Recognition of coursework and examinations

After the acceptance of the ERASMUS+ exchange place, you have to create your Learning Agreement. The Learning Agreement is the key to the recognition of work done during the semester abroad. This is because all coursework and examinations whose recognition was confirmed on the Learning Agreement will definitely be recognized after returning to Hohenheim. (However, you may still choose not to have all work recognized.)

Recognition procedure

1. You create your Learning Agreement. The Office of International Affairs will be happy to support you in doing so.
2. Please submit the Learning Agreement with the module descriptions of the modules you would like to take at the host university to the Erasmus Programme Officer at the International Office (Dr. Gabriele Klumpp). You are also welcome to submit it by email with the module descriptions in a PDF file as a separate attachment. She will carry out a preliminary check and then submit the Learning Agreement to the Chair of the Examination Committee.
3. The Learning Agreement will be reviewed by the examination committee. If the selected modules can be recognized, you will receive the signed Learning Agreement back as a scan by email or by mail.
4. Within the first four weeks of the stay abroad, changes to the Learning Agreement are still possible. These are entered in the form section "During the Mobility", which you can download from "Mobility-Online". Send the signed and completely filled out “LA during the mobility” with the corresponding course descriptions as a pdf file to: gabriele.klumpp@ua.uni-hohenheim.de.
5. After your return to Hohenheim you submit your Learning Agreement and Transcript of Records from the host university together with the information about which modules you would like to have recognized to the Examinations Office. A short time later, the recognized examinations will appear on your Hohenheim Transcript. The grading systems may be different in other European countries. The document below provides guidance on the conversion.

Grade conversion tables for stays abroad in Europe (in German)

We offer all our students the opportunity to sign a Learning Agreement - even those who do not go abroad through the ERASMUS+ program. The following applies: all coursework and examinations that are recorded on the Learning Agreement and approved by our examination committees will be recognized in Hohenheim. Important difference to ERASMUS: there is a separate form for the NON-ERASMUS-Learning Agreement.

For your overseas exchange, the use of a Learning Agreement form is voluntary, as well as the entire pre-recognition process. You might as well first see what you can and will take abroad and apply for recognition afterwards.

The recognition of elective modules is very simple anyway. Here, only the acquired competencies must at least correspond to the level of the own study program. However, Sports, cultural and non-subject specific language courses are not recognized.

Modules passed by you during the semester abroad and their credits can be added to your semi-elective modules if the competences acquired therein are suitable for your degree program, the chosen major or the chosen profile in the semi-elective area. The examination committee will decide whether this is the case. Only in the case of recognition as a compulsory module is it necessary for the learning and qualification goals to correspond at least 75% with a very specific compulsory module of your own degree program. For the recognition of compulsory modules, the module supervisor must first check whether the module can be recognized.

How you have to proceed for recognition after your stay abroad is explained in detail on the pages of the examination office for your study program under the header "Recognition".

Download the Learning Agreement for those who are not going abroad through ERASMUS+.

Pre-Recognition procedure

1. You create your Learning Agreement. If you have any questions, Ms. Dr. Karin Amler in the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences will be happy to assist you.
2. Please submit the signed Learning Agreement with the module descriptions  of the modules you would like to take at the host university to the Student Information Center (SIZ) or put it in the postbox at the Examinations Office. From here, it will be forwarded to the Examination Committee. If you wish a preliminary check, address you to Ms. Dr. Karin Amler at the Dean's Office of the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences. You are welcome to send her your Learning Agreement by email with the module descriptions in a PDF file as a separate attachment.
3. The Learning Agreement will be reviewed by the examination committee. If the selected modules can be recognized, you will receive the signed Learning Agreement back as a scan by email or by mail.
4. After your return to Hohenheim you submit your Learning Agreement and Transcript of Records from the host university together with the information about which modules you would like to have recognized to the Examinations Office. A short time later, the recognized examinations will appear on your Hohenheim Transcript of Records.