Examination office Computer Science and Cybersecurity

Make sure that you are enrolled and registered and meet the admission requirements for the desired exams according to the module handbook (except for successful participation in the exercises, if applicable). You can register and deregister for the exam electronically in BASIS within the specified deadlines. Where required, registration for an exam is conditional, subject to successful participation in the exercises. If you have already completed the exercises successfully in a previous year, the result will be transferred automatically and you do not need to register for the exercises again.

Attention: Master's students who started their studies in the summer semester of 2023 or earlier and did not pass an exam in the first session, are automatically registered for the second session.

You can find the exam dates and the names of the examiners in BASIS. The form of the exam (written or oral examination) may differ from the form listed in the module handbook or the examination regulations. Deviations in the form of the examination and criteria for successful participation in the exercises will be announced by the examination board. 

Im Fall einer mündlichen Prüfung ist der Prüfungstermin in BASIS nur indikativ. Vereinbare mit den Prüfenden ein konkretes Datum und eine konkrete Uhrzeit. 

Cross-registered students, participants in the FFF oder FdIS programmes, students who study at another institute and take our courses as a minor, and ERASMUS students (if they cannot register for exams in BASIS), can register or deregister for exams directly with the lecturers of the modules with this form. You can find the deadlines here.

If you pass the exam, you can receive an exam certificate from the examination office upon request. The certificate will be issued within one month after the end of the semester. If you enroll in one of our study programmes, the result of your examination can be credited towards your study programme upon request. 

"Arbeitsunfähigkeitsbescheinigungen" (certificates of incapacity for work, also known as "gelbe Scheine") are not accepted. Instead, you must present this form to the doctor.

Complete the form, as filled out by the doctor, with the information about the examination dates that you missed. Then send the form filled to the examination office.

Anyone whose study progress has been as prescribed by the programme and who has passed a module in the first examination period of a semester can, under certain conditions, be examined again in the second examination period in order to try to improve their grade.

In the Bachelor's programmes, this is only possible for compulsory modules.
In the Master's programmes, this is only possible for a maximum of three modules and only in the first three semesters.

Students who started their Master's degree programme in the summer semester 2023 or earlier may, under certain conditions, also make an attempt to improve their grade in the year after passing the examination (see examination regulations).

If the requirements for an attempt to improve your grade are met but registration for the examination via BASIS does not work, please send an e-mail to pos@informatik.uni-bonn.de.

Degree certificates and certificates of examination (the final transcript) are generally issued as soon as all requirements have been met and any questions regarding which modules should be listed as additional modules have been clarified.

Please let us know what email address we can use to contact you after you have (been) deregistered as a student. As soon as the certificates are ready to be picked up, we will contact you by email.

Would you like confirmation that someone who has applied to you has actually obtained a degree from us?

If you send us a scan of the degree certificate or the certificate of examinations by email, we will check the authenticity of the document.

Have you lost your degree certificate or your certificate of examinations?

You can apply for a duplicate copy from the examination office by providing your name, date of birth, your former matriculation number, the date you completed your course of study and a scan of the photo page of your passport or the front of your ID card.

It can take a few weeks to create a duplicate because various signatures have to be obtained.

After you have passed all your exams, it may take a few months before the final grade is determined and you obtain your final certificates. However, if you urgently need a certificate that you have successfully completed your studies, the examination office can issue it to you.

Please note: A prerequisite for this is that the examiners of your thesis confirm that you have passed, even if the grade has not yet been determined.

If you need an English version of the transcript of records for applications or studies abroad, you can obtain one directly from BASIS.

Please note: the transcript from BASIS also lists all failed exams.

However, with the form "Transcript of Records", you can create a transcript of records without the failed exams yourself. You can then present this transcript to the examination office for confirmation by stamp and signature.

If you want to move to another university without having completed your studies at the University of Bonn, the authorities of your new university will need to see proof that you still had permission to continue your studies with us and did not fail on a final attempt for a required module.

Upon presentation of your valid ID card, we will provide you with the required certificate at any office hour at the examination office so that you can take it with you immediately.

The form that is commonly referred to as "Studienverlaufsbescheinigung" is required to extend your residence permit. It may also be needed to move forward from a student visa to a job seeker visa.

If your immigration officer asks for this form, please ask her/him to send us the relevant form directly as a PDF by email to pa@informatik.uni-bonn.de. We can then fill it out, sign it and send it back via email directly to your immigration officer.

Of course, you also have the option of submitting the form to the examination office yourself. Simply come to our office hours. After the processing time you can pick up the form again.

Just remember that in both cases processing takes approximately 14 days.

In urgent cases, please write to pa+visa@informatik.uni-bonn.de.

You need BAföG Form 5 if you have to provide the so-called "Leistungsnachweis" (proof of achievement) after semester 4. In this way, the office makes sure that you have actually studied and that you are still entitled to receive BAföG.

You can now submit proof of achievement yourself in accordance with BAföG Section 48 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 No. 3 since the 23rd BAföG Amendment Act by submitting your "Notenspiegel" or Transcript of Records (aus BASIS/HISinONe), which means that it is no longer necessary to have Form 5 processed by the examination office.

Please note: According to the decision of the examination board, if you have achieved 50% of the ETCS that would have been achievable in the degree programme as designed, the eligibility for funding will be certified (even without a signature from the BAföG representative):

• At the end of the fourth semester: 60 out of 120 ETCS
• At the end of the fifth semester: 75 out of 150 ETCS
• At the end of the sixth semester: 90 out of 180 ETCS

Do you need a certificate for the Kindergeldkasse (child benefit fund) that you are still a student? Then just come and see us during our consultation hours. We can create certificates for the Kindergeldkasse directly for you.

As a rule, it is enough to submit your certificate of enrollment in order to remain entitled to receive Kindergeld.