Enrolment

You have to complete the enrolment procedure personally. You will find all further information here.

Tuition Fee/Social Contribution
After the completion of your enrolment you have to pay the social contribution (approx.: € 340,00) to the university. For foreign students it is advisable to open a German bank account and pay after your arrival in Bochum. Otherwise you might have to pay high remittance fees. It can be paid via online banking or a pre-printed transfer form.
The social contribution is mandatory for all Ruhr University students. It comprises payments to Student Support Services/ Akademisches Förderungswerk - AKAFÖ (it maintains social institutions and university facilities such as the canteen, student halls of residence and cafeterias, to the university’s students representatives/ Allgemeiner Studierenden Ausschuss - AStA, and to the Deutsche Bahn for the semester ticket.
For additional information concerning the social contribution, please visit the internet site of the student secretary (Studierendensekretariat).

Semester Ticket
In North-Rhine-Westphalia you are allowed to use underground/subway, busses, trams, S-trains and the local trains Regionalexpress (RE) and Regionalbahn (RB) free of cost in the economy class. For all other trains of the federal train system (Deutsch-Bahn AG) the following restrictions apply: The semester ticket is generally not valid for the first class and does not enable journeys on intercity express trains (ICE) or other trains subject to a supplementary fare, such as IC and EC trains. For so-called D-trains special restrictions will need to be taken into consideration.
Via the semester ticket students can use RE/RB-trains on an unlimited basis within NRW.
After your payment of the Social Contribution arrived you can download the ticket.

You can find more detailed information regarding the semester ticket here.

Student Identification Card
With your enrolment you will receive your student ID-card (RUB-card). The RUB-card has the following functions: library card in the University Library (UB) and in the departmental libraries; can be loaded with Akafoe credit and used to pay in the cafeterias and Mensa and to access the washing machines in many residence halls; can be loaded with credit for printing at Campusdruck; can be used as key to access to some of the car parks on campus...

RUB eCampus
In eCampus you organise your studies online. Functions of eCampus are:

• access and management of your RUB-mail-account,
• print-out of documents as proof of enrolment, transcript of records, semester ticket
• have access to RUB semester schedule, registering for courses and exams, creating schedules (CampusOffice)
• administration of study achievements and exams, course of studies (CampusOffice)
• administration of personal data, changing postal addresss
• overview about your payments (tuition fee, ...)

More about eCampus you find here.