Here you can find the previous publications on the accreditation summarised:

Starting in the winter term of 2015/16, newly enrolled students start their studies in the restructured degree programmes.

As from the above mentioned point on, there will also be adjustments of the current examination regulation of the present degree programmes. This serves the purpose to enable students to finish their already started programme successfully and without delay. In certain areas, the present programmes will be adjusted to facilitate graduating with the currently available choices concerning the minors.

We regret that for capacitive reasons it will not be possible to maintain every single module and elective in the long term. As a service offered, alterations will already be accessible with the regulations published for the upcoming winter term of 2014/15, so that students can consider this in their individual planning. We have published these overviews of the anticipated alterations of the examination regulations in the winter term of 2014/15 on our homepage (http://www.wiso.uni-koeln.de/14706.html?&L=1). Please bear in mind that these presentations are only preliminary and yet subject to approval by the university committees and thus not legally binding. They only state a non-binding advance information by the WiSo-Student Service. We will inform you about further alterations and the final version in due time on our homepage and via the newsletter.

For clarification, the following aspects are again summarised:

• The now published changes concern ALL enrolled students that started or will have started their studies before the winter term of 2015/16.
• Students currently enrolled will not be forced to shift into the newly structured programmes but can continue to study in their current structures. These students will have to finish their programme until the summer term of 2019 (Bachelor), respectively summer term of 2017 /Master).
• A voluntary shift into the new structures will be possible before the winter term of 2015/16. However, as the new degree programmes differ significantly from the current ones, there is a chance that not every module already passed can be credited. Soon we will offer information events and also inform students via the homepage and the newsletter.
• The regulation concerning Maluspoints will not be abolished. In the current programmes, this regulation is expected to be valid until their dismissal.
• All Bachelor Programmes:

• In some subjects of the major and minor of a programme, there are modules that will ultimately be offered – depending on the regular cycle – in the summer term of 2015. However, in various areas there will be additional modules that – also depending on the regular cycle – will be offered starting from the winter term of 2015/16 on.
• The electives will also partly be altered. Some electives expire by the end of the summer term of 2015 and thus cannot be started after the winter term of 2014/15.
• Some electives will be changed in a way that starting from the winter term of 2015/16, they will only consist of a single 12-credit point module. Please consider the information on our homepage relevant to your respective degree programme.
• If an expiring or restructured elective is not finished after the summer term of 2015, the successfully passed module of that elective will be transferred into the elective “Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften” which will be established for the upcoming winter term of 2015/16. By an appropriate course offer the faculty will enable students affected by this change to finish that common elective until the expiration of the examination regulation. If two modules from two different electives are transferred, the elective “Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften” will be completed.

• Bachelor Social Sciences: Starting with the winter term of 2014/15, students do not have to choose three out of the four offered groups (politics, sociology, empirical social research and integrative social sciences) in the major social sciences, but are free to choose module from all four. These groups merely serve as a functional orientation. Hence, students do not have to complete three of those four groups with 24 credit points, as has been the case so far, but are free to choose any models offered as long as in the end, exactly 72 credit points are achieved. Furthermore, there no longer are any mandatory modules within the respective groups but only compulsory elective subjects. These changes apply starting from the winter term 2014/15 for all students enrolled in the B.Sc. Social Sciences.

All Master Programmes:

• There are alterations in some of the minor. Some minor expire at the end of the summer term of 2015 and thus cannot be started in the winter term of 2015/16 (Social Policy, Economy of Self-Help, Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik).
• In some major and minor there are modules that – depending on the regular cycle – will ultimately be offered in the summer term of 2015. However, additional modules will be offered in these areas that – also depending on the regular cycle – will replace them starting from the winter term of 2015/16 on.

If you have any general questions regarding your studies, do not hesitate to contact the team of the WiSo-Student Service: write an email to wiso-beratunguni-koeln.de or call the number 0049-221 -470 8818 – the colleagues will gladly help you.

The current opening hours of the personal consultation times can be found on our homepage.

If you are interested in starting a degree programme at the WiSo-faculty in the upcoming winter term of 2015/16, you will be enrolled in the newly structured programmes. Furthermore, a shift into a higher semester will only be possible if it occurs into the new examination regulations.

Detailed information on the distinct degree programmes is made available in the area “study – organising your studies”.