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Master’s · Architecture & Urban Planning

Transforming City Regions M.Sc.

RWTH Aachen University · Aachen · Official programme page

19 facts from 8 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
“Languages of instruction Main language English”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

Recorded from the DAAD/German Rectors' Conference database, the only source for this programme that could be fetched: RWTH's own programme page sits on the central CMS, whose firewall rejects the verifier's user-agent. RWTH lists the programme under its German name Stadtplanung M.Sc.; its own page confirms the teaching language as English and the start as the winter semester, which settles the "winter trimester" artefact in the HRK database.

Study mode
On campus
Source
“Location Aachen”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

The database names Aachen as the location and gives no online or hybrid mode.

Length
4 semesters
Source
“Standard period of study (amount) 4 semesters”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

Intakes
Winter
Source
“Admission only in the winter trimester”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

The database says 'winter trimester', which is a database artefact: RWTH runs semesters.

Non-EU deadline
1 Mar 2027 (winter 2027)
Source
“Deadlines for Applicants from Non-EU/EEA Countries … Open admission March 1 (for exemptions, see below) September 1 (for exemptions, see below)”

www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/dqml/lidx/1 · checked 7 November 2026

RWTH's university-wide master's deadlines for non-EU/EEA applicants, applied because the programme page records this programme as "Open (No NC)". EU/EEA applicants have 15 July and 15 January. Applicants already enrolled at RWTH, and holders of a relevant German degree, also get 15 July / 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 modus Without admission restriction”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

Admission

What you need to apply

3-year bachelor’s
Not stated by the university
2 pages checked, 14 Nov 2026

No credit or duration floor for the first degree is stated in the only source that could be fetched. The subject-specific examination regulations, which would settle it, are German-only PDFs on RWTH's central CMS. RWTH's own programme page states only "First university degree, required qualifications according to the examination regulations" and refers to the course-of-study-specific examination regulations, which set no credit floor on the page itself.

Subject background
A university degree plus subject-specific training according to the subject-specific examination regulations, and knowledge of English.
Source
“1. University degree, subject-specific training according to subject-specific examination regulations Knowledge of English”

www.daad.de/en/studying-in-germany/universities/all-degree-programmes/detail/rwth-aachen-university-transforming-city-regions-w64414/?hec-id=w64414 · checked 14 November 2026

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.. Exemption: A high-school diploma or academic degree from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the United States. Citizenship alone is not an exemption, and § 3 Abs. 10 has no school-certificate route.
Source
“Transforming City Regions M.Sc. English - § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO … English § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO a) Test of English as Foreign Language (TOEFL) Internet-based Test (IBT) with a result of at least 100 points or a total score of 5 b) IELTS test with a score of at least 7.0 c) Cambridge Test - C1 Advanced d) Cambridge Test - c2 Proficiency f) Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic with a result of at least 70 points g) UNIcert III or higher i) Placement test of the RWTH Language Center with the level C1.1.1 or higher”

www.rwth-aachen.de/global/show_document.asp?id=aaaaaaaaabpixuo · checked 7 November 2026

Level § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO — RWTH's higher C1 requirement, asked by only a handful of programmes. Unlike the B2 level, it has no school-certificate route, so a test is effectively unavoidable. RWTH-wide rule: Please also note that RWTH does not accept TOEFL MyBest scores. The required minimum TOEFL score must be achieved in a single test session. The Duolingo English Test appears nowhere in RWTH's language-requirement table.

German
Not needed when applying
Source
“Transforming City Regions M.Sc. English - § 3 Abs. 10 ÜPO”

www.rwth-aachen.de/global/show_document.asp?id=aaaaaaaaabpixuo · checked 7 November 2026

RWTH's language-requirement table is the authoritative per-programme list, and for Transforming City Regions M.Sc. it records an English requirement only, with no German entry. The table also sets out the German exemptions, none of which is needed here.

GRE / GMAT / GATE
Not stated by the university
1 page checked, 14 Nov 2026

No GRE or GMAT is mentioned.

Selection
Not stated by the university
1 page checked, 14 Nov 2026

No interview or aptitude procedure is stated.

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

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 — so in practice a test is unavoidable. The exemption RWTH publishes on its central page covers a high-school diploma or academic degree obtained 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 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.