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De-registration
You can apply for de-registration via the "StudiLöwe" portal. Log in with your matriculation number and your personal password.
Under the menu item "Mein Studium" ⇒ "Studienservice" or under "Service"⇒"Anträge" click on the button "Exmatrikulation" and then on the button "Neuen Antrag erfassen".
There, select the reason for your de-registration and indicate the date on which you would like to be de-registered. Then submit the application to the Student Admission and Registration for International Students by clicking on the "Antrag abgeben" button.
We will automatically send you a certificate of de-registration to your matriculation number email address once we have processed your application.
If you
- have not re-registered within the re-registration period or the reminder period for the semester in question, or
- a suspension prevents you from re-registering or
- you have not provided the insurance certificate of your statutory health insurance,
you will be de-registered ex officio by the university in due course.
The certificate of de-registration and a certificate of your periods of study will be sent to you by mail.
After an exam has been definitively failed, you will receive notification from the Central Examinations Office. Only after the appeal period has expired (see the bottom of the notification) will the Central Examinations Office forward the information regarding the definitively failed exam to the Student Admission and Registration (for International Students). The Student Admission and Registration (for International Students) will then initiate the withdrawal procedure. As part of this process, you will receive a letter from the Student Admission and Registration (for International Students). De-registration takes effect at the end of the semester in which the notification of the final failure becomes legally effective. You will receive the de-registration certificate and a certificate of your period of study via the email address associated with your student ID number.
Important note regarding the change of semester:
If you have already re-registered for the following semester and do not wish to transfer to a different program, please have us process your withdrawal at the end of the previous semester before the start of classes in the following semester so that the semester fee you paid for the following semester can be refunded to you.
If you wish to transfer to a different degree program, please note the relevant deadlines and submit a clearance certificate along with your application for a change of degree program. You can request this from the Central Examinations Office.
As soon as the information about your passed final examination has been forwarded to the Student Admission and Registration (for International Students) by the central examinations office, you will receive information by mail from the Student Admission and Registration (for International Students). You will then be de-registered at the end of the semester in which you were last enrolled. However, if you wish to remain enrolled at the University of Wuppertal, please note the deadlines for transferring to another degree programme.
Immediately after exmatriculation, you will no longer have access to your ZIM account. This means that you will no longer be able to retrieve any certificates of enrolment. As these are often required for submission to other organisations even after exmatriculation, please save your study certificates (or other documents) in good time for private purposes (e.g. by saving them on your private computer). Please also note that from the time you no longer have access to your ZIM account, you will also no longer have access to the ZIM WLAN of the University of Wuppertal.
However, you can still access your university e-mail account for three months after the date of de-registration. You can find more information here.
Generally, de-registration is carried out at the end of the semester. Please note that if you de-register as of today’s date, your student ID card and semester ticket will lose their validity as of the date of de-registration. After de-registration (or cancellation of re-registration), the student ID card no longer serves as proof of enrollment, and its further use (whether digitally or as a certificate of enrollment) is prohibited. The semester ticket may also no longer be used after de-registration.
A refund of the fees paid for the following semester is possible without restriction, provided that the application for de-registration is received by the Student Admission and Registration (for International Students) before the start of the lecture period and retroactively to the end of the previous semester (if this is not technically possible, please write this in the comment field). From the beginning of the lecture period, a full refund is no longer possible, only the pro rata contribution for the semester ticket can be refunded upon application by the student union (AStA).
