Study in Germany for free - Application Process

Hello everyone! Hopefully, you all are good. This blog is going to be very important for those people who are planning to apply to Germany for higher education.

 

So take out some time for today's blog and make sure to read it till the end because it includes many things that might help you in future since the blog is on education. 

So let me tell you my educational qualifications. 

Introduction

I did a bachelor's engineering from NUST university and then I completed my master's degree in Energy science and technology from Ulm University, Germany. 

I am sitting right in front of my university. There it is let's go inside sunshine is quite strong here. 

So after completing my master's, I am now working in the fuel cell development and testing field the information that I am about to give you now is based on my personal experiences. 

let's talk about it in detail but not here let's go home without wasting any time let's begin The first thing you need to know before applying to German universities is the type of universities One is public and the other is private.

Expenses

The fees of Public universities is almost close to 0 each semester you only have to pay between 150 - 300 euros. 

It varies according to the university in case of private universities here you have to pay quite a bit of money. 

 

The fees vary according to the course and university usually its much higher than public universities also in public universities there is one exceptional case. 

In Germany there are different provinces like Bayern, Baden, Hessen, etc.. other than Baden Wuerttemberg all other provinces offers almost free education but in Baden Wuerttemberg, you have to pay around 1500-2000 euros each semester also in public universities as well. 

So if you get admission in this province you have to pay this fees even in public universites ( its still cheaper than private unversities fees).

I thought of telling this in advance in case to avoid any confusing When I was studying here (2 years ago) they charged me only 160 euros per semester but now the same exact university is charging the students 1500 euros per semester.

 

German Education System

Next comes the German Education System, It's quite important to understand this that higher education (known as hochshule) consist of two main sub-branches.

 

First comes the fachhochschule (Technical college) and the other is universität/ technische universität in fachhochschule.

The course curriculum is oriented more towards the practical side.

It includes compulsory interships as well. So the course try to link you more to industury while the courses in universities/ technische universities are more research oriented courses.

So if you are planning to apply for a phD after completing your masters then I would recommend you to apply in universität/ technische. 

 

It's gonna be easier for you to get a phD after that compare to that of fachhochshule Fachhochschule give you the Master in Engineering degree while universität/ technische universität give you the master of science degree. 

Type Of University

So now that you know which type of university you want to apply in next comes where to find your course related universities.

I looked it up from the website known as daad here you can search for different universities.

 

let me give you the practical demo how to search uni's using DAAD website.

Start with opening the website convert it in to english language I guess most people would be more convenient with it.

Next click on the study programmes in Germany and enter the keyword for the course that you want to apply in.

It will show you all related courses. I studied in energy and here you go you can see the courses you can add filters aswell like click on masters if you want to apply in masters.

Also you choose the field of study engineering or natural science or any other infact ofcourse it depends on you which field you want to go.

 

You can choose the specific area you want to study in next comes the courses language. 

If you want to choose the german course you must have certain knowledge of german language there are also different levels starting from A1 to C1. 

Documents Required

It depends on the requirement of the university that how many levels they need most people to come from. 

Asian countries prefer to study in the English language since their prior education is in English. 

 

Hence you can choose the English language course. So by adding different filters you will be able to find the desired course quite easily till then you must know how to search the universities let me take a breathe my throat is dry man shit my legs are numb going for a walk.

How To Apply

Okay, I am active again next step is how to apply to the university.

Keep that in mind that some universities will ask you to send your application documents directly.

Like what my university did after that they will check your documents and will inform you if you get the admission or not.

While some universities won't directly take your documents they ask you to send your documents via Uni assist will take your documents and will match it with the requirements of the university.

If your application matches the requirements of the university only then Uni assist will forward your documents to the university.

Uni assist won't give you the admission only university will decide whether to give you the admission or not.

 

So uni-assist will simply take your application, verify it and will send it to the university this way universities will save themselves from useless applications and their processing will become much easier.

 

Fee of Uni-Assist

Around 65-75% of the German universities use this indirect process of application they just won't take your application directly since uni-assist doesn't belong to our uncle they will ask for the fees. 

They will charge you 75 euros when you apply to the first university via uni-assist if you apply to more than one university via uni-assist.

 

They will charge you 30 euros each afterwards suppose you applied in 5 universities via uni-assist for the 1st application they will charge you 75 euros and then for the second one they are going to charge you 30 euros each.

 

So you can go on applying to as many universities as you want via assistance it will cost you some you can send your application to as many universities as you want.

 

 

Final Documents Requirements

Now comes the next thing which the application requirements 75-85% German universities generally demands following application documents so listen to it carefully it's quite important.

 

Minimum Percentage to Study in Germany

The first thing of course they will look for your grades (degree/transcript) transcript generally includes the grades of each subject and the degree states the overall result many people ask these questions about the grades that if they have a lower GPA will be able to get the admission or not.

This I can't guarantee you only university can tell you this different university have different GPA requirements.

 

Some demands a 75% minimum GPA some demand more while others might demand less as well so it varies according to the universities of you have a 3.0+ GPA (75%).

 

It's usually good enough to get you admission don't worry if your grades aren't that good there are many other European countries as well whereGPAa requirements aren't that high... Like Spain, Norway, Italy, etc. (in case you weren't able to make it to german universities) because mostly german universities demand a good GPAcomparede to the rest of Europe but at the same time. 

I know many people whose GPA were less than 65-70% and they are still studying here in german universities.

 

Next comes the letter of motivation this is quite important here they want to know about your motivation to study this course.

 

What's your plans after you are done with the course or what are going to contribute after getting this degree what are you planning to learn from this course and what are you gonna do with it next why are you so motivated to learn this course.

 

So it's very important just to keep that in mind and put real focus while writing this 3rd thing would be the letter of recommendation this has to be written by your university prof. I would recommend you to get 3-4 letters of recommendation from different profs and to those professors who are at least PhD. (have a strong academic and research profile) so get it from those profs where your reputation is good.

 

LanguageTest (IELTS or TOEFL)

After that, you need a proof of language test most German universities demand IELTS/Toefl know your language skills slide requirements are shown in the slide. 

In case if you studied your past degree in the English language you might have a chance to get in the german university without giving IELTS/Toefl test. 

For that,t you have to get a letter from your university that your course was in the English language and then show that letter to the university you are applying to here in Germany but remember it won't work with every single university in Germany. 

 

Since most universities in Germany ask for IELTS or Toefl test even if your previous course was in the English language, so you have to check it with the university requirement where you are interested in applying.

 

Man I wish I would get this information before I was applying (Your welcome :D) Also add the internship experience if you have one and make sure to add the work experience since it also matters a lot, especially in case if your GPA is not that good.

 

So that was it for today's blog hopefully now you will have the general idea of many things to apply. 

I know you still might have a lot of questions in your mind so just write it down below in the comment section I am going to read it and will try to answer as soon as possible.