For the recognition of study and examination achievements acquired at another university and/or another degree programme, an application for recognition must be completed and a proof of achievement with a grade (e.g. transcript, certificate, certificate), if applicable, as well as a detailed description of the course that was acquired externally (e.g. module catalogue), with content, hours or semester hours per week and credit points, must be submitted.
If you have any questions about recognition, please contact the Biochemistry Student Advisory Service.
Applications for the recognition of externally acquired credits can be found on the pages of the Biology/Biochemistry Examinations Office (external link, opens in a new window)
Procedure:
1) Fill in the recognition form
- Check the module catalogue of the University of Regensburg to see whether the course that was acquired externally is comparable to the course at the University of Regensburg. Compare the course in the BSc Biochemistry or MSc Biochemistry module catalogue.
- Enter a specific recognition proposal in the recognition form (download see above) by assigning the credits already earned to a specific course (module position) at the University of Regensburg. Please pay attention to the respective scope of the courses (ECTS) and the respective content.
2) Have the event checked by the responsible teacher
- Submit the recognition form, together with a certificate of achievement with a grade if applicable (e.g. transcript, report, certificate), as well as a detailed description of the course that was acquired externally (e.g. module catalogue), with a description of the content, hours or semester hours per week and credit points, to the responsible teacher named in the recognition form.
- Please be sure to state the page number in the document on which the description of the course can be found in the recognition form.
- The teacher will check the possibility of recognition and sign the form in the appropriate place. If necessary, an e-mail with the teacher's confirmation that the event can be recognised is sufficient as a signature. In this case, please ask the teacher to forward the e-mail to the Examinations Office.
3) Placement in a higher semester
- If a placement in a higher semester is required, please send the completed recognition form with the confirmations of the respective teachers and the proof of performance of the externally acquired achievements to the degree program coordinator.
- You will then receive a letter with the corresponding classification, which you must present to the Registrar's Office when enrolling on the BSc or MSc Biochemistry programme.
- You will be placed in a higher semester for every 30 CP. If, for example, 30 credit points are achieved through recognition, you will be placed in the 2nd semester, if 60 credit points are achieved, you will be placed in the 3rd semester and so on.
- Please note: In the BSc Biochemistry programme, you can only start in the 1st semester in the winter semester. If you would like to start the BSc in the summer semester, you must be placed at least in the 2nd semester.
4) Posting of recognised services in Flexnow
- As soon as you are enrolled in the BSc or MSc in Biochemistry, submit the completed recognition form with the confirmations of the respective teachers and the proof of achievement of the externally acquired credits to the Examinations Office for Biology/Biochemistry or send it by e-mail. The credits for the BSc or MSc in Biochemistry will be recorded there.
Please note:
- An application for credit transfer for work completed before commencement of the degree programme can only be submitted once, within the first semester after commencement of the degree programme.
- Once an examination has been taken, subsequent credit transfer is excluded (PO: § 13, para. 4). This means that examinations that have been taken once in the BSc/MSc Biochemistry degree programme at the University of Regensburg can no longer be replaced by recognition.
- A grade is required for graded achievements to be recognised. If, at the student's request, a non-graded achievement is to be recognised for a graded achievement, the achievement will be given a grade of 4.
- If the average of several grades results in a grade value that is excluded from the examination regulations, this will be rounded up or down to the nearest grade value. If the average is exactly in the middle of two grade values, the better grade is rounded up. (possible grades: 1; 1.3; 1.7; 2; 2.3; 2.7; 3; 3.3; 3.7; 4)