Re-registration

All students who have not re-registered will be disenrolled by the end of the current semester.

The semester fee for the winter semester 2025/2026 is €334.70.

Exceptions apply for joint degree programs and programs parallel to professional employment.
 

July 10: Re-registration for the winter semester (Image: TH Köln)

For all students enrolled at TH Köln, the following re-registration deadlines apply:

• Summer semester: January 10
• Winter semester: July 10

TH Köln must have received the fees by these dates. We therefore ask you to transfer the semester fees a few days in advance.

Should you miss the re-registration deadline, you will need to pay a late fee.

In some cases, students cannot be re-registered despite having paid the fee in time:

• students who fail to meet certain requirements, such as internship requirements, or who have not officially selected a specialization for the upcoming semester
• students whose health insurance confirmation is missing or who have a re-registration block in their student account for other reasons.

If you have a re-registration block in your student account, the reasons for this are displayed in CaMS.

Information for students who have registered for an exam that is part of a course that they took in the previous semester (i.e. before the semester break):

• You need have re-registered by the time the exam takes place.
• If there are any impediments regarding your re-registration, e.g. late payment of the semester fee, ongoing internships or failed payments of the health insurance contributions, it is possible that your exam registration is deleted. This is also possible if the impediment no longer exists at the time of the exam.
• After your re-registration, make sure to verify - at least 7 days before the exam - that you are still registered for the exam you want to take. This information is available in PSSO in the section "Exam information" ("Info über angemeldete Prüfungen").
• If the exam is not listed there, get in touch with the Office of Student and Examination Services immediately. Otherwise, you may not be able to take the examination.

Students who are graduating in the current semester, i.e. in a semester for which they are already registered, do not need to re-register for the upcoming semester. The deciding factor is the date the thesis (incl. final oral examination) is submitted or the last examination is taken. The announcement date of the thesis or examination results is irrelevant.

Examples:

Re-registration for the summer semester:

• Thesis/final oral examination or last examination is submitted or taken on or before February 28/29:
  Re-registration for the upcoming summer semester is not required.
• Thesis/final oral examination or last examination is submitted or taken on or after March 1:
  Re-registration for the upcoming summer semester is required. This is also the case if only the final oral examination is taken in the new semester.

Re-registration for the winter semester:

• Thesis/final oral examination or last examination is submitted or taken on or before August 31:
  Re-registration for the upcoming winter semester is not required.
• Thesis/final oral examination or last examination is submitted or taken on or after September 1:
  Re-registration for the upcoming winter semester is required. This is also the case if only the final oral examination is taken in the new semester.

Additional information is available in the Download section: "Information for graduating students".

All payments must be made by bank transfer.

Bank details:
TH Köln
Bank: Sparkasse KölnBonn
IBAN: DE50 3705 0198 1931 6140 59
BIC/SWIFT: COLSDE33

Payment reference ("Verwendungszweck"):

[student ID number] [first name] [last name] (example: 12345678 Jane Doe)

Make sure to use the correct payment reference to ensure that your payment can be processed correctly. 

A late fee of €7.00 will be charged if the payment is received late.

Cross-registered students pay their semester fees at their home university.