Semester ticket

The Deutschlandsemesterticket currently costs 29.40 euros per month. The price is standardized nationwide. The ticket is paid for in full solidarity by all students with the semester fee for enrolment or re-registration and is therefore particularly inexpensive. This price will also remain the same for the summer semester 2025.

The ticket is available atticket.astakassel.de available. There you can log in with the university's uk access data and retrieve the ticket.

The NVV has developed this website, which you can use to show your ticket directly or save it from there, you can find more information on this in our instructions. You don't need an app and the site also works on older devices.

We as AStA strongly recommend downloading the ticket at the beginning of each month.

The technical solution of the Deutschlandsemesterticket requires you to register online with your uk access data on the website ticket.astakassel.de to log in.

However, if you have done this on your smartphone, you have the option of saving the ticket locally on your smartphone as an offline export so that you can access it, for example, even if you have a dead zone or have used up your data volume. We explain exactly how this works in the instructions.

It is important that you always carry out this offline export again at the beginning of a new month, as the Germany semester ticket is regenerated every month, just like the regular Germany ticket.

The Deutschland-Ticket is issued as an electronic ticket on smartphones. This ensures verifiability and recognition throughout Germany. You can find instructions on how to use the ticket here.

If you are unable to use a smartphone, e.g. due to a physical impairment, you can contact the AStAdeutschlandticket[at]asta.uni-kassel[dot]deor drop by during the office hours of the Department of Social Affairs - we will find a solution for you to use your Deutschland-Ticket.Please take care of this in good time.

If you temporarily don't have a smartphone, you can also use your tablet, laptop or other electronic device. You can download the ticket there at home and access it on the go without the internet.

Please contact us atdeutschlandticket[at]asta.uni-kassel[dot]de. Please include the following information:

Full name, matriculation number, degree program, html ticket export (see instructions), tax office certificate, certificate of enrollment

You can download the certificate from the tax office and the certificate of enrollment as a pdf file from ecampus.

You are also in the right place for an increased transportation charge or a subsequent fare collection. Please attach the corresponding receipt in a legible form to your request and contact us as soon as possible after receiving the receipt. However, the ticket must have been generated before the start of the journey. Even if the ticket was not displayed as a QR code, we can trace the attempt to generate it.

If you only start studying in the coming winter semester (01.10. - 31.03.), you will not be able to display and download your ticket until 01 October at the earliest. In the summer semester (01.04. - 30.09.) you can do so from 01 April at the earliest. There is no seventh month before the start of your studies for the ticket. Please also note that the requirements for the semester ticket must be met.

Please note that the ticket is only valid in combination with an official photo ID. We also recommend downloading the ticket every month.

To be eligible for the Germany semester ticket, you must be enrolled as a student at the University of Kassel for the semester in question and have paid the full semester fee including the semester ticket. You can use your certificate of enrolment and the certificate from the tax office to check the requirements for entitlement to the semester ticket. If the certificates are not yet available, a semester ticket cannot be issued. You can download the certificates from ecampus in the Student Services section.

If you have any problems with enrollment, please contact the Student Information Office atstudieren[at]uni-kassel[dot]de. You can find more information about the Student Information Office here. You can find more information about the semester fee here.

When using public transport, you must have an official photo ID in addition to your cell phone ticket. Please note that you must use the online version or the html version (seeinstructions).

Showing a screenshot may result in an increased transportation charge. The same applies if you try to generate the ticket after the journey has started. Even if the ticket was not displayed as a QR code, we can still trace the attempt to generate the ticket if necessary. A paper printout is also not provided.

Students at the Management School of the University of Kassel (UNIKIMS) are not eligible for the semester ticket, the bicycle rental system and the culture ticket. Students on these part-time degree courses spend most of their time working and not studying and are therefore not entitled to the Soli-Deutschlandticket. Students on the REMENA course are exempt from this regulation.
If UNIKIMS students decide to continue their studies, they will of course receive a ticket as a non-working student.

This also applies to students on other cooperative study programs (e.g. Sustainable International Agriculture) who do not pay the full semester fee including the semester ticket, bicycle rental system and cultural ticket at the University of Kassel.

You can find more information about the semester fee here.

The CampusCard has been available since 01.05.2024 no longer a semester ticket anymore. Please note that validation is still required every 6 months in order to use the CampusCard for payment and borrowing and as a student ID card. You can find more information about the CampusCard here.

Due to the legal requirements of the federal government, the Deutschlandticket is a purely digital ticket. The transport associations can also offer the Deutschlandticket as a chip card as an alternative to the cell phone ticket. For ecological, economic and logistical reasons, however, it makes sense for as many users as possible to load the Deutschlandticket onto their smartphone. However, as described above, we will find a solution for those who cannot use a smartphone. 

In addition to the offline export option, it will soon also be possible to save the ticket in Google or Apple Wallet, as soon as this is the case, we will inform you on this page. 

No, refusal is not a reason for reimbursement.

It is possible to have the semester ticket refunded. You can find more information on this website below.

You can fill out an online application on the website and apply for a refund. However, the semester ticket is a solidarity ticket and therefore not everyone can have the ticket refunded. You can find the reasons for a refund below.

Please also note the deadlines for the application period (usually SoSe: 15.03. - 30.04., WiSe: 15.09. - 31.10.).

If you have any questions about the refund, please contactrueckerstattung[at]asta.uni-kassel[dot]de.

Please note that the semester ticket is not transferable to other persons. It is only valid in conjunction with an official photo ID (e.g. passport, identity card, driving license). This must be shown on request during checks and the original semester ticket should always be presented.

The new Deutschlandsemesterticket is subject to the general tariff regulations for the Deutschland-Ticket. It is important for you to note that the individual regional transport associations sometimes have different regulations than the Nordhessischer VerkehrsVerbund - e.g. for taking bicycles.

In the NVV area, the Deutschlandsemesterticket allows you to take children under 7 years of age who have not started school, bicycles and dogs free of charge. In other transport associations, however, additional costs may be incurred.

Before making a supra-regional journey, it is best to check with the relevant transport associations to see what regulations apply there.

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