On the following pages, we have compiled useful information and interesting facts for your start to your degree programme.

The introductory events and preliminary courses are organised by the respective departments and start at different times. As we strongly recommend that you take part, please check your department's website in good time to find out when and where they start.

Please also take part in the introductory events if you have not yet enrolled but intend to do so!

If you have any needs at the events due to a disability or chronic illness, please let the department know in good time so that we can respond to them.

There will also be a joint Freshers' Party for all first-semester students at the Mönchengladbach campus. We offer a shuttle service for students from Krefeld.

If you are looking for advice, our HSNR advice navigator will help you. Here you can easily filter the university's advisory services according to your needs and find the right contact person.

A button for the advice navigator is permanently located at the edge of your screen when you visit the university's homepage.

Our app offers you many useful tools and is constantly being developed further.

Particularly interesting: The app offers you the opportunity to retrieve the semester ticket for NRW-wide public transport as an eTicket directly on your smartphone.
The student ID card can also be displayed via the app, as well as the barcode for the library and pay machines .

You can also conveniently check the daily specials at your canteen, check the next bus and train departure times or call up job offers in your faculties.

At the beginning of your studies, you naturally don't know your way around. The Hochschule Niederrhein makes it easier for all first-year students to find their way around their studies, their faculties and their university location. The first semester tutors make a significant contribution to this. They are students from higher semesters and are on hand to offer advice and support - they can usually be recognized by their blue T-shirts. They are specially prepared and qualified for their work by the tutoring program.

It is not easy to find your way around campus, especially at the beginning. The signs on site and our site and building plans will help you with this.

Would you like to get an idea in advance? You can find our virtual tours here:

• Krefeld South Campus
• Krefeld-West Campus
• Mönchengladbach campus

All first-year students receive a study package during their faculties' induction week. Our small welcome package contains small welcome gifts and information for a successful start to your studies.

Once you have completed registration/re-registration, you can retrieve and print out your student and library cards and other documents via the online portal

The semester ticket, student and library cards can also be accessed via our iHN app. You can use the following instructions to set this up in the app.

The university offers you numerous opportunities to shape your university life. In addition to interesting offers that support you in your everyday life as a student and help you advance your studies, such as our MakerSpace, math courses, summer and winter academies, there is also a lot on offer for your student life away from the lecture halls, such as events, sports activities, theater subscriptions, movie or game nights and much more.

We have compiled information on this for you on the page "Offers for your studies"

We use various channels to keep you regularly informed about news from the university, upcoming events and interesting offers.

Follow our social media channels
Youtube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn.

Once a week, you will also receive Niuswoche, HSNR's student newsletter, directly to your student email address.

Every semester we publish "WEGE", the HSNR's university magazine, which offers you exciting insights into research, your faculties and people at the university.