University of Greifswald charges no tuition fees for Bachelor's degree courses and most Master's degree courses, for EU and non-EU students alike, because Mecklenburg-Vorpommern funds the university as a public institution. A small number of continuing-education Master's programmes can carry a separate fee.

What every student pays is the semester fee, and unlike many German universities it does not fund a nationwide Deutschlandticket: the fee is 127.00 EUR for re-registration or 152.00 EUR on first enrolment, made up mostly of the mandatory Studierendenwerk contribution and a small student-body fee.

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.

These are the deadlines the University of Greifswald publishes for applicants without EU/EEA citizenship. Unlike many universities, Greifswald's non-EU deadline matches its EU deadline for almost every degree course; the one clear exception is a single Master's programme with a much earlier cutoff.

Deadlines shown are for winter semester 2026/2027 and summer semester 2027. Restricted-admission programmes and Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy for EU/EEA applicants follow separate windows, partly administered through the Stiftung für Hochschulzulassung (hochschulstart.de).

Through uni-assist, the shared application portal used by most German universities, so an application is subject to uni-assist's own processing fee (about 75 EUR for a first application, 30 EUR for each further one) on top of anything the university itself charges. Documents are checked twice: once by uni-assist for formal eligibility, and once by the University of Greifswald's International Office for subject-specific requirements.

Open the application procedure page at uni-greifswald.de

University of Greifswald offers 6 degree programmes taught fully in English, spread across the Faculty of Theology, the Faculty of Law and Economics, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences; most are Master's programmes rather than Bachelor's. The English-taught programmes can be studied without German, though everyday German still helps with housing, part-time work and the authorities in a small city where English is less commonly spoken outside the university.

IELTS, TOEFL and TOEIC are all accepted, and the required CEFR level depends on the specific subject rather than a single university-wide score, ranging from A2 for a few Bachelor's subjects up to B2 for most Master's programmes.

A secondary school leaving certificate or university degree earned in English in one of the countries above is also accepted as proof of English. Check the exact subject requirement before booking a test.

The winter semester formally begins on 1 October, but lectures do not start until 12 October 2026, so plan to be in Greifswald a few weeks earlier for city registration, a bank account and a room in a small city with a tight rental market.

Germany's fourth oldest university and one of the oldest in Europe, founded in 1456 in the Hanseatic town of Greifswald on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, with teaching at Greifswald going back to 1436. Its strengths lie in medicine, the life sciences and Baltic Sea studies, and its plasma physics research benefits from the nearby Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.

Roughly two-thirds of its students come from outside the state, and international students arrive from around 90 countries. Its small, coastal setting means a shorter and cheaper commute to campus than in a large city, and ferries from the nearby coast connect onward to Sweden and other parts of Scandinavia.