Visiting students who are full-time students elsewhere

Study at two institutions of higher education

Profit from our partner universities

Those studying in full time at our university but are otherwise enrolled at other institution of higher education are classified as visiting students. They usually attend two, sometimes even three subjects, one of them being at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, including all non-assessed coursework and examinations. The opposite of being a visiting student is having a status of a full-time student, the latter at the institution of higher education at which you are enrolled. In this case, organizing studies is often more demanding than when studying at a single location. This is not just due to the fact that there are different rules for comparable issues, and that you have to find and handle two different contact partners, but also that course registration differs from institution to institution. Both examinations offices and subject-specific advisers will help you keep track of everything.

  • Cooperation with the University of Erfurt

    The University of Erfurt offers a teacher training subject Catholic Theology in Religious Education which can be combined with all teacher training subjects for the selected type of school at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (except: philosophy, ethics, and the study programme Protestant Theology in Religious Education—Teacher Training).

    Being enrolled at our university, you attend the second teacher training subject here. If the second subject has admission restrictions, please apply online via the application portal of the dialogue-oriented service procedure (DoSV). The application deadline is 15 July. Most teacher training subjects do not require registration. For these subjects fill in these  (online application is not possible) and send these to the Student Service Centre by 15 September. 

    After you have received the confirmation of enrolment from our university, you can send the application for admission as a visiting studentExternal link for the subject Catholic Theology to the University of Erfurt.

  • Cooperation with the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar or the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

    Students who are enrolled as full-time students at

    • the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (teaching training in school music, major subject in musicology in bachelor’s programme) or
    • at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (teacher training in art education)

    should apply for the second teacher training course or minor subject within a bachelor's programme being studied at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

    Students who are enrolled as a full-time student at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

    • with a major subject in a bachelor’s programme and
    • would like to study intercultural music and events management or musicology as a minor subject

    should apply for a status as a visiting student directly at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.  

  • Joint degree programme M.Sc. Photon Science and Technology (MPST)

    Joint degree programme M.Sc. Photon Science and Technology

    The M.Sc. Photon Science and Technology (MPST) is jointly delivered by the three universities Friedrich Schiller University Jena (FSU), Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as well as the Max Planck School of Photonics.

    FAU and the Max Planck School of Photonics are responsible for the admission procedure and student scholarships.

    If you have received an offer of admission and have been admitted, you must enrol at KIT as a home student and at FSU and FAU as a visiting student.

    You can apply to enrol as a visiting student at FSU Jena via the portal https://friedolin2.uni-jena.de. As part of the application for enrolment, you must also upload your letter of admission from FAU and your certificate of enrolment from KIT, so you should have these documents available as digital copies or scans.

  • Application and supporting documents

    Applications for a restricted-admission subject in the aforementioned cooperative study programmes must be submitted before 15 July via the University of Jena's application portal in DoSV (https://friedolin2.uni-jena.de). There you will find all the necessary information about additional documents.

    To register as a guest student in admission-free subjects in the cooperative study programmes (including the third subject ‘Educational Sciences’ in the teaching degree programme), please apply for enrolment by 15 September. To do so, apply for enrolment at https://friedolin2.uni-jena.de and upload the required documents. You will then receive an enrolment application, which you should sign and submit to the Student Service Centre together with a copy of your ID (identity card or passport) by 15 September at the latest.

    To re-register for following semesters, upload your certificate of enrolment from your main university (HfM Weimar, BU Weimar or KIT Karlsruhe) to the Student Services Office within the re-registration period (15 February for the summer semester; 15 August for the winter semester) and apply for the re-registration block to be lifted.

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