Studying in Germany

[itachipirate]

Hey everyone! I've seen a lot of people on this forum from le Deutschland so I thought I would ask here. I'm looking at moving to Germany for University (If I get accepted) for the free tuition and cultural diversity. I'm looking at either becoming and automotive engineer or a psychologist. I'm looking at TUM and I'm currently a senior in high school. My grades are very good. I happen to know a certain psychologist who is a professor at a SUNY school, speaks fluent German, and may write a letter of recommendation for me. The plan would be to look for an English speaking undergrad program while taking a German language course. I've read some things about students coming to Germany for education online but I'd really like to hear what people who live there think. What challenges might I face? Do you know people who have done this before? Would it be of benefit to me financially in the long run? I live in New York State so a good uni here would probably put me in debt for the rest of my life

 

This country's outlook on students is ridiculous.

America: Sales opportunity, drain money from them

Germany: These people are our future, free transportation and education

Ich nicht Deutsch sprechen

[minibois]

Well I'm not German, but do go on vacation there sometimes.

Most Germans I have encountered speak very good English, so I have never encountered a language barrier.

[itachipirate]

Well I'm not German, but do go on vacation there sometimes.

Most Germans I have encountered speak very good English, so I have never encountered a language barrier.

I want to learn German anyways haha

[theKumba]

I can't really tell you a lot about studying in Germany, but the hardest challenge will definitly be learning German. Sometimes even I, as a native speaker, have problems with some rare cases of our awesome grammer.

(Since I guess you'll want to start studying in a year or two at most)

[K1l1]

Hey there, if your still interested in some informations: Im studying electrical engineering and information technology at TUM. in my subject there are a lot of foreigns from all over the world. Some of them speak german very well some of them a bit words and there are even students who dont speak anything. All of them are able to get their degree if they work hard enough. The key thing i think is that if your studying a technical subject your language barrier is not so high because the main "language" is matematics. The next thing is that (TUM only) a lot lectures are hold in english language or have english scripts to download ( this will become more and more ...).

 

I can only tell your my point of view about technical subjects. I think study something which contains more language skills like psychology will be much more difficult because your have to write papers and long text homeworks.

 

I hope i can help you a bit if your still thinking about it and sorry for my bad english

[itachipirate]

Hey there, if your still interested in some informations: Im studying electrical engineering and information technology at TUM. in my subject there are a lot of foreigns from all over the world. Some of them speak german very well some of them a bit words and there are even students who dont speak anything. All of them are able to get their degree if they work hard enough. The key thing i think is that if your studying a technical subject your language barrier is not so high because the main "language" is matematics. The next thing is that (TUM only) a lot lectures are hold in english language or have english scripts to download ( this will become more and more ...).

 

I can only tell your my point of view about technical subjects. I think study something which contains more language skills like psychology will be much more difficult because your have to write papers and long text homeworks.

 

I hope i can help you a bit if your still thinking about it and sorry for my bad english

Thank you so much! That's amazing It's so nice to hear from someone at TUM. I was thinking of going for a masters in mechanical engineering. Do you know if scholarships transfer from country-country? Is there on-campus housing where foreign students can live?

[K1l1]

I dont know if there is a scholarships. I pay 110€ per term which inclueds a train/busticket for Munic. In Germany we dont have such a system like you in the US, so there is no housing provided by the university but there are some opertunities that are cheaper for students which are provived by the "Studentenwerk" (i dont know how to call it in english). In general apartments in Munic are rare (a lot of students) and not cheap in comparison to other german cities. I dont know how it is compared to your place I pay 450€ for example and i live in a shared apartment with some friends So not all will be "free" because the tuition does not incloud housing or something like that.

 

What is nice to hear from you that you´re interested in the language and in the culture, what is in my experiance not alawys the case. If you show your interest in the country the people will threat you like you are german and you wount have a problem to find friends or sth. like that.

I wish you nice day or night depends on what time is at your place

[PacoMano]

Hey, 

 

you touched the point of financials:

Here's a wikipedia Article for how much you have to pay where.

 

This Article unfortunately does only exist in German but the most important part for you should be the chart anyways and google translator will probably be sufficient for that.

 

I am not a student yet so I cannot tell you an awful lot about it but roughly speaking about 99% of poeple from 10 to 30 years are able to speak english because everyone learns it in school. I'm native German and live in Germany but a fifth of what I speak is english. Even if you want to learn germanthis will probably still help you get through your first weeks while you still climb the German language mountain. So yeah, I whish you good Luck .