During your stay abroad

You will not be registered automatically for the courses you named in your learning agreement / study plan. In general, you need to register by yourself via TUMonline  after you completed your enrollment. The course registration opens in the beginning of October (winter term) and April (summer term).

You (usually) need to register for all courses of a module. If in doubt about this, please check with us (incoming.ad@ed.tum.de) or directly with the responsible Chair!

There are different ways to register for courses

• Through your study tree
• Through the module description
• Through the application “Courses”

Instructions can be found here. We advise you to register through your study tree or the module description, so you can easily see all courses that belong to the module you chose and how many ECTS the module has.

The application “Courses” can be useful if you want to look for something specific, for example using a key word, or you want to filter the language of instruction. But please note, here you will not be able to easily see to which module the course belongs, so you will not automatically know if it’s the only course you’ll have to take or how many ECTS you’ll get.

Please don't register for projects on TUMonline!

The project allocation is not through TUMonline as for the other elective courses, but every semester projects are allocated through project market one week before lecture start.

For all information about project allocation, please see the section Projects and Project Market.

You will have the opportunity to improve your German and English, or learn another language, from the vast number of courses and workshops offered by the TUM Language Centre.

All information on language courses can be found here.

The scheduled dates for courses are updated only a few weeks before the beginning of the semester. Since you set up your study program or learning agreement at an early stage, you cannot be sure if there are time conflicts of your chosen courses, if the exam dates do collide or whether a course is actually taught in the semester. So be prepared that it might be necessary to revise your study program or learning agreement after the start of the semester.

As soon as your personal schedule is fix, you can start to state your changes in the learning agreement. We ask you to do this in the first 5 weeks of the lecture period, please check also with your Home University if they have a deadline. The changed learning agreement needs to be signed by the home and the guest university.

A feature of the Architecture program is participation and completion of a Project. Individual project work is the central element of our study programs. In these projects, the core competency of architects – design – is being taught. Students will have the opportunity to increase their ability to create design with architectural means and develop essential research skills.

TUM Students have to work on a project each semester. As a visiting student, taking a Project is not compulsory for you. However, we hope that you will want the experience of studying a project to enhance your academic skills. Because of the limited offer of projects and their workload, you can take only one project per semester.

Projects give:

• for BA students in their 3rd and 4th semester of studies (BA Basic): 13 CPs (ECTS)
• for BA students from their 5th semester of studies (BA Advanced): 12 CPs (ECTS) from the academic year 2024/25
• for MA: 15 CPs (ECTS)

These projects are assigned to thematic focus areas and will be presented to you by the Chairs of each academic area at the start of the semester.

To be assigned a project, BA students in their 3rd and 4th semester of studies have to get in touch with us and will be allocated a Project by us, while BA advanced and MA level students are required to take part in the Project market.

Please don't register for the projects on TUMonline! Project places are in fact not assigned via TUMonline like for other courses, but via Project market. This is an allocating system that guarantees a fair distribution of projects. Please understand that it is not possible to guarantee the allocation to a specific project. By entering 4 or more wishes, the interests of students are taken into account in the best possible way. The School Office has no influence over this system, and neither have the Chairs!  You will be treated alongside all other BA advanced and MA students of Architecture. Please choose all Projects that you find interesting so that you are not disappointed if you do not get your first choice. Obviously consider the language of instruction!

Examinations at the TUM School of Engineering and Design take place at the end of the semester. The exam will be a module exam and not the course exam, so the content of all courses of a module will be examined (see also Learning Agreement / StudyPlan in the section "Preparing for the stay abroad")

Exchange students have to register for the exams of all modules they wish to have grades/ECTS for, including from other departments or schools and the TUM Language Center (also projects/submissions of seminar papers, etc.). This is not an automatic process!

You will be informed about the registration period for exams at the TUM School of Engineering and Design via Email.

You have to register from exams in TUMonline. For that, you need to login in your TUMonline account.  You can also find the results of the exams in your TUMonline student’s account.

It is best to register for exams via your study tree. You can find further information on how to register for exams in the TUM wiki:

https://wiki.tum.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=587694476

General information about exam registration for BA Architecture can be found here.

https://wiki.tum.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=886080078

General information about exam registration for MA Architecture can be found here.

https://wiki.tum.de/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=897843669

You can deregister from an exam up to 7 days before the exam date.

Examination results are published around March/April (winter term) and September/October (summer term) in your TUMonline account. 

Each semester we organize a Buddy Program, which new exchange students can take advantage of if they wish.  Incoming students are paired (or matched) to a TUM Architecture student who will help with their transition to Munich and to TUM. Such activities might include navigating around the campus; showing how to use the library, giving tips and help booking tickets on the public transport system; the best restaurants to visit or the best place to play sport.  If you would like to have a Buddy, please see here: ED International Buddy Program.

https://www.fachschaft-architektur.de/