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  • German required · CEFR B2
  • Winter semester intake

M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.)

at LUH in Hannover

⚠ This programme is taught in German. CEFR B2 is required before enrolment. That is upper-intermediate German, proven by an accepted certificate before enrolment.

At a glance

Language
German-taught
Duration
4 sem 120 ECTS
Intake
Winter semester
Tuition
€0 public university
Semester fee
€453.16

● Open: apply now Non-EU applicants · Winter semester

This programme is taught in German. German B2 is required for the application process and C1 for enrolment. LUH's flagship engineering faculty, and its own admission page directly contradicts aggregator claims of "English-taught" — the clearest confirmed language correction in this LUH dataset. Requires a 20-week internship before the thesis. Hannover hosts the Hannover Messe annually in April — the world's largest industrial trade fair — giving LUH students local access to 6,500+ exhibitors and direct industry networking opportunities. LUH's location near Continental and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles gives this programme genuine regional industry relevance.

Admission requirements

Prior degree
not confirmed
Minimum grade
not confirmed
English
not confirmed
German
German B2 required for the application process, C1 for enrolment — confirmed directly on LUH's Faculty of Mechanical Engineering page.
Also required
Admission type not confirmed. Structure includes a 20-week internship (Praktikum) required before the thesis — a real, unusual requirement worth budgeting time for.

Deadlines & timeline

Deadlines differ by where your degree is from. Dates change every cycle, so always confirm on the official page before planning. Where no fixed calendar date exists or none is confirmed yet, the Details column explains each case.
Who Intake Deadline Details
Non-EU applicants Winter semester Non-EU/EEA-degree holders close six weeks earlier than EU applicants because a uni-assist VPD must be obtained first (itself taking weeks) — start the VPD process well before this date.
EU / German-degree applicants Winter semester EU/EEA-degree holders (and holders of a German degree) apply directly in the LUH portal, no VPD required.

Fees & funding

Tuition
€0 per semester
Semester contribution
€453.16
Semester ticket
included (Deutschland-Semesterticket)

Leibniz Universität Hannover is a Lower Saxony public university — €0 tuition for all students, including non-EU. The semester contribution is €453.16 (WS 2026/27, confirmed on LUH's own Rückmeldung page) — the highest in Germany, but roughly €270 of it funds the Deutschlandsemesterticket (nationwide regional transport, historically very wide-reaching to Kassel, Bielefeld, Lübeck, Hamburg and Bremen, plus 30 free sprintRad bike-share minutes per trip in Hannover), with the remainder covering Studierendenwerk and student-body fees. No application fee to LUH, but a non-EU/EEA degree requires a uni-assist VPD (€75 for the first application). The AStA offers interest-free loans for the semesters when the contribution falls due. Fully exempt on an approved leave semester (Beurlaubung).

Scholarships are listed per university: see LUH scholarships.

How to apply

uni-assist
required (the deadline table shows who this applies to)
Application portal
www.uni-hannover.de
Official page
www.maschinenbau.uni-hannover.de

EU applicants and holders of German degrees usually apply directly via the university's Campusportal instead of uni-assist; the deadline table above says which route applies to you.

What students say

Via StudyCheck · 2024-2026: an aggregated rating, not our own assessment, paraphrased in our own words and never quoted.

3.9 /5

LUH's best-covered master's on this platform and the only LUH programme to clear the ≥3-review threshold — 31 reviews with a perfect 100% recommendation rate (the individual star value was not captured, so no rating is shown). This is consistent with the wider LUH pattern: reviews accumulate on the German-taught engineering programmes, not the newer English ones. Note the language: Mechanical Engineering is confirmed German-taught (B2 to apply, C1 to enrol), so these reviews describe LUH's German route, not an English-taught option.

Liked

  • Perfect 100% recommendation rate across 31 reviews
  • LUH's most consistently reviewed master's programme

Criticised

  • Star rating value not captured in this research pass
  • German-taught — not an English-taught route; requires German B2 to apply, C1 to enrol

Where graduates go

No alumni outcome data found yet.

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