Preparing your exchange stay at TUHH

Check our international cooperation's partner list or ask the International Office at your home university.

General requirements

• For courses taught in English: Level B2
• For courses taught in German: Level B1
• For working on your Master Thesis: no language test required

Please note:

You can only study at TUHH if your language proficiency is sufficient for your study purposes. Most of the bachelor courses are taught in German and bachelor students need to have a German level that will allow them to undertake an academic study.

Proof of language skills

• All exchange students from partner universities must have sufficient language skills in the working language German (B1) and/or English (B2) (CEFR).
• Certified tests such as TOEFL, TestDAF, IELTS, etc. are accepted (online version is sufficient).
• Online grading tests with conclusive identification of the participants, e.g. Erasmus+ OLS- tests, will not be accepted.
• If you have no official test document, the proof must be in a form of a confirmation / official certificate from a recognized language school in the home country or a language institute of the home university. A confirmation by the home exchange coordinator is also sufficient.
• Those exchange students, who are studying in an English speaking degree programme can only be acquitted of the duty to provide a language certificate when they can provide proof that all courses at the home university are in English.
• If a language certificate or proof cannot be provided during the online application, a document must be submitted instead stating that the applicant has registered for a language course and that the course is completed until the start of the study.

Applicants wishing to complete a project or master thesis at TUHH 

should have the required language skills in the working language. A language certificate is not required.

Check the TUHH Study packages with the selection of courses taught in English!

Please note: The exams are offered only for complete modules, i.e. one exam for all the courses that belong to one module. Depending on whether you will stay for 1 or 2 semester, please make sure to always select all the courses belonging to one module.

• School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• School of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics
• School of Mechanical Engineering
• School of Management Science and Technology
• School of Process Engineering

Contact the  International Office of your home university and read the Application Procedure for Exchange Students and get nominated.

• Chose courses suitable for exchange students as listed in the Study Packages (Point 3 above)
• Please check specific information on selection of the courses suitable for exchange students assigned to each school of study listed.
• You can select courses from all of TUHHs degree programs (Bachelor and Master), except for the Joint Master program courses.
• Attention! The exams are offered only for complete modules, i.e. one exam for all the courses that belong to one module. Depending on whether you will stay for 1 or 2 semester, please make sure to always select all the courses belonging to one module.
  Some modules stretch over more than 1 semester!
• Some courses are only offered either in winter or summer semester. Please make sure that your choosen course is offered in a given semester by contacting the appropriate school of study/deputy dean international.
• The non-technical elective courses are not listed in teh study packages. Most of them have limited places and some have special entry requirements and registration procedures. There is a detailed description of the non-technical electives (Bachelor and Master) and the business and management courses (for all degree students) as well. Please inform yourself about these terms and conditions.
• In the module handbooks of the degree programs (sorted by degree program) there is an overview of all the modules and the courses they consist of. There are also detailed module descriptions (sorted by alphabet, not by degree program). Some module courses may have prerequisites.
• Students who intend to carry out a thesis work at TUHH should make all necessary arrangements with the TUHH supervisor before they arrive at TUHH!