News
Dear applicants, We will be relocating our office shortly. Therefore, we are currently unable to process any grant applications. We have received your documents – whether submitted via the upload tool or by email – and will resume processing them immediately after the move. Our new address will soon be updated on our website. Thank you for your understanding!
Attention! New Procedure for the Semester Ticket Starting Summer Semester 2025:
Starting in the Summer Semester 2025, the Germany Semester Ticket (DST) in Berlin will be provided by S-Bahn Berlin. This comes with a few changes, which we summarize briefly below:
How to Get Your Mobile Ticket
Ordering Process:
Visit abo-antrag.de/studium and place your order.
Verify your identity via Shibboleth.
You will receive a confirmation email.
Ticket Access via the S-Bahn Berlin App:
Your travel authorization will be issued via the S-Bahn Berlin App.
The ticket will be available 1-7 days before the semester starts.
We recommend installing the app no earlier than 2 weeks before the semester begins to ensure all updates are included.
Enable automatic app updates for a seamless experience.
Important Dates
📅 First ticket release: No later than the semester start on April 1, 2025.
📌 Orders placed by March 24, 2025: Ticket available from March 27, 2025, at 12 PM.
📌 Orders placed after March 24, 2025: Ticket usually available within 5 working days.
Usage Information
Your phone must be turned on and connected to the internet for the ticket to be delivered.
If your phone is offline, the ticket will update once it reconnects to the internet.
From the second month onward, the ticket will automatically update at the beginning of each month.
Current information on the Duetschlandsemesterticket for Summer Semester 2025:The re-registration information for the summer semester 2025 has already been sent to all TU students.
IMPORTANT: All students are required to pay for the Germany-wide semester ticket. If you have other subscriptions, such as a job ticket, please remember to cancel them in time.
Please note: Starting from the summer semester 2025, students in continuing education programs are also eligible to receive a Germany semester ticket.
Attention: The following students are NOT eligible to receive a Germany Semester Ticket in the summer semester 2025:
a. Guest students and second-degree students as defined by the applicable university law,
b. Students who are enrolled exclusively in an evening, online, or distance learning program without mandatory attendance ("distance learning students").
d. Students who are taking a leave of absence.
e. Students who do not belong to the student body.
For the Winter semester 24/25 and Summer semester 2025, neither PhD studies nor a job ticket, even not part time study qualify for an exemption from the payment obligation.
In Case of Problems with the Semester Ticket:
If you have issues during a check due to an inactive ticket and are required to pay a penalty fare (EBE), immediately file an objection with the transportation company (BVG) and contact the Campus Center! Please also check the FAQs here on the website again. In most cases, the Campus Center or the Student Administration Office as part of the university administration is responsible. For example, if your QR code does not work, contact both BVG and the Campus Center. Contact Student Administration Office
We, the Semester Ticket Office, are an institution of student self-administration that only processes your applications for grant for the semester ticket from the social fund, as well as your applications for exemption from the contribution obligation to the solidarity model semester ticket.
The deadline for accepting your grnat applications for Wintersemester24/25 is 30.09.2024 for everyone
The deadline for accepting your grnat applications for Summer semester 2025 is 30.03.2025 for everyone !
The deadline for applying for full exemption has passed.
For the partial refund, the deadlines are as follows:
The deadline for exemption applications is always the 15th of the previous month, i.e., the 15th of September if the exemption is for October, and the 15th of November if the exemption is for December onward.
Important: Reactivating the ticket after the exemption is not possible. This means that if your application is approved, the exemption will remain valid until the end of the semester.
If you are not eligible for the semester ticket, you can find information here on which ticket alternatives might be possible:
https://asta.tu-berlin.de/artikel/wie-bekomme-ich-als-studierender-das-9-euro-sozialticket-how-to/
If you are currently in a difficult financial situation:
We would like to recommend the social and BAföG counselling service:
https://asta.tu-berlin.de/bafoeg-und-sozialberatung/
In addition, the Studierendenwerk can provide emergency aid under certain circumstances:
https://www.stw.berlin/beratung/sozialberatung/studienfinanzierung-im-%C3%BCberblick/einmalige-unterst%C3%BCtzungsm%C3%B6glichkeiten-des-studierendenwerks-berlin/notfonds.html
If you are currently in a difficult financial situation:
We would like to recommend the social and BAföG counselling service:
https://asta.tu-berlin.de/bafoeg-und-sozialberatung/
In addition, the Studierendenwerk can provide emergency aid under certain circumstances:
https://www.stw.berlin/beratung/sozialberatung/studienfinanzierung-im-%C3%BCberblick/einmalige-unterst%C3%BCtzungsm%C3%B6glichkeiten-des-studierendenwerks-berlin/notfonds.html
Now we work on your applications for Summer semester 2024. Therefore we have to ask for some documents via snail mail. Please inform us if you have changed your address, so you`ll get our letters!
Our consultation hours for subsidy and exemption : Tuesdays 13 – 14.30
You can find our office hours here. You can make an appointment or simply drop by. We can help you with your questions about applying for a subsidy or exemption
We also offer face-to-face consultations! If you would like a video consultation, you can book a time via the link. To send you access to the video call, we need a working email address from you.
https://termine.astatu.berlin/5
Information about the processing status of your applications Due to limited access to our office caused by covid-19 we are on delay. We are very sorry for that! Even though we are in delay we want to encourage you to keep submitting applications.
If you are unsure weather you can still submit an application feel free to contact us via email!
How to get the documents to us: Our Upload Tool works in accordance with data protection laws. To make sure your data stays safe, please use the Upload Tool to send us documents. You find the Upload Tool above.
What we do
The Semesterticket Office is a collective institution of the TU Berlin, UdK, and Alice Salomon Hochschule AStAs. We work together with the relevant university administration.
Our work includes:
- processing of exemption and grant applications
- helping you with questions concerning the Semesterticket
- handling the settlement with VBB (currently this task is handled by the Landesastenkonferenz (LAK))
Best wishes,
Your Semesterticketbüro <3
Contact
Location
TU main building, rooms 8113 – 8114
(new wing 8th floor, accessible by the lifts in the foyer)
Postal Adress
Technische Universität Berlin
I A STB Semesterticketbüro
Straße des 17. Juni 135
10623 Berlin
Phone
+49 30 314 – 28038
Fax
(030) 314 – 28162