Hesse abolished tuition fees at its public universities in 2008, and Frankfurt UAS charges none for Bachelor's or consecutive Master's programmes, for EU and non-EU students alike. The one exception is its continuing-education Master's programmes, offered through the WAkE further-education unit (including the MBA and Sustainable Business Development), which set and charge their own fees separately from the semester contribution.

What every enrolled student pays instead is the semester contribution, and it is not a fee for teaching. For winter 2026/27 it is 406.78 EUR, of which 226.80 EUR is the Deutschlandticket, the nationwide public transport pass. The remainder funds the Studierendenwerk, the student body, legal expenses insurance, a bike-rental scheme and university administration. The amount is recalculated each semester.

No tuition does not mean no proof of funds. For the student visa you still need to show about 11,904 EUR for the year, usually in a blocked account, and that money has to be transferred months before the semester starts.

Frankfurt UAS does not publish a separate set of deadlines for non-EU applicants: both EU and non-EU applicants with a foreign qualification apply through uni-assist and appear to face the same dates, so the table below states the one set of deadlines the university publishes rather than implying a non-EU-only date exists. Deadlines vary sharply by degree level, language of instruction and individual programme, and English-taught Master's programmes close far earlier than the German-taught catalogue.

Deadlines are final; late or incomplete applications are not considered through uni-assist. Individual faculties or programmes may set additional requirements.

Through uni-assist e.V., which pre-checks your university entrance qualification for a handling fee of about 75 EUR for the first application and about 30 EUR for each further one. You apply through the My.uni-assist portal, answer the mandatory questions, and submit your documents digitally; nothing needs to be posted separately. Once uni-assist forwards your application, Frankfurt UAS opens an account for you in its own system, FranCa, usually within a week, where you track the decision.

Open the international admissions page at frankfurt-university.de

Frankfurt UAS names its own count rather than leaving it to a directory: five Master's degree programmes are taught entirely in English — Advanced Architecture, Electrical Engineering (Renewable Energy), Global Logistics, High Integrity Systems, and Information Technology — concentrated in engineering, architecture and IT. No Bachelor's programme is taught entirely in English; a handful of German-taught Bachelor's programmes (for example International Business Administration and International Finance) additionally require English at B1 or B2 level alongside the standard German C1 requirement. Applicants targeting one of the five English-taught Master's programmes can study without German, though everyday German still helps with housing, part-time work and the authorities.

Frankfurt UAS does not run one central IELTS/TOEFL scale the way many universities do. German proficiency is the primary requirement for almost every programme; English is only an additional requirement for a specific list of Bachelor's programmes, set at CEFR level rather than a named test score, and each of the five English-taught Master's programmes publishes its own accepted certificates and scores in a separate PDF rather than on the central page. If your prior degree's language of instruction already matches the language required, uni-assist can waive the additional certificate after verifying it.

The exact score and accepted test are set per programme, so check the linked PDF or the programme page before booking a test.

Work backwards from the lecture start rather than the semester start. The winter semester formally begins on 1 October, but lectures start on 12 October 2026, and you want to be in Frankfurt a few weeks before that for city registration, a bank account and a room.

One of Germany's largest universities of applied sciences, founded on 1 August 1971 from older engineering, business and social-work schools whose roots go back to 1908, and based on a compact urban campus at Nibelungenplatz in central Frankfurt. Its four faculties, Architecture / Civil Engineering / Geomatics, Computer Science and Engineering, Business and Law, and Social Work and Health, are taught with a strong practical orientation: mandatory internships, applied projects and theses done in cooperation with companies.

Its location matters for an international student specifically, since Frankfurt is Germany's banking and financial capital, home to the European Central Bank and the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which makes internships and working-student jobs in finance, IT and logistics unusually easy to find nearby.