At a glance

Language: English-taught
Duration: 4 sem 120 ECTS
Intake: not confirmed
Tuition: €0 public university
Semester fee: €375.19

IDEA League joint master in Applied Geophysics — a two-year, 120-ECTS degree delivered sequentially by TU Delft (semester 1), ETH Zurich (semester 2) and RWTH Aachen (semester 3), with the thesis semester at one partner. The RWTH stage covers environmental and exploration geology, geothermics, hydrogeology, petrophysics and engineering geophysics, and scientific machine learning.

Admission requirements

Prior degree

Bachelor in geophysics, physics, geosciences or a related field with a strong mathematics, physics and programming foundation

Minimum grade

Joint selection by the IDEA League consortium

English

English-taught joint programme; the exact certificate requirement follows the joint programme's own rules (not confirmed this pass).

German

not required for admission

Prerequisite credits

Mathematics, physics and programming foundations tailored to geophysics

Also required

Application runs through the IDEA League consortium, not the standard single-university RWTHonline route; students start on 1 September at TU Delft. Deadlines follow the consortium calendar and differ from RWTH standard dates. Partner-university fees may apply on top of RWTH’s €0 tuition — verify with the consortium before budgeting.

Deadlines & timeline

Deadlines are not yet confirmed for this programme. They likely follow the university's general Master's deadlines. Verify with the faculty before planning your application.

Fees & funding

Tuition: €0 per semester
Semester contribution: €375.19
Semester ticket: included (Deutschland-Semesterticket)

€0 tuition for all students including non-EU/EEA — RWTH is an NRW public university and states it does not charge tuition to international students from non-EU countries. Semester contribution €375.19 for WS 2026/27 (Mobilitätsbeitrag €234.57 including the Deutschlandsemesterticket plus the Zuid-Limburg/NL extension, Sozialbeitrag €128.00, Studierendenschaftsbeitrag €12.62). This WS 2026/27 total is reconstructed from official components rather than published by RWTH as a single figure; the fully confirmed figure is €338.05 for WS 2025/26 (RWTH Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2025/177). Semester ticket included: the mobility component funds the Deutschlandsemesterticket plus Arriva buses and regional trains in South Limburg (NL). Note: this is a joint IDEA League degree — application, deadlines and partner-university fees are governed by the consortium and may diverge from the standard RWTH model.

Scholarships are listed per university: see RWTH Aachen scholarships.

How to apply

uni-assist: not required
Application portal: idealeague.org
Official page: www.rwth-aachen.de

EU applicants and holders of German degrees usually apply directly via the university's Campusportal instead of uni-assist; the deadline table above says which route applies to you.

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