⚙️ Public Technical University

RWTH Aachen University

📍 Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia • Germany

RWTH Aachen University is the largest technical university in Germany and a founding member of the TU9 alliance. Renowned worldwide for mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, materials science, and its vast industrial campus campus ecosystem near the borders of Belgium and the Netherlands.

Testing Policy

Test-Blind

Abitur or recognized international secondary school certificate equivalent to the German HZB required.

Institutional Selectivity

Competitive (~40.0% (Open entry for selected engineering fields with rigorous exams))

While initial entry into certain engineering courses has open quotas ("zulassungsfrei") for qualified candidates, first-year examinations in higher mathematics and mechanics are famously rigorous, filtering the cohort.

Language Proficiency

Holistic Assessment

Undergraduate engineering degrees are taught in German; German language proof required.

Key Application Timelines & Rounds

Winter Semester Intake

Deadline: July 15

Decision: August / September

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