Examination and academic performance (2024)

Form and documents

Submission of take home assignments / project papers and presentations

You can submit your take-home assignments / presentations in the Examination Office. If you wish, we can give you a receipt for the submission; you can print out the submission receipt here (German only)and bring it with you when you submit your take-home assignment / project paper / presentation to the Examination Office.

Please note that every take-home assignment / project paper must contain a Declaration ofAuthenticityabout working on the examination by yourself.

Recognition of equivalent work performed at other universities

You can obtain recognition in your program for equivalent work that you have completed at other universities.

Leaflet for recognition (German only)
Application for recognition of program and examination performance (German only)

Application and admission for examinations

You can register your thesis papers (Master or Bachelor thesis) in the Examination Office.

You can register all other examination performances via the electronic application procedure "HISQIS Portal".

Please note the regulations and application deadlines explained in more detail in the "Announcements" for your program and specified in the examination regulations.

Leaflet on electronic application procedure (German only)

Registration of Bachelor / Master thesis

Please useperegos to register your thesis.

Handoutfor the digital registration of a thesis (German only)
Leafletfor the preparation of a thesis (German only)
Declaration of authenticity german/english
Cover sheet for the submission of a thesis(German only)

Application to the Examination Board

Application to the Examination Board (German only)

BAföG certificates

When receiving BAföG financial aid benefits, according to the BAföG leaflet (German only)you must provide evidence of the necessary number of credits [ECTS] depending on semester and program. Since September 19, 2011 it is sufficient to submit your online self-service performance evidence to the BAföG office. Form No. 5 according to § 48 BAföG is no longer necessary to receive benefits.

Please plan a corresponding course of studies in time so you do not endanger your financial aid.

Please contact the Examination Office concerning BAföG matters.

Advice concerning examinations

The Examination Officewill advise you in all examination problems, in particular procedural questions. Please contact the office directly or by email to your case worker in the Examination Office.

In addition, you also have access to subject-related consulting from the Head of degree course, the respective lecturers, and – in particular in case of PO applications – the Chairman of the Examination Office.

Transcripts

You can receive a standardized certificate on your performance in the program (transcript) at the Student Services Center.

You can create your own transcripts at the self-service terminalusing your Study Chip or on the HIS-QIS-Portal (HIS).

The Examination Office will be glad to issue you new transcripts for different purposes if need be. If you need a transcript in English, we ask you to create this yourself and to submit it to the Examination Officefor confirmation.

Viewing your examination files

After completing an examination procedure, you have the right (regulated in the General Regulations for Examinations for the Bachelor and Master degrees (§30)) to view your examination documentation for one year (examination viewing, viewing of take-home assignments, certificated on thesis papers).

If you would like to discuss examinations with the full-time teachers (professors), please make an appointment with the respective professor. The central examination viewing only concerns examinations of adjunct lecturers. Please note that this viewing does not represent a discussion of the examination documentation with the teachers. If you want to discuss the exam, we recommend talking to the examiner soon after the announcement of the grade.

Summersemester2024

Tue, May 28, 2024,9:00 – 11:00, Building 4,Room 105
Reporting deadline: Tue, May. 21, 2024!

Here you will find the form for viewing (German only), which you can submit to the examination office in person or by e-mail. To inspect examinations that are not available at the examination office, please contact the topic provider directly.

Interdisciplinary general program

As illustration of the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum, Bachelor programs of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences contain a module on the "Interdisciplinary general program" for 5 ECTS credits. This is a module, in which subject-related articles from at least three faculties are connected into on cross-sectional topic and are offered as mandatory for the acquisition of competence.

Faculty 3 participates in the offered modules of the "Interdisciplinary general program."

Students whose curriculum for this semester includes the "Interdisciplinary General Studies" module can choose from the following offers (German only).

Guidelines and tips for designing and writing academic papers

Principles of the university on ensuring good academic practices (German only)
Guidelines on the valuation of scientific elaborations
Recommendations for the formal design of legal academic papers
Proposal for the formal design of academic papers
Workshop for the Preparation of your Student Thesis

Maternity protection

Since 01.01.2018, the Maternity Protection Act applies to students during pregnancy, after childbirth and during breastfeeding. You can inform the university of your pregnancy and the date of delivery as soon as you know that you are pregnant. You are not obliged to notify the university, but you can only invoke the protective rights of the Maternity Protection Act if you have officially informed the university that you are pregnant or breastfeeding (to the Human Resources and Staff Development Department, Occupational Health and Safety Department (arbeitsschutz(at)hr.fra-uas.de)).
You can find the "Pregnancy notification" template here:

Declaration on the voluntary completion of an examination during maternity protection (German only)
Notification of pregnancy or breastfeeding according to § 15 Maternity Protection Act (German only)

The Family Office is available to answer questions about balancing studies, career and family:

Pregnancy, birth and maternity protection (German only)
Students with family responsibilities (German only)

Examination inability

Form for proof of inability to take the examination – Medical certificate with leaflet (German only)

Further information only in German.

Procedure for compensation of disadvantages

In order to compensate for existing permanent or chronic impairments, which are proven by a medical certificate and which have a negative impact on performance in examinations, students can apply for compensation for disadvantages.

Please note: Applications for compensation for disadvantages must be submitted to the respective examination board by 1 May at the latest in the summer semester and by 1 November at the latest in the winter semester.

Please use the followingrequest form (German only)for this purpose.

Service and consulting are available at the counseling center "Studying with an impairment, disability, chronic or psychological disease at the Frankfurt UAS".

Appeals

You have the right to appeal examination-relevant decisions (e.g. non-admission to an examination, grading of a performance, rejection of a request to the examination board, failing an examination). For this purpose, please contact the Assistant lecturer for examination law and fundamental matters of study. Your right to appeal is defined in the examination regulations of your program.

Please note, that your appeal must be submitted in writing to the Assistant.

Certificates and special performance certifications

Trainer Qualification,

International certificate / Language certificate,

and all types of Certifications concerning the progress achieved in the degree program.

Grade certificate and documents

The Examination Office creates the degree certificate for you, as well as the Master or Bachelor diplomas and the Diploma Supplement. This happens officially after completion of the last examination. The student must sign for the receipt of the certificate.

Comprehensive offerings

Trainer Qualification

For students of the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, who are looking for a job in the business administration or technical area, Faculty 3 offers a certificate "Trainer Qualification (German only)".

Starting up a business

In the summer semester of 1998, the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences introduced step-by-step modules of an entrepreneurship education. The "Frankfurt Model for Entrepreneurship" and several generations of EXIST/EXIST-Seed projects were conducted in cooperation with Frankfurter Sparkasse, INBAS GmbH and with the support of the European Union, the BMBF and the State of Hesse. Further information on the page Ways into starting up a business (German only).

The Institute for Entrepreneurship at Faculty 3 operated a main incubator with usually 4 - 5 places for university founders. This activity was replaced by the part-time MBA postgraduate course in Entrepreneurship & Business Development which started in the winter semester 2011/2012.

Language Center

For students of all faculties at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, the Language Center offers a university-wide foreign language program that takes into account the increasing importance of foreign language qualifications and skills for a globalized working and living environment.

Interdisciplinary general program

Faculty 3 participates in the offered modules of the "Interdisciplinary general program."

Students whose curriculum for this semester includes the "Interdisciplinary General Studies" module can choose from the following offers (German only).

Advanced training courses of KompetenzCampus

Advanced training courses of KompetenzCampus (German only)for students of all faculties.

Responsibilities of the Examination Office

§ 4 Examination Office

The Examination Officeis set up by the Dean's Office in execution of its responsibility for organizing examinations for the programs of the faculty according to Hesse's University Act (HHG). The Dean's Office supervises the Examination Office.
The Examination Office forms the operative infrastructure for the business processes of the examination system as far as the faculty is concerned. It is responsible in particular for:
1. advising students in questions of examination regulations - without prejudice to general studies consulting as a responsibility of the university according to the HHG,
2. admission to module examinations, partial module examinations, administration of performance certification,
3. preparation of admission to Bachelor or Master thesis and the colloquium,
4. issuing all examination certifications and diplomas and the associated documentation,
5. processing the Learning Agreement and examination documents of exchange students,
6. providing all necessary notifications, monitoring schedule and deadlines.
If a program is the responsibility of several faculties, the involved Dean's Offices will specify the responsibility of one Examination Office by mutual agreement.
The Dean's Office appoints – for the duration of at least three years - one member of the professor group as Head of the Examination Office and another member as Deputy Director. The Dean's Office assigns employees to the Examination Office so that it can perform its responsibilities, which are subordinate to the Headof the Examination Office.
The Head of the Examination Office has the right to comprehensive information in examination matters. S/he can participate in an advisory function in the meetings of the Faculty Council and Examination Board and as an observer in examinations. The Faculty Council(s) (of the involved faculties if there are more than one) can specify that the Headof the Examination Office is a member and the Chairman of the Examination Board.

Source

General regulations for examinations with the Bachelor and Master degrees at the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (AB Bachelor/Master) dated November 10, 2004 in the respective valid version.