From winter semester 2017/18 onwards, Baden-Württemberg imposes tuition fees for international students and second degrees.
International students coming to Germany in order to study or students pursuing a second degree are liable to pay tuition fees.
The legal foundations for tuition fees can be found in the Landeshochschulgebührengesetz (LHGebG) (only available in German).
The Official Notification of Tuition fees, which you got with your admission letter together, is valid for your whole study at Ulm University.
Please follow this link to find how and how much fees you should pay for the next semesters.
Please note the re-registration deadlines: 10 February for the summer semester and 10 August for the winter semester.
From summer semester 2025, second degree tuition fees for teacher training programmes in Baden-Württemberg will no longer apply.
At the end of last year, the state of Baden-Württemberg amended the Landeshochschulgebührengesetz (federal state act on tuition fees in higher education) to the effect that no second degree fees will be payable if a teacher training programme is started as a second degree. This also applies to students who are already studying for a teaching degree as a second degree.
The amendment will be implemented from summer semester 2025; this means that students will only have to pay the semester fee for re-registration if they are studying for a teaching degree as a second degree programme.
The tuition fee for the winter semester 2024/2025 must be transferred to the account of Ulm University, stating the reference. You will find the reference directly after logging in to the campus portal.
Deadline: February 10
For international students: tuition fee 1,500 EUR
For second degree students: tuition fee 650 EUR
Information about the administration fees, student union fees and the fees for the institutionalised student body can be found here.
The tuition fee for the summer semester 2026 must be transferred to the account of Ulm University, stating the reference. You will find the reference directly after logging in to the campus portal.
Deadline: August 10
For international students: tuition fee 1,500 EUR
For second degree students: tuition fee 650 EUR
Information about the administration fees, student union fees and the fees for the institutionalised student body can be found here.
Any international student wishing to study at and obtain a degree from a university in Germany and who is not either a citizen of an EU country or of a member state of the European Economic Area (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) is liable to pay tuition fees.
Third-country citizens who come to Germany for the purpose of studying are liable to pay tuition fees. Usually, these students hold a residence permit according to § 16 Aufenthaltsgesetz (law on residence).
Tuition fees are subject to payment in a bachelor’s programme, a consecutive master’s programme as well as in any programme concluding with a state examination..
All applicants and students who have to pay tuition fees will receive a notification of fees from Ulm University.
The forms (downloads) can be used to submit an application or fill in an information form to be exempted from the fees or to show that you are an exception and do not have to pay any fees.
The application/information form must be completed immediately and sent to the admissions office of Ulm University within the specified period before the start of lectures. The necessary evidence and supporting documents must be submitted together with the application or the information form.
Note that the sooner you submit your assessment sheet and documents, the quicker they will be checked. If your documents could not be submitted in time or too late and you are not to be held liable for this delay in the process, then contact studiengebühren@uni-ulm.de.
The latter is also valid if the reason for a possible exemption from tuition fees becomes effective within one month after lecture commencement.
After the documents and requests have carefully been checked, students (or applicants) liable to pay tuition fees will receive a notification of fees from the university. Of course you may file an appeal against the notification.
All students (and applicants) who do not receive an information sheet and a notification of fees are not liable to pay tuition fees. The same is valid for students who are granted exemption from the tuition fees.
You are obliged to co-operate (§10 LHG)
Students and applicants are obliged to co-operate. All personal details and documents which are needed for the calculation, exemption or reduction of tuition fees have to be submitted at the latest by the time of enrolment or re-registration. Furthermore, all changes of personal data have to be submitted to Ulm University immediately. The university is not obliged to check or retrieve the facts in its own motion.
Subject to second degree tuition fees are
- a second or additional bachelor’s degree
- a second or additional master’s degree
- a second or additional state examination
Degrees obtained outside of Germany are irrelevant.
Tuition fees will not be imposed twice. This means that international students will not have to pay second degree tuition fees in addition to their regular tuition fees.
Ulm University will impose tuition fees on behalf of Baden-Württemberg on students who begin either a second or additional bachelor’s degree (for definition of degree/programme see §34 Abs. 1 LHG) or a second or additional master’s degree after they graduated in Germany. (§ 8 Abs. 1 LHGebG)
Every student who may probably be liable to pay tuition fees will receive an information sheet from Ulm University which has to be filled in and returned in time.
Together with this information sheet you may also file a request for exemption from the tuition fees. On the request form, you will also have to indicate why you are eligible for exemption and do not have to pay tuition fees. The assessment sheet has to be filled in immediately and must be returned in time to the department of admissions at Ulm University before the semester starts. As already stated, all documents have to be submitted together with the information sheet. Usually, the documents will comprise a proof of your residence permit, the electronic residence permit (eAT) and, if applicable, additional documents from the immigration office.
Note that the sooner you submit your assessment sheet and documents, the quicker they will be checked. If your documents could not be submitted in time or too late and you are not to be held liable for this delay in the process, then your paid fees will be reimbursed. The latter is also valid if the reason for a possible exemption from tuition fees becomes effective within one month after lecture commencement.
After the documents and requests have carefully been checked, students (or applicants) liable to pay tuition fees will receive a notification of fees from the university. Of course you may file an appeal against the notification.
All students (and applicants) who do not receive an information sheet and a notification of fees are not liable to pay tuition fees. The same is valid for students who are granted exemption from the tuition fees.
You are obliged to co-operate (§10 LHG)
Students and applicants are obliged to co-operate. All personal details and documents which are needed for the calculation, exemption or reduction of tuition fees have to be submitted at the latest by the time of enrolment or re-registration. Furthermore, all changes of personal data have to be submitted to Ulm University immediately. The university is not obliged to check or retrieve the facts in its own motion
Landeshochschulgebührengesetz (LHGebG) vom 1. Januar 2005
letzte berücksichtigte Änderung: §§ 1, 2, 13 geändert, Zweiter Abschnitt neu gefasst, Fünfter Abschnitt neu eingefügt durch Artikel 1 des Gesetzes vom 9. Mai 2017 (GBl. S. 245)
Gesetz über die Hochschulen in Baden-Württemberg (Landeshochschulgesetz - LHG)
Gesetz über die Rechtsstellung heimatloser Ausländer im Bundesgebiet (HAuslG)
Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB) Neuntes Buch (IX) - Rehabilitation und Teilhabe behinderter Menschen
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Request for International Students to establish wether the obligation to pay tuition fees (pdf)
Request for second degree students to establish wether the obligation to pay tuition fees (pdf)
Please note:
Applications for exemption from tuition fees must be submitted before the start of the lecture period!