Civil Engineering, M.Sc.
Did you acquire in-depth practical engineering expertise in the Bachelor’s program? Would you like to specialize, work independently or assume a management or leadership position in a larger company or in your own construction company? The four-semester Master’s program in civil engineering will prepare you for the complex demands of challenging construction, planning and infrastructure projects. With its eight program concentrations you can expand your expertise in many areas of civil engineering. The Master’s program promotes independent work and teaches methods of scientific problem solving. You learn to develop, plan and realize technical projects as a whole and with a view to economical, ecological and legal aspects.
Programme facts
| Degree | Master of Science (M.Sc.) |
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| Duration | 4 semesters, 120 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German, English |
| Required German | C1 |
| Required English | B2 |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 01.03, summer semester until 01.09 |
| Admission | No admission restriction: every eligible applicant is admitted |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €375.19 per semester |
What the tuition fee consists of
Will I get in
Every applicant who meets the formal requirements is admitted — but places can run out before the deadline, so apply at the start of the window.
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
The course consists of a compulsory, a compulsory elective and an elective area. The extensive range of elective modules allows professional combinations that correspond to personal interests and career prospects. Each field of study offers a wide range of opportunities to build up an individual subject profile. Not only extensive technical possibilities are offered. A free elective module makes it possible, for example, to get a taste of other courses offered by RWTH Aachen University and thus broaden your horizons beyond technical knowledge. These include courses in the field of business, language courses and IT applications. The module for useful professional supplements from study-related stays abroad improves the integration of stays abroad into studies at RWTH Aachen University.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Civil engineers are active in planning, calculating, evaluating, executing and coordinating. With their competence profile, they have employment opportunities in many fields of application. Specialists who have been trained in Germany also have the best international opportunities. The multiperspectivity that civil engineers trained at RWTH Aachen have acquired not only makes them experts in the classic areas of construction, but also for interdisciplinary issues in the context of economic, legal, infrastructural and environmental problems.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (North Rhine-Westphalia), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €375.19 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Mathematical-physical basics (38 CP): Mathematics: 16 CP Statistics: 3 CP Mechanics: 16 CP Hydromechanics: 3 CP Basics specific to civil engineering (80 CP), from two of the areas at least 20 CP each: Structural Engineering Water Creatures Construction Operations and Geotechnics Transportation In addition, all applicants are required to submit evidence of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General Test. |
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| Language | German C1, English B2 — confirmed by a certificate when you apply |
| Application | Directly to the university, winter semester until 01.03, summer semester until 01.09 |
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 directly to the university until 01.03Send the documents well before the deadline — an incomplete application cannot be completed after it.
- 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.
Questions about this programme
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Don't postpone the application
The deadline is 01.03.2027 (138 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.