Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Application route

Directly to the university

Source

“EU applicants and Non-EU applicants both apply for a Master's program using the Online-Portal of KIT of the International Students Office . Please upload all required documents as PDF in the portal.”

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/9074.php · checked 14 November 2026

KIT does not use uni-assist. Non-EU applicants apply to the International Students Office in KIT's own portal and upload every document as a PDF; EU applicants and holders of a German Abitur apply to the Studierendenservice instead. Bachelor's applicants for a programme with restricted admission (NC) must also register at hochschulstart.de and enter their BID in each KIT application. The six HECTOR School continuing-education master's programmes use their own portal.

APS certificate (India)

Needed when you apply

Source

“Applicants from China , Vietnam and India are required to enclose the original APS-certificate in their application. … Important: KIT does not accept Group APS-certificates. APS-certificates also have to be current. The subsequent certification of your undergraduate studies has to be provided by the application deadline.”

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/9074.php · checked 14 November 2026

For master's applications. Group APS certificates are not accepted. KIT's bachelor's application page names only China and Vietnam, so no APS is listed there for Indian school leavers - but the Mechanical Engineering (International) bachelor's page does require an APS certificate for Indian school-leaving certificates.

Studienkolleg

Own Studienkolleg

Source

“Welcome to the Studienkolleg at KIT”

www.stk.kit.edu/english/index.php · checked 14 November 2026

KIT runs its own Studienkolleg: T-courses preparing for the Feststellungsprüfung (assessment test), TestDaF preparation (D-courses) and German courses alongside degree studies. Non-EU applicants apply for it through the International Students Office by 15 July (winter) or 15 January (summer); an entrance exam at German B1-B2 level is required and places are limited, with no entitlement to one. The 1,500 EUR tuition for international students is not charged for the preparatory German course, which has separate fees. After the course a new application for the degree programme is needed and admission is not guaranteed.

International office

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies

Source

“Secretariat of the International Students Office (Adenauerring 2, Building 50.20., Room 106): Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays from 09:00 hrs to 12:00 hrs”

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies · checked 14 November 2026

International Students Office (IStO), Adenauerring 2, 76131 Karlsruhe, +49 721 608-44911. It is the point of contact for every non-EU applicant and handles admission, tuition-fee exemptions and enrolment; there is also an International Student Hub at Kaiserstraße 14.

Tuition for non-EU students

Non-EU students pay 1,500.00 EUR tuition per semester from their first semester in a bachelor's, teacher-training or consecutive master's programme, on top of the 184.00 EUR semester fee. Exemptions (EU/EEA citizenship, German Abitur, cooperation programmes, doctoral students, Baden-Württemberg Stiftung scholarship) apply automatically; others (established living conditions in Germany, a bachelor's and a master's completed in Germany, refugees, disability, leave of absence, hardship under Art. 7 LHGebG) must be applied for. Second-degree tuition is 650.00 EUR per semester and is not charged on top of the non-EU fee.

Source

“According to Article 3, LHGebG (Baden-Württemberg Act on State University Fees), international students (from third countries/non-EU countries) attending bachelor's, teacher's, and consecutive master's programs as well as free movers will have to pay tuition fees in the amount of EUR 1,500 per semester as from the 2017/2018 winter semester. … The following international students are exempt from the obligation to pay tuition fees for international students in the amount of EUR 1,500:”

“International students coming from outside of the EU to study at KIT are obliged to pay tuition fees in the amount of EUR 1,500.- per semester when newly enrolling for a degree program. When enrolling for a second degree program, tuition fees of EUR 650.- are charged per semester as of that date. Students who have enrolled in two or more degree programs at the same university or at several universities of the state (parallel studies) are obliged to pay tuition fees as of the start of the semester after successful completion of the first degree program.” page

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/12606.php · checked 14 November 2026

The fee started in winter 2017/18 under Art. 3 LHGebG. Moving from a KIT bachelor's to a KIT master's counts as a new programme and starts the fee. The continuing-education (HECTOR School) master's programmes are not consecutive master's programmes and charge their own programme fee instead.

Semester contribution

€184 per semester

Source

“Administrative charge * … 80,00 € … Charge for the Studierendenwerk * … 92,00 € … Charge for the Students Union * … 12,00 €”

“Students can purchase a reduced-price Deutschlandticket. Detailed information about the D-Ticket JugendBW is available from the Karlsruhe Transport Authority (Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund - KVV).” page

www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/3363.php · checked 14 November 2026

80.00 EUR administrative charge (70.00 EUR until summer 2025) + 92.00 EUR Studierendenwerk Karlsruhe (includes liability insurance and the psychological counselling service) + 12.00 EUR Students Union = 184.00 EUR per semester, payable again at every re-registration. No Deutschlandsemesterticket is included: KIT's fee table lists no transport component and KIT's transport page says students can buy a reduced-price Deutschlandticket themselves. Non-EU students add 1,500.00 EUR tuition, giving 1,684.00 EUR per semester. Late re-registration costs 18.00 EUR extra. KIT's own FAQ page for international applicants still prints an outdated 151.20 EUR.

Other compulsory fees

Not stated by the university

3 pages checked, 14 Nov 2026

• www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/3363.php
• www.sle.kit.edu/english/imstudium/703.php
• www.intl.kit.edu/istudies/9074.php

No application fee, non-EU service fee or deposit is published; the fee overview lists only the three semester charges plus tuition, and a 18.00 EUR late re-registration fine and a 75.00 EUR guest-student fee, which are incidental. Nothing is recorded rather than assuming there is none.

Tuition per programme is listed with each programme below.