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Tuition
Fees |
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Studies
mostly tuition free |
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Fees for
long-term students, second degree courses, occasional
students |
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English-instructed
Master's programmes |
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Administrative
fees |
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In most cases, studies
at public (state-maintained) universities are tuition free. |
This is still the
current situation: Normally, you pay no tuition fees when
you
- Study for a first degree (e.g. Diplom, Magister, Bachelor's)
or
- Intend to gain a further degree (e.g. a Master's).
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A Master's programme
is tuition free if you gained a Bachelor's degree and wish
to build on this, generally by continuing your studies in
the same or a related subject. However, you may have to pay
tuition fees if you
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Already
hold a degree other than a Bachelor's, when you begin
the Master's programme |
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Already
hold more than one Bachelor's degrees |
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Aim to gain
a second Master's degree. |
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In such cases, your
Master's programme is not exempted from tuition fees. PhD
and doctoral programmes are currently tuition free throughout
Germany. By contrast, private universities do levy fees of
various levels from their students. These fees can amount
to several thousand euros per semester.
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Fees for
long-term students, second degree courses, occasional students
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In addition, many
of the 16 federal states in Germany charge tuition fees under
certain conditions. This is the case if |
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Your
studies take significantly longer than the standard
period defined in the respective study regulations. |
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At present,
fees for long-term students amount to between 500.-
and 900.- euros per semester. Most federal states
have set the fees at around 500.- euros. |
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You are
enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme, a second
degree course or a continuing training programme.
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In this
context, second degree course means that after graduating,
you take a new degree course that does not follow
on directly to your previously aquired degree, such
as a Diplom, Magister or Bachelor's. Some federal
states generally charge tuition fees for such second
degree courses, while in others any credit remaining
in the study account from the student's first degree
course can be transferred to this second degree course.
Continuing training programmes differ from Master's
programmes in that they require applicants to have
gained at least one year of career experience after
graduating from their first degree course as an entry
qualification for the continuing training programme.
Depending on the federal state in question and the
chosen degree course or programme, tuition fees for
non-exempted programmes (see definitions above) can
amount to between 300.- and 1,500.- euros per semester.
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If you are
enrolled as an occasional student. |
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In most
cases, tuition fees for enrolled occasional students
are much lower and depend on the number of courses
which the student attends. Fees of between 15.- and
150.- euros are charged, although there are tuition
fee tables that go up to 500.- euros. |
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English-instructed
Master's programmes |
In recent years,
Germany's universities have established many English-instructed
Master's programmes. A large number of these are tuition free.
However, some universities, including public ones, do levy
tuition fees for these Master's programmes, and especially
for these English-instructed programmes. This can apply when
you aim for a postgraduate degree programme or a continuing
training programme as described above.
When you search through our databases on International Degree
Programmes in Germany or the University Guide on all study
opportunities in Germany, please make sure that you read the
detailed description for the programme in question to see
whether any tuition fees are charged.
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Administrative
fees |
In addition, some
federal states require you to pay administrative fees for
enrolment, re-registration and other services (such fees can
be called "Verwaltungsgebühren", "Verwaltungskostenbeitrag"
or "Rückmeldegebühren"). These fees presently
amount to around 50.- euros. |
Some federal states
have passed responsibility for deciding whether to introduce
fees and how much to charge to the individual universities.
If in doubt, please contact the university at which you would
like to study and ask the International Office at your university
of choice for advice. |
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Scholarships
and Funding |
German institutions
of higher education generally do not themselves award any
scholarships. There is, therefore, little or no point in submitting
a scholarship application to the university. |
There are, however,
several scholarship awarding organisations. The most extensive
scholarship programme is that offered by the DAAD (German
Academic Exchange Service). However, only advanced students
may apply for DAAD-scholarships, or depending on country of
origin and subject, in some cases only graduates. Other scholarship
awarding institutions have varying conditions, for example,
regarding country of origin, subject, previous study achievements,
duration of support, etc. |
Support
for a full study programme, that is from the first
semester to completion of studies, is not possible through
the DAAD and is also extremely rare among other scholarship
organisations. |
Scholarships
are primarily awarded on the basis of achievement criteria.
The applicant's financial circumstances only play a subordinate
role. The German foreign diplomatic missions and other German
representatives abroad such DAAD-foreign language assistants
(Lektors), lecturers and professors placed on assignment abroad
by the DAAD and the DAAD's offices abroad will provide information
on the possibilities of gaining a scholarship. They will all
give you information on application requirements and deadlines
and will also inform you as to where the application has to
be submitted. |
For more information
on Scholarship contact us at: |
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