TUM — B.Sc. programmes, School of Computation, Information and Technology (varies by programme)
Munich, Germany · Bachelor's · €4,000/year
TUM is one of Germany's top-ranked technical universities. Bavaria introduced tuition fees for non-EU students starting Winter Semester 2024/25, ending decades of free study; merit-based fee waivers remain available for high-scoring applicants.
RWTH Aachen — German-taught Bachelor's programmes (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering) — most RWTH bachelor's degrees are taught in German, not English
Aachen, Germany · Bachelor's · €0/year
RWTH Aachen is one of Germany's largest and most prestigious technical universities. It sits in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), one of the German states that charges no tuition fee to non-EU students — the state absorbs the cost, the same as for EU and German students. The trade-off is language: almost all bachelor's programmes are taught in German, requiring proof of German proficiency (typically DSH-2 or TestDaF 4) for admission. English-taught options exist mainly at Master's level.
KIT — Bachelor's programmes (mostly German-taught; German C1 typically required for admission)
Karlsruhe, Germany · Bachelor's · €3,000/year
KIT (formed in 2009 from the merger of the University of Karlsruhe, founded 1825, and the Karlsruhe Research Center) is a leading German technical university. Unlike RWTH Aachen, KIT sits in Baden-Württemberg, one of the German states that does charge non-EU students tuition.
TUM (Master's) — MSc Informatics
Munich, Germany · Master's · €12,000/year
TUM's MSc Informatics is a flagship English-taught computer science master's. Unlike its own tuition-free bachelor's degrees, this programme now charges non-EU students a tuition fee — TUM was the first Bavarian university to reintroduce non-EU fees.
TUM (PhD) — Doctoral study, any field with an available supervisor
Munich, Germany · PhD · €0/year
TUM doctoral candidates are exempt from tuition regardless of citizenship, and are typically employed as research associates rather than paying to study — a fundamentally different model from bachelor's or master's study.
RWTH Aachen (Master's) — English-taught Master's programmes (e.g. Data Science, Computer Science)
Aachen, Germany · Master's · €0/year
Unlike most of RWTH's German-taught bachelor's degrees, several master's programmes are taught fully in English — and, like the bachelor's level, North Rhine-Westphalia still charges no tuition to non-EU students at time of verification.