Civil Engineering, B.Eng.
Civil engineers plan and complete building projects. The undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering at the Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen offers the necessary foundations for this task by offering the right combination of theoretical education and practical training. Lectures are supplemented with field trips to interesting construction sites or large construction companies. It has become an established tradition to go on a trip abroad each year in the spring. In the department's labs and computer rooms students have the necessary facilities and modern technology to work on their projects.
Programme facts
| Degree | Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) |
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| Duration | 7 semesters, 210 ECTS |
| Language of instruction | German |
| Study mode | Full-Time |
| Start | Summer semester, winter semester |
| Application | Via uni-assist, winter semester until 15.07, summer semester until 15.01 |
| Admission | No admission restriction: every eligible applicant is admitted |
| Tuition fee | €0 per semester for international students |
| Semester contribution | €279.82 per semester |
| Campus | Campus Gießen |
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
Civil engineering students are in close contact with Architecture students. In the first year and a half, most of the lectures they take are the same. The goal of this course structure is to instil a better understanding between the two disciplines since architects and civil engineers work closely with each other in their careers. For this reason, students wishing to change their degree subject at the beginning of the course from one to the other can normally have their credits transferred to other degree course.
The full curriculum and the programme's parameters are part of programme selection: we compare them with your profile.
Pick programmesCareer
Civil engineers plan and implement projects for above-ground and underground structures, buildings, bridges, transportation routes and other infrastructure facilities. In performing these tasks a great number of technical and legal boundary conditions must be met. Civil engineers have the skills necessary to implement such projects successfully while simultaneously adhering to the relevant boundary conditions.
Cost of study
| Tuition fee of the federal state (Hesse), international students | €0 |
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| Semester contribution | €279.82 |
Requirements and application
| Previous education | Before the beginning of the semester THM offers one-week preparatory courses in subjects like Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Programming for new students who would like to brush up on their previous knowledge and fill in the gaps. |
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| Application | Via uni-assist, 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.
- 2Documents and translationsCertified translations of the certificate and transcript, an APS if required. 3–4 weeks.
- 3Application via uni-assist until 15.01uni-assist checks documents for 4–6 weeks — send them well before the deadline.
- 4Admission, 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 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.