Counseling

The Central Student Advisory Service (ZSB) is a center which provides you with information and guidance on the demands and structure of your studies. Here you can find further information as well as useful tips concerning course contents, study requirements and study options as well as advice on your choice of subject.

For any personal advice or difficulties regarding your studies, the ZSB also offers psychological counseling.

International student advisors are contact persons for students from abroad. You can find an international student advisor at each faculty.

Their duties are:

• counseling
• initial contact with the foreign students
• answering questions foreign students might have
• responding to letters of inquiry from the Foreigners' Registration Office

List of all international student advisors

The General Student Committee (AStA) officially represents the interests of students at the respective university and also their political interests towards the university and the state. The AStA is elected by the student parliament (StuPa) and consists of different sections, responsible for, e.g., educational policy, women’s policy, fundamental rights and civil liberties, culture and others.

The AStA represents the interests of students towards the administration, the ministries or other authorities. Above all, the committee provides support for any problems or queries that students may have. The AStA offers a wide range of services including publication of handouts as well as counseling services:

• international student counseling
• women's counseling
• social counseling
• tenant’s advisory

Office hours and further information

The Autonomous Foreigners Department, a department of the General Student Committee (AStA), is elected and lead by international students. The department not only organizes events but also offers counseling for international students.

Office hours and information

We would like to welcome you to our meetings! Our meet and greet or the so-called “Elterntreff” (i.e. meeting point for parents) is meant for parents with one or more children, pregnant women and women who would like to have children. Here you are given the possibility to meet other parents, ask for advice on the subject of child care, on how to juggle your finances or tips on how to combine your studies, research or work with family life.

You are very welcome to bring along your children! There are plenty of toys and your children can be taken care of without any problems.

Contact person:

Jeannette Kratz

In order to improve work-life balance in terms of studies, work and family, the “Campus Family Office” was established by TU Dortmund University, FH Dortmund and the family project of the City of Dortmund.

The Campus Family Office:

• informs and supports on the search for suitable child care
• mediates helpful contacts on how to combine studying, work and family life
• gives advice on services offered to children, young people and families
• answers any questions you may have before and after giving birth

Office hours and further information

The Department of Disabilities and Studies (DoBus) is an organization which supports students and applicants with

• physical disabilities
• visual impairment or blindness
• hearing impairment or deafness
• speech impairment
• chronic illness
• mental illness

and have difficulties in planning and implementing their studies or feel challenged by the  organization of care, mobility or further potentially needed assistance.

Office hours and information