At a glance

Language: English-taught
Duration: 4 sem
Intake: Winter & summer
Tuition: €0 public university
Semester fee: not confirmed

● Closed for this intake All applicants · Winter semester 15 May 2026 The window usually repeats next cycle; the full deadline table below shows every route and date.

TU Berlin's English-taught, practice-oriented computer science master with a flexible module system and named specialization 'tracks' that earn an additional certificate — and a highly international cohort. Based at TU Berlin's Charlottenburg campus, with Berlin's tech and startup scene (Europe's largest) directly on the doorstep for working-student roles and thesis partners. Unlike RWTH and KIT, there is no German-language twin master to confuse it with: the English Computer Science M.Sc. is TU Berlin's CS master.

Admission requirements

Prior degree: Bachelor in Computer Science or closely related (subject fit assessed via the mandatory Suitability Assessment Form if your bachelor's was not CS at TU Berlin)
Minimum grade: not confirmed
English: B2 CEFR — but with a raised bar: IELTS 6.5 overall required (TU Berlin's own rule, even though 5.5 nominally certifies B2) / TOEFL iBT 90; onSET, TU Berlin ZEMS certificates and the DAAD form also accepted
German: not required
Also required: Restricted admission (NC) — competitive selection. Apply via uni-assist (foreign first degree); from summer semester 2026 a VPD (Vorprüfungsdokumentation) requested from uni-assist specifically for TU Berlin is required. uni-assist fee €75 first application / €30 each additional. Only ONE master's application per semester is considered at TU Berlin. APS certificate required for Indian applicants. An aggregator cites ~12% acceptance — indicative of genuine selectivity, not an official figure.

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
All applicants	Winter semester	15 May 2026 closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window	15 May — TU Berlin's deadline for restricted (NC) English-taught master's, two full months before Germany's 'standard' 15 July. Same date for EU and non-EU applicants (unlike RWTH/TUM); the uni-assist VPD adds effective lead time, so start earlier.
All applicants	Summer semester	15 January 2027	Same date for EU and non-EU applicants.

Fees & funding

Tuition: €0 per semester
Semester contribution: not confirmed
Semester ticket: included (Deutschland-Semesterticket)

€0 tuition for all students, including non-EU/EEA — Berlin is a city-state that charges no tuition. Semester contribution ≈€280/semester, but no hard total is published here: the Deutschlandsemesterticket portion (€208.80, WS 2025/26 onward) is confirmed system-wide, while the Studierendenwerk and student-body components are pending TU Berlin-specific confirmation. The contribution includes the nationwide Deutschlandsemesterticket (all Berlin ABC zones plus regional transport across Germany, delivered digitally in the S-Bahn Berlin app and re-fetched every month) — confirm the current arrangement at tu.berlin. The ticket price is recalculated from 1 July 2026 and may rise for WS 2026/27.

Scholarships are listed per university: see TU Berlin scholarships.

How to apply

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

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.

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