Students starting in Winter semester in October do not have to decide on the specification field immediately upon enrollment since the first semester is identical for all fields. These students need to select a specification field at the start of the second semester, the latest, to get the courses assigned to their curriculum in RWTH online. Students starting in Summer semester do have to select their specification field immediately to get their courses assigned. For more details see here.

According to the rules students may change the specification once. There is no deadline for that. For a change of specification please use the respective form, available at the department´s webpage. Should the change of specification be carried out after the deadline for exam registration students will need to send a separate form to the examination board asking for a late registration. If this cannot be done in time their is still the option of manually registering for an exam at the institute and get the result acknowledged retroactively.