Freshers week

Welcome and a good start at the University of Stuttgart!

Freshers week 2025: 06-12 Oct. 2025

This timetable is intended as a rough guide – changes are still likely to be made. If you select your degree programme below, you will be taken to the current and more detailed list of courses.

PLEASE NOTE: This rough overview is intended as a general guide. Important: This plan is not complete! It does not include programme-specific events – so be sure to check the calendar after selecting your programme! In addition, there may be some changes before the events begin. Therefore, please pay attention to the individual events in the calendar after selecting your programme.

Inform yourself early, there are also events before 06.10. & with registration! However, changes can also be made at short notice!

We recommend that you definitely attend the events organised by your student group (Fachgruppe)!

You can find the events of your department and all event details by selecting your degree programme below.

Everyone who is new to the University of Stuttgart is welcome to attend all events – regardless of whether you are a first-semester student, a first-semester Master’s student or an exchange student!

Short-term changes and news:

Programme changes:

 

Current information:

  • If you can’t find any programme-specific events in your respective calendars, it’s best to take a look at the websites of the subject groups, they should be linked. Otherwise, you can find them at stuvus.de/fachgruppen. Unfortunately, not all subject groups have entered their events.
  • The presentations for most of the events of last year are uploaded. You can find them in the general information section or at the individual events. We will update the new presentations after the events have taken place.
  • The slides for the Avete, the Introduction to the IT-Systems and to Finances are online available, you can find them in  the general information or in the calendar entry for the events or behind the links.

General Information

Here you will find all the information you need about studying, regardless of your degree programme.

The most important information about the first semester introduction:

When? 6th – 12th of October 2025, lectures start: 13th of October 2025.

For whom? Everyone who is new to the University of Stuttgart is welcome to attend all events – regardless of whether you are a first-semester student, a first-semester Master’s student or an exchange student!

What? Many different events (from the official introductory events to rallies across the campus and through the city to various lectures and workshops) and opportunities to get to know your new fellow students.

How? Select your degree programme at the top of this page, and you will be taken to the programme relevant to you. Find out as early as possible and register if necessary. But also check shortly before the event to see if there have been any last-minute changes!

Where? On both campuses: Stadtmitte and Vaihingen and at other locations in the city – see the individual events for details!

Time until the start of the freshers week:

Contact:

E-mail: erstsemester@stuvus.uni-stuttgart.de

Tel.: 0711-685 83055

House of Students
Pfaffenwaldring 5C
70569 Stuttgart

Choose your degree programme here!

If you are studying to become a teacher (Lehramt), you can find all the information here.

If you couldn’t find your degree programme, you can access the general calendar here: