As an ERASMUS student the admission procedure follows the steps managed by the international office of your home country. If you have been accepted as ERASMUS Student at your home university, please contact Dr. Heike Henneken.

Deadline Incomings:

General Information for Erasmus Students

As a first step plea­se send a mo­ti­va­ti­on let­ter (no lon­ger than 2 pages), tran­script of re­cords and your certificate to the di­rec­to­ra­te, if your not coming with an ERASMUS grant.

The Che­mis­try Pro­gramme in Co­lo­gne is structered according to the Bo­lo­gna system, into a three year Ba­che­lor (180 ECTS points) tought in German and a two-ye­ar mas­ter de­gree cour­se (120 ECTS points) taught in English. To check the courses go to Klips.

If you wish to apply for the Bachelor programme please have a look here.

If you wish to apply for the Master programme please have a look here.

If you wish to apply for a Phd you have the choice of a number of research groups.

Cologne is not the chea­pest place to live but you can find so­me­thing in any price range! The city of­fers en­ough to make it worth it! It is im­portant to start the room-hunting at least two month before your arrival.

Student accomodation

The Cologne student Union “Kölner Studierenden Werk” ownes 86 residental homes with app. 4600 places that offer “all inclusive” rents in the range of 180-400 EUR centrally located next to the university.

You can choose between the classical version with a room on the corridor, with communal kitchen and sanitary facilities, a shared flat with 2 to 6 persons, or a single apartment. Half of all rooms a furnished. All residences have complete furnished kitchens, drier and washer.

Private housing

Most rooms which are rented in Cologne are rented without furniture (unmöbliert), but you might probably need a furnished flat (möblierte Wohnung) or a furnished room (möbliertes Zimmer). The monthly rent is usually broken down into two figures: the basic or cold rent (Kaltmiete) and the predictable utility bills (Nebenkosten), which include water usage, rubbish fees, city rates etc. These two figures together make up the warm rent (Warmmiete). If you stay for a short period look for rooms that are sublet (Zwischenmieten). A lot of students sublet their rooms when they are aboard and this can be one of your best options of finding a furnished room for a short-term lease. A lot of furnished short-term accommodation can be found in shared flats (Wohngemeinschaften or WGs).

Best sites to start a search:

Kölner Studierenden Werk
studenten-wg
wg-gesucht

You will find general information on accommodation in Germany here.
A glossary for the search you can find here.

Living for help

"Living for help" is a project that connects students searching for a room with elderly persons, single parents, families or handicapped persons.
For each m² offered the student gives one our help in month. The predictibale utility bills has to be paid on the students own.
This project offers a unique possibility to combine social commitment with finding a cheap place to live and if interested a family like connection.

Information on course types, course contents, specification, application, fees, exams and dates you'll find here.

For the one-to-one Mentoring, Trainings and Networking the participants will be matched with female professors of the University of Cologne as mentors .

More information: www.ifs-mentoring.uni-koeln.de.