My GUIDE uses the data of the Hochschulkompass of the HRK.

The higher education institutions enter their own information regarding their courses of study. The information can be updated at any point throughout the entire year. The German-language version of My GUIDE is updated once a week.

At various times throughout the year, the DAAD produces an English translation of the Hochschulkompass data. At present, updating the English-language data in an immediate manner is not possible. Unfortunately, the Hochschulkompass does not intend to store additional links to English-language websites for the courses of study being offered.

The higher education institutions have logins in order to update the information for their courses of study. Each institution has a login, usually in a central place, such as study programme advising or marketing. Please contact Mr. Wurm () in the event that the login is not able to be easily found.

My GUIDE uses the data of the Hochschulkompass of the HRK. The Hochschulkompass provides three types of contact addresses (International Office, general student advisory service, programme-specific contacts).

In general, My GUIDE is intended to provide targeted support to prospective students who wish to contact a German higher education institution about a specific course of study. To this end, My GUIDE does not show contact information to users. Instead, it shows corresponding topic areas (e.g., „admission requirements“ or „study preparation“) specific to their request – they can choose between these topic areas and thus be guided thematically and individually.

For each topic, one of the available addresses is always classified as the primary contact, one as a secondary contact and one as a third contact. For most subject areas, the International Office („Akademisches Auslandsamt“, otherwise known as AAA) is contacted first if the AAA data record for the respective degree programme is maintained in the HSK. If this is not the case, the My GUIDE dispatch matrix takes effect and the second or third address is contacted.

This dispatch matrix was developed together with many representatives of the DAAD member institutions.

If you wish to change the email contacts that have been stored in the system, please contact .

Each higher education institutions, course or topic inquiry from My GUIDE can be sent to a specific, process-related target address requested by the higher education institution. Please let us know the respective target addresses that students can contact regarding the respective topics or courses of study at your institution. A list of your contact options is below.

• Recognition of foreign educational qualifications
• Application
• Other
• Language skills
• Location and higher education institution
• Study financing
• Course of study
• Study preparation
• Accommodation
• Visas, entering Germany
• Admission requirements
• Career

Also possible: The selection of a target address when more than one of these topics are simultaneously selected

Please note that My GUIDE uses the data from the Hochschulkompass of the HRK, and thus, any changes of email addresses should be entered there as well.

The courses of study are sorted alphabetically if the selection filters are used for the search. An exception to this rule is the free text search – in this case, the search results are sorted according to their relevance.

The admissions database, which has been operated by the DAAD for many years and which was developed in cooperation with uni-assist, is integrated into My GUIDE. The information on each individual’s access to higher education is based on the evaluation proposals of the Conference of Ministers of Education, which are published in the anabin database of the Central Office for Foreign Education (Zentralstelle für ausländisches Bildungswesen, or ZAB).

In the International Programmes in Germany database, there are about 2,000 entries from German higher education and research institutions for courses of study, graduate schools, language and short courses, and preparatory courses. These offerings have not been integrated into My GUIDE at this time, and therefore prospective students cannot find these offerings there.

The entries in the International Programmes database are subject to a fee, whereas entries in the Hochschulkompass are free of charge. If you have any change requests or questions, please contact the external service provider, Content5: .