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Hi everyone!

I recently received an admission offer for the Technical University of Munich (TUM) M.Sc. Informatics program for the Winter Semester 2026/27.

I’m looking to connect with other students who have also been admitted. It would be great to get to know each other before the semester starts, discuss accommodation, the visa process, course registration, travel plans, and anything else related to moving to Munich and starting at TUM.

We’ve already created a WhatsApp group with a few admitted students. If you’ve also been admitted and would like to join, just leave a comment or send me a DM, and I’ll share the invite link.

Looking forward to meeting everyone. See you in Garching!

Hello Everyone! I got my offer letter for Masters in mechanical engineering at TUM today. Would be glad if there are any leads regarding finding accommodation and WhatsApp groups of fellow colleagues who would be joining in the winter intake?

Also, would appreciate some insight from past students who attended this course on what to expect and what to look out for?

I'm an IB student who wants to apply for both BIE and BMDS, as we all know, the result will be out tomorrow; hence, I still haven't handed in any application yet. I saw a lot of people on Reddit and DC about getting enrolled in this major.

My questions are:

1. How many people do they accept each year for these two majors at Heilbronn?

2. Does it matter much if I apply earlier or later? I was thinking about handing in the application exactly on 15th July because then I will receive my certificate for B2 German, but if applying earlier means a higher chance of getting in before all the spots are filled, I'll apply on Monday, right after I receive my results from the finals.

3. Does anyone maybe know whether an extra online coding-related certificate (from freeCodeCamp) will increase my points for the Aptitude Assessment?

p.s. IDK, I'm just lwk worried about everything since it's a very prestigious school, and I heard that both of these majors are pretty hard to get into, especially BIE.

Hey everyone,

The requirements for Aerospace B.Sc. during the winter semester 2026/2027 need me to have an eight-week pre-study internship completed two weeks before the end of the second semester, which would be in September 2027.

The thing is, I live around Nuremberg and I'm fully booked in August until the 27th, and I would need to move to Munich in the first week of October, leaving me just five weeks free during the summer, so I would need to find another month to fill the rest of the weeks needed for the requirements.

So, I want to ask: would it be smart to do the first month of the internship in Nuremberg in September, then move to Munich in October, and then when lectures end, move back to Nuremberg and finish it in March?

Any comment helps a lot 🙏

Hello everyone are there any groups for admitted students or groups for tum in general?

Let's connect pls

Guten Tag,

ich bin gerade in den letzten Zügen, um meine Masterarbeit fertigzustellen.

Ich habe meinen Betreuer gefragt, ob es für 1.0 reicht. Da sagt er mir, dass die nur möglich ist, wenn man die Arbeit in einem high ranking journal publiziert. Am Lehrstuhl haben sie angeblich diese Policy.

Darf man das? Sind die Lehrstühle nicht dazu verpflichtet, dass die Noten vergleichbar sind?

Was ist eure Meinung dazu?

I'm going to study Informatik at TUM. I've got a pretty good PC at home, but I have no clue if that is enough or if I need a laptop while I'm at the university.

Please give me some advice, and those who are studying Informatik right now, what do you actually do during lectures at the university?

Hi everyone, does anyone else also is waiting for the response from TUM MMT? They said that the test will be held in the beginning of July, but at the same time they will notice the candidates at least a week before the test. I haven’t gotten any response from them yet, so I am wondering if there are several dates for the admission test? How does that work? (I don’t want to write to them as they said in an email that writing to them about your application status is only taking up their time lol)

I noticed that almost every single message on this subreddit is about masters . Didn’t find any reddit about bachelors

Posting on behalf of a friend.

His background:

• He is an international student (non EU/EEA) who studied Bsc. Luft- und Raumfahrttechnik at Uni Stuttagart for 4 semesters and then voluntarily exmatriculated due to academic depression (diagnosed by a psychiatrist in Stuttgart if it is relevant) and language issues (since the course was in German).
• He completed 27 ECTS. He still holds right to examination (Prüfungsanspruch) and did not fail any subject thrice.

Now one year later, he applied to BSc. Aerospace engineering at TUM. He applied to the 1st semester. However, TUM just informed him saying that because he previously studied the exact same degree program in Germany, he cannot apply to the 1st semester.

"You were enrolled at the Universität Stuttgart in the same degree program you are applying for now. If you have already studied in the same or a closely related degree program in Germany, you are automatically placed into the corresponding higher subject semester. Starting in the first semester in this degree program is therefore no longer possible."

But the problem is, he cannot apply to the 5th semester because he does not have the required number of credits. On the application portal it says;

"As you have to start in the 5th semester, we need a transcript with 20 credits per Semester".

He does not have the required 80 credits required to apply to the 5th semester either.

• Is there no way to apply for this course? What are the specific laws that state he cannot apply to the first semester? I found TUM APSO § 10 and Art. 86 Abs. 3 (BayHIG), but I don't really understand the wordings.
• Is there any way we can challenge their decision? Because he also applied for B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering programs at several Universities of Applied Sciences (TH Nürnberg, THWS, OTH Regensburg, HTW Saarland, HS Aalen, and HS Kaiserslautern) and was admitted to the 1st semester for all of them. How was he able to get into these universities? Is it because they are B.Eng. courses?
• Another thing we are thinking of is to apply to the Engineering Sciences or Elektrotechnik course at TUM, get the required number of credits for the 4 semesters and then transfer to Aerospace. But we are not sure if they count as "closely related degree programs". Would this work?

Hi everyone,

I took the online aptitude assessment for the MSc Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics program exactly one week ago (June 25), and I haven’t heard anything back yet.

I saw that the second-stage interviews are supposed to start on July 6 for applicants who don’t meet the direct admission mark through the assessment, so I was expecting some kind of update by now. However, I haven’t received an interview invitation or any other status update/decision.

Has anyone who applied this year heard back yet? Or does anyone know how the timeline usually works? Do they release all decisions at once, or is it normal to still be waiting at this point?

Thanks in advance!

Hi, is there any one heard back after submission confirmation of documents?

Hello guys my bachelor gpa is near 3.3/4 , is it possible for me to get accepted to a mastets program at TUM ( i was thinking EE or embeded engineering)? I see the minimum requirements at the progarms which are less than what i have but from what i have heard most students getting accepted are much higher than that . Anyone who accepted with a gpa like mine?

Hi Everyone,

I've applied for a Masters program in TUM Heilbronn. As an non-EU citizen I have to apply for a visa. TUM sent me an email about that which I can use VisaFlow to get the documents ready for visa application. About the documents, I have several questions:

- Does the Confirmation of Registration document can be used instead of Letter of Admission (since my admission process is still not fully complete)?

- For Insurance and Block Account, I saw that Expatrio and Fintiba provides service which sounds reliable. But somehow Expatrio forces me to get Private Health Insurance (which I don't want to, I want Public Health Insurance since I'm eligible for that), and Fintiba offers BARMER. Do you think I should move on with Fintiba and choose BARMER which is a Public Health Insurance provider in Germany? Also, if I went through with one of those service providers, will I be forced to pay all the amount (insurance, service etc.) eventhough I changed my mind or got rejected from TUM?

- How long does it takes to finish visa processes with the new online portal of Germany? (I read that documents can be uploaded to the system to shorten processing times. And you only went for formal meeting and fingerprints to the local embassy.)

Thank you in advance for your help. ^-^

Hallo! Ich interessiere mich sehr für ein Architekturstudium und versuche gerade, verschiedene Unis zu vergleichen.
Gibt’s hier jemanden, der Architektur gerade studiert oder das Studium bereits abgeschlossen hat und seine Erfahrung/Meinung mitteilen könnte?
Die TU Dresden, das Bauhaus, die UdK, sowie die TUM wären meine Hauptziele.