University of Duisburg-Essen: Admissions 2026, Fees, Rankings, Scholarships & Courses

• Two locations, Essen and Duisburg
• The campus has all the facilities that you wish, a Gym, a library, swimming pool and a sports arena
• The major festival is the Summer festival, which held in June every year
• There are also student organisations from student hostels, which organise parties regularly, so there is a great opportunity to socialise. You could also get into sports, as the university has all the facilities you require for almost a wide variety of sports. Plus, you can get coaching for a very small fee (generally around 20-30 euros per month)

• The college does not have a tuition fee; you only pay a semester fee for administrative purposes, which is around 350 euros per semester. Monthly, you can expect to spend around 900-950 euros depending on where you live.
• The rent is between 300-400 euros. You pay around 140-150 for health insurance. Around 200 euros per month on groceries and the rest is miscellaneous experience. You do not need to spend anything on transportation, because as a student, you can travel free of cost on public transportation.

• The University of Duisburg-Essen has two campuses: the Duisburg Campus at Forsthausweg 2, 47057 Duisburg, and the Essen Campus at Universitätsstraße 2, 45141 Essen. The university has many other campuses all over the city, not so far but within a radius of 1-2 km in the cities of Duisburg and Essen.
• Some on-campus facilities include a university library with various branches of specialised libraries, conference rooms, sports fields, cafeterias, and medical centres with an access link to the university hospital at Essen. Both campuses also have student counselling, career counselling, computer labs, and study rooms.
• Large campus activities are cultural festivals, club events, and academic symposia. Student organisations like sports clubs, cultural groups, and technical student organisations sponsoring events and competitions are student favourites.
• Extracurricular activities are spread across fields like sport (football, basketball, swimming), cultural activities (music, drama, international student meet-ups), and engaging student groups with a focus on sustainability, technology, and social activism to foster vibrant campus life.

• Total university fees are different every semester; they vary between 300 and 350 euros per semester.
• So this is only for 6 months of university fees.
• In this fee, the university provides us free transportation in the North Rhine-Westphalia state. With this ticket we can take any regional train within the state.
• Currently, because of the Deutschland ticket, with which we can travel within the whole of Germany, the University of Duisburg-Essen includes the Deutschland ticket in its semester fees only. There is no need to buy any other tickets for transportation; it includes regional trains, buses, trams and U-Bahns.
• The rent usually is between 320 and 380 euros in the city centre, even in student dormitories. outside the city it will be between 250-320 euros for 13-15m square room.
• Private rentals may be between 300 and 400 for one single room of around 15 square metres.
• In this city, monthly groceries will cost around 150-200 euros, and if you eat regularly in the university canteen and outside, then it will go up to 300 euros monthly.
• No other expenses are required. Personal shopping may cost you 100-150 euros, depending on the individual.
• If you visit places nearby, the transportation is free, but you have to pay the ticket price to see the historical places, museums, etc. With a student card, the ticket price will be lower than normal.

• Campus is very big. Main is in Duisburg and the other one is in Essen. Multiple clubs are there on the campus. Events and extracurricular activities happen mostly in Summer, I have only attended very few.

• There are no tuition fees for most courses, as Technical Universities are government funded. Students have to pay around 350 Euros as a semester contribution for the Deutschlandticket to travel during the semester and for other contributions (Non ICE trains).

• The university has two main campuses (Essen and Duisburg). Libraries are well-equipped, and CENIDE (NanoEnergy Research Center) provides strong research facilities. Extracurriculars include student clubs, cultural festivals, and sports, though the focus remains research-intensive.

• PhD students pay only a semester contribution (~€350 per semester, including a public transport ticket). No tuition fees.

• My university has 2 campuses, with 1 in Duisburg and the other in Essen. The university provides a lot of facilities, like 2 big libraries, canteens, cafés, clubs, etc. University also provides a lot of festivals, intercultural activities and sports.
• There are different organizations for different events, which are funded from University as well as by external firms.

• The University of Duisburg-Essen is a public university.
• No tuition fees
• You need to pay around 350 € in semester fees, in which transportation around all of Germany is included. The semester fees you have to pay in each semester.
• Monthly Expenses
  • Rent—300to 400 €, but also varies depending upon your city.
  • Health insurance – 150 €
  • Mobile and Internet - 10 €
  • Gym - 25 €
  • Food—150to 200 €
  • Entertainment and other – 50 to 100 €
  • So overall expenses are 800 to 1000 € on average depending upon the city.
     

• There are many events, like cafe lingua clubs organise language meets almost every month, campusgarten club organises many small gatherings. Sommerfest and Uni Sport are some events. University has facilities for multiple sports starting from Gym, basketball, and Football to Karting etc. Hostels normally have table tennis facilities. I myself could participate twice in the musical performance activity, organized each semester. The sports clubs charge very little cost for regularly visiting them.

• There is no tuition fee at the University of Duisburg-Essen, but students need to pay a social contribution fee, including deutschland ticket for 6 months, which is about 350 Euro in total and needs to be paid twice a year, for each semester. Rents in university hostels cost between 350 and 400 euros per month; a deposit of caution money is extra. For students living in Duisburg or in Essen, 150 to 250 euros can be the average expense, depending on their lifestyle.

As i mentioned, it's great if you are ready to integrate and understand and apply how things here work. You should really be passionate about doing good work here at the Uni to make your life better.

That is indeed great and very productive, depends upon individual on how they are gonna make the best of it.

However, the university and department I am studying are very old, the exam system is very hard, as you need to pass the exams with a maximum of 3 attempts for a given subject. If you exceed that, you can be ex-matriculated and can been departed back to home country.

Currently, there are around 40000 students studying in the university I am studying at, and the campus is divided across various locations in two cities: Duisburg and Essen (mostly near the railway stations of these two cities.) The state transportation ticket (excluding the fast trains—Intercity Express) is also included in the fees we are paying (for services like student unions and semester tickets because there are no tuition fees). The Wi-Fi can be accessed using student credentials. Cantines and libraries are also available at various locations. Sport activities are also available for a small fee, and there are numerous extracurricular activities at the university, such as grilling and BBQ organized by various departments at the start of the summer, karaoke nights, and many others.

It was very good experience for me to get graduated from such an old University. It gave me international experience and my university was student friendly in every aspect. I would recommend to learn German and apply for such a good university.

Our campus life was amazing we had almost 5 big libraries. German universities has free wifi and good sports facilities.Our university has always good opportunities to get involved in R&S activities based on your interest

Because I am intrested in research and development of automobile sector so selected Computational Mechanics stream and found this university as one the best in it.

Campus life is best several clubs and student teams are very helpful. Research is one of the top most priority in this institute and wifi and net service is outstanding there.