11.4 How are partial study programmes defined for the purpose of calculating fees?

According to footnote 2 in the Fee Regulations, “in the case of […] combined study programmes […] each partial study programme is considered a study programme” within the meaning of the Fee Regulations.

Section 32 (1) MRVO defines a partial study programme as any subject that can be chosen in the respective combined study programme.

• This means that each subject in each teacher training program is considered a separate partial study programme.
  For example, the subject German in the combined study programme “Teacher training for elementary school” is considered a separate partial study programme; the subject German in the combined study programme “Teacher training for grammar schools” is considered another partial study programme.
• In two-subject or multi-subject Bachelor’s degree programs outside of teacher training, there is often the option of studying a subject with different ECTS credits in a combined study programme, for example History with 60 ECTS credits, 90 ECTS credits, 120 ECTS credits, etc. However, the different variants are not separate partial study programmes, as the subject History is offered in the same combined study programme (e.g. the “Two-subject Bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Philosophy”). 

  Specifically: If the subject “History” can be chosen in a combined study programme “Two-subject Bachelor”, it is a partial study programme in terms of fees, regardless of whether it can be chosen as a major subject, minor subject or in any number of other forms. The fee is charged for each subject from the catalog of selectable subjects.

  However, if “History” were also offered as a “single-subject Bachelor” or “mono Bachelor”, i.e. as an independent study programme outside the two-subject combined study programme, it would then be an additional study programme in terms of fees.