This page contains information on e.g. internships, dissertations and theses, mark improvement, credit transfers or missing an exam due to illness.
If you are looking for information on exam registration, exam dates, seating plans and script viewing, please visit our semester-related information page instead.
Additionally, via this link you can find degree-programme-specific information.
We have compiled an information sheet on exam access arrangements for you.
You can also find the application forms there.
For crediting of achievements gained in another programme or at another institution, please fill in the corresponding form for your faculty and submit it to the Examinations Office. Please also note the information on re-classification into a higher semester (German).
Here you can find more information about crediting of achievements.
Then you must complete the Registration of Periods of Study or Work Abroad Form and hand it in together with the Degree Certificate and Transcripts Request Form.
information on dissertations and theses. The registration form for the dissertation/thesis project can also be downloaded from that webpage.
You must register for all core and examination modules, as well as other coursework and written assignments, via your Credit points portal.
Here you will find a checklist (German content) that summarises the most important measures for the examination process and lists points that all students must observe.
This also applies to the detailed information on the examination procedure for students before, during and after the examination.
We require a written request from you to issue the degree documents; these are not issued automatically. You will find the application form on your degree programme page.
If you have earned credits at a foreign higher education institution and have had them recognised at the University of Passau, you must submit the Registration of Periods of Study or Work Abroad Form with your application unless you have already submitted this form at an earlier date.
Tip:
The graduation ceremony is organised by your Dean's Office.
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences and Faculty of Humanities and Cultural Studies
For the graduation ceremonies of the Faculty you will receive an invitation and further information from the Dean's Office directly by e-mail. For this purpose, please fill out page 2 of the certificate and academic transcripts request form. If you are interested, you can register bindingly for the celebration of your degree programme via an online form after receiving an invitation from the Dean's Office. The ceremonies usually take place in July/August and February/March. Bachelor's and Master's graduates as well as doctoral and postdoctoral candidates receive a certified copy of the certificate.
Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems
The Dean's Office will send you an invitation to the graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Business, Economics and Information Systems and further information by post. At the ceremony, which takes place each March and October, you will be given a certified copy of your certificate.
Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics
The graduation ceremony of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics takes place once a year, in January. Order to register, please fill in the supplementary page of the certificate and academic transcripts request form. We will then forward your registration together with a certified copy of your certificate to the Dean's Office.
Faculty of Law
The Faculty of Law holds two graduation ceremonies every year. You will receive the invitation from Landgericht Passau. The Dean's Office will take your registration. If you attend the graduation ceremony, you will receive a duplicate of your Master's certificate. You will receive an official invitation from the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Law in due course.
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 note that a normal certificate of incapacity to work issued by a doctor is not sufficient.
You can find more detailed information in the information sheet mentioned above.
Before the internship, the Centre for Careers and Competencies and the programme co-ordinators issue personalised certificates.
After the internship, the internships are approved by the respective internship officers. Please use the Internship Approval Form. When requesting approval, please adhere to the internship guidelines (German) for the bachelor's and master's degree programmes of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
Internships can be counted towards a number of degree programmes. Before starting your internship, please contact an examiner of the Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics to arrange supervision of your internship. After the internship, your supervisor is the person responsible for approvals. Please use the Internship Approval Form.
Examinations Office of the Language Centre provides comprehensive information on language examinations.
If there is a possibility for you to improve your mark for a module, please submit the voluntary resit request for mark improvement form (German) to the Examinations Office before the set deadline. Please read the information sheet on mark improvement (German).
