TU Braunschweig
in Braunschweig · official site · International Office
TU Braunschweig is Germany's oldest technical university, founded in 1745 as the Collegium Carolinum, and the ninth and final TU9 member profiled on this platform. Uniquely among the nine, its adjacent DLR (German Aerospace Center) campus gives students direct access to aerospace research facilities, thesis opportunities and industry connections unavailable at other German universities. Its research and industry ecosystem is exceptional beyond aerospace too: Volkswagen's global headquarters is in nearby Wolfsburg (~30km, ticket-covered), and research partners include the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, several Fraunhofer Institutes and Germany's national metrology institute (PTB). Lower Saxony charges no tuition, including for non-EU students; the semester contribution, verified independently of neighbouring LUH despite the shared state, comes in €13 lower.
Master's programmes here
- M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence for Molecular Sciences (AIMS) (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Automotive Engineering and Mobile Systems (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Battery and Hydrogen Technology (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Biochemical and Chemical Engineering (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Biology (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Computational Sciences in Engineering (CSE) (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Data Science (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Industrial and Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Metrology and Analytics (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Pharmaceutical Engineering (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Quantum Technologies in Electrical and Computer Engineering (QTEC) (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Solar System Physics (M.Sc.)
- M.Sc. Sustainable Energy Engineering (M.Sc.)
Services for international students
Your first stop for almost everything is the International Office: admission letters, visa questions, enrolment, and orientation weeks all run through it.
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International House / International Student Support
Arrival support, visa and Anmeldung guidance, orientation for international students. Official page
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International Career Service
Explicitly bridges international students into the German job market — a genuinely valuable service given the VW/DLR/PTB regional ecosystem. Official page
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DLR (German Aerospace Center) — adjacent campus
TU Braunschweig's adjacent DLR campus offers open days and student research opportunities for aerospace-adjacent students — check dlr.de for current student programmes. A unique asset among the nine universities on this platform. Official page
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Sprachenzentrum
German and other language courses; registration runs via Stud.IP, certificates are printable in TUConnect. Relevant since most TU Braunschweig engineering master's require German. Official page
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Career Service
General career orientation, applications and industry contacts. Official page
Scholarship directory
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Deutschlandstipendium at TU Braunschweig
€300/month, awarded each winter semester (application opens 1 June). Decisions weigh grades plus aptitude and personality — a top grade average is not automatic and a middling one is not disqualifying. Network-oriented, with sponsor-student community events. Official page
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Landesstipendium Niedersachsen
Confirmed at source: a Lower Saxony state scholarship (MWK-funded), awarded by TU Braunschweig each winter semester as a one-off payment of €500.00. Merit-based, aimed at students from non-academic households and first-generation students, those facing flight-related hardship, and other special social grounds. The 2025 round awarded 179 stipends with an application window of 20.10.–10.11.2025 via the TU Braunschweig Stipendienportal (SSO login). There is no nationality bar, so international students qualify — but you must already be properly enrolled at TU Braunschweig to apply. It is not a pre-arrival recruitment scholarship: budget your first semester without it. The parallel Deutschlandstipendium explicitly invites international applicants and pays €300/month for WS 2026/27. Official page
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Carolo-Wilhelmina-Stipendium
A distinctive emergency fund from the Carolo-Wilhelmina-Stiftung, for students whose studies are threatened by unstable financing or at risk of abandonment for purely financial reasons — a genuine hardship safety net, highly relevant to self-funded international students who hit an unexpected shortfall. Official page
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DAAD scholarship database & Stipendium Plus
The standard external routes for international-student funding in Germany. Contact: stipendium@tu-braunschweig.de. Official page
Amounts, windows and eligibility rules change every cycle; verify on the official pages before planning your budget around any of them.
Campus systems you'll actually use (TUConnect · Stud.IP · QIS)
German universities split "one student portal" into several systems, and nobody tells internationals which is which. At TU Braunschweig:
- TUConnect
- The campus-management portal (connect.tu-braunschweig.de): online enrolment, exam registration and withdrawal, grades (Notenspiegel), documents, semester-fee receipt upload. Login via GITZ-ID (Gauß-IT-Zentrum). English UI available. The exam trap, confirmed official: registration for every examination and coursework is compulsory and only possible during the registration period set by the examination board — outside that period, no registration is accepted, not even on request. Notably, general administration draws praise rather than complaint in student reviews here (unlike several other universities on this platform) — but the exam-registration cut-off is still absolute. connect.tu-braunschweig.de
- Stud.IP
- The course/e-learning platform (studip.tu-braunschweig.de), used since 2009: all courses, file storage, communication. Language-course registration also runs here. Praised by name in student reviews for its digital infrastructure. studip.tu-braunschweig.de
- QIS
- An older exam portal still used by some faculties (Faculties 2 and 6 named in research) alongside TUConnect. Most exam registration runs through TUConnect; a few faculties still use QIS or paper — check your own faculty's route rather than assuming. www.tu-braunschweig.de