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Master’s · Energy, Environment & Sustainability

Applied Geosciences – Energy & Mineral Resources (EMR) M.Sc.

RWTH Aachen University · Aachen · Official programme page

19 facts from 7 official pages · last checked 14 November 2026

Reviewed by Dennis Maaß, admission and immigration expert
Published 8 November 2026 · Last reviewed 8 November 2026

Key facts

Length, deadlines and costs

Language
English
Source
“All the courses and the Master's thesis of the EMR stream are offered in English”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Some elective modules of the Geoengineering stream are German-only; German courses at the RWTH Language Centre are free of charge for the programme's international students.

Study mode
On campus
Source
“Course location Aachen”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

The DAAD entry names Aachen as the course location and gives no online or hybrid mode of study for this programme.

Attendance
Full-time
Source
“full-time Programme duration 4 semesters”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Length
4 semesters
Source
“Programme duration 4 semesters”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Credits
120 ECTS
Source
“ECTS Credits 120”

www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/studium/Vor-dem-Studium/Studiengaenge/Liste-Aktuelle-Studiengaenge/Studiengangbeschreibung/Angewandte-Geowissenschaften-M-Sc-/~bnld/Angewandte-Geowissenschaften-M-Sc-/lidx/1/ · checked 7 November 2026

The page covers the M.Sc. Applied Geosciences as a whole; the five streams (AMC, CGG, EMR, FBG, GIN) are specialisations inside it and share these key figures. RWTH's key-info block for the programme.

Intakes
Winter, Summer
Source
“Beginning Winter and summer semester”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Non-EU deadline
1 Sept 2026 (summer 2027)The summer-semester deadline falls in the September before the intake.1 Mar 2027 (winter 2027)
Source
“The following is valid for applicants from: non-EU countries For the summer semester: until 1 September The following is valid for applicants from: EU countries Iceland Norway Liechtenstein For the winter semester: until 15 July The following is valid for applicants from: non-EU countries For the winter semester: until 1 March”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Open-admission master's deadlines: non-EU 1 March (winter) and 1 September (summer); EU/EEA 15 July and 15 January. A standing annual deadline; no page prints the literal 2027 dates.

Non-EU tuition
None
Source
“Tuition fees per semester None”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/6318 · checked 7 November 2026

North Rhine-Westphalia charges no tuition at public universities; the fee-based programmes of RWTH International Academy and RWTH Business School are the exception and carry their own tuition on the programme.

Application fee
Not stated by the university
2 pages checked, 14 Nov 2026

RWTH publishes no application fee for its faculty (non-fee-paying) master's programmes and does not use uni-assist; RWTH International Academy states 'no application fee' for its own programmes and RWTH Business School charges 50 EUR. No reachable RWTH page states the position for the faculty programmes.

Places
Unrestricted
Source
“Admission to First Semester Open (No NC)”

www.rwth-aachen.de/cms/root/studium/Vor-dem-Studium/Studiengaenge/Liste-Aktuelle-Studiengaenge/Studiengangbeschreibung/Angewandte-Geowissenschaften-M-Sc-/~bnld/Angewandte-Geowissenschaften-M-Sc-/lidx/1/ · checked 7 November 2026

"Open (No NC)" is RWTH's wording for zulassungsfrei: every applicant who meets the requirements is admitted. The page covers the M.Sc. Applied Geosciences as a whole; the five streams (AMC, CGG, EMR, FBG, GIN) are specialisations inside it and share these key figures.

Admission

What you need to apply

3-year bachelor’s
Accepted
Source
“with at least 180 ECTS”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

A 180-ECTS three-year bachelor's is explicitly enough: the rules set 180 ECTS as the floor, not 210 or 240. What has to be shown on top of it is subject coverage.

Subject background
A bachelor of science or engineering with at least 180 ECTS, of which at least 20 ECTS in the natural sciences and at least 80 ECTS in the geosciences plus at least 5 ECTS of geoscientific field education; alternatively the second profile the page defines for the EMR stream.
Source
“Bachelor of Science or Engineering with at least 180 ECTS and at least 20 ECTS from natural sciences (biology, chemistry, mathematics and/or physics) at least 80 ECTS from geosciences (e.g. geology, mineralogy, geochemistry, crystallography, geoengineering) at least 5 ECTS from geoscientific field education”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

Minimum grade
Not stated by the university
1 page checked, 7 Nov 2026

No minimum grade or GPA is stated for the Applied Geosciences streams.

How your grade is converted
Not stated by the university
2 pages checked, 14 Nov 2026

No admission grade-conversion formula is published on any page that could be fetched; RWTH does not use uni-assist, which would otherwise convert the grade.

English
Level B2. IELTS 6 · TOEFL band 4. Cambridge: B2 First. UNIcert II. The TOEFL iBT minimum is quoted on the post-2026 scale as 4 overall and 4 in each of reading, listening, speaking and writing.
Source
“B2 required, please provide an official language certificate, e.g.: UNIcert® English: UNIcert® II”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

The TOEFL iBT Home Edition and the Duolingo English Test are not mentioned. The score order differs between the five stream pages, so the quote is taken from each stream's own page.

German
Not needed when applying
Source
“German language skills No minimum language level required”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/4570 · checked 7 November 2026

DAAD's own field for this programme; RWTH asks for no German certificate at application or enrolment.

GRE / GMAT / GATE
Not stated by the university
1 page checked, 7 Nov 2026

No GRE or GMAT is mentioned for the Applied Geosciences streams.

Selection
Not stated by the university
1 page checked, 7 Nov 2026

No interview, aptitude test or extra selection step is stated; the examination board checks the subject profile.

India, Pakistan, Nigeria

Rules for applicants from India, Pakistan and Nigeria

English test waiver
Not stated by the university
2 pages checked, 8 Nov 2026

The only exemption RWTH publishes covers a high-school diploma or academic degree obtained in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United States, and the same page adds that citizenship alone never exempts, so it reaches no applicant from India, Nigeria or Pakistan. The § 3 Abs. 9 ÜPO list does include a certificate from the school education required by law, but the binding Übergreifende Prüfungsordnung (Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2026/172, § 3 Abs. 9 h) accepts it only where it was acquired in a country that is a member of the Council of Europe and expressly certifies English at B2, which rules out school certificates from India, Nigeria and Pakistan; the central table's English wording leaves that condition out. RWTH publishes the table "ohne Gewähr", and § 3 Abs. 9 Satz 4 ÜPO lets a programme's own examination regulations add a route — the examination board checking a bachelor's thesis or seminar paper written in English, as the Data Science regulations do — so without that programme-specific PDF the position stays not stated rather than "none".

Rules that name these countries
None named on the pages checked

The rules for your country across all universities, and the visa rules on English tests, are on the India, Pakistan and Nigeria pages.

More on this programme

Every value was read on an official page and is stored with a verbatim quote; open “Source” to see it. “Not stated by the university” means none of the pages we checked says, and lists those pages. Rules change: confirm with the university before you apply or pay.