Registration periods for the winter semester 2025/26
First registration period (for students of the language center):
1. Mandatory online pre-registration (submission of documents): | from 20.06.2025 |
2. Registration/payment: | 20.06. - 04.07.2025 |
Second registration period:
1. Mandatory online pre-registration (submission of documents): | from 19.08.2025 |
2. Registration/payment: | 25.08. - 04.09.2025 |
Step 1: VWU online pre-registration
Upload here your current student record sheet (summer semester 2025). You can find the student record sheet in the student portal of your university, e.g. u:space at the University of Vienna or TISS at TU Wien.
If the documents are complete, you will receive an e-mail with the link to the registration/payment one to two days later.
Step 2 – Registration and payment for the course
You will receive an e-mail with the information for the registration and payment. Log in to our website. Then go back to the e-mail and click on the link sent to you. Register for the next semester and pay for the course (course fee will be announced; Visa, Mastercard).
VWU placement for the winter semester 2025/26
- On the last day of your last semester, your teacher told you with which VWU level you can start in the next semester.
- You will receive the class allocation by e-mail approx. 3 days before the start of the course.
- If you attended a German course in July or August and send us the certificate by e-mail, you can make a new VWU placement. Please note: If the new placement result is a lower course level than you had at the end of the last semester, this new result will apply.
Schedule + dates in the winter semester 2025/26:
Placements at the Language Center will take place in person from 25.08.2025 to 04.09.2025.
- Registration and payment for the course in the winter semester
- We will register you for the next available placement test, the appointment is binding!
- Students with additional subjects who wish to register at VWU in Sechshauser Straße must take the test by xx.08.2024 at the latest
- Please note: During the February semester break, there is no placement for continuing students; the result with which you completed the winter semester applies.
Step 3 - Pay the Students' Union Fee (ÖH-Beitrag)
The student union fee is EUR 25.20.
Please pay the amount before the course starts! Without payment you will NOT be registered at your university for the next semester and you will not receive your student record sheet or other official documents (i.e. insurance confirmations or MA 35 documents).
Step 4 - We will e-mail you your course details
On 30.09.2025 we will send you an e-mail with the following course details:
- Course time
- Course location
- Teacher
- Course books
The course books are availabe at facultas in der Universitätsstraße.
Step 5 – We wish you a pleasant and successful course!
Your course will start on 02.10.2025.
Terms of cancellation
Deregistering from the VWU German course at the language center and reimbursement of the course fee is only possible if you provide us within the cancellation period with a confirmation from the university (e.g. student record sheet, confirmation of study periods, confirmation of withdrawal or similar) which shows that you are not enrolled in the University preparation programme (VWU) in the current semester.
The cancellation period for the winter semester 2025/26 ends on 18.09.2025.
