Registration for international applicants

Have you received your letter of admission by post? Great. You should now proceed as follows:

1. Complete the online registration form:

• In order to register, you first need to complete the online registration form

The technical issue with registration form has been resolved. The registration deadline affected by this will be extended, for undergraduate programs without admission restriction, by October 8, 2026 (date of receipt at LMU).

2. Print confirmation with application reference number / Status

Once you have completed the online registration form, you will immediately receive confirmation. This confirmation includes an application reference number.

Please print out this confirmation, sign it and send it to us in order to register!

After having completed the online registration form, you can check the status of the registration process. in the portal.

The following documents must be sent for registration via post:

• Completed, signed and printed online application form for registration (see above)
• A copy of the letter of admission issued by the International Office
• A copy of your valid passport
• A digital proof of health insurance status: Please ask a German public health insurance provider (gesetzliche Krankenkasse) to submit your incurance status electronically to LMU. This applies also if you have a private insurance or an EHIC ("Befreiung"). You do not need to submit documents, the digital proof from a German public health insurance provider is sufficient. Doctoral / PhD-students do not need a proof from the health insurance.
• A copy of your evidence of proficiency in German (exception: master’s degree programs, doctoral studies and double degree programs where the course language is English).
• If necessary — and if you haven’t sent it with your application: The letter of acceptance (Zulassungsbescheid) which includes your aptitude assessment results and is issued by the faculty / department / study program coordination office / doctoral committee responsible for your study program. (Please note that this document certifies your academic aptitude for your chosen course of study.)
• If you have studied at a German university prior to your registration at LMU: Registration certificate and confirmation of all programs studied at German universities and an exmatriculation certificate (Exmatrikulationsbescheid).
• If there is a special condition in your letter of admission please provide a copy of the required documents
• If you did apply via the online portal MoveIN (PDF, 247 KB), you have to provide certified copies of your Bachelor certificate and transcript.

Please send your documents by the date specified in your letter of admission to:

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
International Office — Zulassung
Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1
80539 München
Germany

Please do NOT use the address for the Office of the University Registrar which is printed on the online application for registration.

The processing of your documents will take a little bit of time. Thank you for your patience.

Please note that your registration is not valid until you have submitted all the required documents and paid your semester fee within one week / eight days (by bank transfer).

You will receive a letter notifying you of the semester fee due. To see how much you will have to pay, please refer to the continuation of registration website.

After having registered in person, you will receive our email with:

• instructions on how to activate your personal LMU user identification.
• the request to apply for the LMUcard which also serves as your student ID card.
• the request to pay semester fees. The payment of these fees must be made within eight days after you receive this email (by bank transfer).

Please transfer the fee of 97.00 € after having received the email within the prescribed period to the following bank account:

Payee: Freistaat Bayern
Bank: Bayer. Landesbank Muenchen
IBAN: DE54 7005 0000 3701 1903 15
BIC: BYLADEMM

Reason for transfer: Your registration number (Matrikelnummer)/20262/LMU Rueckmeldung WiSe 2026

Please note that at this point your registration is still incomplete. Therefore you won’t receive your registration certificates. They will become available for you to download via the online self-service function after your semester fee payment has been received.

The IT Servicedesk will issue your student ID card in the form of the LMUcard.