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  • English-taught
  • Winter & summer intake

Information and Communication Engineering (iCE) (M.Sc.)

at TU Darmstadt in Darmstadt

At a glance

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

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

A research-oriented master explicitly built for international students, covering communications and coding theory, signal and image processing, and microelectronic implementation. Students benefit from TU Darmstadt's proximity to Frankfurt (30 minutes by train) for internships, industry events, and career connections. Rated 4.4/5 with 100% recommendation on StudyCheck (small sample, n=3).

Admission requirements

Prior degree
Bachelor in electrical engineering, communications or a closely related field
Minimum grade
not confirmed
English
TOEFL, IELTS, UNIcert or TOEIC accepted (a notably broad list — TOEIC is rarely accepted elsewhere).Aggregator figures cluster around IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL iBT 92; exact official per-programme threshold not confirmed.
German
not required
Also required
Assessment of Suitability (Eignungsfeststellung) — department-specific criteria; capacity limit not confirmed for this programme. APS required for Indian applicants.

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 closed for this intake; next cycle usually repeats the same window 15 July, same for EU and non-EU applicants. Many TU Darmstadt programmes carry an Ausschlussfrist (cut-off deadline) — miss it and you are excluded from the procedure entirely, with no discretion; confirm whether this programme is marked as one.
All applicants Summer semester 15 January, same for EU and non-EU applicants. Many TU Darmstadt programmes carry an Ausschlussfrist (cut-off deadline) — miss it and you are excluded from the procedure entirely, with no discretion; confirm whether this programme is marked as one.

Fees & funding

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

€0 tuition for all students — Hesse does not charge non-EU tuition. Semester contribution ≈€288 WS 2026/27 (AStA breakdown confirmed to the cent for the last published update; the €176.40 Deutschlandsemesterticket portion recalculates from 1 July 2026, so the WS 2026/27 total may be higher — re-verify before publishing a hard figure). Ticket is the nationwide Deutschlandsemesterticket, delivered digitally, and includes Frankfurt (regional/S-Bahn, not ICE).

Scholarships are listed per university: see TU Darmstadt scholarships.

How to apply

uni-assist
not required
Application portal
www.tucan.tu-darmstadt.de
Official page
www.tu-darmstadt.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.

4.2 /5

A small but uniformly positive sample: three StudyCheck reviewers average 4.4/5 and all would recommend the programme. Students describe it as demanding and genuinely rewarding, rating facilities, organisation and access to literature as its strongest aspects. The research orientation — communications and coding theory, signal and image processing, microelectronic implementation — matches the department's own framing of the programme as built for students seeking an international profile.

Liked

  • 100% recommendation across the sample
  • Facilities, organisation and literature access rate highest
  • Research-oriented curriculum matches its international-student framing

Criticised

  • Demanding workload
  • Small review sample — provisional rating

Where graduates go

No alumni outcome data found yet.

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