German citizensEnrolment in a Higher Semester

Registration for admission-restricted and open-admission degree programmes

Once you have been admitted, you will be asked in your heiCO account to accept the study place within the deadline indicated there. If you do not accept the study place by the deadline, your entitlement to the study place will expire. You then apply for enrolment online and by submitting documents by post to the Student Administration Office within the enrolment period specified in the letter of admission. 

Please note that online enrolment is not (yet) available for enrolment after an exchange of university places. 

Please follow these steps to complete the enrolment process:

• Make sure that you have all of your documents, e.g. your health insurance number at hand.
• Enrol online.
• Please print out your enrolment application provided in your heiCO account, sign it, and upload the signed enrolment application to the heiCO portal. Furthermore, send the original together with all the documents required for you (see below) to:
  
  Heidelberg University
  Student Administration
  Seminarstr. 2
  69117 Heidelberg

Please have the following documents ready to upload as a PDF file for your enrolment:

• University entrance qualification (e.g. German ‘Abitur’) 
  If your diploma was issued under a name you no longer hold, please also submit a respective official certificate detailing your name change.
  If you acquired your university entrance qualification abroad, please submit the diploma and the certificate detailing equivalence with a German university entrance qualification as well as the determined average grade (available from the Regional Council Stuttgart) - all documents must be officially certified copies.
• 1 passport photo
• Identity card/passport
• Proof of health insurance 
  In addition, please have your health insurance data ready and enter your data in heiCO during enrolment.
  Basically, the transmission of your insurance status takes place electronically. After entering your data in heiCO, you must always - even if you are privately insured - contact a statutory, German health insurance company and apply for the “Meldegrund M10 für die Universität Heidelberg” under the university number H0003588.  This process takes up to 5 working days. Enrolment will not take place until the electronic transmission of the statutory health insurance has taken place.
  In return, the university notifies the health insurance companies of the beginning and - later - the end of your studies.
• For sports: proof of having passed the sports entrance examination
• For enrolment in the practical year (Medicine): Acceptance letter or an e-mail from the PY platform confirming your reservation 
• In the case of a change from or after the 3rd subject semester, proof of the subject-related student advisory service
• Any further documents and certificates mentioned in your letter of admission/ your heiCO account

If you have previously enrolled at another German higher education institution, you must also submit your application online:

• Detailed certificate of exmatriculation from the most-recently attended university.
  Detailed exmatriculation certificate means that the enrolment period (start/end of your studies) as well as the degree programme (subject/subject semester/graduation, possibly changes, leave of absence) are proven - should one or more of these details not be included on the exmatriculation certificate, you can provide these in addition to the exmatriculation certificate by means of other corresponding proof from the higher education institution, e.g. course of studies certificate/enrolment certificate, etc.
• All examination certificates related to previous enrolments
• Proof of the successfully completed intermediate examination or of deadline extension for the respective semester in the case of enrolment in 7th academic semester or higher - in all subjects.
• Proof of the completed the orientation examination. Enrolment in the 4th academic semester and higher academic semesters where students have not completed the intermediate examination requires submission of the successfully completed orientation examination or proof of deadline extension for the respective semester.  Please contact the orientation examination officer or the subject’s academic advisor(s) for more information.