Risk and Safety (MSc)

Interdisciplinary master's programme that trains students to understand, assess, communicate, and manage risks across engineering, infrastructure, environmental, and socio-technical systems.

Academic requirements

Bachelor's certificate, English language certificate, Letter of motivation, Curricular analysis, Curriculum, Essay, Curriculum vitae

Minimum GPA

No fixed minimum GPA is published; bachelor's grade is one component of the aptitude assessment.

English requirements

Sufficient English language skills are required and evidence must be submitted before the application deadline through TUM-recognized proof.

German requirements

none

Accepted bachelor fields

A qualified bachelor's degree of at least six semesters from a domestic or foreign university. Applicants from various bachelor's backgrounds can apply, but they should have credits across areas such as engineering basics, stochastic methods, mathematics, informatics, management, and risk-related social sciences or psychology.

APS Certificate

Yes

Tuition fee

6,000 EUR per semester for international students from third countries; otherwise none.

Semester contribution

97.00 EUR student union fee per semester at the Munich/Garching campuses.

ECTS credits

120

Funding info

Tuition: 6,000 EUR per semester for international students from third countries; otherwise none. Semester contribution: 97.00 EUR student union fee per semester at the Munich/Garching campuses.

Graduates can work as risk and safety experts in manufacturers, transportation and infrastructure operators, certification and safety assurance, engineering consultancies, government agencies, insurance and reinsurance, technology start-ups, and research and development.

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