The University of Jena charges no tuition fees, for EU and non-EU students alike. One fee can still apply: students over the long-term study limit pay 500 EUR per semester.

Every student pays the semester contribution of 333.05 EUR for winter 2026/27, plus a one-off 20 EUR student card fee in the first semester. 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.

Non-EU Master applicants must apply three months earlier than German and EU applicants for the winter intake. Master applications open on 1 April (winter) and 1 December (summer); many Master programmes have no summer intake. Some programmes, such as MSc Photonics, use their own application route, so check the programme page.

19 programmes taught fully in English, all at Master level. They include:

• Applied Ethics and Conflict Management (M.A.)
• Computational and Data Science (M.Sc.)
• Economics (M.Sc.)
• Evolution, Ecology and Systematics (M.Sc.)
• History and Politics of the 20th Century (M.A.)
• International Organisations and Crisis Management (M.A.)
• Materials Sciences (M.Sc.)
• Medical Photonics (M.Sc.)
• Medieval Studies (M.A.)
• Molecular Life Sciences (M.Sc.)
• Molecular Medicine (M.Sc.)
• Photonics (M.Sc.)
• Physics (M.Sc.)
• Quantum Science and Technology (M.Sc.)

Further programmes are taught in English and German; check the teaching language on each programme page.

Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) is a public university in Jena, Thuringia. It was founded in 1558, has 16,106 students, and offers programmes in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine and optics and photonics.