Starting your studies

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Into the first semester - Let's start

Have you successfully enrolled at Coburg University of Applied Sciences? Then you are now officially a student at Coburg University of Applied Sciences. In order to start your studies well prepared, a few steps are now important:

Activate your student user account
Familiarize yourself with our student portal mycampus
Check the various online services of the university
Print out your certificate of enrollment
Get to know the functions of your student ID card and much more.

You can find detailed instructions on the individual steps and other important information on starting your studies here:

“Your steps before starting your studies”

Dates for first-year students

When do I start? When do I have to be where? We have put together all the important dates for your degree program here so that you don’t miss anything and can get off to the best possible start to your studies at Coburg University of Applied Sciences:

from the end of January:

Dispatch of student ID cards by the Student Affairs Department

February 28 at 11:30 a.m:

For enrolled students in the orientation semester: Online introductory event via MSTeams

March 10-14:

Preliminary math course for all STEM and business degree programs, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. in presence (Bachelor and orientation semester)

March 17 at 8:15 a.m:

Official semester opening in the brose auditorium on the Friedrich Streib campus for all new Bachelor’s and Master’s students as well as students in the orientation semester

The President of the University, the Lord Mayor of Coburg and the student representatives will welcome you. We will also get you in the mood for the summer semester with music.

Afterwards: Get to know your fellow students at “study program tables” with snacks and drinks.

March 17 from 9:15 a.m:

Course introductions with information on the individual degree programs

You will be taken to the course introduction room (“pick-up service”). Students in the orientation semester please use the introduction of their anchor course. Unless otherwise stated, the introduction lasts approx. 1 hour.

Bachelor introductions

Applied Digital Transformation: 13:00 in room K1-120 (Lucas-Cranach-Campus Kronach)
Automation Technology and Robotics / Electrical Engineering and Information Technology / Renewable Energies and Energy Technology / Computer Science / Visual Computing: 9:30 a.m. in room 4-211
Automotive Technology / Mechanical Engineering: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-113
Civil Engineering: 9:45 a.m., Campus Design, in front of D1-Audimax (new building)
Business Administration / Industrial Economics / Insurance Management: 9:30 a.m. in room HUK-Coburg Audimax
Bioanalytics: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-014
Technische Physik / Zukunftstechnologien / Emerging Technologies: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-208
Integrative health promotion: 9:30 a.m. in room 10-014
Social work: 9:15 a.m. in room 10-016

Master introductions

Additive Manufacturing and Lightweight Design: 09:30 in room 2-216
Autonomous Driving: 10:00 a.m. in room K1-103 (Lucas-Cranach-Campus Kronach)
Business Administration: 9:30 a.m. in the HUK-Coburg Audimax
Bioanalytics: 09:30 a.m. in room 2-014
Change management and transformation: 9:30 a.m. in the HUK-Coburg Audimax
Data Science: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-124
Development and management in mechanical and automotive engineering: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-018
Resource Efficient Design and Construction – Civil Engineering: online (at 18:00 via MS Teams. The link will be communicated directly by the program director)
Simulation and test: 9:30 a.m. in room 2-008
Social work: 10:00 a.m. in room 10-215
Visual Computing & Artificial Intelligence | Coburg University of Applied Sciences: 09:30 a.m. in room 4-210

The following masters introduce the program on a different day:

Business Administration (MBA): 10.03.25 from 17:30 in room 5-109. All further information can be obtained directly from the degree program.
Electrical Engineering and Information Technology: 19.03.2025 at 13:30 in room 6-118
Financial Management: 18.03.2025 at 10.00 a.m. in room 5-003
Clinical Social Work – Social Work: 20.03.2025 at 11:00 a.m. in room 10-135.
ZukunftsDesign – Innovation.Unternehmertum.Gestaltung: 20.03.25 at 12:45 pm in room K1-120 (Lucas-Cranach-Campus Kronach)

Still have questions? You can find answers in our FAQs!

Following the introductions: Start of the courses according to the timetable

Arrive safely! Create enough balance and make friends

Discover campus life

Studying at Coburg University of Applied Sciences is not just about lectures and exams. We offer you a wide range of activities and offers that enrich your university life. These include, for example:

You can find the various offers and current course programs on the mycampus student portal on the pages of our service points and interdisciplinary offers.

You can also play an active role in shaping university life and get involved in the student council or one of the many student initiatives, such as the university choir, the big band at Coburg University of Applied Sciences or cat racing.

Still have questions? You can find answers in our FAQs!

How do I get to the university? Where can I park? How do I load money onto my student card? When will I receive my timetable? Can I take language courses? You can find answers to all these and many other questions in our FAQs and videos.