Semester fees

Semester fee for the winter semester 2022/2023: € 308.30

The semester fee includes:

• Administrative fee for Kölner Studierendenwerk: € 90.00
• Public transport pass for North Rhine-Westphalia ('Semesterticket'): € 201.40 (including SemesterTicket NRW: € 58.50, VRS semester ticket: € 142.90 and solidarity contribution: € 0.30)
• AStA fee: € 15.60 (includes university sports fee € 1.75 and faculty student association fee €1.35) 
• Nextbike rental bikes: €1.00

Please note: Due to the partial refund of the fee for the Semesterticket for the summer semester 2022 (due to the 9 Euro Ticket), most students currently have a positive balance of € 71.60, i.e. they will only need to pay a reduced fee for the next semester. This is already reflected in PSSO.

Semester fee for the summer semester 2022: €291.50

The semester fee includes:

• Administrative fee for Kölner Studierendenwerk: € 80.00
• Public transport pass for North Rhine-Westphalia: € 197.40*
  (including SemesterTicket NRW: € 58.50, VRS semester ticket: € 138.70 and solidarity contribution: € 0.20)
• AStA fee: € 13.10 (includes university sports fee € 1.75 and faculty student association fee € 1.35) 
• Nextbike rental bikes: € 1.00

*The fee for the public transport pass (€ 197.40) was retroactively reduced by € 71.60 due to the introduction of the 9 Euro Ticket.

Students enrolled in one of the Integrated Campus and Distance Education programs at Gummersbach Campus are required to pay an additional material procurement fee of

• €110.88 for Bachelor’s programs
• €109.20 for Master’s programs

For more information on the material procurement fee, please contact the Institut für Verbundstudien – IfV NRW or refer to TH Köln's Amtliche Mitteilung (official communication).

From the summer semester 2017 on, students enrolled in part-time programs for professionals (i.e. programs whose schedule allows a full-time employment) are no longer eligible for a public transport pass as well as the Nextbike rental bikes. Exceptions are only possible for students who work less than 20 hours/week. If this applies to you, please complete the "Semester ticket form" (available for download in the infobox) and return it to the Office of Student Services.

These changes are due to the fares conditions of Verkehrsbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) to which TH Köln's fees system has been adjusted.

This affects all students enrolled in the following programs:

• Library and Information Science
• Taxation
• Insurance Law
• Web Science
• Business Information Systems (Bachelor's and Master's program, integrated campus and distance education).

For all students enrolled in one of the programs mentioned above, the semester fee only includes:

• Administrative fee for Kölner Studierendenwerk and
• AStA fee