Application
Students from a partner university of the Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (TUBAF) have to apply online. Please fill in the application form of the application portal Mobility Online.
Hint: At the field “Host institution > Study programme” please choose a degree programme of the TUBAF that suits best for your study programme. Your choice will not tie you to this specific programme. You still may choose modules from other degree programmes for your exchange semester.
Applicants under the Erasmus+ programme have to follow the instructions on this website: Erasmus+ incoming students.)
You will receive an automatic generated e-mail from Mobility Online. Please follow the steps to create your personal applicant account. Later, you have to upload the following application documents:
- Signed application form which has been generated by the application system Mobility Online
- Official certificate of German or English language proficiency, depending on the language of instruction in the desired course of study.
- The minimum level of English language proficiency is B2 according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)
- The minimum level of German language proficiency is B1
- The language certificate has to be from an approved language school, university or equivalent.
- No language certificate is needed if you have no intentions of taking exams during your study in Freiberg (e. g. doing project work in preparation of thesis).
- Learning Agreement or study plan (if you don’t have a Learning Agreement form, you can use this template and adapt it to your needs)
- Enrolment certificate: Proof that the applicant is currently enrolled as a student
- Transcript of Records in English or German language
- 1 passport photo (required later for the student ID card)
All documents must be in German or English language. If not, you have to add a certified translation into these languages.
Application deadlines
a) For applicants that don’t require a visa to study in Germany:
- Study start winter semester: 31 May
- Study start summer semester: 30 November
b) For applicants that require a visa to study in Germany:
- Study start winter semester: 30 April
- Study start summer semester: 31 October
Modules – Lectures and Other Teaching Units – Sources of information
The teaching units of a degree course of study at TU Bergakademie Freiberg are called modules. In the module handbook (“Modulhandbuch”) you can find detailed information to each module, such as: the description of the content of each module, the number of credit points, the lecturer’s name, the semester in which a module takes place, the components of the module (eg lecture, seminar, exercise, excursion …) and the recommended accompanying literature. The module handbook of each degree program can be found on its program website.
Recommended steps to make a study plan: First choose from the available Bachelor’s or Master’s degree programme, second look for suitable modules that are available in the specific semester you are planning to study in Freiberg (summer or winter semester) in it’s module handbook.
Modules Taught in English Language by Study Program
- Advanced Materials Analysis (AMA)
- Advanced Mineral Resources Development (AMRD)
- Computational Materials Science (CMS)
- Geomatics for Mineral Resource Management
- Geoscience
- Groundwater Management
- International Business and Resources in Emerging Markets (IBRE)
- Mathematics for Data and Resource Sciences
- Mechanical and Process Engineering (MPE)
- Metallic Materials Technology (MMT)
- Sustainable and Innovative Natural Resource Management (SINReM)
- Sustainable Mining and Remediation Management (MORE)
- Technology and Application of Inorganic Engineering Materials (TAIEM)
Status: 21 March 2023
- Above you find the list of modules of each study programme taught in English.
- Available in which semester? – Each module description contains the information whether a module is available in winter semester or in summer semester – see the line “Frequency: yearly in the winter semester/summer semester”.
- Duration of a module – The duration of each module can be one or more semesters. It is indicated in the module description (e. g. Duration: 1 semester). If your study stay in Freiberg ends after one semester, you should not select a two-semester module for your Learning Agreement.
- Bachelor or Master module? – Each module description displays a module code in the first line (e. g. MetMat. MA. Nr. 3213). The module code contains the letters “BA.” or “MA.” which indicates whether it is a Bachelor or a Master module.
Since only Master’s programmes and no Bachelor’s programmes taught in English are offered at the TUBAF, English-language bachelor’s modules are an exception. - The proportion of non-subject-related modules from other degree programmes may not exceed 10 ECTS credits.
- TUBAF cannot guarantee that you will be able to take all the modules selected for the Learning Agreement. Reason: The times for all courses in the new semester are only set and published a few weeks before the semester begins. At the time of your application, the course times are not yet fixed. Therefore, there may be time overlaps. In this case, you will have to switch to alternative courses.
Contact
Office hours: Tuesday, 1 p.m. – 3:30 p.m., Thursday 9 a.m. – 11:30 p.m. and by appointment
Sprechzeiten: Dienstag 13:00 – 15:30 Uhr, Donnerstag 09:00 – 11:30 Uhr und nach Vereinbarung