Preparatory German Language Course

First of all: apply for admission

You apply to be admitted for studying at the University of Stuttgart via the online portal C@mpus. This will probably be possible as of December 1st. Afterwards, please wait for the decision of the Admissions Office.

Letter of admission and invitation to the course

If you are admitted for summer semester 2019 by the Admissions Office, you will receive via C@mpus the inivitation to the preparatory German language course shortly after your admission. This invitation will inform you about the course fee down payment and the placement test fee (in total 500 euros) you will have to pay in order to register for the course as well as on the university's bank account for your payment.

Register by paying 500 euros

After receiving the invitation to the preparatory German language course, please transfer the amount of 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee) by March 8^th to the university's bank account as stated in the invitation to the German language course you received from the Admissions Office in order to register for the German course. These 500 euros will later be deducted from your course fees.

Please remember: You first have to apply for admission at Stuttgart University and you have to have received a letter of admission to Stuttgart University. Without an admission to Stuttgart University for summer semester 2019, we will not admit you in the German course even if you pay 500 euros.

Why 500 euros and what has still to be payed later?

Paying the course fee down payment (450 euros) and placement test fee (50 euros), in total 500 euros, is to guarantee you a place in the preparatory German language course (you'll need this e.g. for being given your visa) and is a security for us that your course registration is binding. If you attend the course after your registration, these 500 euros will be deducted from your course fees, i.e. you have already paid 500 euros and will have to pay only the rest of your course fees.

An example: You paid 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee) and you are guaranteed a place in the course. You will need our confirmation that you have got a place for your visa application. After receiving your visa, you will come to Stuttgart, you will do the placement test at the start of the course and you are placed e.g. on level B2/C1. The level B2/C1 course fees are 1600 euros (please note: not the actual course fees). The 500 euros you already paid will be deducted from these 1600 euros. So, you will actually have to pay only 1100 euros at the start of the course.

Our confirmation

As soon as your 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee) have been credited to the university's account, we will send you an email. This email confirms to you that you have been registered to the university's preparatory German language course and invites you to the placement test. You may need this confirmation and invitation for your visa.

Places limited

Please note that the number of places is limited and places in the course will be given to students according to the order of their registration fee as received by us. If the course is fully booked before March 8^th, we may decline further registrations even before the deadline. (in this case we will refund your complete 500 Euros of course)

We have got to receive 500 euros

There may be additional bank charges on international money transfer that you may have to pay (please ask your bank). Due to the limited places incomplete payment will not be accepted.

De-registration?

Your course registration is binding. If you de-register before March 8^th (by email), we will refund your course fee down payment (450 euros). After March 8^th, refund of your course fee down payment will not be possible any more, exept in case you cannot join the course for reasons you can not be held responsible for (e.g. illness or delayed issue of your visa). The placement test fee (50 euros) will not be refunded. If you cannot join the course for such reasons that you cannot be held responsible for, you have got to ask for your down payment to be refunded (by email) within the semester that you registered for. After the end of the semester your down payment will generally not be refunded.

Placement test

The decision on your level in the course (B1, B2 or C1) will be based on your result in the placement test (onSET - see below) that you will have to take after your course registration, at the beginning of the course in April.

About 4 - 7 days before the placement test, we will send you an email that invites you once more to the placement test and gives you your user name and password for the online placement test. You have to bring your user name and password on the day of the placement test. Please do not try to log in before the placement test. You will log in using your user name and password only at the beginning of the placement test here in Stuttgart University.

Placement Test: Wednesday, April 3^rd at 9:00 a.m. in lecture hall 9.01.(address: Pfaffenwaldring 9, 70569 Stuttgart. Lecture hall 9.01 is situated immediately beside S-Bahn (= suburban train) station Universität, exit Universitätszentrum) After the placement test (until about 3 pm), you will be offered a consultation on important issues like visa and residence permit, bank accounts and insurances, enrollment at Stuttgart University etc.

Please check this website regularly for any changes regarding place and time of the placement test.

Please bring:

For the placement test, you will have to present: (1) our first email confirming your course registration, (2) our second email containing your user name and password for the placement test, (3) your passport or identity card, (4) the university'y letter of admission for summer semester 2019. Without these documents, you may not be allowed into the placement test. If you should already have completed a German language course, you may bring us a photocopy of your certificate (but you don't have to). The first decision about your level in the course however will be based on your result in the placement test.

We are looking forward to seeing you here in April in our new German language course

Course Dates

• placement test: April 3^rd 2019
• course duration: April 8^th - September 6^th 2019. The course covers two levels: B1 and B2.
• vacation and holidays: April 19^th, April 22^nd, May 1^st, May 30^th, June 10^th, June 20^th, July 22^nd - August 2^nd
• teaching units: 450

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Classes

• 8:30 am – 1:00 pm or
• 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• 24 teaching units per week

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Fees

• course (incl. placement test):  1430,- euros

qualification (according to European Reference Framework): Level B2

Course Dates

• placement test: April 3^rd 2019
• course duration: April 8^th - September 11^th 2019. The course covers two levels: B2 and C1 as well as a three-week TestDaF training course.
• vacation and holidays: April 19^th, April 22^nd, May 1^st, May 30^th, June 10^th, June 20^th, July 22^nd - 26^th
• teaching units: 489
• TestDaF exam: September 12^th 2019

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Classes

• 8:30 am – 1:00 pm or
• 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• 24 teaching units per week

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Fees

• course (incl. placement test and
  TestDaF-Training): 1547,- euros
• TestDaF exam: 195,- euros

Qualification (according to European Reference Framework): Level C1

Course Dates

• placement test: April 3^rd 2019
• course duration: April 8^th - July 5^th 2019. The course covers the level C1 as well as the three-week TestDaF training course.
• vacation and holidays: April 19^th, April 22^nd, May 1^st, May 30^th, June 10^th, June 20^th
• teaching units: 282
• TestDaF exam: July 18^th 2019

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Classes

• 8:30 am – 1:00 pm or
• 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• 24 teaching units per week

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Fees

• course (incl. placement test and
  TestDaF-Training): 911,- euros
• TestDaF exam: 195,- euros

Qualification (according to European Reference Framework): Level C1

TestDaF training course June / July

Prerequisite:  level C1

Course Dates

• course duration: June 17^th - July 5^th 2019
• teaching units: 67
• TestDaF exam: July 18^th 2019

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Classes

• 8:30 am – 1:00 pm or
• 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• 24 teaching units per week

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Fees

• course: 265,- euros
• Exam: 195,- euros

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Registration

• If you are not a student of Stuttgart University and you are interested in joining the June / July training course, please contact the head of the department or the secretary's office between Mai 6^th and May 17^th: Places will first be given to the students of the C1 courses of the preparatory German language course and only at this time we will be able to tell you if places are still available. Please send or bring us a copy of your C1 certificate (confirming at least 150 teaching units) when getting in contact with us.

TestDaF training course August / September

Prerequisite:  level C1

Course Dates

• course duration: August 26^th - September 11^th 2019
• teaching units: 63
• TestDaF exam: September 12^th 2019

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Classes

• 8:30 am – 1:00 pm
• 1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
• 24 teaching units per week

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Fees

• course: 253,- euros
• TestDaF Exam: 195,- euros

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Registration

• If you are not a student of Stuttgart University and you are interested in joining the August / September training course, please contact the head of the department or the secretary's office between June 24^th and July 5^th: Places will first be given to the students of the C1 courses of the preparatory German language course and only at this time we will be able to tell you if places are still available. Please send or bring us a copy of your C1 certificate (confirming at least 150 teaching units) when getting in contact with us.

Please note: Paying the course fee down payment (450 euros) and placement test fee (50 euros), in total 500 euros, is to guarantee you a place in the preparatory German language course (you'll need this e.g. for being given your visa) and is a security for us that your course registration is binding. If you attend the course after your registration, your registration fee will be deducted from your course fees, i.e. you have already paid 500 euros and will have to pay only the rest of your course fees.

An example: You paid 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee) and you are guaranteed a place in the course. You will need our confirmation that you have got a place for your visa application. After receiving your visa, you will come to Stuttgart, you will do the placement test at the start of the course and you are placed e.g. on level B2/C1. The level B2/C1 course fees are 1600 euros (please note: not the actual course fees!). The 500 euros you already paid will be deducted from these 1600 euros. So, you will actually have to pay 1100 euros at the start of the course.

You transferred 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee), you were registered for the course but you have not yet been enrolled as a student of Stuttgart University, and you de-register before the registration deadline (by email): We will refund your course fee down payment (450 euros). The placement test fee (50 euros) will not be refunded.

You transferred 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee), you were registered for the course and you de-register after the registration deadline (by email): We will refund your course fee down payment (450 euros) only if you cannot be held responsible for the reasons of your de-registration (e.g. if you are ill or your visa is issued too late). If you are responsible for the reasons of your de-registration, we will not refund your course fee down payment. The placement test fee (50 euros) will not be refunded.

You transferred 500 euros (course fee down payment + placement test fee), you were registered for the course and you have already been enrolled as a student of Stuttgart University, and you de-register (before or after the registration deadline): We will refund your course fee down payment (450 euros) only if you cannot be held responsible for the reasons of your de-registration (e.g. if you are ill). The placement test fee (50 euros) will not be refunded.

You finished the B1+B2 course and registered for the following C1 course by paying the full C1 course fees: If you de-register before the deadline for paying the full course fees (one week after the start of classes in the following course), we will refund you the course fees minus 450 euros (course fee down payment). This is the case as well if you should not pass the B2 final exam and therefore will have to repeat the B2 level in the following course: If you de-register, you will be refunded the course fees minus 450 euros (course fee down payment).

You took the placement test and started the course, you already paid the course fees of your course (B1+B2 course, B2+C1 course or C1 course) and you de-register from the ongoing course: We will refund your course fees if you cannot be held responsible for the reasons of your de-registration (e.g. if you are ill and therefore cannot attend the course any more). In this case , we will refund the course fees for the part of the course that you cannot attend any more. If you are responsible for the reasons of your de-registration, we will neither refund your full course fees nor part of them.

This is the case as well if you pass the TestDaF exam in another test center or if you do not need any more the TestDaF exam at the end of our course and you want to leave the preparatory German course: In this case, we will neither refund your full course fees nor part of them.

1. Registration and prerequisites

You can register for the preparatory German language course only after having received your admission to Stuttgart University issued by the Studiensekretariat (admissions office). You register for the German course by paying the course fee down payment (450 euros) and the placement test fee (50 euros), in total 500 euros, to the university's bank account as given in the invitation to the German course that you will receive shortly after the letter of admission. You have to pay before the registration deadline 4 weeks before the placement test. Your registration is binding and as soon as your payment has been credited to the university's bank account, you will receive an email confirming your registration.

There is one exception: Contrary to what is stated above, you can register for the three-week TestDaF training courses without an admission to Stuttgart University, provided place is still available.

If the number of registrations exceeds the number of places available in the course, further registrations may be declined even before the end of the registration deadline. In this case, the course fee down payment plus placement test fee (500 euros) will be refunded in full.

1. Anmeldung und Voraussetzungen

2. Course Fees

The course starts with a placement test. Students are placed into the different course levels according to their results in the placement test. The course fees depend on the courses and their different course levels and duration. The following three courses are offered every semester: (I) levels B1 plus B2 (20 weeks), (II) levels B2 plus C1 plus TestDaF training (23 weeks) and (III) level C1 plus TestDaF training (13 weeks). The course fee down payment (450 euros) and the placement test fee (50 euros) are deducted from the course fees. The rest of the course fees has to be paid within one week after classes started. It's not possible to pay only one course level without the following one: The courses can only be booked as a whole.

2. Kursgebühr

3. Cancellation and refund of registration fees and course fees

After you registered for the course paying the course fee down payment (450 euros) and the placement test fee (500 euros), de-registration and refund of the down payment is possible before the registration deadline: If you de-register before the registration deadline, you will be refunded the course fee down payment (450 euros) in full. The placement test fee will not be refunded. If you de-register after the registration deadline, you will be refunded the down payment in case you cannot attend the course because you got ill or did not receive your visa on time. The placement test fee will not be refunded. If you de-register after the registration deadline for reasons that you can be hold accountable for, you will neither be refunded the down payment nor the placement test fee.

After you paid the complete course fee in the first week after classes started, you will be refunded the course fees in case you wish to de-register only for reasons you cannot be hold accountable for (e.g. if you cannot attend the course due to an illness). In this case you will be refunded the course fees for the part of the course you are not able to attend due to your illness.

3. Rücktritt und Erstattung der Gebühren bei Anmeldung und der Kursgebühren

4. Placement test

The email that confirms your course registration also invites you to the compulsory placement test at the start of the course. Students are placed in the different course levels according to their results in the placement test. The university is not obliged to take into account any German language course certificates issued by other institutions.

If you have already attended the preparatory German course offered by Stuttgart University in the previous semester, the decision is based on the final exam of the previous course level: If you pass the exam, you will proceed onto the next course level, in case of failing you will have to repeat the previous course level. If you attended a previous course and did not continue it for one semester or more, a placement test can be done again and its result can be taken into account.

4. Einstufung

5. Certificates and duplicates

Any kind of certification requires that students attend the course regularly. At the end of each course level, every student is given a Zeugnis (certificate of performance) that states the results of the final exam and the number of Unterrichtseinheiten (teaching units). If a student attended the course regularly without taking the final examination, he or she can be given a Teilnahmebescheinigung (certificate of attendance) which states the number of teaching units only. In order to be given any certificate, students are required not to miss more than 10 % of their classes. Attendance and absence is documented on the attendance lists as kept by the teachers. Duplicates of certificates can be issued within 5 years after the attended course. Such duplicates are subject to a charge of 25 euros. More than 5 years after the attended course, certificates or duplicates cannot be issued any more.

5. Zeugnisse, Bescheinigungen, Zweitausfertigungen

6. Data protection

The Internationales Zentrum (international office) records the students' personal data only for administrative purposes and does not submit them to any third party. It keeps students' personal data for 5 years in order to be able to issue duplicates at the students' request.

6. Datenschutz