Exchange Students

Health Insurance

All students must have health insurance which will cover doctor´s visits, prescriptions, treatment, etc. The insurance premium is around 80,00 Euro per month. Your insurance company will give you an insurance certificate which you must present at enrollment. Without this certificate you will not be able to enroll.

Members of the EU and of the EFTA can become exempt from compulsory health insurance upon presentation of an E 111 form and/or an EHIC. These forms can be obtained from the health insurance authorities in your home country.

Most students from non-EU countries have a travel health insurance with short validity when they arrive in Germany. They must immediately apply to become a member of the compulsory health insurance fund or a private health insurance company. Students aged over 30 years cannot apply for the compulsory health insurance fund and must purchase private insurance.

Liability Insurance

We strongly recommend that you arrange liability insurance. Liability insurance is designed to offer specific protection against third party claims. Payment is then not typically made to the insured but rather to someone suffering loss who is not a party to the insurance contract. In general, damage caused intentionally and contractual liabilities are not covered under liability insurance policies. Our experience has shown that liability insurance has proven very useful whenever one of our students was involved in some kind of damage-causing accident (e.g. hitting a car with your bike). Usually, it is possible to arrange liability insurance in your home country. Be sure, however, that your liability insurance is also valid in foreign countries, especially in Germany.

From the airport to Frankfurt School

Frankfurt has a good public transport network and it is very easy to reach Frankfurt School. From the airport, please go to the regional railway station (Regionalbahnhof) for S-Bahn, regional and local trains at Terminal 1, Level 1. Trains arrive at and depart from platforms 1 to 3.

• Take the S-Bahn train (direction: “Frankfurt Innenstadt”) to Konstablerwache station
• Then take the U5 metro (direction: “Preungesheim”) to Nibelungenallee / Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Cross Adickesallee at the traffic lights immediately opposite the Total service station and turn left
• The Frankfurt School campus is next to the service station

Getting Around

Frankfurt School offers a semester ticket (valid 6 months) for about 215 Euro per semester. This ticket will be printed on your student ID card and allows you to travel in a wide radius around Frankfurt and neighbour cities such as Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Mainz etc.

as of May 2016

About your ticket

• SemesterTicket

The entry requirements into the Federal Republic of Germany are different according to your country of origin. Please enquire as soon as possible as to whether you require a visa or not.

Countries from which a visa is not required

Members of the EU and of the EFTA (European Free Trade Association i.e. Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland) do not need an entrance visa/student visa. However, after enrolling, you must register at the local registration office (Einwohnermeldeamt), just as every other student living in Frankfurt must do. EU and EFTA citizens will neither have to register at the foreign registration office nor will they need a so-called residence permit.

Citizens of the following countries also do not need an entrance visa/student visa, but will have to register at the aliens’ office (Ausländeramt) and apply for the residence permit after their enrollment in Germany.

• Australia
• Canada
• Israel
• Japan
• South Korea
• New Zealand
• USA

Please note: When it comes to visa matters, it is your nationality and not the university you come from that determines what the appropriate procedure is. Example: If you study in a European country and have a residence permit for this country but your nationality is neither European nor are you from one of the seven countries listed above, you need to apply for a student visa in Germany. If this is the case please contact the German Embassy in your country of origin or the German Embassy in your country of studies.

Countries from which a visa is required

Students from other countries have to make arrangements for obtaining a visa while still in their home country. Make sure you enquire whether you need an entrance visa/student visa well in advance. In this case, entrance with only a tourist visa is not allowed. Future students from most countries will need an entrance visa. Further information can be found here.

Make sure you apply for the entrance/student visa as soon as possible at the responsible German diplomatic agency (embassy/consulate). An entrance/student visa is required for students from these countries in order to be able to enroll. An entrance visa will be converted into a residence permit for study purposes following enrollment. The conversion of a tourist visa into a residence permit for study purposes after entry into Germany is not possible.

Entry and residence

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Frankfurt School offers modern on-campus accommodations for students. Each apartment is fully furnished and has a private bathroom as well as an own kitchenette with fridge/freezer, two ceramic stovetops and oven. There is an allotment of apartments reserved for exchange students with our partner i-Live on a first come first served basis. However, kindly note that we cannot guarantee housing to all exchange students. If you need accommodation on-campus, you will be able to apply when completing your online application.

In general, accommodation contracts are for a 12-months duration. However, to accommodate exchange students, FS also offers 6-month contracts in accordance with the principle of solidarity: 15.1. – 14.7. , and 15.7. – 14.1. The price for an apartment is EUR 710 per month. Please be aware that the contract duration and start date are fixed, there is a 14-day withdrawal period and after this date students are obliged to pay the cost of the whole renting period. The contract that students sign with i-Live is not directly bound with Frankfurt School and it is the student's responsibility to thoroughly review the terms of their contract before signing and make the necessary arrangements with i-Live directly (including possible withdrawals).

For further information about on-campus accommodation and other suggested places in Frankfurt, please check our website.