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Sick note

Students who for health reasons miss an examination or an examination deadline or withdraw from an examination must provide the examinations board responsible with a credible explanation of their inability to take the examination.

General Information

  • Medical certificates must be submitted to the Academic Office within 7 days of the date of issue.
  • Certificates must be signed by hand by your doctor.
  • The Academic Office cannot retrieve electronic certificates of incapacity for work (eAU) from the health insurance provider.
  • Submission must be made exclusively via the respective online form.

Sick Leave for Exams (Written exam, Oral exam, or Take-home exam)

To report sick for exams, you need a certificate of incapacity for work (AU). The AU must be issued for the corresponding exam period. eAUs cannot be retrieved automatically, so you must upload the certificate yourself.

The AU must be submitted via the online form Application for withdrawal from exams due to illness (Online form).

Sick Notice for Bachelor’s and Master’s Theses

To request an extension of the deadline for submitting a Bachelor’s or Master’s thesis, specific requirements apply to the medical certificate depending on the degree program:

  • Students in the BSc in Economics, MSc in Economics, or MSc in Politics, Economics, and Philosophy must submit a qualified medical certificate. This certificate must include details of the symptoms of the illness as well as their impact on the student’s ability to complete the exam. The easiest way to do this is to have your doctor fill out the PDF form for Proof of Inability to Take Examinations (final thesis) and have it signed and stamped by the doctor.
    Please note that certificates of incapacity for work (AU) do not constitute or replace a qualified medical certificate, even if they include a diagnosis code!
  • Students in the BA in Economy and Culture of China only need a certificate of incapacity for work (AU).

Please submit the medical certificate via the online form Extension of the writing period for thesis due to illness (Online form).