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Master’s · Biotechnology & Bioengineering

Biomedical Engineering M.Sc.

RWTH Aachen University · Aachen · Official programme page

19 facts from 9 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 courses are held in English including the internship and the Master's thesis”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

Study mode
On campus
Source
“Course location Aachen”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · 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/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

Length
4 semesters
Source
“Programme duration 4 semesters”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

Credits
120 ECTS
Source
“120 ECTS credits will be required”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

Intakes
Winter
Source
“Beginning Winter semester”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

Non-EU deadline
1 Mar 2027 (winter 2027)Applications open 1 December. EU applicants have until 15 July.
Source
“The following is valid for applicants from: non-EU countries For the winter semester: 1 December - 1 March”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

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

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

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/Biomedical-Engineering-M-Sc/~boky/Biomedical-Engineering-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.

Admission

What you need to apply

3-year bachelor’s
Case by case
Source
“Undergraduate degrees are only acceptable from universities that are accredited by the state in which the university is located or through officially recognised procedures”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

No total-ECTS or duration floor is set for the first degree; the gate is 90 CP of named subject content. The accreditation condition matters for applicants from private Indian, Nigerian or Pakistani institutions.

Subject background
An undergraduate degree in medicine, a bachelor of science or a bachelor of engineering from a state-accredited university, with 90 CP in engineering and mathematics/natural sciences, including at least 20 CP mathematics.
Source
“The educational requirements of the undergraduate degrees should include knowledge (90 credit points (CP) of the European Credit Transfer System) in the fields of Engineering, Mathematics / Natural Sciences”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · checked 7 November 2026

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

No minimum grade is stated.

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 C1. IELTS 7 · TOEFL iBT 100 · TOEFL band 5 · PTE 70. Cambridge: C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency. UNIcert III or higher, or the RWTH Language Center placement test at level C1.1.1 or higher (open only to students already enrolled at RWTH). The certificate must be no older than two years. DAAD adds TOEFL sub-scores: reading 29, listening 28, speaking 28, writing 29.. Exemption: The programme's examination regulations ask for the certificate only from applicants who did not obtain their study qualification at an exclusively English-language institution and did not learn English as a mother tongue. RWTH's central page publishes one exemption only — a study qualification or English-language degree earned in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United States — and says citizenship alone never exempts.
Source
“Für diesen Masterstudiengang ist die ausreichende Beherrschung der englischen Sprache nach § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO von Studienbewerberinnen und -bewerbern … (nicht älter als zwei Jahre) … englischsprachigen Einrichtung erworben oder Englisch als Muttersprache erlernt haben”
“Abweichend von Absatz 9 kann in den studiengangspezifischen Prüfungsordnungen … Sprache auf dem Kompetenzniveau C1 des … In diesem Fall werden folgende Nachweise anerkannt … von mindestens 100 Punkten oder Totalscore 5 … mindestens 7.0 … Cambridge Test – C1 Advanced … Cambridge Test – C2 Proficiency … Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic mit einem Ergebnis von mindestens 70 Punkten … UNIcert III oder höher … Einstufungstestergebnis des Sprachenzentrums der RWTH mit dem Niveau C1.1.1” page
“Biomedical Engineering M.Sc. English - § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO” page
“Applicants who have earned a high school diploma or academic degree in an English-speaking country are exempt from submitting proof of English language proficiency. This applies to qualifications obtained in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, or the United States.” page
“C2 required, please provide an official language certificate, e.g.: PTE Academic: 70 UNIcert® English: UNIcert® III IELTS Academic: 7 TOEFL iBT (before 2026): 100 Reading: 29 Listening: 28 Speaking: 28 Writing: 29 Cambridge English Qualifications: C1 Advanced” page

www.rwth-aachen.de/global/show_document.asp?id=aaaaaaaadispqkg · checked 8 November 2026

C1, from the binding text, not C2 from DAAD. The programme's own examination regulations (Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2025/445, § 3 Abs. 5) require English at the level of § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO, and the current Übergreifende Prüfungsordnung (Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2026/172, § 3 Abs. 10) defines that level as CEFR C1 with TOEFL iBT 100 or total score 5, IELTS 7.0, Cambridge C1 Advanced or C2 Proficiency, PTE Academic 70, UNIcert III and the RWTH placement test at C1.1.1. DAAD's entry, which RWTH writes itself, labels the same requirement "C2 required" but lists exactly those C1 scores, so the label is the error and the scores stand; RWTH's central language table also puts the programme at § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO. The two-year validity is in § 3 Abs. 5 of the programme regulations, which also confirms what the faculty page used to say: § 3 Abs. 10 lists no school certificate, so a school-leaving certificate cannot prove English here. Caution on the translation: RWTH's official English version of the regulations says applicants "who did not complete their prior education in English" must provide a certificate, which is wider than the binding German ("ausschließlich englischsprachigen Einrichtung"), and the same page states that only the German text has legal authority. RWTH-wide: TOEFL MyBest scores are not accepted and the Duolingo English Test appears nowhere.

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

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8549 · 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.

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

No interview or aptitude procedure is stated on the DAAD entry.

India, Pakistan, Nigeria

Rules for applicants from India, Pakistan and Nigeria

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

This programme sits at § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO (C1), whose list of accepted proofs contains no school certificate and no previous degree — only TOEFL, IELTS, Cambridge, PTE, UNIcert III and the RWTH placement test. Its own examination regulations (Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2025/445, § 3 Abs. 5) do carry a previous-education exemption: proof is required only of applicants who did not obtain their study qualification at an exclusively English-language institution ("an einer ausschließlich englischsprachigen Einrichtung") and did not learn English as a mother tongue. Two things stop that being recorded as a waiver for India, Nigeria and Pakistan: § 3 Abs. 12 ÜPO leaves the decision to the examination board together with the International Office, and no RWTH page says an Indian, Nigerian or Pakistani university counts — the central language page publishes one exemption only, a qualification or degree earned in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United States (§ 3 Abs. 8 Satz 3 ÜPO, which § 3 Abs. 10 applies as well), and adds that citizenship alone never exempts. RWTH's official English translation of the regulations is looser still — "Applicants who did not complete their prior education in English" — but the same PDF says only the German text has legal authority. Recorded as not stated, the stricter reading: an applicant who relies on the exemption and is refused has no test. The § 3 Abs. 9 ÜPO school-certificate option would not help either: the binding ÜPO accepts it only where the certificate 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.

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.