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Chemistry (Chemie) (M.Sc.)

at RWTH Aachen in Aachen

At a glance

Language
Bilingual
Duration
4 sem 120 ECTS
Intake
Winter & summer
Tuition
€0 public university
Semester fee
€375.19

● Closed for this intake Non-EU applicants · Winter semester The window usually repeats next cycle; the full deadline table below shows every route and date.

Focus areas: Four concentration directions, of which two are chosen, each with compulsory and elective modules

Offered by the Chemistry Department in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Natural Sciences (5,253 students in WS 2025/26), this master deliberately gives a broad education — with overlap into physics and the life sciences — rather than an early narrow specialization, keeping later research paths open. Students choose two of four concentration directions, each mixing compulsory and elective modules.

Admission requirements

Prior degree
First university degree in chemistry, with roughly 137 CP across mathematics, physics, general/inorganic/physical/organic chemistry, spectroscopy and computational chemistry
Minimum grade
Open admission (no NC); the examination board decides eligibility
English
English proficiency at CEFR B2 via the General Examination Regulations.
German
German proficiency required — the RWTH page states proficiency in German and English is needed. The specific level is not published.
Prerequisite credits
  • Chemistry-specific credit thresholds per the examination regulations
Also required
Master's applicants — EU and non-EU alike — apply directly via RWTHonline. RWTH verifies foreign documents internally: no uni-assist, no VPD, no application fee. Applicants may apply to at most 10 Master's programmes. APS certificate required for applicants from China, India and Vietnam.

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 closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window Non-EU / foreign-degree applicants. Supporting-document deadline for restricted-admission subjects: 1 August.
EU / German-degree applicants Winter semester closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window EU/EEA applicants, current RWTH students and holders of a German degree.
Non-EU applicants Summer semester Non-EU / foreign-degree applicants. Supporting-document deadline for restricted-admission subjects: 1 February.
EU / German-degree applicants Summer semester EU/EEA applicants, current RWTH students and holders of a German degree.

Fees & funding

Tuition
€0 per semester
Semester contribution
€375.19
Semester ticket
included (Deutschland-Semesterticket)

€0 tuition for all students including non-EU/EEA — RWTH is an NRW public university and states it does not charge tuition to international students from non-EU countries. Semester contribution €375.19 for WS 2026/27 (Mobilitätsbeitrag €234.57 including the Deutschlandsemesterticket plus the Zuid-Limburg/NL extension, Sozialbeitrag €128.00, Studierendenschaftsbeitrag €12.62). This WS 2026/27 total is reconstructed from official components rather than published by RWTH as a single figure; the fully confirmed figure is €338.05 for WS 2025/26 (RWTH Amtliche Bekanntmachung 2025/177). Semester ticket included: the mobility component funds the Deutschlandsemesterticket plus Arriva buses and regional trains in South Limburg (NL).

Scholarships are listed per university: see RWTH Aachen scholarships.

How to apply

uni-assist
not required
Application portal
online.rwth-aachen.de
Official page
www.rwth-aachen.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.

4 /5

Thirteen master-level reviews, 92 percent recommending, sitting at roughly 4.0 out of 5 (the page did not render an explicit star figure at the time of checking, so treat the rating as approximate). Reviewers like the flexibility of choosing two of four concentration directions, each mixing compulsory and elective modules, and rate the digital infrastructure and early, extensive laboratory practice highly. The laboratories also drive the main complaint: they eat enough time to make a side job hard, and organisation is sometimes criticised.

Liked

  • Reliable digital infrastructure (RWTHonline and Moodle)
  • Early and extensive laboratory practice
  • Broad choice of modules across four concentration directions

Criticised

  • Laboratories demand enough time to make side jobs difficult
  • Organisation sometimes criticised

Where graduates go

No alumni outcome data found yet.

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