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How to find courses at TUM in general

Some pre-information This description is for finding courses in general. If you want to search for courses in a specific department, please see the other pdf about “”How to find courses at TUM in a specific department?”

The TUM course catalogue can be found here: https://campus.tum.de/tumonline/webnav.ini IMPORTANT: Please DO NOT register in TUMonline yourself! To search for courses only use TUMonline without registering! TUM will take care of all exchange students’ registration later (once you have been accepted). Important information:

Choose the academic year and the name of a course you are interested in. If no courses are shown for the academic year / semester in which you would like to study at TUM, please select the academic year / semester for the previous year (in most cases, the courses offered will be the same).

If the course title/description is written in English, does that mean that the course is taught in English? No! Please check the course language within the course description!

60% of your courses need to be in the TUM department you were nominated for.

Fill in your Learning Agreement / Study Plan: ECTS: Not found / not mentioned? Write complete course name / course ID. Write the course names exactly in the way that you found them on TUMonline. Fill out by typing, no handwritten versions.

Language of instruction necessary language confirmations English an English certificate is requested German a German certificate is requested German and English (tought in both languages on an equal basis or one language as the main part) an English and a German certificate are requested

Questions regarding courses, ECTs,.etc. Under the following link you can find all TUM departments. Search for your TUM department and check there under the title “International Website“ (you can find it under each department). Please see under the link specified there for further information regarding courses: http://www.international.tum.de/en/internationalaffairs/

Below you can find the following information

Find the english page for your course search (page 2)

Start searching for courses (page 3-5)

Find out to which TUM department the course belongs to (page 5)

Find further details as e.g. course language, ECTs, code ID, etc. (page 6)

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Find the english page for your course search

Click here to change the language

Select “English” and click “ok”

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Start searching for courses

Click here to search courses

Click “Advanced Search” to search e.g. by language of instruction

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Click here to

change

language to

English

Type in a key search term for a

course of interest, e.g. water.

Unfortunately, here you cannot

search for a particular department.

Click here to select semester.

Winter: October – March Summer: April – September If either the year for your exchange period is not listed or your search settings return no results for the semester selected, please select the appropriate semester for one year earlier as courses typically remain similar on a

consecutive semester basis.

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Find out to which TUM department the course belongs to

If you want to know in which

TUM department the course

will be offered, click on the

field under “offered by”

Now here you can

find the name of

the TUM

department and

further

information.

Check the course

content/objectives

box to search for the

key word in the

course contents.

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Find further details as e.g. course language, ECTs, code ID, etc.

Here you can find ECTs

Here you can

find the

language of

instruction

Here you can find the course title, ID

number of the course, name of the

TUM professor, etc.