Incoming Exchange Students

The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) offers degree programmes taught in English, participates in international exchange programmes, and welcomes students from institutions with whom we have bilateral agreements.

On this page, prospective international students may find useful information about lectures in English that are offered within the Department for Electrical, Electronics and Communication Engineering (EEI).

Why FAU?

The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is one of the largest universities in Germany. With its five faculties, FAU offers an almost unique scope of subjects ranging from the Humanities to Law and Economics as well as Sciences, Medicine and Engineering. Over the last decades, the University has established its reputation as a top-ranking institution in cutting-edge research. It is firmly anchored in a close network of interdisciplinary co-operations. These include partners from industry or specialized non-university research centres. Within the Metropolitan Region Nuremberg, FAU likewise plays an important role as employer, generator of innovations, and centre for education. Due to the close connections between research and teaching, students at FAU receive a well-founded academic training in an inspiring environment. International students are supported by multiple service centres providing extensive advice.

The Faculty of Engineering (Technische Fakultät) is located in Erlangen, a city with a historic baroque centre which is located amidst splendid landscape close to the rocky hills and lovely forests of the Fränkische Schweiz. The cities of Nuremberg (a traditional centre of arts and commerce since medieval times) and Bamberg (a UNESCO world heritage town) lie about 20 km to the south and 40 km to the north, respectively. One of Erlangen’s best known and most loved attractions is the „Bergkirchweih“, a beer festival in spring, which attracts around 1 million visitors from near and far.

In the wider world, Erlangen is also renowned both as home to the second largest university in Bavaria and as one of the three headquarters of Siemens AG which both contribute substantially to the high living standard in and around the city. With their broad range of additional privately and publicly funded research facilities and many start-up high-tech companies, Erlangen and its surroundings have developed into an important European R&D centre in several future-oriented areas of engineering, including medical systems, microelectronics, audio, multimedia and communications.

General information

All necessary information on how to plan your stay at FAU (be it for one or two semester or a whole study program) can be found on the following homepage: https://www.fau.eu/education/international/from-abroad/. We highly recommend visiting it!

If you plan to complete your entire degree at FAU, you might need a German language certificate (please refer to this page: https://www.fau.eu/study/prospective-students/application-and-enrolment/german-language-skills-and-certificates/).

For those who already have decided that they’d like to stay for one or two semester, please visit this page: https://www.fau.eu/education/international/from-abroad/semester-abroad-at-fau/

Department of Electrical Engineering

Our study programmes like “Electrical-Electronic-Communication Engineering” or “Information and Communication Technology” offer various engineering lectures delivered in English which are especially suitable for exchange students and could be accompanied by intensive German language courses. However, please note that various lectures will be only held in German, wherefore we recommend having knowledge of German language before visiting FAU!

The following courses are held in English. Detailed information may be found in the module catalogue. Some courses can be taken by both Bachelor and Master students, which are marked with „B+M“ in the right column, courses solely for Bachelor are marked with „B“. Those solely for Master are marked with „M“.