Three building blocks for your career
Our interdisciplinary International Engineering programme covers several fields of expertise that will give you excellent career prospects. Besides gaining engineering and business know-how, you will also be trained in intercultural competence and languages! Our International Engineering graduates are modern, practical and globally minded engineers – who can achieve their career goals anywhere in the world.
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Programme content and structure
The internationally oriented International Engineering degree programme offers you a unique combination of technology (specialising in mechanical engineering or medical technology), languages and business. We want you to gain as much practical and international experience as possible - giving you the best starting conditions for a successful international career!
Entry requirements
- German university entrance qualification:
- Allgemeine Hochschulreife, Fachhochschulreife, Fachgebundene Hochschulreife
- or a foreign university entrance qualification equivalent to the German one.
You can easily verify equivalency using the DAAD admissions database. If the database indicates that you are required to take the “Feststellungsprüfung”, direct equivalency is not granted. In that case, you would typically need to complete either one year of university studies in your home country or a one-year preparatory course in Germany (Studienkolleg) to qualify for admission to a bachelor’s programme in Germany. However, in such cases, Furtwangen University offers a unique direct admission pathway (“Smart Admission”) to this programme. Detailed information is available on our dedicated Smart Admission page.
- English language proficiency:
- International applicants:
- TOEFL internet-based iBT (total score 72 or higher)
- IELTS (overall band score 6,0 or higher)
- TOEIC (total score 785 or higher)
- PTE Academic (overall score 59 or higher)
- Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) (Grade A, B, C)
- Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE) (Grade A, B, C)
- Cambridge English Scale 160
- A-Levels
- English grade from a secondary school in the European Union
- International Baccalaureate (IB-Diploma)
- Language A HL grade 4, language A SL grade 4 (or higher)
- Language B HL grade 5, language B SL grade 6 (or higher)
- completed bachelor’s degree in English Language or Literature
- German applicants: The German university entrance qualification (Abitur / Fachhochschulreifezeugnis) is considered proof of your language skills.
- International applicants:
Exempted countries: Citizens of one of the following countries do not have to submit proof of English language proficiency:
- Australia
- Canada
- Ireland
- New Zealand
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
- South Africa.
If you have completed your secondary school certificate in one of the listed countries but are NOT a citizen of either of them you are also exempted.
- German language proficiency:
No prior knowledge necessary
- Language skills in your regional focus of choice:
- Francophone world: 2 school years /A2
- Hispanic world: 2 school years /A2
- China: no previous knowledge necessary
- Germany/EU: no previous knowledge necessary
Tuition fees
The Baden-Württemberg state government introduced tuition fees of €1500 / semester for non-EU students in Winter Semester 2017/18.
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In addition, all students pay administrative, student union and student services fees totaling €176/semester.
What's covered
Your career prospects
In demand globally
If you have studied International Engineering with us, you will be ideally trained to work as an engineer in an international environment. There is a shortage of at least 15,000 engineers in Germany alone, and the trend is rising. So you can be sure that after graduation you will have the best job prospects – both in Germany and abroad.
Career prospects in medical technology:
- Research
- Development
- Medical technology in the clinic
- Cardiotechnology and surgical engineering
- Product management and sales
Career prospects in mechanical engineering:
- Production engineering
- Design/development
- Robotics/handling technology
- Assembly processes
- Quality assurance
- Sensors, automation
- Research and development
- Software and hardware development
- Customer support and sales
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