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Transforming City Regions (M.Sc.)

at RWTH Aachen in Aachen

At a glance

Language
English-taught
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.

RWTH's English-taught urban and regional planning master, focused on the transformation of city regions. It is RWTH's nearest equivalent to development-planning programmes elsewhere - note that RWTH does not run TU Dortmund's SPRING programme.

Admission requirements

Prior degree
Bachelor with at least 30 credits in spatial-related modules (urban design, city, town and regional planning, landscape architecture, transport planning, environmental engineering, urban geography, ecology or sociology, GIS, general design)
Minimum grade
Assessed on academic track record plus portfolio
English
English proficiency per the examination regulations; exemption only for degrees from the UK, Ireland, USA, Canada, New Zealand or Australia.No numeric threshold is published on the programme page.
German
not required (programme taught entirely in English)
Prerequisite credits
  • At least 30 CP of spatial-related modules
Also required
A portfolio — a set of creative pieces demonstrating spatial and urban understanding — is required for admission. 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

Deadlines differ by where your degree is from. Dates change every cycle, so always confirm on the official page before planning. Where no fixed calendar date exists or none is confirmed yet, the Details column explains each case.
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.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.

What students say

Via StudyCheck · 2024-2026: an aggregated rating, not our own assessment, paraphrased in our own words and never quoted.

3.5 /5

Four master-level reviews average 3.2 out of 5 and only half of them recommend the programme — clearly below the RWTH average, and the weakest score in our RWTH set. Reviewers appreciate the digital study support, the literature access and the interdisciplinary European focus of the content, but overall satisfaction is genuinely split, with mixed views on structure and coherence.

Liked

  • Good digital study organisation
  • Interesting interdisciplinary, European-focused content
  • Solid access to literature

Criticised

  • Below-average overall satisfaction; only half of reviewers recommend it
  • Mixed views on structure and coherence

Where graduates go

No alumni outcome data found yet.

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