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Master’s · Energy, Environment & Sustainability

European Mining Course (EMC) 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
“The courses and Master's thesis are offered in English”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

Study mode
On campus
Source
“Course location Aachen”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · 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/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

Length
4 semesters
Source
“Programme duration 4 semesters”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

Credits
Not stated by the university
2 pages checked, 7 Nov 2026

The total credit volume of the joint master's is not stated; the 180 ECTS refer to the first degree. The European Mining Course is a joint EIT RawMaterials degree coordinated by Aalto University and has no entry of its own in RWTH's list of 194 current degree programmes.

Intakes
Winter
Source
“Beginning Winter semester”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

Non-EU deadline
28 Feb 2027 (winter 2027)The page gives only the window 'January to February', so the date recorded is the end of February; no exact day is published.
Source
“The admission to European Mining Course is organised once a year. The application period for studies runs from January to February”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

A joint EIT-RawMaterials master's coordinated by Aalto University; admission runs once a year on the consortium's own calendar, not on RWTH's 1 March non-EU deadline.

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
Not stated by the university
3 pages checked, 14 Nov 2026

The European Mining Course is a joint EIT RawMaterials degree coordinated by Aalto University and has no entry of its own in RWTH's list of 194 current degree programmes. RWTH therefore publishes no admission-restriction status for it, and the consortium's own pages are not RWTH sources.

Admission

What you need to apply

3-year bachelor’s
Accepted
Source
“A BSc degree corresponding to a minimum of 180 ECTS credits is required”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

The clearest statement in this record: 180 ECTS is the minimum, so a three-year bachelor's is enough.

Subject background
A BSc corresponding to at least 180 ECTS in engineering or geosciences from a recognised degree-granting institution. Final-year bachelor's students may apply if the degree is completed by 31 July.
Source
“A BSc degree corresponding to a minimum of 180 ECTS credits is required. Students in their final year of their Bachelor's studies are eligible to apply”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · 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 6.5 · TOEFL iBT 92 · Home Edition accepted · PTE 62. Cambridge: C1 Advanced. TOEFL writing sub-score 22 required; the Home Edition is accepted at the same score.
Source
“C1 required, please provide an official language certificate, e.g.: IELTS Academic: 6.5 TOEFL iBT (before 2026): 92 Writing: 22 TOEFL iBT Home Edition (before 2026): 92 Writing: 22 Cambridge English Qualifications: C1 Advanced PTE Academic: 62”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

One of only two RWTH programmes in this record asking for C1 rather than B2, and one of the few that names the TOEFL iBT Home Edition as accepted. The Duolingo English Test is not mentioned.

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

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · 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
The awarding institution of the first degree must be a recognised part of the national education system, listed as a degree-granting higher education institution by its country or by an international organisation such as UNESCO.
Source
“The awarding institution has to be a recognised part of the official national education system of the country”

www2.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/international-programmes/en/detail/8481 · checked 7 November 2026

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.