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Frequently Asked Questions
Accommodation
Students can live in one of the many student dormitories which have basic
to full furniture and Internet and cable access or in a private room.
Usually rooms are available in a range from 160 Euro to 290 Euro (more
apartment like) and the prices in the student dormitories usually
already include costs like heating, water, electricity, and internet access.
Information about accommodation is sent to accepted applicants well before
their arrival to Germany.
Arrival support
Prior to arriving in Germany students are informed about how to apply to
student dormitories and their first steps when arriving in Germany
(getting short-term accommodation, registration at the residents' authority,
registration at the university etc.).
Where
will the courses take place?
Media Informatics is designed to give you the best from 3 great
organizations: RWTH Aachen, Uni Bonn, and the participating (quite famous)
Fraunhofer Institutes at Birlinghoven Castle in St. Augustin.
That's why the core of the programme is designed to take place in
the beautiful B-IT building
next to the former office of the German Chancellor on the banks of the
River Rhine in Bonn where you can have courses from all the
above mentioned organizations.
Labs and other courses may also take place at the University of Bonn
and the Fraunhofer Institutes in St. Augustin (near Bonn).
Further additional courses are also offered in Aachen.
Important note for VISA Application
Who does issue my degree certificate?
What are my chances to find a job afterwards?
Computer scientists with an applied focus have been in great demand in the past, and
this trend is expected to continue for the foreseeable future.
The alumni of Media Informatics are doing their PhD in Germany or abroad or are working
at prestigious companies.
In a survey by the Economics journals Wirtschaftwoche and Handelsblatt in
2009 the head recruiters of the biggest German companies were asked to
evaluate the universities in Germany. In the ranking RWTH Aachen was selected
as best university in Germany. RWTH Aachen secured a first place not only in
one but directly in five categories. The alumni with a degree of RWTH Aachen
are deemed to be best prepared for the job and are preferred to be hired by
the companies. That result has been confirmed in consecutive years, e.g. in 2012.
The research quality of it's Computer Science department was once again also
confirmed in the 2009 edition of the prestigious CHE Rating by the weekly
ZEIT. As one of only four universities in the German-speaking countries it
again reached the top research rating. Quite a number of our alumni thus do a
PhD after their study (at RWTH Aachen, University of Bonn, or other
universities in Germany or abroad).
The ABCD region (Aachen, Bonn, Cologne, Duesseldorf) is home to many prospective
employers, including global players such as Microsoft, Philips, Ericsson, Deutsche Telekom,
Vodafone, Bertelsmann Group, as well as many television stations such as WDR, VIVA, etc.
and about 2/3 of our alumni stay in Germany. The others return
to their home country or work in other countries of the EU or abroad.
For examples of companies/universities where our alumni accepted positions or to
read what our alumni say about Media Informatics please see
b-it impressions.
Does RWTH Aachen have
an institutional code (ETS code) for TOEFL test results?
Do
we take tuition fees?
Till summer term 2011 RWTH Aachen took a tuition fee of 500 Euro per semester (6 months).
This is now covered by new state funds and students currently do not have pay a tuition fee.
Per semester you will have to pay a social contribution fee of about
200 Euro which will include reduced prizes for meals and free public
transport in the whole state of North-Rhine Westphalia.
When you calculate the overall expenses please be aware that for your costs per month a fee
which has to be paid once for 6 months may have less impact than day to day expenses which depend
on the city. Compared with other cities day to day expenses are rather moderate in Bonn and Aachen
and due to the many students life in Bonn and Aachen is vivid and quite nice.
Do
we offer scholarships?
Frequently Asked Questions by Enrolled Students
How many credit points will I get for lecture xyz?
How
can I register for examinations?
You can register online via the Campus-Office (VZPA) or you can go personally to the registration officer
from the Central Examination Office ("Zentrales Pruefungsamt").
(The office is located in the Super C building, Templergraben 57.)
You can register for examinations at some special dates announced
by ZPA. These dates normally lie about 10 weeks before the end
of lectures.
If you go there personally you need to present your student I.D. when registering.
Please, tell the registration officer the
following information:
* the name of the Master Programme (Media Informatics)
For exams of each course, tell him
* the title of the course
* the name of the instructor
* the area the course belongs to, i.e. Computer and Communication
Technology, Multimedia Technology or either Multimedia Use and Impact.
If you do not know the area, ask your instructor or ask the
coordination team.
Note that the exams usually are either oral exams (min. 20 up to 30 minutes) or
written exams covering the whole content of the lecture depending
on your instructor.
Independently of registering with the Central Examination Office (ZPA),
you should contact the instructors and ask them when the exam will
take place. (In many cases that will be an oral exam, and the instructor
will simply arrange a date with you.)
Once you have registered for the courses with the
registration officer, he/she will send
the official registration forms to the respective instructors. The
forms will be filled out after the exam and the instructors will send
them back to the Central Examination Office, where the results will
be recorded. If anything is unclear, please, don't hesitate to
ask.
Can I cancel examinations?
Examination regulations
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