Courses and Registration

In the fields of Data Science, Business Informatics and Mathematics in Business and Economics, our school offers a wide range of courses taught in English. You can thus complete an exchange program at the University of Mannheim without prior German language skills. Take a look at the current courses held at your school and browse through the course catalogs from the last semesters. 

Course Catalog

Good to know: If you're an undergraduate student, you might take graduate-level courses at the School of Business, Informatics and Mathematics. In some cases, there are no requirements to take part. So, please check the prerequisites! 

You may not only take courses at our school, but also courses offered by other schools. These are called university-wide electives. If you would like to take courses that are offered outside our school, please select them from courses offered under university-wide electives. However, please keep in mind that you have to select the majority of courses from those courses offered by our school (50%-rule).

There is no official limit to the number of ECTS credits you can take, but it is highly recommended to aim for 15 ECTS, with a maximum of 25–30 ECTS to ensure a manageable workload.

Before coming to Mannheim, you can also ask the exchange coordinator at your home institution whether you will get ECTS credits for the language courses offered at the University of Mannheim.

Information for exchange students participating in the European ERASMUS program: I am your contact person in case you need a signature of the “responsible person in the receiving institution” on your Learning Agreement.

If you have specific questions about the courses that are best answered from a student’s perspective, feel free to reach out to the student association. You can contact them via e-mail at fimmail-fim.uni-mannheim.de, on Instagram, or visit their website for more information.

Browse through the course catalog for international students and click on a course title to get more information on the course. To start the registration procedure, please click on ‘More information’ below to be redirected to Portal2. Please register for all courses directly in the corresponding module on Portal2 (login). You may deregister autonomously at any time during the semester. For seminars and Team Projects please follow the respective notes on the websites of your lecturers.

The registration period differs for courses with limited and open capacity.

• Open capacity courses: starts on 15 Jan and runs until 3 March 2025.
  You will be admitted right after registration. In case you wish to change courses, please deregister autonomously at any time during the semester.
• Limited capacity courses: starts on 15 Jan and runs until 10 Feb 2025.
  You will be registered (not admitted) right after registration and spots will be allocated in the first week of the semester. Only a handful of courses do have limited capacity, and this only applies to a few courses from Business Informatics and M.Sc. Data Science. Please note this list is not exhausted and that we cannot guarantee spots for limited courses. Courses with limited capacity are:
  
  • CS 450 Programming Course
  • CS 668 – Generative Computer Vision Models
  • IE 500 Data Mining I (--> NO ALTERNATE EXAM!)
  • IE 650 Knowlegde Graphs
  • IE 672  Data Mining II
  • IE 683 Web Data Integration Project
  • IE 684  Web Mining Project
  • IE 686 – Large Language Models and Agents
  • IE 692 Advanced Process Mining
  • IE 694 – Artificial Intelligence Applications in Industry

Also keep in mind that courses offered by other departments require a different registration procedure. You can contact my colleagues from other departments here.

A manual for course registrations can be found in Portal2 > User Manuals > For Students.

After a couple of weeks your exam registration period starts. Usually, written exams take place at the end of the semester, during the examination period. You may search here for all examination dates. Please note that you have to register for all kind of examinations, such as assignments, oral presentations, mid-terms etc.

Before the exam registration period begins, you will receive all relevant information by email.

Also note that once you have passed an exam, you cannot retake it for a better grade. The grade received upon passing will be the one that counts.

Specific information can be found on the website for exam registration and change in registration.

The module catalogue is a valuable source of information for both students and lecturers. It provides summarised information and detailed course descriptions, including prerequisites and workload, for all courses offered during the academic year. To view the module catalog for your degree, please click on the links below:

Module catalog B.Sc. Business Informatics

Module catalog B.Sc. Business Mathematics

Module catalog M.Sc. Business Mathematics+M.Sc. Mathematics

Module catalog M.Sc. Business Informatics

Module catalog Mannheim Master Data Science

Module catalog Mannheim Master Social Data Science

Module Catalog Teacher Education Mathematics and Informatics