General questions

• Your home university must have a student exchange agreement with LMU – either under Erasmus+ or LMUexchange. Contact your home university or check on our partner exchange platform MoveOn.
• LMU does not accept free movers.
• You can take courses at the Department of Sociology, if you have a study background in Sociology.
• Check if you meet our language requirements (B2 for German and/or B2 for English, depending on your language choice). Your home university will also have language requirements for outgoing students; for details, please consult your home coordinator.
• Further details on LMU admission requirements and procedures can be found here.

Semester periods

At LMU each academic year consists of a winter semester and a summer semester.

• Winter Semester: 1st Oct - 31st March
• Summer Semester: 1st April - 30th Sept

The winter semester consists of around 15 weeks of lectures, the summer semester normally of 14 weeks. There are no lectures on pubic holidays, on the Tuesday following Easter Monday and White Monday, or on Maundy Thursday. The Christmas break begins on 24 December and lectures resume on 7 January.

Course/lecture periods

The lecture period excludes semester breaks in which students normally write their course papers for their seminars and tutorials.

Students and doctoral candidates are able to study abroad for a period of 3 months (or one academic term), and up to a maximum of 12 months per study cycle (Bachelor, Master, doctoral studies).

Please check on our partner exchange platform MoveOn or contact the coordinator of your home university.

• Unfortunately, LMU does not accept free movers.
• Please find out if there is an alternative university in Germany cooperating with your university or if another German university will accept free movers.

Each academic year at LMU is devided into two semesters:

• Winter semester (lecture period: Oct - Feb)
• Summer semester (lecture period:  April - July)

Exchange students can start their stay in Munich either in the winter semester or in the summer semester.

Contact your home university coordinator to find out if the exchange agreement with LMU was closed for one semester or for a full academic year.

• All Sociology courses can be found electronically in our course catalogue LSF. For sociology courses, please select “Faculty of Social Sciences”/”Sociology”.

We are here to help and support you during your exchange. You can call, send email or visit us during our office hours. You can find our contact details here: