Like all prospective students, the Central Student Information and Counselling Service can support you with choosing a degree programme.

For applicants with physical or psychological health impairments, it is possible to be considered a hardship case and be eligible for disadvantage compensation when applying for a restricted admission degree programme (NC – numerus clausus).

The following counselling services can help you with the aforementioned issues:

• Central Student Information and Counselling Service
• TUD’s Liaison Office for Students with Disabilities

• in the case of visual impairments: the working group "Studies for the Blind and Visually Impaired”

For prospective students with impairments and chronic illnesses, there is also the possibility of organizing an individual visit day at the TU Dresden.

With your application for a restricted admission (NC) course at TU Dresden, you can submit an application for

• immediate admission on the basis of the quota for exceptional hardship cases,
• improvement of the average grade of your school-leaving certificate (Abitur) and
• shorter waiting periods.

For more detailed information about the applications, please click on the links.

If you are affected by a long-term health impairment that is likely to last longer than six months, and that adversely affects your studies or exams, you are entitled to compensation for this disadvantage and can submit an application for compensation.

Your application for compensation for disadvantages must be accompanied by a (specialist) medical or psychotherapeutic certificate stating the effects of your health impairment, which lead to a disadvantage compared to fellow students. Medical diagnosis and symptoms of illness do not have to be stated in order to justify a compensation for disadvantages, but rather the effects of your impairment that result in a disadvantage for your studies or examinations should be outlined.

You can make use of the following counselling services to apply for compensation for disadvantages during your studies and examinations:

• Central Student Information and Counselling Service
• TUD’s Liaison Office for Students with Disabilities
• in the case of visual impairments: the working group "Studies for the Blind and Visually Impaired”

If your disability or chronic illness leads to a disadvantage compared to fellow students, you are entitled to compensation for disadvantages during your studies or in examinations - however not to a specific form of compensation for disadvantages. Disadvantage compensations are based on your specific health situation, and applications are designed in a way that allows you to state which specific compensatory arrangements you would consider to be helpful.

The aim of compensating for disadvantages during your studies and examinations is to enable you to acquire and prove the skills and expertise required for your course of study in a way that is appropriate and fair.

If, due to illness, you are unable to study for one semester and were unable to take part in examinations, you can apply for this period of study to not be counted towards the standard study period. The prerequisite for this application is, however, that the illness that resulted in the interruption of your studies is not chronic – unless it is an acute phase of a chronic illness, or the initial phase of a chronic illness at a time when its medical diagnosis and type of treatment are still being determined.

The application: "Nichtanrechnung von Studienzeiten auf die Regelstudienzeit" [Application to have a period of study disregarded when calculating the standard study period] can be submitted to the TU Dresden Admissions Office at the earliest after the end of the semester in which you were unable to complete any examinations or academic performance in general due to illness. This application must be accompanied by a current overview of your previous examination performance and a medical certificate of your inability to study in the respective period.

Irrespective of the fact that these periods of study do not count towards the standard study period, you have the option of extending your study period by four semesters beyond the standard study period in any degree programme at TU Dresden.

If it is foreseeable that you will not be able to go to university in the coming semester due to your own illness, you can apply for a leave of absence within the re-registration period by submitting a doctor’s certificate. In the case of a chronic illness, a leave of absence is only possible if it is an acute phase within the illness or the phase in which the chronic illness begins and its medical diagnosis and type of treatment are still being determined.

A leave of absence for health reasons is not counted towards the maximum number of possible leave of absence semesters. This means that you can apply for further leave of absence semesters for legitimate and proven reasons according to § 12 of the Enrolment Regulations of TU Dresden.