Like all prospective students, the Central Student Information and Counseling Service can support you with choosing a study program.

For people with health impairments, it is possible to apply for hardship consideration and compensation for disadvantages when applying for a restricted admission degree programme (NC – numerus clausus) at the Admissions Office.

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

• Central Student Information and Counseling Service for choosing a study program
• at the Admissions Office for the application procedure
• to support the study organization and application for compensation for disadvantages with the Commissioners for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses and the Working group Services Disability and Studies

• at the Inclusion Department of the Student Council (StuRa) for support from other students

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.

An application for compensation for disadvantages should be submitted to the responsible examination board via the Examination Offices of your degree program at an early stage.

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 can be given to justify compensation for a disadvantage, but do not have to be. It is important that you describe the effects of your impairment that are a disadvantage for your studies or examinations.

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

• to support the study organization and application for compensation for disadvantages with the Commissioners for Students with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses and the Working group Services Disability and Studies

• at the Inclusion Department of the Student Council (StuRa) for support from other students

• to support the organization of studies at the Central Student Information and Counseling Service

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. These could be, for example, extending the writing time for written exams, converting a written exam into an oral exam, writing the exam on a PC or providing the exam tasks in an accessible form.

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 Admissions Office or to the International 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 study program at TU Dresden.

On the following website you will find further information on non-recognition.

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. There is no maximum number of semesters of leave that you
can apply for leave of absence for health reasons.

If you fall ill during the semester and can no longer apply for a semester of leave, you have the option of a non-recognition for the semester after the end of the semester.

On the following website you will find further information on enrolment regulations and leave of absence.