- Bilingual
- Winter & summer intake
Civil Engineering (M.Sc.)
at RWTH Aachen in Aachen
At a glance
- Language
- Bilingual
- Duration
- 4 sem 120 ECTS
- Intake
- Winter & summer
- Tuition
- €0 public university
- Semester fee
- €375.19
● Closed for this intake Non-EU applicants · Winter semester The window usually repeats next cycle; the full deadline table below shows every route and date.
Focus areas: Advanced Computational Methods in Civil Engineering
Civil engineering master with seven specialization areas, predominantly taught in German, with one predominantly in English: Advanced Computational Methods in Civil Engineering. International applicants without German should plan around that track.
Admission requirements
- Prior degree
- Bachelor in Civil Engineering or a closely related field (not confirmed on the programme page this pass)
- Minimum grade
- not confirmed
- English
- IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL iBT 90 (RWTH working standard; exact score for this programme not confirmed).MOI certificates are not accepted; exemption only for degrees from UK/IE/US/CA/NZ/AU.
- German
- not required for admission
- Also required
- Open admission with examination-board review of the subject background. Master's applicants — EU and non-EU alike — apply directly via RWTHonline. RWTH verifies foreign documents internally: no uni-assist, no VPD, no application fee. Applicants may apply to at most 10 Master's programmes. APS certificate required for applicants from China, India and Vietnam.
Deadlines & timeline
| Who | Intake | Deadline | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Non-EU applicants | Winter semester | closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window | Non-EU / foreign-degree applicants. Supporting-document deadline for restricted-admission subjects: 1 August. |
| EU / German-degree applicants | Winter semester | closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window | EU/EEA applicants, current RWTH students and holders of a German degree. |
| Non-EU applicants | Summer semester | Non-EU / foreign-degree applicants. Supporting-document deadline for restricted-admission subjects: 1 February. | |
| EU / German-degree applicants | Summer semester | EU/EEA applicants, current RWTH students and holders of a German degree. |
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).
Scholarships are listed per university: see RWTH Aachen scholarships.
How to apply
- uni-assist
- not required
- Application portal
- online.rwth-aachen.de
- Official page
- www.fb3.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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