News Update

Due to maintenance work, there will be no regular office hours on Monday, April 13, 2026, and Tuesday, April 14, 2026. Furthermore, please note that the myBTU portal will only be available with limited functionality.

Since 3 September, the City of Cottbus’s Citizen Services Department has been offering special opening hours for students at the BTU.

This applies to the services provided by the Immigration Office andthe City Office. These include registration of your main residence or application for a residence permit. 

Further information can be found on the following website: www.cottbus.de/studierende.

To enhance Cyber Security at BTU, two-factor authentication is being introduced for registration in central services (such as the myBTU portal, Moodle, webmail and the Online-Portal). You can activate this feature in the Account Management section (www.b-tu.de/account) under ‘Manage 2FA Token’ and can do so immediately.

Instructions on how to set up two-factor authentication can be found on the following webpage:

https://www.b-tu.de/it-services/btu-account/zweifaktor-authentifizierung

Please note that *upon successful registration for the following semester* for the 2025/26 winter semester, the use of two-factor authentication will become mandatory.

The Admissions and Registrar´s Office hours will take place on the following days:

Cottbus Main Campus:

Team 1 - Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Room 0.25 in the main building

Team 2 - Tuesday and Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Room 0.26 in the main building

Team 3 - Tuesday and Thursday from 9.00 a.m. to 3 p.m., Room 0.27 in the main building

Team 4 - Tuesday and Thursday from 9.00 a.m. to 3 p.m., Room 0.27 in the main building

Campus Senftenberg:

Tuesday from 9.00 a.m. to 3 p.m., Building 2, Room 2.213.1

On Wednesdays from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m., individual appointments can be booked via the Admissions and Registrar´s Office website. The appointment can take place online or on site.

On the following day, there will be no regular office hours on site:

Thursday, April 17th, 2025

The Admissions and Registrar´s Office is closed on the following days:

Friday, May 2nd, 2025

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025

Friday, May 30th, 2025

Christmas holidays from Monday, December 22nd, 2025 to Friday 2nd, 2026

As promised in the April 13th, 2026 introductory session, you will now receive the presentation for your review.

The following validation stations are available for updating your chip card:

Cottbus main campus
Self-Service Point (formerly the Information Centre) Sachsendorf

Campus
, Building 7, Foyer: Library opening

hoursCampus Senftenberg,
Building 2, Foyer: Monday to Friday, 8.00 am to 8.00 pm
Library: Library opening hours

Security staff will grant access at each location.

In the summer semester 2026, the modules listed in the module catalog are permitted for interdisciplinary studies in degree programs at the BTU. Other modules may not be taken in the interdisciplinary studies.

Please note the negative lists of the study programs in the module catalog, which have been determined by the program directors. Not all modules are permitted in every degree program.

FÜS module catalog for the summer semester 2026

The Interdisciplinary Studies (FÜS) serves to impart interdisciplinary knowledge that goes beyond the subject curricula. In doing so, the FÜS does not take the place of the integrated teaching of competencies that is necessary from the perspective of the individual course of study, but supplements it with aspects that are independent of the subject.

Guideline for interdisciplinary studies

For the modules of the interdisciplinary studies, the examination registration is to be carried out online in modularized study programs.