- English-taught
- Winter & summer intake
Sustainable Urban Development (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.
TU Darmstadt's flagship urban-development master, run as a joint degree with the Vietnamese German University in Ho Chi Minh City and offering study-abroad options. It complements TU Berlin's urban-planning cluster with a sustainability and Global-South focus. Rated 4.3/5 with 100% recommendation on StudyCheck (n=6) — well above the university average — with reviewers valuing practical modules such as waste management, life-cycle assessment and GIS.
Admission requirements
- Prior degree
- Bachelor in urban planning, civil/environmental engineering, or a 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
| 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
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
Six StudyCheck reviewers rate the programme 4.3/5 with 100% recommendation — well above the TU Darmstadt university average. Teaching staff, organisation and access to literature score highest. The programme runs as a joint degree with the Vietnamese German University in Ho Chi Minh City, and reviewers value the practical, transferable modules most — waste management, life-cycle assessment and GIS are singled out as foundations that serve both academic and professional work. The honest criticism is curricular rather than institutional: some modules overlap in content, and at least one is felt to be more technical than the programme's planning focus warrants.
Liked
- 100% recommendation across six reviewers
- Teaching staff, organisation and literature access rate highest
- Practical modules (waste management, life-cycle assessment, GIS) valued as directly transferable
- Joint-degree option with the Vietnamese German University, Ho Chi Minh City
Criticised
- Some modules overlap in content
- At least one module felt more technical than the programme's planning focus warrants
Where graduates go
No alumni outcome data found yet.
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