Tuition applies at every level, because Frankfurt School is a private, state-recognised business school (a gGmbH) rather than a publicly funded university, and it is charged identically to EU and non-EU students alike.

There is no state semester contribution in the sense public universities charge one. Instead, students pay a one-time application fee of EUR 100 with every application, and an enrolment fee, due once on joining, that ranges from EUR 400 to EUR 600 depending on the programme.

Tuition here is never free, but you still need to show proof of funds for the student visa, about EUR 11,904 for the year, usually parked in a blocked account, separately from whatever you pay Frankfurt School.

Frankfurt School does not publish a separate, earlier deadline for non-EU applicants: the same date applies regardless of nationality on every programme checked, so there is no earlier cutoff to plan around, but also no later general deadline that international applicants can safely rely on.

Through Frankfurt School's own online application portal. Frankfurt School does not appear on uni-assist's list of participating universities, so there is no uni-assist account, but the school's own portal is not free either: a EUR 100 application fee applies before your documents are reviewed.

Application portal: frankfurt-school.de

Frankfurt School teaches 15 of its 21 degree programmes fully in English: all five full-time pre-experience Master's programmes (Finance, Management, Real Estate, Financial Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Data Science), all five MBA and Executive MBA programmes, the online Master of Leadership in Sustainable Finance, the doctoral programme, and two of the three Bachelor's programmes (Computational Business Analytics; Management, Philosophy & Economics). The third Bachelor's programme, Business Administration, is bilingual and can be completed entirely in English from the fourth semester onward. The German-only programmes sit mostly at part-time Master's level (Auditing, Mergers & Acquisitions, Banking & Capital Markets Law, Corporate Performance & Restructuring). You can study any of the English-taught programmes without German, though everyday German still helps with housing, part-time work and the authorities.

Requirements differ sharply by degree level. Bachelor applicants do not submit a certificate at all: English is tested inside Frankfurt School's own online Assessment Centre, and the school follows up individually only if a candidate doesn't meet the bar there. Master's applicants do need a certificate, typically IELTS Academic 7.0 or an equivalent TOEFL score, though this can be waived if your Bachelor's degree was itself taught fully in English.

Bachelor applicants sit an English test inside the Assessment Centre instead of submitting a certificate. Scores are otherwise set per programme, so check the programme page before booking a test.

Work backwards from the lecture start rather than the semester start: you want time in Frankfurt before teaching begins, for city registration, a bank account and a room.

Frankfurt is one of Germany's most expensive cities for housing. As a private-university student, you may not have the same automatic access to public Studierendenwerk halls that students at Goethe University or Frankfurt UAS have; Frankfurt School instead points students toward its own residence partners, including on-campus options and a partnership with a private student-housing provider.

The monthly payout from your blocked account is transferred to a German current account, which you open after you arrive.

Founded in 1957 as the Bankakademie and established under its current name in 2007, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management is a private, state-recognised, non-profit business school (gGmbH) holding triple accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS, a combination few German schools hold. Its academic focus sits entirely in finance, management, accounting, real estate and financial technology. Its Adickesallee campus, in Frankfurt's Nordend district, puts students a short ride from the European Central Bank, the German stock exchange and the country's largest banks, a proximity reflected in a placement record weighted toward banking and consulting careers. Frankfurt am Main is Germany's financial capital and one of its most international cities, and Frankfurt School also runs smaller study locations in Hamburg and Munich for selected programmes.