Your plans may change while we are processing your application. Whether you have been admitted to your preferred university or no longer wish to study at JGU for other reasons, you can withdraw your application at any time. Even if you have already accepted your spot. Send us a short email to studsek@uni-mainz.de. In the email, please provide your application number and your full name.

A great deal can happen before you start your first semester. If you are already enrolled, you can still withdraw up until April 30th (for the summer semester) or October 31st (for the winter semester). You can fill out the form to let us know that you are waiving your spot at the university. If you have already paid the semester fee, please follow the instructions above for a reimbursement.

The following administrative fees apply to those who have already enrolled and waived their spot:

• 45 euros for selective degree programs
• 25 euros for non-selective degree programs

This fee will be deducted from the semester fee you have already paid.

If you request to be exmatriculated at the end of the semester, you will lose you status as a student at the end of the current semester.

You can submit your request for exmatriculation anytime in JOGU-StINe under Service > Applications > Online applications. It usually takes 2-3 business days to process the request. After this, your confirmation of exmatriculation will be made available online on JOGU-StINe. However, your status as a student does not end until the end of the current semester (September 30 or March 31), even if you have received your confirmation earlier.

The last day of the semester is the application deadline:

• Summer semester: September 30
• Winter semester: March 31

Should your plans change, you can withdraw your exmatriculation at the end of the current semester up until the last day of the semester. (The exmatriculation with immediate effect cannot be withdrawn, see point below.) Please send us an email from your student email address to studsek@uni-mainz.de. Be sure to include your student ID number and your full name, as well as the reason for the withdrawal.

If you are registered as a doctoral student and have completed your doctorate, you can notify us by sending an email to studsek@uni-mainz.de. We will then cancel your registration.

Exmatriculation with immediate effect during the course of the semester is only necessary in very rare cases. Before submitting your request, please make sure that you really need to exmatriculate with immediate effect or rather at the end of the semester.

Please note that an exmatriculation with immediate effect can not be withdrawn. Other implications:

• Academic and university semesters still count
• May impact other areas, such as your health insurance provider
• Does not terminate an existing examination agreement

You can submit an application at any time in JOGU-StINe under Service > Applications > Online applications. The exmatriculation date is the date at which your application was processed. It typically takes two to three business days to fully process the application. At this time, a confirmation of exmatriculation will be made available to you in JOGU-StINe.

Upon exmatriculation with immediate effect, your semester ticket will become invalid. You will no longer have access to the digital ticket. Provided that reimbursement deadlines have passed (October 31st – winter semester, April 30th – summer semester), it is no longer possible to receive a full or partial reimbursement of the semester fee.

If you are enrolled in a second degree program subject to tuition, have re-registered for the following semester by paying the semester fee and the second degree tuition fee, and decide to apply for exmatriculation at short notice, a refund of both the semester fee and the second degree tuition fee is possible under the following conditions:

• You apply for exmatriculation with immediate effect by October 31 (for the current winter semester) or April 30 (for the current summer semester) at the latest.
• You have not completed any work in the semester at the beginning of which you request exmatriculation (October 31 for exmatriculation in the current winter semester, April 30 for exmatriculation in the current summer semester).

In certain cases, we may need to exmatriculate you. This is referred to as exmatriculation ex officio. Exmatriculation ex officio may occur if

• you have missed the deadline to re-register for the following semester,
• you have completed your studies,
• you have failed an examination with no option to re-sit,
• your limited enrollment has come to an end,
• your degree program is being discontinued or your last opportunity to take the final exam has passed,
• documents required for your re-registration are missing.

If you have been officially exmatriculated by us, you will receive an ex officio exmatriculation notice. The official notification of exmatriculation will be uploaded to JOGU-StINe under Service > My documents. You will also receive an email from us informing you that this official notification has been provided. You will find all the information about the reason for your exmatriculation in your notification. Within the official notification of exmatriculation, you will additionally be informed about how you can object to the exmatriculation.

Do you wish to withdraw from one of your degree programs?

This application is only for students who are currently enrolled at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Please submit the application to withdraw from of one or more degree programs only if you are enrolled in more than one degree program and are applying to withdraw from one or more of the degree programs.  

You can submit the application from June 1 to September 1 and from December 1 to March 1 in JOGU-StINe under Service > Applications > Online applications for the upcoming semester.