On October 11, the Technische Universität Ilmenau will welcome its new students for the upcoming winter semester 2025/26 with a matriculation ceremony. This year, almost nine percent more men and women have enrolled at TU Ilmenau than in the previous year. In fact, over 25 percent more men and women enrolled on a Master's degree course than in the previous year. Enrolment is still possible until October 31.
On Saturday, October 11, TU Ilmenau will hold a festive matriculation ceremony in the Auditorium Maximum, the university's largest lecture hall, to welcome the new students who will start one of the university's 20 Bachelor's or 27 Master's degree programs in the winter semester 2025/26. With 603 new students on a Bachelor's or Master's degree course so far, the university has recorded almost nine percent more students for the current winter semester than in the previous year - following an increase of 11 percent for the winter semester 2024/25 compared to the previous year, the positive trend in student numbers is therefore continuing. As students can still enrol at TU Ilmenau until the end of October, all figures are still provisional; the final statistics will be available at the beginning of November.
Nationwide, the number of first-year students in STEM subjects, i.e. mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology, is declining. Professor Anja Geigenmüller, Vice President for Studies and Teaching, is all the more pleased that this trend has apparently been broken by TU Ilmenau: "Technological progress and economic growth are inconceivable without engineers, so I am all the more pleased about the popularity of engineering degree courses in particular. In response to declining student numbers nationwide in recent years, we have realigned our concepts for study and career guidance, revised concepts and courses and joined supra-regional networks. These initiatives to keep STEM degree courses attractive and to show young people the diverse and attractive career opportunities offered by an engineering degree are now starting to bear fruit."
Over 60 percent of the new students enrolled for the winter semester 2025/26 are foreign nationals and have not obtained their higher education entrance qualification in Germany - far more than one in two new students come to TU Ilmenau from abroad. The university campus is now populated by students from over 100 nations around the world.
Matriculation ceremony
11.10.2025, 10:00 a.m.
Humboldt Building | Audimax, Gustav-Kirchhoff-Platz 1, Ilmenau
- Musical opening
- Welcome speech by the President, Prof. Kai-Uwe Sattler
- Planting of the "Tree of Matriculation"
- Speech by Prof. Katja Hose, TU Vienna
- Greeting from the city, Martin Götze, Personal Assistant to the Lord Mayor
- Greeting from the Student Council, Falk Matthes
- Teaching award ceremony
- Appointment of new professors
- Welcoming the foreign students
- Musical finale
Contact
Prof. Anja Geigenmüller
Vice President for Studies and Teaching
+49 3677 69-5010
vpsl@tu-ilmenau.de
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