Please also visit the semester-related information page for additional information, including the permitted exam aids.

If you are unable to attend an examination due to illness, please submit the Inability to Attend Examinations due to Illness Form to the Examinations Office as described in the related information sheet. Please be advised that a normal certificate of incapacity for work (Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigung) issued by a doctor does not meet the requirements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to write to doktorandenmanagement@uni-passau.de.

Although the response time has improved, we strongly recommend starting the application process in good time before your visa or residence permit expires. Please note that the pre-checking appointments in September are only offered every second week.

If you have any questions or problems, write to exchangestudents@uni-passau.de if you are an exchange student or istudicoach@uni-passau.de if you are an international degree-seeking student.

This is the last deadline in the summer semester 2025, but funding for projects in the winter semester can already be applied for.

You will find further information on our website project funding.

Alternatively, you can cast your votes electronically in room VW 302 (Administration Building, Innstrasse 41) during the regular office hours, where suitable precautions are in place to enable unobserved voting. Polling assistants who support voters with disabilities in casting their votes are obliged to maintain secrecy about the votes they learn about in the course of their work in accordance with Art. 26(2) sentence 3 BayHIG.

Please go to the polls, every vote is important!

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Said Professor Bettina Noltenius, Vice President for Studies, Teaching, Ethics and Quality Assurance: "The great international result in the area of 'Quality Education' – the core domain of a university – confirms that we are on the right path in continuously developing the already excellent range of courses at a high level. We remain focused on the topic of 'lifelong learning' and, last but not least, ensuring a supportive and student-centred learning atmosphere."

The University of Passau achieved another top result in the top 25 percent worldwide in the field of gender equality (equality between women and men). It is pleasing to note that the positioning has once again improved significantly compared to the international competition. Equal opportunities, family friendliness and sustainability are strategically important topics of the University of Passau.

"This is once again a very pleasing ranking and reflects our ongoing efforts to implement diversity and equal opportunities as an overarching task at the university in the long term, with the significant involvement of the Diversity Unit. We have learnt to use diversity as potential", said Professor Christina Hansen, Vice President for International Affairs and Diversity at the University of Passau.

The THE University Impact Rankings assess efforts with regard to the 17 UN goals for sustainable development. The indicators in this ranking focus on the so-called Third Mission, i.e. the way in which universities contribute to society in addition to research and teaching, how they transfer knowledge and technology, and how they fulfil their role model function for good working conditions, compliance with gender equity and diversity standards and environmental action.

"If our 'Third Mission' includes further improvements in the area of sustainability in the future, then both fields will benefit", said Vice President for Sustainability, Professor Werner Gamerith. "Technology transfer in particular strengthens the importance of a sustainable 'Third Mission' of the University of Passau, in the best sense of the word, with various lighthouse projects." The seventh THE Impact Ranking survey also clearly shows that the Third Mission is playing an increasingly important role. After growth rates of between 30 and 50 percent in the early years, the number of participating universities has most recently increased by another 18 percent. In the overall ranking of all criteria recorded, the University continues to rank in the 601-800 group (out of 2,318), despite the fact that the field of competitors has once again grown considerably, and was once again able to increase its overall score.