Nothing in tuition for Bachelor's and consecutive (standard) Master's programmes, for EU and non-EU students alike, because Hesse does not charge tuition fees for these routes.

Every student also pays the semester contribution, which is not a fee for teaching and mainly consists of the Deutschlandticket for public transport across the whole country.

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.

THM applications for international (non-EU) applicants generally follow the standard uni-assist deadlines below. Requirements are set per programme, so restricted-admission (NC) programmes may have their own dates — check your specific programme page.

Through uni-assist. THM is listed on uni-assist's participating-universities list and accepts online applications for uni-assist's pre-check (VPD). Budget for the standard uni-assist processing fee of about 75 EUR for the first application and 30 EUR for each further one, and expect to submit certified copies to the university directly at a later stage in some cases.

Open the international applicants page at thm.de

THM runs 8 degree programmes fully in English, out of about 99 study programmes in total, concentrated in engineering and technology fields, alongside German-taught Bachelor's and Master's programmes across twelve departments.

Most English-taught programmes at applied-sciences universities of this type are at Master's level, so a Bachelor applicant will typically need German for the majority of the catalogue. The English-taught programmes can be studied without German, though everyday German still helps with housing, part-time work and the authorities.

The exact score is set per programme, so check your programme page before booking a test.

Work backwards from the lecture start rather than the semester start, and plan to be in Giessen a few weeks earlier for city registration, a bank account and a room.

Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen is a public university of applied sciences founded in 1971 (as Fachhochschule Gießen-Friedberg, renamed THM in 2010), and one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Germany, with campuses in Giessen, Friedberg and Wetzlar. Its focus is practice-oriented, technical degree courses across twelve departments, with particular strength in engineering, computer science and life sciences, complemented by the StudiumPlus dual-study programme run with regional companies.

Giessen and Friedberg sit close to the Frankfurt Rhine-Main region, which is useful for internships and working-student jobs, and THM cooperates closely with the neighbouring Justus Liebig University Giessen and Philipps University Marburg.