Key Semester Dates

Lecture period
13.10.2025 - 06.02.2026

Lecture-free period & holidays
01.11.2025 | All Saints' Day
03.12.2025 | Dies Academicus (Special lecture program)
24.12.2025 - 06.01.2026| Christmas holidays
Please note: The Juridicum will be closed from December 24, 2025, to January 1, 2026. // The Examination Office will be closed from December 22, 2025, to January 4, 2026.

Re-registration deadline for the summer semester 2026
28.02.2026

Lecture times until 2030:
 https://www.mkw.nrw/service/vorlesungszeiten

Form and duration of the exams - tba

1st Examination period

• Exam registration: 15.01.2026 ‐ 26.01.2026
  The exam registration deadline also applies to the exam “Angewandte Datenanalyse".
• Withdrawal deadline: 26.01.2026
• Exams 1st examination period: 02.02.2026 ‐ 20.02.2026 
  (no exams on Weiberfastnacht February 12, 2026, Carnival Friday February 13, 2026 and Carnival Monday on February 16, 2026)
• Exam Dates 1st period - tba

2. Prüfungsphase

• Exam registration: 02.03.2026 ‐ 09.03.2026
• Withdrawal deadline 09.03.2026
• Exams 2st examination period: 16.03.2026 ‐ 31.03.2026
• Exam Dates 2nd period - tba

Examination periods summer semester 2025

*** subject to change *** 27.07.2026 - 11.08.2026
*** subject to change *** 14.09.2026 - 30.09.2026

Mandatory grade announcement for the SoSe 2025
15.12.2025

• Deadline for transfer of credits procedure for WiSe 2025/26 (next deadline in summer term 2026): 31.10.2025
• *** subject to change *** Deadline for transfer of credits procedure for the 2026 summer semester: 30.04.2026

Deadline for placement into higher semesters 

• For the winter semester 2025/26: September 15, 2025 – after this date, placement requests for this semester can no longer be processed.
• For the summer semester: [March 15, 2026] March 1st – after this date, placement requests for this semester can no longer be processed.

Admission to Examinations and registration (with online form)
Bachelor, Major & Minor Economics and other Bachelor programs: permanently cancelled

Modules "Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre" and "Grundzüge der Volkswirtschaftslehre für Teilfächer"
(PO 2016 and PO 2024 - Attention: changed procedure!)

• Allocation process separately for Mikroökonomik- and Makroökonomik-parts: 01.10.2025 – 16.10.2025
• Exam registration separately for Mikroökonomik-part:: [26.11.2025 - 07.12.2025]  04.12.2025-11.12.2025
• Withdrawal deadline separately for Mikroökonomik-part: [07.12.2025] 11.12.2025
• Exam registration separately for Makroökonomik-part: 15.01.2026 - 26.01.2026
• Withdrawal deadline separately for Makroökonomik-part: 26.01.2026 

Module "Academic Research and Writing" and Module "Optional Seminar" (Bachelor) 
Allocation process via BASIS

• for winter semester 2025/26: 23.09.2025 ‐ 06.10.2025
• for summer semester 2026: expected 27.03.2026 – 08.04.2026 (subject to change)

Students who will switch to the new examination regulations in the winter semester 2025/26 and wish to take the seminar “Current Topics in Economics” must submit their seminar preferences via email to vwlpa@uni-bonn.de by October 6, 2025. Three prioritized seminar preferences must be indicated. Seminar places will then be allocated subject to the confirmation of the examination regulation change. Information about the assigned seminar place will be sent to your University of Bonn email address in the week before the start of the lecture period. Exam registration must be completed as usual via BASIS.

Exam registration (prerequisite: participation in allocation process)

• for winter semester 2025/26: 15.01.2026 – 26.01.2026
• for summer semester 2026: 10.07.2026-20.07.2026

Allocation process for courses of other departments / faculties:

Bitte informieren Sie sich rechtzeitig vor Vorlesungsbeginn bei dem jeweiligen Studiengang/Fach.

• Information on the registration procedure for courses offered by the AEI Faculty.
• Information regarding examinations in the Law and Economics program and the minor in Law (available only in German) is available here.

Exam registration for term papers and all other exam formats 
(that are not written or oral)
for WiSe 2025/26 optional deadline: depending on the examination form term paper being offered, see separate announcement at the beginning of the semester
15.01.2026-26.01.2026

in effect from: 01.10.2024 (for information on how to change from BPO 2016 to BPO 2024 see information here)
Deadline for handing in applications online via website:

• for WiSe 25/26 (starting at the end of September: until 16.11.2025 (Clustering is still possible)
• for SoSe 2026: until 08.05.2026 (Clustering no longer possible)

Attention: Examinations that are completed by 30.09.2025 can continue to be clustered, after which the option of clustering no longer applies.