# M.Sc. Tropical Forestry (MSc) at TU Dresden Tropical and international forest management, taught at TU Dresden's Faculty of Environmental Sciences — the forestry faculty sits at the historic Tharandt campus outside the city, one of the oldest forestry schools in the world. This programme is not offered at any other TU9 university — TU Dresden's environmental sciences faculty is one of the few in Germany to offer tropical forestry at Master's level, and it draws a strongly international, Global-South cohort. University: Technische Universität Dresden (https://studygermany.dev/universities/tu-dresden.md) City: Dresden (https://studygermany.dev/cities/dresden.md) HTML page: https://studygermany.dev/programmes/tu-dresden-msc-tropical-forestry/ ## At a glance - Degree: MSc - Language of instruction: English - English requirement: IELTS 6.5 (6.0 per module) / TOEFL iBT 92 — the TU Dresden standard, confirmed on the Molecular Bioengineering application page. Confirm the exact threshold for this programme in SINS. - German requirement: not required — confirmed English-taught on TU Dresden's own MasterTag list. German is still worth learning for daily life and internships in Saxony. - ECTS: 120 - Duration: 4 semesters - Intake: Winter semester - Tuition: €0 per semester (public university) - Semester contribution: €361 - Semester ticket included: yes (Deutschland-Semesterticket) Fee notes: €0 tuition for all students, including non-EU — Saxony levies no general tuition; SächsHSG Art. 13 permits fees only for second degrees, long-term study and continuing education, none of which applies to a standard consecutive master's. Semester contribution €361.00 for WS 2026/27, confirmed to the component by the TU Dresden StuRa (≈€234 Deutschlandsemesterticket + €7.38 MOBIbike + ≈€14 StuRa + ≈€105 Studentenwerk Dresden). The ticket is the bundled, digital nationwide Deutschlandsemesterticket — it covers regional transport across Germany, including Dresden's DVB trams and buses and the wider VVO regional network, but not ICE/IC/EC; bikes, dogs and guests need a paid VVO add-on, and the ticket is refundable if you study abroad or intern outside the VVO area. The €7.38 MOBIbike share gives 30 free minutes per rental on nextbike/MOBIbike nationwide. Note the €361 is a WS 2026/27 increase driven by the Deutschlandticket price rise (€58→€63/month on 1 January 2026) — aggregators quoting €277–300 are stale. Non-EU applicants with a non-German degree apply through uni-assist AND, for most programmes, a separate programme-specific aptitude portal linked by a submission ID. ## Admission requirements - Prior degree: not confirmed - Minimum grade: not confirmed - Also required: Unconfirmed — admission type (open admission, NC, or Eignungsverfahren) was not confirmed for this programme and must be read from SINS. Note that most TU Dresden master's use an aptitude assessment, which requires a separate two-step application: register on the programme's aptitude portal for a submission ID, then enter that ID in the uni-assist application. ## Application deadlines - Non-EU applicants, winter semester: 2027-05-31. Non-EU nationals with a non-German degree apply 1 April – 31 May for a winter start — six weeks before the EU window. TU Dresden publishes no single university-wide deadline: each programme sets its own window in SINS, and NC, open-admission and aptitude-assessment programmes differ. Treat this as the framework date and check SINS for this programme. - EU / German-degree applicants, winter semester: 2027-07-15. EU nationals with a non-German degree apply 1 April – 15 July. Holders of a German degree apply 1 June – 15 July, directly via the selma portal rather than uni-assist. ## How to apply - uni-assist required: yes (the deadline notes show who this applies to) - Application portal: https://www.uni-assist.de/en/ - Official programme page: not confirmed ## External resources - [Study Information System (SINS) — per-programme deadlines and admission](https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/studienangebot) - [Apply via uni-assist](https://www.uni-assist.de/en/) ## Provenance Last checked: 2026-08-09 - TU Dresden — MasterTag programme list (the university's own language source: English-taught master's are marked in bold, and "unmarked programs are taught exclusively in German"): https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/studienangebot - TU Dresden — Study Information System (SINS): the authoritative per-programme source for deadlines, admission type and prerequisites. TU Dresden states there is no single university-wide deadline. 120 ECTS / 4 semesters is the TU Dresden standard structure and is inferred here where SINS was not read per programme.: https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/studienangebot - TU Dresden Faculty of Computer Science — application page: "Applicants with a non-German university degree register with uni-assist and upload the requested documents." German-degree holders use the selma portal directly.: https://tu-dresden.de/ing/informatik/studium/studienangebot/master-studiengaenge/computer-science - StuRa TU Dresden — Semesterbeitrag €361.00 for WS 2026/27, confirmed to the component: https://www.stura.tu-dresden.de/semesterbeitrag - TU Dresden — Semesterbeitrag und Studiengebühren: Saxony levies no general tuition (SächsHSG Art. 13 exceptions only): https://tu-dresden.de/studium/im-studium/studienorganisation/semesterbeitrag-studiengebuehren - Inferred — the official per-programme page URL was not retrieved in this research pass (TU Dresden uses faculty-path URLs that must be retrieved, not constructed); language of instruction is confirmed from the MasterTag list above, but verify the programme page before publishing further detail: https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/studienangebot - Language classification rule confirmed verbatim at source — TU Dresden MasterTag programme page: "Degree programs taught in English are marked in bold. Unmarked programs are taught exclusively in German.": https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/uni-testen/master-tag/programm