German as a foreign language – semester programme

We certify your participation in a language course with one of the following course certificates:

• Graded course certificate with ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have fulfilled the minimum attendance requirements and all performance requirements. Your grade will appear on the certificate.
• Ungraded course certificate with ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have met the minimum attendance requirements and all performance requirements. Your grade will not appear on the certificate.
• Attendance certificate without grade and ECTS credits: You will receive this certificate if you have met the minimum attendance requirements but not all performance requirements.

To meet the minimum attendance requirements, you must not exceed three days of absence (6 SWS) for a 2 SWS per week course, or six days of absence (12 SWS) for a 4 SWS per week course.

You can print out your course certificates yourself from our online portal AURA:

Print course certificates

Note:
Not all courses qualify for the acquisition of a language certificate authorising advancement to the following language level. Courses that meet all the necessary requirements are marked as such in the course descriptions.

We have summarised all the important information on the levels of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and the classification and comparability of the different language certificates on the following page.

Furthermore, the language skills, which international and German students must have in order to take up a Bachelor's or Master's degree programme at TU Braunschweig are listed. In addition, the English- or German-language qualification that should be achieved upon completion of the respective degree programme is described.

Comparison of Language Certificates and Classification in the CEFR

The language courses are free of charge for students. For all others, the fees are listed in the fee schedule.

SEPA registration procedure

A SEPA mandate will be sent to you with the course registration. Please print out the mandate, sign it and return it to the accounting department or the office of the Language Centre within 5 days. The mandate will be registered at the Language Centre within 7 days and you will receive an e-mail informing you of the execution date of the debit. Once the debit has been made, the registration is successfully completed.

Validity period of the SEPA Mandate

Your SEPA mandate at the Language Centre never loses its validity. This means that you do not have to fill in a mandate for every other course booking you make during this period. The costs will then be automatically debited from your account. However, if at any time your bank details change, please report this immediately to the accounting department or the office.

Offer costs

You can find out about the costs in the fee schedule.

Fee schedule of the Language Center (PDF, 409 KB)

• If you are absent without excuse during the first week of the course, your registration for the course will become invalid and you will be excluded from further participation in the course. You can email the teacher if you cannot attend the first session so that you are not removed from the list of participants.

• A successful course attendance can only be certified if you attend the course regularly. "Regularly" means a maximum of 25 % of absence. It does not matter whether the days absent are due to illness or other reasons.

• In order to meet the minimum attendance requirements, you must not exceed three days of absence (6 SWS for a course with 2 SWS per week) or six days of absence (12 SWS for a course with 4 SWS per week).

• These rules also apply to the online courses.

The general and UNIcert® examination regulations for the Language Centre of the TU Braunschweig can be found here

Examination regulations (PDF, 703 kB)

• Before taking a course at the Language Centre, please clarify for yourself whether the credits earned at the Language Centre will be accepted in your subject area.

• The credits awarded for individual courses are calculated according to the amount of work involved and not according to the participant's course level or grade. For a two-hour language course (2SWS), after the hours of attendance and the successful completion of the exam, you will receive 2 credits; for a four-hour course (4SWS) you will receive 4 credits.

• Due to the integrated tandem programme, one receives one ECTS more in the Arabic courses than in the usual 4 SWS courses.

• The examination board for the respective subject is responsible for the recognition of academic achievements acquired at other universities. This is where the credit transfer examination takes place. Please contact the managing director of your faculty. The Language Centre can, on request, provide advice on the examination of equivalences and issue a recommendation.