out your enrolment form and sign it!

Please send a hard copy of your application for enrolment and the required documents specified therein to the following address within the published enrolment period (receipt by the University):

Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
– Studierendenkanzlei –
Kapuzinerstra?e 25
96047 Bamberg

You will find the enrolment periods for degree programmes with limited admissions in your admission letter.

Still not sure which documents you need to submit? Have a look at the checklist.

How do I pay – and how much?

Please transfer semester fees and save a proof of payment (bank statement or a transaction statement for online banking) to include in the enrolment documents to be submitted by post.

Please submit hard copies of your enrolment documents to the Registrar's Office as early as possible. The sooner you submit your documents, the sooner you will receive personal access data, which is required to register for courses and examinations, or to participate in digital courses.

Our aim is to process your application for enrolment as quickly as possible. Please allow us a few days to do so. The order in which applications are processed depends on when we actually receive your documents and, of course, on whether the documents submitted are complete.

Please note that we are unfortunately not able to send confirmation that we have received your documents.

If the documents submitted are incomplete, we will contact you by email.

Applications for enrolment in degree programmes with limited admissions are given priority due to the fixed deadlines in the corresponding admissions procedures.

Enrolment processing usually takes approximately three weeks, depending on how many applications for enrolment are received at any given time. If you have not received enrolment documents after four weeks, you may contact studierendenkanzlei(at)uni-bamberg.de to ask when you can expect to receive them.

We ask that you please refrain from contacting us any sooner about receipt of your documents or processing status.

Following successful enrolment, you will receive the personal access data for your studies and further information by email. Your student identity card (chip card) will be sent by post to the address you gave in the application.

We wish you a good start at the University of Bamberg!

Required Documents

For written enrolment, please submit officially certified copies of your transcripts and certificates, in particular your higher education entry qualification (Abitur) and university degree certificates (Diplom, bachelor's or master's degree certificates).

>>> further Information on officially certified copies (in German)

Proof of payment of semester fees

Please transfer semester fees and save a proof of payment (bank statement or a transaction statement for online banking) to include in the enrolment documents to be submitted by post.

Certificate of health insurance

If you are insured by a statutory provider:

Contact your statutory health insurance provider in advance of enrolment and arrange for the M10 notification (Meldung M10) of your insurance status to be sent electronically.

Please provide the sender number H0000164 for the University of Bamberg. The health insurance provider will then transmit the information directly to our university within 3-4 working days.

If you are privately insured:

Contact a statutory health insurance provider(!) in advance of enrolment and arrange for the M10 notification (Meldung M10) of your insurance status to be sent electronically.

Please provide the sender number H0000164 for the University of Bamberg. The health insurance provider will then transmit the information directly to our university within 3-4 working days.

Private health insurance providers do not use the electronic notification system!

If you are insured abroad:

Please contact a German statutory health insurance provider(!) and arrange for the M10 notification (Meldung M10) of your insurance status in Germany to be sent electronically.

Please provide the sender number H0000164 for the University of Bamberg. The health insurance provider will then transmit the information directly to our university within 3-4 working days.

You can find more information (in German) here:

>>> Information on health insurance

If you submit your documents to us after 12 September 2025, we cannot guarantee that you will receive your access data prior to the start of the new student orientation events.

You can however still complete your enrolment until 2 October 2025, but please note that enrolment processing may take up to 3 weeks in this case.

>>> Checkliste (degrees obtained abroad)(316.8 KB)

>>> Checkliste (zulassungsfreie Studieng?nge)(246.8 KB)

>>> Checkliste (zulassungsbeschr?nkte Studieng?nge)(202.2 KB)

>>> Checkliste (Erweiterungsstudium Beratungslehrkraft)(289.6 KB, 1 page)

>>> Checkliste (Masterstudieng?nge)(249.1 KB)

>>> Checkliste (Promotion)(211.8 KB)

>>> Checkliste (Doctoral Studies - PhD)(211.5 KB)

>>> Checkliste (exchange students & German course)(237.4 KB, 1 page)