Information about winter semester 2025 for new students
Welcome to HAW Hamburg
Your perfect start to university life
To help you get off to a great start, we've put together a special program just for our new students. Here you’ll find all the important information about your studies and how everything is organized.
Get to know your lecturers in person, explore the campus together with students from higher semesters – and enjoy a fun and inspiring start with lots of new impressions and great people.
Stop by, ask your questions, make connections – and begin your studies well-informed, well-connected and full of positive energy!
We’re looking forward to meeting you!
Bachelor's students
For first-semester Bachelor's students in the following degree courses:
- Biotechnology
- Biomedical Engineering
- Hazard Control
- Environmental Engineering
- Process Engineering
- Nutrition and Home Economics
- Health Sciences
The orientation units will begin on Monday, 6 October 2025. The programme (only in german) will take place on campus.
Additional information and the schedule of events is available on the orientation team's page (only in german).
The welcome ceremony for first-semester students in the Bachelor's degree course in
- Industrial Engineering and Management
will take place on Wednesday, 8 October 2025. The programme will take place on campus.
You can find information (in German) about the orientation unit on the following page: www.hwi-hamburg.de
Master's students
The first-semester welcome ceremonies for the following Master's degree courses will take place when lectures begin:
- Biomedical Engineering
- Health Sciences (winter semester)
- Food Science (winter semester)
- Medical Technology and Healthcare Business (EMMAH) (winter semester)
- Public Health (winter semester)
- Process Engineering
- Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
- Renewable Energy Systems - Environmental and Process Engineering (winter semester)
There are currently no plans for a central event. Please be sure to check your emails for more information. Students will be welcomed as part of their lectures. The lectures will be held on campus.
The date for the welcome ceremony for first-semester students in the Master's degree course in
- Industrial Engineering and Management
will take place on Thursday, 8 October 2025.You can find information (in German) about the orientation unit on the following page: www.hwi-hamburg.de
Information about attending the course's orientation unit will be sent well in advance of the event via STiNE, the University of Hamburg's information network.
