Once you have been notified of your acceptance to a program of Freie Universität Berlin, you will generally also be informed about our accommodation service. For those starting in the winter semester, registration will open in mid-June. If you start in the summer semester, registration will open in mid-December of the preceding year.The registration period will be announced on the website in due time.

We advise all students to register as soon as possible.

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Please register using the online form on our website. You will find further details regarding the registration process on our website.

The application form asks for your general personal information, your contact details, and what accommodation option you would like to book. No additional documents are required. We will contact you for further details once we've processed your application.

We advise you to register as soon as the registration opens. As soon as an accommodation option is fully booked, it will be removed from the application form as soon as possible so that this option can no longer be selected, even if the application deadline has not yet been reached. All those who have registered for an accommodation option that is already fully booked will be put on the waiting list.

The dates of the registration period will be announced on our website before the registration period starts.

Registration procedure for accommodation in studierendenWERK and Studentendorf

Step 1

Please complete the registration form on our website and choose your preferred accommodation option. If your request is successfully submitted, you will receive an automatically generated email confirming your registration within an hour. Please contact us (accommodation@fu-berlin.de), if you do not receive a confirmation of registration.

Step 2

Within a week you will receive an official email confirmation including instructions to transfer the reservation fee. The full amount must be paid to our bank account within one week (date of receipt) to make the registration legally binding.

Step 3

We will send out a payment confirmation email to inform you once the payment has been received. Your registration will then be forwarded to the administration of the accommodation option of your choice. If your preferred accommodation option is already full, the ERG Universitätsservice GmbH will contact you immediately. The ERG Universitätsservice GmbH is not liable for the availability of selected accommodations.

Step 4

You will receive a placement email with all accommodation and arrival details about two weeks before your estimated move-in date.

Detailed information concerning the registration process can be found on our website.

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Once you have submitted your registration, a brief confirmation email will be sent to the email address you provided on the registration form.

If you do not receive a confirmation email, your registration submission has failed. Please try again and be sure to enter your email address correctly.

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For the accommodation options “studierendenWERK Berlin“ and “Studentendorf” a service fee is included in the reservation fee. Further information regarding the purpose of the reservation fee can be found in our General Terms and Conditions.

Your reservation becomes legally binding only after the reservation fee has been received. The reservation fee must therefore be paid in advance.

The reservation fee depends on the housing option you choose. Detailed information can be found in our General Terms and Conditions and on our website.

The reservation fee should be transferred within one week after you receive the payment request. Please bear in mind that transfers within the EU can take up to five workdays until the amount is credited to the recipient’s account.

We only accept bank transfers. Payments in cash, by cheque or by credit card are not possible.

Make sure that you enter the correct bank information (provided via the payment request). Please be assured that our bank account details are correct. We have used this information for years now, and we do receive the payments on our account. Please try again with your bank or if the problem persists, consider using another bank to transfer the necessary amount.

We will send you a confirmation as soon as we receive the reservation fee. Please bear in mind that transfers within the EU can take up to five bank workdays until the transferred amount is credited to the recipient’s account. It is not necessary to send us a proof of payment.

No. Your reservation becomes legally binding only after the reservation fee has been received. For this reason the complete reservation fee must be paid in advance. Payment by installments is not possible.

We will not process your housing request without the reservation fee. The receipt of the reservation fee completes the registration process. We can only finalize a reservation after we receive the reservation fee, which makes your reservation legally binding.

Detailed information concerning the registration process can be found on our website.

We communicate the registration deadline in advance on our website.

The reservation process regulations, including registration deadlines, are defined by our cooperation partners (i.e. the various accommodation providers), and therefore we have no influence over these policies.

Please note: the allocation of rooms and apartments is based on the “first come, first served” principle. This means, that all accommodation options can already be fully booked before the official deadline has passed.

Yes. Some accommodation options are very popular and get fully booked very quickly, which is why we advise you to register as soon as possible. Because capacities are limited, we may have to close registration before the deadline. We advise you to check our website for updates regularly.

No. If the demand for accommodation by program students is greater than the supply of rooms, students whose applications are complete and who have paid the reservation fee will be given priority.

In general, all applications are processed in the order in which payment is received, which is why we have to reject applications submitted after the maximum capacity has been reached.

Because housing capacities are limited, we cannot guarantee that all housing requests will be fulfilled. If all allocations are already fully booked, we provide you with information on alternative housing options here.

If the option you have chosen is fully booked already we will send you an email informing you about this. You will be put on a waiting list. We will contact you right away in case a room is available again at your requested option. Please bear in mind, that cancelations are quite rare and the chances to get a room when placed on the waiting list are low. We therefore recommend that you look independently for alternative accommodation options if you are placed on the waiting list.

If you have further questions which were not answered here, please feel free to contact us at accommodation@fu-berlin.de.