Exmatriculation

When you are exmatriculated, your membership at the University of Hohenheim and your student status end. This also affects any (social) insurance policies you might have.

Please request exmatriculation in HohCampus (Service > Applications).

As documentation you will receive a certificate of exmatriculation by post, which you should keep in a safe place. It includes proof for statutory pension insurance. There is a fee for any additional certificates.

As a rule, exmatriculation takes place at the end of the semester (example: In case of exmatriculation on 30 Sept, you are no longer a student of the University of Hohenheim as of 1 Oct). If you apply earlier in the semester to be exmatriculated at the end of the semester, then at the time you submit your application you can receive your exmatriculation certificate confirming that you will be exmatriculated at the end of the semester. This certificate will not be sent at the end of the semester.

Exmatriculation with immediate effect (example: exmatriculating on 31 Oct you are no longer a student of the University of Hohenheim as of 1 Nov) is typically only possible up to one month after the start of the lecture period. If you wish to carry out an exmatriculation with immediate effect after this date, you must show documentation of the reason.

Note: Please note that in the event of exmatriculation with immediate effect, the student ID card must be returned to the Registrar’s Office. If this does not happen, the exmatriculation cannot be carried out.

Reimbursement of fees

  • If you exmatriculate before the semester starts or effective immediately by 1 month after the lecture period has started, then upon request the administrative fee will be reimbursed. To do so, please upload the refund request form, which you can find here under “Downloads," in HohCampus when you request exmatriculation. 
  • For reimbursement of the Student Services fee, please take note of the different deadline. You should send the request for reimbursement of the Student Services fee directly to Student Services. Please email it to ingrid.romeser@sw-tuebingen-hohenheim.de.
  • For reimbursement of the Student Parliament fee, please take note of the different deadline. You should send the request for reimbursement of the Student Parliament fee directly to the Student Parliament (by email to verwaltung@asta.uni-hohenheim.de or by post to: AStA Universität Hohenheim, Kirchnerstraße 5, 70599 Stuttgart)
  • If you pay tuition fees for a second degree, then if you exmatriculate before the semester starts or effective immediately by one month after the lecture period has started, upon request the administrative fee will be reimbursed. Please upload the refund request form, which you can find here under “Downloads," in HohCampus when you request exmatriculation.
  • If you pay tuition fees for international students, then if you exmatriculate before the semester starts or effective immediately by 1 month after the lecture period has started, upon request the tuition fee will be reimbursed. In HohCampus, when requesting your exmatriculation, please upload the Office of International Affairs’ request for reimbursement.

Reasons for exmatriculation

If you have successfully completed all examinations, the Registrar's Office will automatically exmatriculate you at the end of the semester.

Exmatriculation because you have finished your degree is only possible if all grades have been received by the Examinations Office.

Once you have completed all the required examinations and credits, you can also request exmatriculation. The reason for exmatriculation is then "other reasons".

If you are planning to change university, please do not exmatriculate before you have received the admission letter from the new university.

Students can also be exmatriculated because they are excluded from their studies. This can occur, in case they fail to meet the deadline for re-registration or if they irrevocably fail exams. If you have lost the right to take examinations in a study program, there is no possibility to re-start or resume this program at the same or any other German university.  In such cases, the student is automatically exmatriculated by the Registrar's Office at the end of the semester.

Following exmatriculation

You are obligated to take examinations for which you have registered even after exmatriculation! If you re-enroll in the same degree program at Hohenheim, the exams you have cancelled here could possibly count as failed attempts. Therefore, your registration from exams for which you are already registered will not automatically be cancelled for the current semester.

You can cancel registration for exams because you are exmatriculating and therefore you will not take the exams again. To do so, please contact the Examinations Office.

You will lose your right of admission to examinations if you cancel exams that you need to meet study deadlines in your current semester. In the Bachelor's programs, these are primarily the 3rd semester (preliminary examination) and the 9th semester (graduation). In the Master's programs, the 7th semester (graduation).

Unlike after a leave of absence, if you want to continue your studies following voluntary exmatriculation in Hohenheim, you will face the difficult situation that there are admission restrictions for many programs.
This is also the case in higher subject-related semesters, with the result that you may only be re-admitted if study places become available. If you are not admitted, you will have to re-apply the following semester.

Students in the cooperative degree programs Bachelor of Food Chemistry and Bachelor of Business Information Systems

Students in the Bachelor's degree programs in Food Chemistry and Information Systems who are also enrolled at the University of Stuttgart do not apply for exmatriculation at the University of Hohenheim. They submit applications for exmatriculation to the University of Stuttgart, and once the application has been approved, exmatriculation is also carried out at the University of Hohenheim.

Exmatrikulation at the University of Stuttgart