Industrial Biotechnology

Industrial biotechnology is a key technology that will be essential to solving global nutritional challenges in the future. The programme covers the fundamentals of natural sciences and engineering, focusing on bioprocess engineering, cell culture technology, applied microbiology, and molecular biology. Specialisations are freely available in pharmaceutical biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, or bioinformatics.

Academic requirements

Deadline: The application deadline is 30 September each academic year.

Minimum GPA

No fixed minimum GPA is published on the current official programme page.

English requirements

English language skills (B2) or German language skills (C1)

German requirements

German language skills (C1)

Accepted bachelor fields

This is a Bachelor's programme. Requires a university entrance qualification (Abitur or equivalent).

APS Certificate

Yes

Thesis required

Yes

Mandatory internship

Yes

Tuition fee

None

Semester contribution

A semester contribution of around 360 EUR is charged to cover the cost of student services, the student government, and an administrative fee as well as the "Deutschland semester ticket" (a student bus and rail pass for local and regional public transport all over Germany).

ECTS credits

210

Funding info

Tuition: None Semester contribution: A semester contribution of around 360 EUR is charged to cover the cost of student services, the student government, and an administrative fee as well as the "Deutschland semester ticket" (a student bus and rail pass for local and regional public transport all over Germany).

Graduates have strong job prospects in the bioeconomy, particularly in process development and quality management within biotech and food industries.

• 1

  Graduate School of Quantitative and Molecular Biosciences Munich (QMB)

  Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

  München · PhD · English

• 2

  TRR 333 Brown and Beige Fat – Organ Crosstalk, Signalling and Energetics (BATenergy)

  University of Bonn

  Bonn · PhD · English

• 3

  Graduate School Life Science Engineering

  Technical University of Darmstadt

  Darmstadt · PhD · English

• 4

  Life Science Innovation

  Albstadt-Sigmaringen University

  Sigmaringen · Master of Science · English

• 5

  Molecular and Computational Biology, Master of Science

  Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

  Würzburg · Master of Science · English