Programs

Structured doctoral programmes in Germany from the official DAAD International Programmes database. 157 of them charge no tuition.

171 of 171 programmes

• PhD Programme: Infection Biology (ZIB) (opens in new tab)

  Hannover Medical School · Hannover

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Winter semester

  Deadline: Register by 1 March 2027

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Winter semester
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• PhD Programme: Regenerative Sciences (PhD RegSci) (opens in new tab)

  Hannover Medical School · Hannover

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Winter semester

  Deadline: Register by 1 March 2027

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Winter semester
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• PhD/MD-PhD Programme – Experimental Medicine (opens in new tab)

  University of Tübingen · Tübingen

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Winter semester, Summer semester

  Deadline: Register by 15 June 2027 + 1 more

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Winter semester, Summer semester
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• Physics (PhD) (opens in new tab)

  University of Göttingen · Göttingen

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• Postgraduate International Programme in Physics and Electrical Engineering (PIP) (opens in new tab)

  University of Bremen · Bremen

  German · English · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Any time
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• Regensburg International Graduate School of Life Sciences (RIGeL) (opens in new tab)

  University of Regensburg · Regensburg

  German · English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• Research School "Digital Health" (opens in new tab)

  University of Potsdam · Potsdam

  German · English · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Any time
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• Research School "Foundations of AI" (opens in new tab)

  University of Potsdam · Potsdam

  German · English · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Any time
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• Research School "Information and Data Engineering" (opens in new tab)

  University of Potsdam · Potsdam

  English · German · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Winter semester, Summer semester

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: English, GermanTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Winter semester, Summer semester
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• Research School "Secure Distributed Computing (SeDiC)" (opens in new tab)

  University of Potsdam · Potsdam

  German · English · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Any time
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• Research School "Systems Design" (opens in new tab)

  University of Potsdam · Potsdam

  English · German · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Winter semester, Summer semester

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: English, GermanTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Winter semester, Summer semester
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• Research School for Advanced Photon Science (RS-APS) (opens in new tab)

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Jena

  English · German · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: English, GermanTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• Research School Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining (opens in new tab)

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Jena

  German · English · No tuition fees · 8 semesters · Other

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 8 semestersStart: Other
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• RUB Research School (opens in new tab)

  Ruhr-Universität Bochum · Bochum

  Tuition varies

  Deadline: No deadline stated

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: Not statedTuition: Tuition variesDuration: Not statedStart: Not stated
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• Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science (opens in new tab)

  Saarland University · Saarbrücken

  English · No tuition fees · 9 semesters or more · Winter semester, Summer semester

  Deadline: Application deadlines are currently twice a year at the end of April and end of October for admission to the following semester. You may submit your complete application materials any time before the next deadline. Evaluation takes place in selection rounds after the deadline . If you need an early decision for planning purposes, you may submit for the deadline a year before your desired starting

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 9 semesters or moreStart: Winter semester, Summer semester
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• Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine (SGBM) (opens in new tab)

  University of Freiburg · Freiburg im Breisgau

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters, 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semesters, 8 semestersStart: Any time
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• Structured PhD Programme in the Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) (opens in new tab)

  University of Hamburg · Hamburg

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Winter semester, Summer semester

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Winter semester, Summer semester
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• Trinational Doctoral Programme in Italian Studies (opens in new tab)

  University of Bonn · Bonn

  German · Italian · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: German, ItalianTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• TRR 333 Brown and Beige Fat – Organ Crosstalk, Signalling and Energetics (BATenergy) (opens in new tab)

  University of Bonn · Bonn

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• Understanding Written Artefacts (opens in new tab)

  University of Hamburg · Hamburg

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semestersStart: Any time
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• yDiv Graduate School & Postdoc Programme for Integrative Biodiversity Research (opens in new tab)

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena · Leipzig

  English · No tuition fees · 6 semesters, 8 semesters · Any time

  Deadline: This programme has no deadline.

  Requirements

  Language of instruction: EnglishTuition: No tuition feesDuration: 6 semesters, 8 semestersStart: Any time
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