Automotive Components Engineering, M.Sc.
Engineers around the world are responding to people's need for individual mobility, combined with comfort and energy efficiency, with new technological developments. In the 21st century, too, companies in the automotive industry and its supplier industries, as well as research institutions active in these areas, are driving innovations - for example in energy concepts, driving safety or driving comfort. The Bayreuth master's degree in “Automotive and Mechatronics” provides students with specialized engineering skills that are geared towards basic and application research in this technology-intensive branch of industry. The focus is on materials, processes, components and systems of the automotive industry and related branches of industry (machine tools, robotics, automation technology, etc.).
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Required German | C1 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Tuition fee | Set by the university for international students — the amount is on the programme's official page |
| Semester contribution | €107.80 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
How the selection works and how strong the competition is — we go through it against your certificate when we select programmes for you.
Programme selection →What you study
In personal contact with their lecturers as well as in small teams, the students are introduced to current engineering issues and familiarized with future-oriented solutions. The students experience new interdisciplinary perspectives in research and development. At the same time, they acquire interdisciplinary skills, for example in the combination of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering. The integration of teaching content on non-subject competencies with particular importance for research and development (such as research discussions, project work in teams and presentation and lecture techniques) rounds off the training and enables students to independently work on engineering projects.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Due to their well-founded and at the same time application-oriented training, the graduates are excellently qualified for demanding engineering jobs at car manufacturers, suppliers and related industries such as general mechanical engineering or automation technology, but of course also in research institutions. Typical areas of application are basic research, preliminary research in industry, product or process development, production control and development-related sales. It is possible to advance to interesting management positions (project management, group management, department management, etc.).
Cost of study
| Semester contribution | €107.80 |
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Requirements and application
| Previous education | Qualification A university degree or a degree in the Bachelor's degree in Engineering Science at the University of Bayreuth or an equivalent degree Further admission requirements Proof of an industrial internship of at least thirteen weeks, which must be proven within one year of enrollment, details of the content and evidence of the industrial internship are regulated by the internship regulations of the Faculty of Engineering |
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| Language | German C1 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | uni-assist (VPD) + the university, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
The procedure and the set of documents depend on your certificate. We check the university's requirements against your documents and give you a list: what to submit, how to certify and translate it, where and when to apply.
Check the requirementsHow to get into this programme
- 1Check your certificate and its recognitionDirect admission, a year at a university at home, or Studienkolleg first — this decides the whole plan.
- 2German up to C1 and a certificateDSH or TestDaF has to be passed before you apply.
- 3Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 4Application uni-assist (VPD) + the university until 15.01uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 5Admission, visa, movingPlan 2–3 months for the visa and the blocked account in parallel.
How to apply
You can submit the application yourself or with our help — the university decides on admission in both cases.
Applications go through the university's portal or uni-assist. Typical mistakes:
- ×incorrectly made certified copies and translations
- ×a wrong set of documents
- ×the application submitted the wrong way
- ×errors or gaps in the application form
- ×the application submitted at the wrong time — too early or too late
An incomplete or incorrectly prepared application is excluded from the selection — it can no longer be corrected after the deadline.
StudyInFocus does not represent the university and does not influence the admission decision. We do not sell study places and do not guarantee admission — this is a service for preparing and submitting documents on the applicant's side.
If your level is not enough yet
The two most common stoppers are a language level below the requirement and a certificate without direct admission. Both can be solved, but they take months — plan them now, not after a rejection.
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 15.01.2027 (93 days left). Language, translations and the document check take months, not weeks. In 30 minutes we will build a plan backwards from the deadline and tell you honestly whether you can make it.