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Uni Stuttgart

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Universität Stuttgart is a TU9 university at the centre of Germany's automotive industry — Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Bosch are all headquartered in the region, giving engineering students unusually direct access to industry. Its strengths lie in mechanical, automotive and aerospace engineering, simulation science (the Data-Integrated Simulation Science / SimTech Excellence Cluster) and the natural sciences. It operates across two campuses: the city-centre campus (Stadtmitte) and the Vaihingen engineering campus, roughly 10 km from the centre and connected by S-Bahn, which hosts most engineering and science teaching (the Studiensekretariat also sits at Campus Vaihingen). Note: as a Baden-Württemberg state university, non-EU/EEA students pay an additional tuition fee of €1,500/semester on top of the €184 semester contribution. Unlike every other university on this platform, no semester ticket is bundled — Stuttgart ended its VVS solidarity agreement in WS 2023/24, so students buy their own ticket. A misleading figure to ignore: the university's own master's page quotes €13,000–22,000 in fees, but that describes only the continuing-education (weiterbildende) master's, not the regular consecutive master's our audience applies to.

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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.

  • Career Service

    The central point for career orientation, applications, industry contacts and entry to work. In the automotive capital — Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Bosch on the doorstep — this is a genuinely valuable service. Official page

  • Dezernat Internationales / Internationales Zentrum

    The international office: admission and enrolment support for international degree-seeking students, plus mentoring programmes for incoming students. Note: exemption and remission applications for the €1,500 tuition go in paper form to the Studiensekretariat (Campus Vaihingen). Official page

  • Sprachenzentrum (Deutsch als Fremdsprache)

    Study-preparatory and study-accompanying German courses, intensive/extensive options, summer schools and a TestDaF exam centre — relevant for the German-taught programmes (Aerospace, Simulation Technology) and daily life. Language-Centre course registration runs through C@MPUS, with placement tests in ILIAS. Official page

  • Studierendenwerk Stuttgart

    Housing (30+ residences, dorm rent from ~€200/month warm), Mensas, a free students-facing private-room database, short-term rentals, tenant portal and legal advice. Its contribution ordinance has been in force since WS 2025/26. Official page

Scholarship directory

  • Deutschlandstipendium at Universität Stuttgart

    Merit scholarship supporting recipients for one year (standard €300/month nationally, half federal and half private sponsors). Stuttgart-specific figures and the application window were not confirmed this pass — verify on the university page. Official page

  • Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium (OUTGOING students only at Stuttgart)

    Honest correction: at Universität Stuttgart this scholarship sits under Auslandsstudium → Finanzierung (study ABROAD → funding) and funds OUTGOING Stuttgart students spending 3–11 months at partner universities abroad. An incoming international student hoping it would offset the €1,500/semester tuition would be disappointed — whether Stuttgart administers an incoming strand is unconfirmed. Application detail for outgoing students: online portal, a ≤1-page motivation letter in English, current transcript, and a ranking certificate generated from C@MPUS. Official page

  • DAAD scholarship database & Stipendium Plus

    The standard external routes for international-student funding in Germany — the searchable DAAD database, plus the 12 Begabtenförderungswerke (Stipendium Plus). Industry scholarships (Mercedes-Benz / Porsche / Bosch) were not confirmed this pass despite the regional employer density, and are deliberately not listed yet. 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 (C@MPUS · ILIAS · TIK (Informations- und Kommunikationszentrum))

German universities split "one student portal" into several systems, and nobody tells internationals which is which. At Uni Stuttgart:

C@MPUS
The campus-management portal (campus.uni-stuttgart.de): applications, course registration, timetables, exam registration and withdrawal, key-qualification (SQ) registration, results, address/name changes, and Studienbescheinigungen (enrolment certificates for health insurance, Kindergeld, BAföG). It also displays fees under "Meine Studienbeiträge" and generates the ranking certificate used in scholarship applications. Both the €184 contribution and the €1,500 non-EU tuition are paid at re-registration (Rückmeldung) by bank transfer. The recurring pain point — surfaced by student reviews both university-wide and in the Aerospace programme — is exam registration and de-registration; budget time to learn it. Payment discipline: use the structured reference (cash-reference number + semester code + matriculation number; codes follow the pattern 20261 = summer 2026, 20262 = winter 2026) — an unallocated payment counts as a late payment. Your TIK student account and university email are issued at enrolment and must be activated in C@MPUS afterwards. campus.uni-stuttgart.de
ILIAS
The learning platform (ilias3.uni-stuttgart.de): lecture materials, assignments, course spaces. Same product name as TU Dortmund's and KIT's ILIAS but a completely separate installation — your research on those does not transfer. The mechanic worth teaching: registering for a course in C@MPUS automatically enrols you in that course's ILIAS space, which is how you get the slides. Students who register only for the exam — or assume ILIAS is separate — end up without materials, so check afterwards that you are registered for every relevant course. ilias3.uni-stuttgart.de
TIK (Informations- und Kommunikationszentrum)
Central IT services: your student account, university email, and the rest of the stack (SIAM, Webex, Webmail, VPN, and RAI, the university's own data-protection-compliant AI tool). Activate your TIK account in C@MPUS after enrolment before anything else works. The student card is the ECUS (replacement €15 if lost or damaged, free if merely unreadable). www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de