On this page you may find information for prospective students in the Bachelor programmes »Integrated Design« or »European Studies in Design«. You may find more information about the programmes on this website within the section  Study. You may get Information about the application procedure within section  Apply at KISD

After your successful application at KISD, you will still need to complete several steps before your enrolment is finalized and you can start your studies at KISD. On this page you may find information and contact persons.

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 Contact Persons

 Visa Information

 Enrolment at FH Köln

 First Steps at KISD

 Dates

 Accommodation in Cologne

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Bewerber-AG of KISD

The »Bewerber-AG« is responsible for the application procedure at KISD and supporting international and national applicants. If you have questions concerning the application procedure or your admission, please contact them via email:  apply(at)kisd.de

International Cooperation Center at KISD

The International Cooperation Center is responsible for international commmunications and the international students at KISD. We are located at KISD on the first floor (room 123). If you are a prospective international student of KISD you may contact us for information or further assistance.

International Office of FH-Köln

If you have questions with regard to the enrolment at FH Köln (Cologne University of Applied Sciences) or general information about first steps in Cologne, please contact  Branimir Brkan of the  International Office of FH-Köln. You may also find valuable information in the  Â»Just Arrived« Booklet of the International Office.

International AG

Once you have started at KISD, beside the ICC you may always contact the  International-AG of KISD for further assistance. The International AG is a students working group at KISD that supports international students and works very closely with the ICC. Throughout the semester they organize different events for and together with the international students at KISD. On their blog on  KISD Spaces they provide tips concerning first steps in Cologne. Here you also get informed about current activities during the semester.

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In order to stay in Germany for the duration of your studies, you will need to get a »student visa«. A student visa can be obtained by handing in an original (or certified) letter of acceptance to a German higher education institute at a German embassy.

A certified copy is a photocopy of an original document that has been signed by an official office to prove it is real. This can be done at a German embassy and certain consulates (of course you must bring your passport, the official document and the copy) or at a notary office. As German visa application procedures vary for different nationalities, please phone the German embassy in your home country, and make sure what documents you will need to supply.

Your passport will have to be valid for at least 1 year, and the visa application cost some money, and will usually take anywhere between 2 – 6 weeks, so make sure you don«™t leave it for the last minute.

You may find more information about visa applications on the  FH website.

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Health Insurance

Before you can enrol at the FH you will need a health insurance provider (»Krankenkassen«) in Germany. Prices for students are set at 64 Euros a month across all providers. A short list of recommended providers can be found on the 5th page of the FH  Â»Just Arrived« booklet

When you open your account you will have to bring your letter of acceptance of KISD, or of the FH in order to get the reduced student price.

Personal Enrolment in the »Studienbüro«

You must personally enrol with Ms. Klein of the registration office at the FH (»Studienbüro«). The address for the enrolment is:

Fachhochschule Köln / Cologne university of applied sciences

Student and Examination services

Room A1.41a

Claudiusstraße 1

50678 Köln

You may find a map and a short explanation on how to arrive at the registration office  on the International-AG Space. The registration office is in the FH building at Claudiusstraße 1, at the main entrance walk down the stairs, then right into the corridor with the 2 red machines on the wall (this is also where you print your VRS semester ticket once you have paid your study fees). The registration office is the second office on the right.

Please bring the following forms and documents with you on the enrolment day, all the forms can be found online at  this page of FH Köln:

Letter of admission (Zulassungsbescheid) of FH Köln (this is the letter you received asking you to come and enrol)

Your passport with valid student visa (If you entered Germany with a tourist visa, and are allowed to get a student visa later on, just bring your valid passport.)

Filled in  Résumé form

»MultiCa« form (can be downloaded here)

2 passport sized photos (3,5 cm x 4,5 cm) for the Résumé and MultiCa form

Copies of all the papers you sent to Uni-Assist (for more information about Uni-Assist, please follow this  link)

Health insurance certificate / or card

  Enrolment form of FH Köln

German proficiency certificate (if it was not already proceeded by uni-assist)

Signed certificate of minimum six month internship

Letter of admission of KISD (certificate of having successfully passed the examination)

Please note: As all BA programmes offered by FH Köln, require a minimum of German, not all of the staff members in the registration office speak English. Both the International Office at the FH and the International Cooperation Center (ICC) at KISD will do their best to assist you if needed. Please feel free to call the ICC at KISD (Tel: 0221 / 82753606) or directly visit Branimir Brkan in the International Office. His office is situated in the same part of the building:  section A, room 54

Semester fees

Semester fees are divided into two parts: 500,00 € towards the study programme (»Studienbeiträge«) and 210,30 € for the »Semesterticket«, which includes various social and insurance fees as well as your personal ticket (»MultiCa«) for public transportation in Cologne and the surrounding areas. After your personal enrolment you will get a letter of the »Studienbüro« confirming your enrolment and telling you the bank account details of FH Köln in order to transfer the semester fees.

MulitCa

After you have received the letter from the »Studienbüro«, you can pick up your personal »MultiCa« in the International Office at Branimir Brkan´s office (A.54). This is your student ID and a rechargeable debit card, so you can reload it with money to spend at the different services of the FH (Cafeteria, copy machines). Two to three days after you have transferred the semester fees to FH Köln this card can be stamped at one of the red machines inside the FH main-building, Claudiusstraße 1, in front of the »Studienbüro«. Please refer to  this map for further instructions. Your card is only valid with this stamp and you will have to get a new stamp each semester. Once you print an additional printout, you will also be able to travel with your student card in the whole federal state North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the explanation for this can be found on the  International AG's Space.

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KISD Account: Intranet and Email

Once you have enroled at the FH, it is very important to create a KISD user account. You can get more information about this account  here.

You will get a KISD email address and will gain access to the intranet (the internal KISD web communications platform). You can only create this account after your enrolment at FH Köln. In order to create the account you need your Matrikel-Number, this you will get by mail a few days after your enrolment in person at the FH Köln.

Course Selection

As you know, it will be in your responsibility to choose projects, seminars and courses at KISD. You will do this based on the curricular calendar that changes every semester. The semester calendar with project list will be available  on this website in the beginning of August 2010. If by then you are not yet enroled and do not have a valid user name for the KISD intranet, please read the  course selection instructions carefully, and send your selected courses as a list via email to the   Semesterplanungs-AG .

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Welcome Meeting

At the end of August there will be a Welcome Meeting for all the freshmen of the BA programmes. The date will be announced in the beginning of August via email by the Bewerber-AG.

Cologne Resources

On Monday, October 4th the »Cologne Resources« project starts. This is an obligatory one-week project for all the freshmen students at KISD and new exchange students. You will get to know the resources of KISD and Cologne, and will have a chance to work in a small group with one of our 14 Professors. The subjects of these projects vary from professor to professor in his/her respective field of teaching. On Friday you will have your first public presentation.

Project and seminar start

One week later (October 11th) the regular projects and seminars start. Please check the curricular calendar (it will be published on our website in the beginning of August) and make sure to come in time to the first meetings: Always at the first meeting of a project, the final decision will be made regarding who can join the project: if you are not present, someone else will get your place.

Semester duration

Winter semester 2010/11: 20.09.2010 – 04.02.2011

Summer semester 2011: 07.03.2011 – 08.07.2011

Official dates of the semester from the FH can be found  here.

Official Holidays (Winter semester 2010/11)

Day of German Unity: 03.10.2010

All Saints' Day: 01.11.2010

Christmas: 25.12.2010

St. Stephen's Day: 26.12.2010

Christmas break: 23.12.2010 - 02.01.2011

Please note that the duration of your Christmas break depends largely on your selected courses and projects.

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Please arrange accommodation as early as possible, as reasonably priced accommodation in Cologne is in short supply. Unfortunately FH Köln can«™t provide any student accommodation.

Kölner Studentenwerk

The simplest and often cheapest kind of accommodation is in a students«™ residence hall. There are 84 hall of residences in Cologne, administrated by  Kölner Studentenwerk (KSTW), as well as many privately run halls. Unlike in other countries, Germany's student residence halls are not located on campus, rather throughout the whole city, giving students the opportunity to choose the location they would like to live in. If you are interested in a room in a hall you can find detailed information as well as the  online application form on the website of KSTW.

Due to great demand, an application is no guarantee that you will actually be allocated a place. However, your chances increase the earlier you send your application in.

Shared Flats (WG)

There are a lot of shared flats (WG) in Cologne – it is very common for students to live together in one flat, each student has his own room, but you share kitchen, bath room etc. Please check the  KISD Space of the International-AG to get to know tips concerning the search for shared flats.

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