Germany · no tuition fee

1,186 degrees that cost nothing to study.

German public universities charge no tuition — to Germans and to international students alike. Every programme below has a published tuition figure of zero, read from an official source.

No tuition is not no cost. Expect a semester contribution of roughly €150–350, plus rent, health insurance and living costs — and a student visa requires proof you can cover them.

No tuition feeGraduate School of the Social and Behavioural Sciences (GSBS)University of Konstanz, KonstanzDoctorateEnglish 234d left
No tuition feeDigital Platform Ecosystems (DFG Research Training Group 2720)University of Passau, PassauDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeGraduate Programme in Cellular and Molecular Biology of PlantsUniversity of Tübingen, TübingenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeInternational PhD Programme (IPP) Literary and Cultural StudiesJustus Liebig University Giessen, GießenDoctorateEnglish 161d left
No tuition feeBonn International Graduate School of Drug Sciences (BIGS DrugS)University of Bonn, BonnDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeHZDR Doctoral Programme in Energy, Health, Matter & Data ScienceHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, DresdenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeIMPRS - International Max Planck Research School on AstrophysicsMax Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching b. MünchenDoctorateEnglish 69d left
No tuition feeDoctoral Programme in Accounting, Economics, Finance & ManagementFrankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt am MainDoctorateEnglish 144d left
No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School on Trustworthy ComputingMax Planck Institute for Informatics, SaarbrückenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeRegensburg International Graduate School of Life Sciences (RIGeL)University of Regensburg, RegensburgDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeBerlin Graduate School for Global and Transregional Studies (BGTS)Freie Universität Berlin, BerlinDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School – Biological IntelligenceMax Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, PlaneggDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feePhD Programme of the Faculties of Veterinary Medicine and MedicineJustus Liebig University Giessen, GießenDoctorateEnglish 325d left
No tuition feeJena Schumpeter Center for Research on Socio-Economic Change (JSEC)Friedrich Schiller University Jena, JenaDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeGraduate School Life Science Munich: From Molecules to Systems (LSM)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, MünchenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School Physics of Light (IMPRS-PL)Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, ErlangenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeBonn International Graduate School for Development Research (BIGS-DR)University of Bonn, BonnDoctorateEnglish 7d left
No tuition feeGraduate School of Quantitative and Molecular Biosciences Munich (QMB)Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, MünchenDoctorateEnglish 44d left
No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School — From Molecules to OrganismsUniversity of Tübingen, TübingenDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeMax Planck School of Photonics – Master's to PhD Direct Track ProgrammeFriedrich Schiller University Jena, JenaDoctorateEnglish 99d left
No tuition feeResearch School Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social ImaginingFriedrich Schiller University Jena, JenaDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeHelmholtz Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme for Environmental ResearchHelmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, LeipzigDoctorateEnglish
No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School for Molecules of Life (IMPRS-ML)Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, PlaneggDoctorateEnglish 44d left
No tuition feePhD Programme with Tracks in Accounting, Economics, Finance, or MarketingGoethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am MainDoctorateEnglish

Each fee here is a published figure of zero, quoted from an official register and dated. A programme whose fee we could not read is not on this page — unknown is never free. How we know what we know