University of Regensburg

The University of Regensburg (Universität Regensburg) is a public university in Regensburg, Bavaria. Its International Office describes itself as the first point of contact for international applicants and offers a 'Startklar' accompanying programme from the start of studies to everyday life in Regensburg, plus the iSTEPS project on employment and career entry after graduation.

Students pay a semester contribution rather than a separate tuition amount listed on the official finance page: the contribution is about €200 per semester (as of November 2025), including the semester ticket. Most students need at least €1,000 per month to live, including rent for a room.

Why the University of Regensburg suits South Asian students

• English-taught M.Sc. Data Science with no German required for admission
• Clear APS rule: an APS certificate is required for bachelor's degrees from China, India or Vietnam
• VPD-via-uni-assist route explained step by step, with a 4-to-6-week processing warning
• Semester contribution of about €200 per semester including a semester ticket
• International Office support on visas, health insurance, housing and financing, plus the Startklar and iSTEPS programmes

Full tuition detail (verified): No separate tuition amount is published on the official University of Regensburg finance page read. That page lists a semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag, as of November 2025) of about €200 per semester, including the semester ticket, plus a broadcasting fee of €18.36, student residence rooms of about €280-€450 per month (private-market rooms can cost €600 or more), and books and study materials of about €150 per semester. Most students need at least €1,000 per month to live, including rent for a room.

International applicants are those who obtained their higher education entrance qualification and/or first degree outside Germany. For the English-taught M.Sc. Data Science, applicants need a university degree of at least six semesters (180 credit points) with an average grade of at least 2.5 (converted by the modified Bavarian formula for foreign degrees), plus subject knowledge including at least 18 ECTS in data science/statistics/machine learning, 18 ECTS in mathematics and 6 ECTS in programming.

Applicants without a German entrance qualification or degree must first obtain a preliminary examination documentation (VPD) from uni-assist and then apply via the University of Regensburg campus portal; uni-assist processing can take 4 to 6 weeks, so early application is advised. Applicants with a bachelor's degree from China, India or Vietnam must also submit an APS certificate. Applicants whose first degree was not obtained in a Lisbon Convention signatory state must also take the GRE General Test with Quantitative Reasoning of at least 164.

For summer semester 2027, the international application period runs from the end of December to 15 January 2027. Documents include passport copy, CV, bachelor's certificate and transcript (with sworn translations for documents not in German, English or French), a curricular analysis form, proof of English at B2 or higher, and the VPD. The International Office is the first point of contact for international applicants on entrance qualifications, visas, health insurance, language certificates, housing and financing.

Full English requirement detail (verified): No single university-wide IELTS score is published on the official pages read; requirements vary by programme. Verified example from the M.Sc. Data Science application page: English language skills at level B2 (CEFR) or higher, proven by a certified language test (IELTS, TOEFL, PTE and similar named as examples). No numeric IELTS band is stated on that page. If the final thesis was written in English, that also counts as proof; only applicants whose mother tongue is English are exempt, on presentation of a passport copy. No German is required for admission to this programme, as it is taught entirely in English.

The verified English-taught programme documented in detail is the M.Sc. Data Science, taught entirely in English with no German required for admission. It requires a relevant bachelor's degree (at least 180 credit points, average grade at least 2.5), subject credits in data science/statistics/machine learning, mathematics and programming, and English at B2 CEFR or higher, assessed through a three-stage aptitude assessment procedure including a curricular analysis form, a 1,500-word essay and, for some applicants, a personal interview.

Other master's programmes at the university are listed on faculty pages with their own admission rules; programme-specific language and subject requirements must be checked on each programme's page, as no university-wide English-taught programme list with scores was verified on the official pages read.

The university's official finance page states that students aiming for a degree at the University of Regensburg can apply for various study funding options, with further information via the degree-seeking students pages, and that the International Office provides information on funding. No specific scholarship name, amount or deadline for international degree students was verified on the official Regensburg pages read, so none is quoted here.

For context within Bavaria, the university's official BAYHOST pages describe a separate one-year scholarship programme of the Free State of Bavaria for graduates from Central, Eastern and Southeastern European states (for example Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia and Ukraine) at €992 per month — this is restricted to those citizenships and is not a general South Asian scholarship route.