The Studierendenwerk is divided into four service areas:

• The area of commercial enterprises
• with the departments Student Housing and University Gastronomy,
• the area of consulting & student financing,
• the head office and the building and real estate administration

Staff units have been set up for the areas of Legal Affairs, Communication & International Affairs, Auditing and Quality Management as well as Childcare.

The organs of the Studierendenwerk are the administrative board and the managing director. The board of directors consists of six members.

• Chairwoman Prof. Dr. Ute Clement, President of the University, represented by the Chancellor, Dr. Oliver Fromm
• Representative of the professors Prof. Dr. Petra Freudenberger-Lötz
• Student representatives Michael Dreps, NN
• Representative of the Studierendenwerk Employees Reinhold Wetzig, Claudia Beinhoff
• Managing Director and Budget Agent Assessor Christa Ambrosius

Excerpts from the performance figures for the year 2024:

• 867,000 meals were served in the Mensas and cafeteria sales amounted to 1,338,011,41 Euros
• 4,823 BAföG applications received around 28 million euros in subsidies
• 2,508 applications for Aufstiegs-BAföG were supported with about 12 million Euros in funding (only grant portion)
• 25 students were awarded the Kassel Stipendium Scholarship
• 163 Study Start Grants and 135 Meal Vouchers were approved
• around 1,100 places in 26 student halls were made available and managed
• in two kindergartens in Kassel and Witzenhausen up to 96 children of different age groups  were cared for and flexible daycare was offered at "studykidscare"
• 2.520 people did seek advice in general social advisory service
• 2,108 therapy interviews were conducted in the psychological advisory centre
• 599 legal advices were provided

The work of the Studierendenwerk is financed by:

• Turnover (50,9 %)
• Student Semester Fees(19,6 %)
• Grants from the Hessian Ministry of Science and the Arts (11,8 %)
• Expense reimbursements for implementing BAföG and AFBG (6,5 %)
• othersubsidies (8,1 %)
• other income (3.2 %)

(Figures for the year 2024)

Each student contributes 106 Euros to finance the work of the Studierendenwerk. This means that anyone who enrolls or re-enrolls at the University of Kassel pays the social contribution for the Studierendenwerk organization together with other contributions once per semester to the University of Kassel. The amount of the social contribution is decided by the administrative board of the Studierendenwerk, which includes representatives of the student body, university teachers, and employees of the Studierendenwerk.  

This contribution from students is mandatory: Our goal is to offer high-quality products and services and to satisfy the different needs and demands of our customers.

We are happy to meet this challenge. Although all service areas have to operate economically, we do our utmost to identify the needs of our students and to meet them precisely.

Two-thirds of the student semester contributions are used to offer all students, and especially students in social need, a healthy, tasty and inexpensive meal. Only thanks to the contribution of the students it is possible, for example, to be able to sell the particularly favorable vegan meal 1 for 2.80 Euros including two side dishes. In addition, special services for students are financed by the semester fees: Free legal counseling, social and psychological advisory services as well as student finance counseling would not be possible without semester fees.

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