Goethe University Frankfurt charges no tuition fees for its regular degree programmes, for EU and non-EU students alike, as is the rule at public universities in Hesse.

Every student pays the semester contribution of 408.28 EUR for winter 2026/27. Of that, 226.80 EUR is the Deutschland-Semesterticket, which covers public transport across Germany.

No tuition does not mean no proof of funds. For the student visa you still 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.

Applicants with a foreign school certificate apply for Bachelor's and State Examination programmes through uni-assist; most Master's applications also go through uni-assist. Master's deadlines are set per programme and are the same for all applicants. Medicine, dentistry and pharmacy are allocated nationally through the Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung.

Twenty programmes, all at Master level (winter deadline in brackets):

• American Studies (M.A., 31 May)
• Anglophone Literatures, Cultures and Media (M.A., 31 May)
• Atmospheric and Climate Sciences (M.Sc., 31 August)
• Biochemistry (M.Sc., 15 August)
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health (M.Sc., 31 May)
• Comparative Democracy (M.A., 15 May)
• Interdisciplinary Neuroscience (M.Sc., 15 March)
• International Economics and Economic Policy (M.Sc., 15 May)
• Linguistics (M.A., 31 August)
• Management Science (Master, 15 May)
• Modern East Asian Studies (M.A., 15 August)
• Molecular Biosciences (M.Sc., 31 May)
• Molecular Medicine (M.Sc., 31 May)
• Money, Macro and Finance (M.Sc., 15 May)
• Physical Biology of Cells and Cell Interactions (M.Sc., 31 May)
• Quantitative Economics (Master, 31 May; apply via the department)
• Quantitative Finance (Master, 31 May; apply via the department)
• Quantitative Marketing (Master, 31 May; apply via the department)
• Science and Technology Studies: Economies, Governance, Life (M.A., 15 May)
• Southeast Asian Studies (M.A., 31 July)

Eight further Master's programmes are taught partly in English.

Goethe University Frankfurt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a public university in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. It was founded in 1914, has 40,749 students, and offers programmes in the humanities, social sciences, economics, natural and life sciences and medicine.