Fees

Tuition Fees are only applicable for second degree and international students. Further Infomation can be found here. Additionally the university and the students union (Studierendenwerk Ulm) currently charge administrative fees approximately amounting to 165 € each semester. Students are also responsible for their own living expenses which run, as a guideline, at 700 Euro per month.

Financial support

All students will receive a very sizable support of their studies from tax revenues automatically. Students are, however, fully responsible for their cost of living.

Still, there are several possibilities of financial support. The most common way of support for our foreign students are part-time research assistantships provided by the research groups within the School of Engineering (called HiWi jobs). There are many of these jobs available. Nevertheless, you will have to look for them yourself once you are here. This allows you to choose a research group according to your interest.

However, since your main purpose of coming to Ulm is studying and obtaining a master's degree, we very strongly recommend that students do not take on more than about 40 hours per month. This leads to a monthly income of about 340 Euro.

During the breaks when no lectures are held you will also have the opportunity of taking up jobs with companies, particularly those with a presence in the "Science City" around the university. For a total duration of 120 days per year, work outside of the university does not require a labor permit. During the lecture periods, work outside of the university requires a special permission for foreign students if it exceeds 20 hours per week. This is generally not encouraged.

Overall the chances for finding a student job are very good in Ulm. So far all students who wanted a student job also managed to find one.

For information on scholarship programmes, please consult

• the DAAD website,
• Stipendienlotse - the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) scholarship database
• Stipendium Plus, a portal which combines information on several foundations and agencies supporting graduate and post-graduate studies in Germany.

Financial assistance for students in Germany

The Deutscher Bildungsserver maintains a database of links to institutions providing grants to students in Germany. The page is in German.

We often receive requests for grants or fellowships. However, as the fee charged for the studies is only a small fraction of the actual cost, there are no funds to re-distribute in the form of grants. There are quite a few institutions in Germany who provide such grants, partly only to German students, but many also to students from abroad.

The website on Bildungsserver provides a good introduction, if you know a little German. The referenced institutional websites are partly available also in English.

Please understand that the Communication and Information Technology Programme cannot make any recommendations or endorsements for any of these institutions. The article is solely provided as a service to you.

The Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg has introduced tuition fees for international students (Non-EU citizens) coming to Baden-Württemberg for academic studies. From winter semester 2017/18 onwards, international students must pay tuition fees amounting to 1,500 EUR per semester. Please find further information at UULM Study, Application and enrolment or on the Ministry's website.