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src: extracts from Information for Incoming Freshmen by Jacobs University

There are few things that you will need to know. We have collected all necessary information and links for you, so that you do not necessarily have to search all websites.

Housing Preference Surveys

Undergraduate Students will be living in the Colleges. To be able to consider your preferences, incoming students for Fall 2009 should fill in the Housing Preference Survey by no later than July 15, 2009.

Vaccination Recommendation

Before coming to Jacobs University, we strongly suggest that you receive vaccinations against the following avoidable diseases, as per the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO):

1. Measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR)
2. Diphtheria, tetanus, and polio (DPT)
3. Hepatitis A&B
4. pneumonia
5. chicken pox
6. influenza
   In individual cases, missing vaccinations may be gotten in Bremen.

Laptop Offers

Each year, the IT department arranges for laptop offers that students can order via Jacobs University. Details on the offer for 2009 can be found at the IRC-IT pages at Student Laptop O-Week 2009. FAQs regarding this topic can be found at Student Laptop FAQs. The links to this years (2010) laptop offer will be provided as soon as they are available.

Language Program at Jacobs University Bremen

We are pleased to offer you a number of language courses:
You can learn German, the mother-tongue of your new home country; a number of European languages such as French or Spanish; or you can choose to study Chinese. Since 2005 we also offer the course "English for Academic Purposes" as an extracurricular course. To help you to find the appropriate entry level into our scheme of courses there will be a mandatory placement test during O-Week and in the first week of the new semester.