Please let us know – preferably at least one week in advance – when exactly you will be arriving in Ilmenau. Then our student tutors can pick you up at the Ilmenau train station and accompany you to the campus. If you rent a room in a student dormitory on campus and arrive outside the opening hours of the dormitory administration, a tutor can also pick up your dormitory key for you. Then you can move in straight away!
There are hourly trains from Erfurt (the capital of the state of Thuringia) to Ilmenau. You can find information about train schedules on the Deutsche Bahn website.
Important: Please note that trains from Erfurt to Ilmenau are split in Arnstadt! The individual carriages of the train then continue their journey to different destinations. When boarding in Erfurt, make sure that the signs on the carriage indicate Ilmenau as the final destination.
Also important: Ilmenau has several stations (Ilmenau-Roda, Ilmenau Pörlitzer Höhe, Ilmenau Bad and Ilmenau). Please get off at Ilmenau station! This is normally the terminal station.
You can also easily reach Ilmenau by car via the A71 motorway. Please use exit 15 "Ilmenau-Ost" to get to the campus as quickly as possible.
By the way: Your tutor will accompany you through all the important administrative steps that arise during your first days in Ilmenau (e.g. registration at the town hall, enrolment, campus tour). And even during the semester, you are by no means alone! Your tutor will be available to answer all your questions. Thanks to our large international community, you will quickly make friends on our campus and perhaps find friends for life.
