German Sport University Cologne is a public university and charges no tuition fees for its Bachelor's and consecutive Master's programmes, for EU and non-EU students alike. Every student pays a semester contribution of 353.30 EUR for winter 2026/27, which includes a semester ticket for public transport. Only the part-time continuing-education Master's programmes charge fees, set per programme. Bachelor's applicants also pay 60 EUR for the sports aptitude test.

For your student visa you also need to show 11,904 EUR for the year, usually in a blocked account, and that money has to be transferred months before the semester starts.

Master's programmes start in winter only. Non-EU applicants must apply about six weeks earlier than EU applicants, and all documents, including the English certificate (C1: TOEFL iBT, IELTS Academic or Cambridge CAE) and certified translations, are due by 31 May. Applications go through the university's portal mySpoho. For the Bachelor's, you must pass the sports aptitude test before you apply; it takes place in May, with registration opening in March. Bachelor's applications also go through hochschulstart.de (DoSV).

Four programmes, all at Master's level: Sport Management (M.Sc.), Human Technology in Sports and Medicine (M.Sc.), Psychology in Sport and Exercise (M.Sc.) and International Sport Development and Politics (M.A.). They require English at C1. All Bachelor's programmes and the other Master's programmes are taught in German, and the Bachelor's programmes require German at C1.

German Sport University Cologne (Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln) is a public university in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, specialising in sport. It was founded in 1947 and has about 5,900 students from 93 countries, with programmes in sports science, sport management, sport journalism, health and therapy, sport psychology and teacher training.