During the course of your application, you will see various status messages in the StudyOhm portal. Since there is often some uncertainty as to what these actually mean, we have provided explanations for the individual status messages here:

In preparation: You have begun your online application, but have not yet submitted it.

Received: Your application has been received online, but has not yet been processed by the university.

Being processed: The university is processing your application.

Valid: Your application is valid and the documents are complete. Your application will be considered in the admissions process.

Provisionally excluded: Application documents are missing or are invalid. Your application has been provisionally excluded from the admissions process.

Excluded: You have been definitively excluded from the admissions process. Your application documents were not received on time, documents requested by the university have not been submitted, or the documents submitted were not valid.

Offer of admission received: You have received an offer of admission from the university.

Offer of admission not possible at present: The university is not currently able to offer you a study place. In certain cases (e.g. in the case of NC degree programmes), it is possible that you will receive an offer at a later date.

Rejected: Your application has been rejected. The reasons will be stated in the rejection letter.

Enrolment requested: You have completed the online enrolment process and must now upload the documents that have been requested.

Enrolled: You have been enrolled in the degree programme (matriculated).

Enrolment rejected: Your request for enrolment was rejected.

You will receive an offer of a study place in your degree programme with the admission letter; now you will still need to enrol in (register for) this degree programme.

An admission letter is not the same as enrolment!

To enrol in your desired degree programme, you must complete and submit an “Enrollment request” in the StudyOhm application portal for enrolment in your desired degree programme.

You must first enrol online in StudyOhm.

Complete each page in the online enrolment process. You must upload all of the requested documents for your desired degree programme before you can submit your request for enrolment online. Please have the required documents prepared in a digital format and in good quality (e.g., as a PDF) and upload them. You can interrupt the process and continue uploading documents at a later time. Please note and be sure to adhere to the enrolment deadline that is stated in your letter of admission. You must have uploaded all requested documents and submit your enrolment request by that date. The Student Office will only review your documents after the status of your application is “Enrollment requested”.  

Enrolment deadlines

The binding enrolment deadlines are in your admission letter. The deadlines are specific for each degree programme and individual. They cannot be assumed to be the same for other applicants.

Once the documents have been received and checked, you will be enrolled at the Ohm and you can download your enrolment documents and information relating to starting your degree programme from your applicant account. If all components are received and complete, it usually take less than two weeks until you are enrolled by the Student Office.

You can check the current status of your application at any time in your applicant account.   

Health insurance requirement

To enrol, a notification of your health insurance coverage (“Versicherungsstatus”) must be entered.

To this end, as of 1 January 2022, the electronic student registration procedure (“Studentische Meldeverfahren, SMV”) was established in accord with § 199a SGB V.

As soon as you receive an admission letter, please inform your statutory health insurer that you would like to register at the TH Nürnberg (No. H0001166).
The health insurance provider will then send us an electronic notification of your health insurance coverage.
It is required to use the electronic registration procedure. That means, the law no longer permits a notification in paper form. The university informs the health insurance provider after enrolment is completed.

Even if you have private health insurance or are co-insured (with a parent or spouse), please contact a statutory health insurance provider of your choice. This provider will send an electronic notification on your behalf to the Ohm.

Confirmations from a private insurance provider regarding the existence of a policy cannot be accepted.

Applicants who would like to be exempted from the insurance requirement receive an electronic notification from the statutory health insurance provider that states this exemption.

The situation outlined above applies correspondingly for applicants from another EU Member State.

Similarly, the health insurance providers inform the Ohm by electronic notification, if the type of insurance changes, coverage is terminated, or if there is a change of health insurance provider.
Failure to pay health or long-term care insurance premiums may result in your not being able to enrol at the university or register for upcoming semesters.

A new confirmation of coverage must therefore also be submitted by the health insurance provider, if you have been removed from the student register of the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm and you are re-enrolling for the next semester, e.g., in a new degree programme.
 

Further useful information:

• about statutory insurance
• Part-time student jobs:
  - Information from the “Minijob-Zentrale”
  - Information from the Federal Employment Agency
  - https://www.studentenwerke.de/de/werkstudentenprivileg
• Compulsory social security contributions during the practical semester

Proof of health insurance

In the registration procedure (SMV) for student health insurance, your confirmation of health insurance coverage is transferred electronically from the respective health insurance provider to the university, upon your request.

It is not possible to enrol at the university without this confirmation of coverage.

Certificates of permanent entitlement and insurance cards cannot be accepted as they do not suffice for definite confirmation of insurance status.

After you are enrolled, you will not need to provide a new confirmation of coverage in order to register for subsequent semesters.

The university will be informed of students who change their statutory health insurance policy during their degree programme by the new health insurance provider.

Please note: The university does not provide certifications.

Even though enrolment in most degree programmes is now a digital process, you can still be required to submit the originals/officially certified copies at any time.

Official certifications may be obtained from any public body that bears an official seal:

• Authorities
• Civil-law notaries
• Churches organised under public law

Certifications from the following bodies will not be accepted (even if they bear a seal):

• Lawyers
• Associations
• Auditors
• Accountants

An improperly produced certification will result in exclusion from the process.      

Required elements

An official certification must include at least the following:

• an endorsement certifying that the document is a true copy of the original = certifying endorsement (“Beglaubigungsvermerk”)

• the signature of the certifying person and

• the stamp of the official seal. An official seal generally features an emblem. A simple text-based stamp is not sufficient.

Should the certification fail to fulfil the stated requirements, the university will not accept the document. Please ensure yourself that the certification complies with the form requirements. Please draw the certifying body’s attention to the form of certification.

If a copy consists of several individual sheets, it must have been verified that each page represents a copy from the same certificate. It is sufficient for only one page to feature the certifying endorsement and signature, provided all sheets are laid on top of one another (e.g. so that they overlap), are bound, and stamped in such a way that part of the official seal appears on each page. Each page may also be certified individually, of course. You must always make sure that your name appears on each page of the original. If it is not shown on all pages, it must be included in the certifying endorsements together with a note explaining the nature of the certificate.

If the front and back of a sheet feature a copy and it reflects the content of the two pages, the certifying endorsement must relate to the front and back pages (e.g.: “I hereby certify that the document shown on the front and the reverse are a true copy of the original”). Should this not be the case, the front and back of a sheet will need to be certified separately.