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 feeGGNB Physics of Biological & Complex Systems — International Max Planck Research School (PhD)University of Göttingen, Göttingen
- No tuition feeInternational Leibniz Research School for Microbial and Biomolecular Interactions (ILRS Jena)Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knöll Institute, Jena
- No tuition feeDresden Leibniz Graduate School (DLGS) in Sustainability Science and Transformative LeadershipLeibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden
- No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School for the Mechanisms of Mental Function and DysfunctionUniversity of Tübingen, Tübingen
- No tuition feePhD in Neuroscience – International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Brain and BehaviourThe Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar, Bonn
- No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School for Science and Technology of Nano-Systems (IMPRS-STNS)Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale)
- No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School of Marine Microbiology (IMPRS MarMic) - MSc/PhD ProgrammeMax Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen
- No tuition feeInternational PhD Programme for Agricultural Economics, Bioeconomy and Sustainable Food Systems (IPPAE)Justus Liebig University Giessen, Gießen
- No tuition feeStructured PhD Programme in the Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS)University of Hamburg, Hamburg
- No tuition feeGerman-French Graduate College Statistical Physics of Complex Systems in Equilibrium and Non-EquilibriumLeipzig University, Leipzig
- No tuition feeMainz Research School of Translational Biomedicine (TransMed), International PhD Programme in Life SciencesJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz
- No tuition feeIntegrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems Graduate Programme (IRI THESys)Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
- No tuition feeJoint Doctor of Philosophy Degree in a Nexus Approach to the Sustainable Management of Environmental ResourcesDresden University of Technology, Dresden
- No tuition feeCollaborative Research Center 1278 PolyTarget – Polymer-Based Nanoparticle Libraries for Targeted Anti-Inflammatory StrategiesFriedrich Schiller University Jena, Jena
- No tuition feeIntegrated Graduate College of the SFB/Transregio 185 (Bonn-Kaiserslautern): Open System Control of Atomic and Photonic Matter (OSCAR)RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, Kaiserslautern
- No tuition feeInternational Max Planck Research School – Moduli Spaces and their Applications in Algebra, Differential Geometry, Topology and Mathematical PhysicsMax Planck Institute for Mathematics, Bonn
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