Student accommodation in Germany

The University of Rostock describes hall rooms as the simplest option for students in the city and recommends applying for one, particularly for short stays of one or two semesters. The halls are let by Studierendenwerk Rostock-Wismar. The university warns students never to obtain a hall room through a third party or to transfer money before holding a signed rental contract, as such offers can be fraudulent.

Published on the pages of TU Dresden's International Center for Computational Logic for prospective students. The same guidance puts total monthly living expenses at a minimum of EUR 650-700, of which health insurance is EUR 60-100, and notes a Semesterbeitrag (registration/service fee) of approximately EUR 260 per semester that includes a ticket for Dresden's public transport network. The page carries no publication date, so treat the figure as indicative rather than a current-year quotation; TU Dresden's central housing page points students to the Studentenwerk Dresden hall-of-residence catalogue for actual rents, which it does not itself reproduce.

• Hall of residence, depending on the size and age of the hall€190 to €290
• Single apartment, depending on its size and location€250 to €380

The same page puts food at about €275.00 a month, health insurance at an estimated €62.00 a month, the TV and radio licence at €17.98 a month, study material at roughly €100.00 per semester and the semester fee at €74.00 per semester. FAU notes that international students are expected to fund their own studies, since there is no German state financial aid open to them.

Separately, on the operator's own housing overview page, the rent is described as a base rent plus flat rates for operating and energy costs, and those flat rates cover refuse collection, heating, water and waste water, building cleaning, garden maintenance and electricity, with no back-charge ever made. Not included are a private telephone line and the Rundfunkbeitrag of 18.36 euros per month per household. Across all sixteen residences the span runs 200 to 460 euros.

The halls themselves are administered by the Studierendenwerk Kaiserslautern rather than by RPTU, but this figure is RPTU's own published one. RPTU also notes that a spacious 100 m² flat in Kaiserslautern can rent for as little as EUR 600 a month depending on condition and location, and warns to distinguish Kaltmiete (living space only) from Warmmiete (including utilities) — it puts additional costs at about 38% on top of the Kaltmiete. Flats on the private market are generally unfurnished, and even a hall room comes with only a bed and mattress, desk, cupboard and kitchen unit.

TU Chemnitz describes the halls as a short walk from the university, the student clubs and the canteen. The quoted rent already covers utilities.

• Odenwaldstr. 16/1 - single room in a 3- to 7-person shared flat€207 to €325
• Odenwaldstr. 16 - single apartment, approx. 20 sqm€390 to €400

All-inclusive rents: the Studierendenwerk's housing FAQ states that its rents are 'Alles-inklusive'-Mieten with every cost contained in the rent and no separate utilities statement, and that rent is collected monthly by SEPA direct debit. The broadcasting licence fee (Rundfunkbeitrag) is not included. Odenwaldstrasse 16 is the newer block (built 2019), 84 furnished single apartments of about 20 sqm with internet, four of them barrier-free, washing machines in the hall next door; Odenwaldstrasse 16/1 is the 1970 block, 19 furnished single rooms of 9 to 27 sqm in shared flats, some with a balcony or terrace, with no accommodation suitable for students with disabilities. Both are 200 m from the town centre and 350 m from the S-Bahn.

• Wohnheim Dewangen, from€210
• Studentendorf Wellandstrasse, from€425
• Wohnheim Waldcampus, from€535

Every Jugendwerk Aalen residence states its monthly rent as including Nebenkosten. Rooms come with a bed and mattress, wardrobe, shelf, desk, chair and drawer unit, a washbasin, and TV, telephone and internet sockets; kitchens, showers and WCs are shared per floor or flat, with washing machines and dryers in the building. A one-off handling fee of 20 euros is due on signing and the deposit is three net cold rents. Parking is charged separately. Hochschule Aalen's own living page notes that Studierendenwerk Ulm runs only a private-room brokerage in Aalen; the halls themselves are run by the non-profit Jugendwerk Aalen foundation.

The dormitories sit directly on campus with the student cafeteria and shops close by, and are maintained by Studentenwerk Freiberg. A deposit of 300€ is payable at the start and refunded at the end of the stay if the room is left clean and undamaged. The university cooperates with Studentenwerk Freiberg for a limited number of places and cannot house every international student, so students who miss out have to find private housing themselves.

All-inclusive rent (heating, water, electricity, furnishings, internet). Individual halls range more widely, e.g. Str. des 18. Oktober 17 at €375-435 (room) to €450-550 (apartment).

BTU gives the 2025 Cottbus average as EUR 287 per month and says accommodation can be found from as little as EUR 180 a month. The same table sets out the whole student budget: semester fee approx. EUR 62/month (EUR 373.80 per semester), food EUR 200, healthcare including health insurance EUR 100, and other costs (mobility, leisure, clothing, study materials, communication) EUR 280-406 — EUR 857-1,103 per month in total. BTU describes Cottbus and Senftenberg as among the most inexpensive university locations in Germany. Figures are sourced by BTU to the 22nd Social Survey (The Student Survey in Germany).

• Möbliertes Einzelapartment with shower/WC, kitchen shared along the corridor (max 16 rooms per floor) — 66 units€224 to €333
• Möbliertes Einzelzimmer, bathroom and kitchen shared (max 15 rooms per floor) — 112 units€231 to €273
• Six-person shared flat, furnished — 1 unit€242 to €267
• Three-person shared flat, furnished — 25 units€245 to €305
• Four-person shared flat, furnished — 28 units€260 to €325
• Five-person shared flat, furnished — 18 units€260 to €489
• Möbliertes Einzelapartment with shower/WC and kitchenette — 74 units€279 to €420
• Partially wheelchair-accessible furnished room — 2 units€324
• Partially wheelchair-accessible furnished apartment — 3 units€313 to €327

The hall has washing machines and dryers, fast WLAN and ample parking. The same page prices Studentenwerk Schleswig-Holstein’s nine other Kiel halls, which together house 1,964 students and are all near one of Kiel’s universities: the Christian-Albrecht-Haus in Düsternbrook runs 211-371 €, and other halls quote from 201 € for a place in a shared flat up to 451 €. The last row above, at 410 €, is an unfurnished flat for couples or single parents rather than a student room. Kiel University warns that dormitory places are limited and advises looking at the private market and at towns around Kiel (Gettorf, Flintbek, Bordesholm, Felde, Rendsburg, Eckernförde) reachable free on the semester ticket, that Studentenwerk halls are for bachelor’s and master’s students only with nothing offered to PhD students, and that every household in Germany pays a broadcasting contribution of 18,36 € a month on top of rent.

• Wohnheim Ehrenbergstraße 37 (Haus P) — 75 places€226 to €318
• Wohnheim Am Helmholtzring 2a-e/4a-e (Haus K) — 279 places€227 to €263
• Wohnheim Max-Planck-Ring 10 (Haus E) — 106 places€227 to €270
• Wohnheim Max-Planck-Ring 6a-e/8a-d (Haus L) — 259 places€241 to €307
• Wohnheim Goetheallee 11 (Haus Zapf) — 12 places€270 to €329
• Wohnheim Am Ehrenberg 6 (Haus Q) — 127 places€274
• Wohnheim Max-Planck-Ring 2 (Haus H) — 113 places€273 to €345
• Wohnheim Max-Planck-Ring 4 (Haus I) — 114 places€278 to €353
• Wohnheim Am Helmholtzring 3 (Haus N) — 124 places€294 to €392
• Wohnheim Max-Planck-Ring 18 (Haus D) — 96 places€316 to €447

Rents are Pauschalmieten — all operating costs including water, electricity and heating are already contained in them. Two of the twelve Ilmenau halls are omitted from the breakdown above because the directory prints their “Miete bis” column as 0 €: Max-Planck-Ring 7 (Haus A, 81 places) and Max-Planck-Ring 16 (Haus C, 149 places), both listed at a “Miete von” of 242 €, which reads as a single flat rate rather than a range — Haus A’s own page describes just one room type, a fully furnished 12 m² single room on a corridor of 12 to 14 rooms sharing a kitchen and shower/WC, with a LAN socket and telephone point in every room, bike garage, washing machine and dryer in the building and a day nursery on site. TU Ilmenau’s own housing page publishes no Ilmenau rent at all: its only figure is the national average from the Deutsches Studentenwerk Sozialerhebung (about 1.000 € a month of living costs, of which about 440 € is rent including utilities), which is not what Ilmenau costs. Applications for the winter semester open on 1 April and the operator tries to make an offer to everyone who applies by 31 July.

• Einzelzimmer Var. 1, 13 und 19 qm€236
• Behindertengerechte Wohnung zur Einzelnutzung, 38.6 qm€379

As in all of this operator's halls, every operating and consumption cost — heating, electricity and water among them — is already contained in the rent, and so is the internet connection. Rooms are fully furnished. A deposit applies before the lease is concluded. Excluding the single accessible flat, the standard single-room range is 236 to 254 euros.

Warmmiete: the page states that the rents are all-in, covering electricity, water, rubbish and internet, so this is a real cost rather than a Kaltmiete. Rents are Staffelmieten and step up over the tenancy, which is why the page writes them as 'from'. The hall has 37 rooms of 10 to 27 sqm in two large floor-sharing communities of 14 and 16 and a smaller 7-person flat, each student with their own room and shared kitchen, lounge and bathrooms; a car parking space is 15,00 EUR monthly on top. It is about 20 minutes' walk from the student restaurant. DHBW VS students may nominate someone to sublet their room during the practical phases of the dual programme. CAVEAT: the price block itself does not print the word 'monthly'; the only 'monatlich' on the page is against the parking space. German Wohnheim Staffelmieten are monthly by definition, and the English version of the same page reads the same way.

Restricted to the single room, which is the comparable unit for one student. The same page also gives 526-545 Euro for a Doppelzimmer, but never says whether that is the rent for the room or for each of its two occupants — the two readings differ by a factor of two, so it is left out rather than guessed at. The rent is a Warmmiete including heating, water, electricity and internet.

• Einzelzimmer — furnished single room with washbasin, Warmmiete€246 to €329

The hall offers 28 furnished single rooms with a washbasin, 2 furnished gallery rooms with a washbasin, 2 furnished double rooms (each with a washbasin and a gallery) and one two-room flat with bathroom and WC for families or couples. The same page prices a Doppelzimmer at 526 - 545 Euro but does not say whether that is per person or for the room, so it is deliberately left out of the range above. Facilities are LAN internet, a common room, a bike shed, and washing machines and dryers for a fee. Studierendenwerk Karlsruhe runs many more halls in Karlsruhe, each priced on its own page on the same basis: Klosterweg 7 quotes single rooms at 316 - 380 Euro (plus 4 Euro for a bike box) and Tennesseeallee 8 at 301 - 357 Euro (plus 25 - 34 Euro for a car parking space), both Warmmieten. KIT’s own guidance warns that rooms advertised at conspicuously low prices often belong to student fraternities (Studentenverbindungen), which it says do not have the best reputation among students and are not always open to international guests.

The rent is stated as including Nebenkosten such as electricity, water and heating. The 32 bright single apartments are partly furnished and each has its own kitchenette and bathroom. Washing machines and dryers are shared, and there are car parking spaces and lockable bicycle stands. This covers the Elsfleth campus only; Jade students at the Oldenburg campus are eligible for the same operator's Oldenburg residences.

• Single apartment, furnished, 19-29 sqm€256

The rent is stated as including all utilities. Each apartment is furnished with its own shower and toilet and a kitchenette, at 19 to 29 sqm. One apartment is adapted for wheelchair users at 38.42 sqm and 440 euros including all additional costs, which is above the range recorded here. The residence also offers TV and internet access, an optional private telephone line, parking, a bike cellar, a washing and drying room and a common room, and stands directly on campus.

• Einzelzimmer in 3er WG, 11-18 qm€258
• Einzelappartement, unter 24 qm, moebliert€349
• Einzelappartement behindertengerecht, unter 50 qm€430

The total rent contains the Betriebskosten, so there is no annual utilities reconciliation. TV and internet connection are included and the deposit is two months' rent. Shared-flat rooms use a communal kitchen and shower room; single apartments are furnished with a kitchenette and shower room. The 677 euro three-room flat in the same table is a whole family flat, not one student's rent, so it is excluded from this range.

TU Bergakademie Freiberg puts the average total cost of living for a student in Freiberg at EUR 500-600 per month and says students in Freiberg spend the lowest amount on average for housing of any German university town, citing a national rental-cost ranking. Student dormitories, private landlords and shared flats are all available; the university also notes there is no semester ticket for public transport in Freiberg, which is part of why its semester fee is only EUR 107.

Per-room-type breakdown (rent incl. utilities/month) from the same rent list: Rosenheim I single room in shared flat 262.00-328.50 EUR, Rosenheim I studio apartment 396.00 EUR, Rosenheim II single room in shared flat 315.55-339.10 EUR, Rosenheim II apartment with shared kitchen 339.60/346.70 EUR. (A Rosenheim II family flat at 631.10 EUR is also listed but excluded above as atypical.)

• Single room in a 2- or 5-person shared flat, 12 to 18 m² plus kitchen and bathroom, furnished — Komplettmiete€263 to €291

Rent covers all Nebenkosten and electricity, plus a data-network connection provided over Hochschule Anhalt's own network, and building cleaning; rooms come furnished with bed and mattress, desk and chair, shelf and wardrobe, and the block has a lockable bike room, washing machine and dryer, and the Mensakeller student club in the neighbouring Mensa Fasanerieallee. Studentenwerk Halle prices its other four Köthen halls on the same site, all on the same Komplettmiete basis: WH 1 Philipp-Semmelweis-Straße 290 to 317 € (one minute from the Fachbereich Informatik und Sprachen in the Ratke building), WH 3 Bernburger Str. 53 286 to 300 €, WH 4 Bernburger Str. 52b 263 to 287 €, and WH 6 Hubertus 1-6 248 € bis 299 €, so the Köthen range as a whole runs 248 to 317 € a month. The Studentenwerk also runs halls in Bernburg and Dessau, Hochschule Anhalt's other two sites, priced on their own pages. Hochschule Anhalt's own international page warns that places are limited at all three sites and that applying does not guarantee a room by the start of the semester.

• Single room in a 2-person shared apartment (from)€265
• Single room in a 3-person shared apartment (from)€305
• Private studio apartment (from)€315
• Single room in a renovated 4-person shared apartment (from)€332
• Spacious 2-3 room apartment, sole occupancy (from)€426

All figures are 'from' prices (starting rents); Studierendenwerk Freiburg also operates halls in Villingen-Schwenningen (the university's other main campus) but that page did not publish per-room prices at the time of this check.

Separately, on the operator's own housing overview page, all its flats and rooms are described as furnished, with either a kitchenette or an electric cooker plus a fridge, sink and sanitary unit depending on housing type, and the rents are flat rates so no operating-cost back-charge is ever made. This residence has bicycle parking and an internet connection.

The same page lists many other halls, each with its own rent range: the lowest room quoted anywhere on the page is EUR 207 (Schloss 11, Bad Mergentheim) and the highest is EUR 797 (Herrenmühle, which appears to include larger apartment-style units alongside single rooms, given the wide 542-797 span). Most halls in central Heidelberg fall in the 250-465 range. All rents are per room per month; the page states rooms are usually furnished.

Separately, on the operator's own housing overview page, all its flats and rooms are described as furnished, with either a kitchenette or an electric cooker plus a fridge, sink and sanitary unit depending on housing type, and the rents are flat rates so no operating-cost back-charge is ever made. This residence has bicycle parking and an internet connection. Across the ten Bremen residences the span runs 278 to 414 euros for single-student housing.

• Einzelzimmer in Doppel- oder Dreierappartement — own room in a two- or three-person apartment, 12 to 20 m²€280 to €327
• Behindertengerechtes Zimmer — wheelchair-accessible room, 13 to 15 m²€304
• Einzelappartement — self-contained studio, 18 to 40 m²€293 to €401

Rent includes heating, electricity, water and the internet connection in every Studierendenwerk Greifswald hall. The operator prices its other six Greifswald halls on their own pages on the same site, so a student can go cheaper or dearer than this one: Ernst-Thälmann-Ring 8-10 from 232 - 265 € for a single room, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 11 a-e 262 - 329 €, Fleischerwiese I and II 276 - 349 € (accessible rooms 334 € and 370 €), Wilhelm-Holtz-Straße 4 a flat 234 € for a 13 m² single room, Makarenkostraße 47 a-c 350 - 380 €, and Bachstraße 27 337 - 449 €. Across the seven halls single-student rooms therefore run about 232 to 449 € a month; couple and family flats are priced separately and higher (from 510 € at Fleischerwiese, 569 - 626 € at Bachstraße, from 690 € for two people at Makarenkostraße). Greifswald's own cost page publishes no rent of its own — only whole-of-living totals from the 22. Sozialerhebung — and a Studierendenwerk contribution of 110 EUR per semester is charged with the semester fee.

• Einzelzimmer in WG — own room in a shared flat, 462 rooms, 3-4 semester wait€283.20 to €480.70
• Teilapartment — 264 rooms, 4 semester wait€375.80 to €525.10
• Einzelapartment — self-contained, 282 rooms, 4 semester wait€401.10 to €505.50

The operator describes the rent as a reine Kostenmiete — a pure cost rent covering all outgoings with no operating subsidy — collected monthly by direct debit, with operating costs charged as a monthly advance and reconciled at the end of the billing period. The same list prices every other Munich hall on the same Warmmiete basis, and one of them is earmarked for Hochschule München’s own students: Lothstraße 62, on HM’s main campus street and marked “vorwiegend für FH-Studierende”, lets 61 rooms in shared flats at 491,10 - 576,60 € with a 4-semester wait. Cheaper options exist elsewhere in the network — Chiemgaustraße lists rooms in 4-, 5- and 6-person shared flats from 334,80 € with a wait of only 1 to 2 semesters. Single-parent apartments and family flats in Studentenstadt are priced separately and much higher (628,00 € to 1.144,90 €) and are excluded from the range above. Parking, where offered, costs students between 6 and 35 Euro a month.

• Gutenbergstrasse€362 to €477
• Heidenheimer Strasse (old building)€367 to €402
• Heidenheimer Strasse (new building)€285 to €337
• Frauensteige€331 to €357
• Syrlinstraße€315 to €393
• Eselsbergsteige€289 to €317
• Manfred-Börner-Strasse€323 to €401

Table is explicitly dated 'as of February 2023' by the university itself, so treat as indicative rather than a current-year quotation -- flagged here rather than silently treated as current. A EUR 600 security deposit applies (fully refundable if the room is returned undamaged), plus one-off fees of EUR 20 for a new contract and EUR 70 for bedding. Studierendenwerk, a non-profit, can raise prices at short notice if its costs rise.

Offenburg’s International Center places new international students in accommodation before arrival: halls of residence in Offenburg only, or private accommodation in Offenburg and Gengenbach. There are no halls at the Gengenbach campus. The same page prices private rooms, also fully furnished, at approximately €350–€480 — the monthly unit is spelled out only on the halls line — and its English edition notes that the placement service for private accommodation is exclusively for students on international master’s programmes and for exchange students. For the student visa the university states living costs of about €992 a month, or roughly €11,904 for the first year, and every household separately pays the German broadcasting fee, currently €18.36 a month.

UDE's own page lists this alongside several private providers with higher rates (e.g. EUR 350 furnished private dorm including electricity/internet; EUR 360-470 central-Duisburg rooms/WGs including satellite TV; EUR 410-450 shared flats in the 'Brücke' complex on Essen campus).

• Zimmer fuer eine Person, 20 qm€294
• Wohnung fuer eine Person, 20-21 qm€319
• Zimmer mit Bad fuer eine Person, 20 qm€389

Rooms are partly unfurnished. In the plain single rooms residents share a kitchen and bathroom; in the rooms with private bathroom up to eight residents share a kitchen. Single-person apartments in the same building have their own pantry kitchen with hob and fridge and their own bathroom, at 319 to 365 euros. The operator does not state what the rent covers — that remains an open gap. Berlin's universities run no halls of their own.

• Gustav-Berger-Haus, Max-Planck-Str. 31 — single apartments and rooms in 2- and 4-person shared flats, walking distance to Hochschule Heilbronn€296 to €375
• Max-Planck-Straße 27€370 to €410
• Cäcilienstraße 39€399 to €405

Studierendenwerk Heidelberg describes its rooms as generally furnished, with laundry machines and facilities from a washing machine to a music room depending on the hall. Its own page for the Gustav-Berger-Haus — the Heilbronn hall it places "nahe Hochschule HN", reachable from the university on foot — gives the split behind that hall's range: single apartments (about 17-20 m²) 360,00 € - 375,00 €, single rooms in 2- and 4-person shared flats (about 10-25 m²) 296,00 € - 310,00 €, furnished, with IP-TV and an internet connection, washing machine and dryer, parking and several study rooms, and states it has no accommodation suitable for students with a disability. Hochschule Heilbronn's own page warns that waiting times for a Studierendenwerk room can be long.

The operator's overview page does not state what the rent covers. Across its eleven Giessen halls the cheapest room anywhere is 250 euros; the highest figure on that table, 907 euros at Unterhof, covers Familienwohnungen and is not one student's rent.

• WG-Zimmer, ca 9-10 qm€299
• WG-Zimmer, ca 10-13 qm€335
• WG-Zimmer, ca 13-14.5 qm€376
• WG-Zimmer, ca 14.5-18 qm€438

Seezeit rents are Komplettmieten — one fixed amount covering the cold rent, the operating costs and flat rates for heating, water, electricity, refuse and, in most residences, internet. This residence has fast WLAN over eduroam and some rooms have high beds. The deposit is 850 euros and an outdoor parking space costs 20 euros a month. The operator's Ravensburg hall Weingartshof runs 362 to 469 euros on the same Komplettmiete terms.

The same page prices private accommodation at EUR 400-600/month and puts total monthly expenses at around EUR 850 (approx. EUR 1,000 with private accommodation), further broken down as health insurance approx. EUR 75/month and other expenses approx. EUR 300/month. A separate portion of the semester contribution is amortised into this monthly total (~EUR 53/month); the actual per-semester total is not stated on this page (see Tuition notes).

HAW Hamburg's wording is "approximately €300", not an exact rate, and it is a single figure rather than a range — treat it as an approximation. The halls are run by Studierendenwerk Hamburg, which the same page names, but that provider publishes no consolidated rate table.

HTW Dresden puts total living costs in Dresden at about 920 to 1050 Euro a month depending on lifestyle, of which 450 EUR is general living costs on top of rent. Students can live in a Studentenwerk Dresden hall of residence during their studies, with a minimum rental period of 4 months, applying online directly to the Studentenwerk. The hall charges a 300 EUR deposit, refunded at the end of the stay if the room is returned in good condition.

• Public dormitory (Studierendenwerk Berlin)€300 to €400
• Private student-housing provider dormitory€600 to €1,100

IU describes dormitory rent as all-inclusive, with utilities and internet often included, rooms furnished, and many dorms running social events or providing common study areas; the trade-offs it names are long waiting lists, shared kitchens and bathrooms, and eligibility rules at some dorms. The same table prices the two alternatives: a room in a shared flat (WG) at €400–800 a month, and a private apartment at €1,200–1,800 in the city centre or €700–1,300 further out.

OVGU states that Magdeburg has very low rental costs compared with other German university towns, and that rooms in private shared apartments can sometimes be cheaper still than EUR 300. Two rental models exist locally: fixed-price apartments including all additional costs (water, heating, electricity), or a split basic rent plus consumption-based additional costs, where electricity needs a separate contract with an external supplier. OVGU's worked example for a small 59 m² apartment is EUR 310 basic rent plus EUR 135 additional costs (including heating) = EUR 445 total per month, on top of which the broadcast media fee of EUR 18.36 per month is not included. It also notes the city is small with good public transport, so living centrally is not necessary — nowhere is more than about 20 minutes from the centre by bus or tram.

In a shared flat you have your own room and share kitchen, bathroom and communal areas. TU Braunschweig's same page prices a small private apartment at EUR 400-500 basic rent (Kaltmiete), rising to EUR 550-650 once additional charges, electricity, heating and internet are included, and warns that German apartments are often let without a kitchen. It also advises allowing four to six months for the search, since the market is very competitive at the start of a semester, and cautions against paying any deposit or rent before signing a tenancy agreement or receiving keys.

Stated alongside the university's advice that students should budget at least 800 euros per month overall, and that Bremen rents are rising; the range varies with location, size and quality. Bremen's International Office separately tells visa applicants to budget at least EUR 992 per month across rent, food, insurance, leisure and study.

• Brienerstraße 45, 45a, 45b — room in a three-room shared flat (3-Zi-WG), approx. 18 m², furnished€301
• Brienerstraße 45, 45a, 45b — room in a two-room shared flat (2-Zi-WG), approx. 18 m², furnished€306
• Brienerstraße 45, 45a, 45b — single apartment (Einzel-Ap.), 13-20 m², furnished€321
• Hafenstraße 2 — room in a two-room shared flat (2-Zi-WG), approx. 25 m², furnished€333
• Flutstraße 26, 28, 30 und 32 — single apartment (Einzel-Ap.), approx. 15 m², furnished€344 to €359
• Flutstraße 26, 28, 30 und 32 — room in a three-room shared flat (3-Zi-WG) with its own bathroom, 15-25 m², furnished€345 to €356
• Flutstraße 26, 28, 30 und 32 — room in a two-room shared flat (2-Zi-WG), 15-25 m², furnished€349
• Hafenstraße 2 — single apartment (Einzel-Ap.), 18-20 m², furnished€358
• Hafenstraße 2 — two-room apartment (Zweiraum-Ap.), approx. 33 m², furnished, rent for the whole flat€516

Every room type in the Kleve table is listed as furnished (Möblierung: ja). The table also gives approximate room sizes in square metres and a waiting-time indicator per room type. Rhine-Waal University itself runs no halls: its accommodation page says the Studierendenwerk Düsseldorf runs five residential halls across the two campuses and points students to the Studierendenwerk for rates and applications, which is why the rate is cited there.

• Einzelzimmer in 2er-, 3er-, 4er- und 5er-WG, moebliert€302.50
• Einzelapartment, moebliert€329.50

Rents are stated as including Betriebskosten. Rooms are furnished; shared-flat rooms use a communal kitchen and bathroom, while the Einzelapartment has its own kitchen and bathroom. Salzbruecker Strasse is the cheapest of the six Lueneburg halls — across all six the single-student span runs to 604.50 euros, every one of them marked inclusive of Betriebskosten.

• Poststr. 22/1, moeblierte Einzelzimmer in 4er-7er WGs, ca 12.5-16.5 qm€305
• Poststr. 22/2, moeblierte Einzelapartments, ca 17-19.5 qm€415
• Poststr. 22/1, barrierefreies moebliertes Einzelapartment, ca 23 qm€454

Rooms are furnished with a bed and mattress, chair, desk, wardrobe, shelf and drawer unit, and each has its own washbasin; single apartments have their own kitchenette and bathroom, while shared flats have a communal kitchen and two sanitary areas per flat. Internet runs over the university network, and washing machines and dryers are provided, both described by the operator as voluntary services. The deposit is 600 euros and parking is 15 euros a month. The page does not state whether utilities are included, and the operator marks all prices as subject to change.

• Heuberger-Tor-Weg 15 — the hall Universität Tübingen's own page names, rooms of about 11.5 to 22 m²€305 to €405
• Hartmeyerstr. 2 — rooms of about 11.5 to 22 m²€326 to €399
• Hartmeyerstr. 2/4 — rooms of about 13 m²€342 to €349

The same row of the table prices flats for couples and families at Hartmeyerstr. 2 separately, at 699 € to 713 € for about 63 m², which is why they are excluded from the student-room range above. Studierendenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim runs many more halls elsewhere in Tübingen — the Altstadt, Südstadt, Lustnau/Sand, Waldhäuser Ost and the Französisches Viertel — each with its own table on the same page and rents that run wider in both directions. Four of the seven Altstadt halls are self-managed, meaning residents choose their own successors, so the operator advises contacting the current residents alongside the online application. The asterisked footnote reads "Preise ohne Gewähr, Änderungen behält sich das Studierendenwerk vor."

• Single apartment, Bebelstraße 22€325
• Step-free apartment, Bebelstraße 22€400
• Single-parent apartment, Bebelstraße 22€470
• Apartment, Bebelstraße 24-26€385 to €440
• Single-parent apartment, Bebelstraße 24-26€560

The rent is all-inclusive: every ancillary cost is already in the figure. The complex has 234 places across three buildings. The top of the range is the apartment set aside for single parents; an ordinary single apartment is at the bottom of it. Underground parking costs 27.50 EUR a month on top.

• Steubenstrasse 14, 18 Iserlohn, Warmmiete€326

The rent is a Warmmiete. Separately, on the operator's own housing overview page, its rents are described as including the Nebenkosten and internet. Rooms are fully furnished and have a cable TV connection; the building has a washing machine, a dryer and car parking. The Soest campus hall at Kasernenweg 7 publishes a single Warmmiete of 357.14 euros.

HdM's own page states that Studierendenwerk Stuttgart maintains 35 halls with over 7,200 places, mostly close to the universities. This hall publishes one rent range for its rooms rather than a per-room-type table. Internet is not included in the rent.

TU Berlin's own accommodation page says studierendenWERK Berlin has 9,500 rooms across 33 dormitories and is available to students at any Berlin university, and names Siegmundshof among the halls with rooms reserved for TU Berlin exchange students. The hall publishes three further room types (en-suite single, two-person room, single apartment) that do not fit inside one contiguous quote. Waiting time is stated as over 18 months.

The rent is described as all-inclusive and varies by room size, from 14 to 29 sqm. Each of the 35 apartments is furnished with its own shower and kitchenette; three further apartments have a shower and share a kitchen. Kempten University of Applied Sciences does not arrange rooms itself — applications and tenancy agreements are handled directly with the provider, and the university marks its housing directory as general guidance subject to change. That directory also prices eight other Kempten providers, among them Sozialbau Kempten halls at roughly 245 to 340 euros including a furniture surcharge, flat-rate heating and operating costs and Wi-Fi.

• WG-Zimmer — own room in a 2- or 3-person shared flat, 12 to 25 m², shared kitchen and living space€335 to €385
• Einzelappartement — self-contained studio, 18 to 30 m², own kitchenette and shower/WC€385 to €435

Rooms are furnished (desk with drawer unit and chair, bed, bookshelf, storage chest, wardrobe) and the hall has a common room, laundry room, terrace, bike storage and free parking; washing machines and dryers are charged per use, and the ARD/ZDF/Deutschlandradio broadcasting fee is not included in the rent. A deposit (Kaution) of 800 Euro is payable. Studierendenwerk Koblenz runs three further halls, each priced on its own page of the same site: Auf dem Hellen Weyer in Koblenz-Metternich, next to the University of Koblenz rather than the Hochschule (single apartments 335 Euro, WG rooms 280 to 288 Euro), and, right at Hochschule Koblenz's RheinAhrCampus in Remagen, Von-Cramm-Str. 10 (single apartments 385 Euro, WG rooms 355 to 375 Euro) and Von-Cramm-Str. 5-7 (single apartments 345 Euro, WG rooms 305 Euro). A Remagen-based student should read those pages instead.

• Single apartment, approx 19.5-20.9 sqm€337
• Single apartment with wheelchair access, 29-31 sqm€359
• Single room in shared apartment for 3 persons€373
• Single room in shared apartment for 2 persons€374

The monthly rent is a basic amount plus an advance payment of utility charges, with a deposit of 550 to 630 euros. The wired internet connection is provided by Hotzone GmbH and its flat rate forms part of the utility payment contained in the rent. Apartments are furnished and have a telephone socket and cable TV; single apartments have their own kitchenette and bathroom, while shared-apartment residents share both. The building has a fitness room, table tennis, a community room, washing machine and dryer, bicycle stand and currently free car parking.

• Geschwister-Scholl-Strasse 15, Esslingen — price starting at€340
• Fabrikstrasse 3, Esslingen — price starting at€418
• Goerdelerweg 58-60, Esslingen — price starting at€421
• Boardinghaus Esslingen, Mettinger Strasse 127 — price starting at€505

Hochschule Esslingen owns no halls. Its own housing page (hs-esslingen.de/hochschule/service/wohnheime, archived as data/snapshots/5aa02c9bd0a292fb.txt) states that the Träger of the halls at the Esslingen and Göppingen sites is Studierendenwerk Stuttgart and sends applicants to that site to apply, which is why the rate is cited there. The same overview page prices three further halls the quoted span does not reach: Rossneckar I from 355€ and Rossneckar II from 389€, both in Esslingen, and Studentendorf Göppingen from 290€, which serves the Göppingen campus and is the cheapest address in the network. External students and interns pay an additional 30 euros per month because they pay no semester fee to the Studierendenwerk, and the maximum rental length is 36 months (six semesters). Since October 2015 the electricity in most of the dormitories has been green electricity.

All-inclusive: the guide states the price covers electricity, water, internet and a weekly cleaning service, and every facility has washing machines, dryers, storage and parking. Rooms come furnished with blankets and pillows; bed linen and towels are bought separately. ISM warns that it has only a very limited number of these rooms, allocated first come, first served, and that a deposit of roughly 700-800 EUR plus the first month's rent is due immediately on receiving the contract, before the semester starts. Beyond this block the same guide lists commercial alternatives in Dortmund starting at 695 EUR and all-inclusive warm rents from 720 EUR. ISM has no campus residence of its own.

• Garching I — own room in a shared flat, 106 rooms, 3 semester wait€385.90 to €403.90
• Garching I — accessible room, 4 rooms, on request€403.90
• Garching II — own room in a 2-person flat, 16 rooms, 4 semester wait€340

• Einzelzimmer in 2er/3er WG€343.20 to €359.90
• Einzelapartment€375.90 to €391.90

HSWT's own page states that Studierendenwerk München Oberbayern offers three halls of residence in Freising. The source is the provider's official rent-and-waiting-time list, which also covers Weihenstephan I and IV, but those rows are not contiguous with the ones quoted. German decimal comma: 343,20 € is 343.20.

• Einzelvollapartment€346 to €350
• Apartment in einer 2er-WG€349 to €355
• Apartment in einer 6er-WG€366 to €369
• behindertenfreundliches Einzelvollapartment€551

Hochschule Landshut's own page names the Studierendenwerk Niederbayern/Oberpfalz halls as close to campus and inexpensive. A further row on the same page, 373-424 € for an apartment in a 3-person flatshare, was left out only because including it pushes the quote past 300 characters. The accessible single apartment is about twice the floor area of a standard one, which is why it costs 551 €.

Rent includes electricity, water, heating and an internet connection; a €470 deposit is payable. Rooms are 15–24m², fully furnished and lockable, each with its own bathroom (WC, shower, basin), some with a small balcony; four students share a kitchen in a flat, and single apartments have a kitchenette. Washing machines and dryers are coin-operated (€2 a token). Students bring their own kitchen utensils and bedding. Five minutes' walk to the city centre, direct bus to campus, supermarket next door. The same page prices Hochschule Hof's other two halls: "Am Eichelberg" on campus at about €408 a month (deposit €570, five minutes from the university sports facilities) and "Haus Waldstein" in Münchberg at €315 a month (deposit €290), both also all-inclusive.

Kassel warns that admission to a degree programme is not linked to accommodation in Germany, so a room must be looked for very early and independently. Halls are run by the legally separate Studierendenwerk Kassel (its own domain, therefore not cited here), which does let students reserve a room from their home country ahead of the semester, subject to its own deadlines and a limited number of rooms. Kassel also notes that costs such as hall rent and health insurance can start running from 1 April or 1 October even if a student arrives after the semester officially begins.

Excludes utilities: Stuttgart states the figure is 'plus additional costs for electricity, water, and heating'. The same breakdown puts compulsory health insurance at approx. EUR 130/month for students up to age 30, the public broadcasting fee at EUR 18.36/month and public transport at approx. EUR 30/month, and says a student needs at least EUR 992 per month overall. Stuttgart describes living costs in the city as 'rather high'.

• Deutz-Kalker-Str. 114 / Reitweg 1-3 — 21 to 24 m², furnished€359 to €376
• Deutzer Ring 5 — 25 to 31 m²€380 to €419
• Gebrüder-Coblenz-Str. 13 — 23 m²€396 to €422
• Deutz-Kalker Str. 118 — 26 to 31 m²€398 to €422

The KSTW's own halls page says its roughly 5,000 rooms are let at rents below the average for comparable housing in Cologne, that about half are unfurnished and the rest already furnished, and that kitchens, laundry and drying rooms and an internet connection are standard; it also states plainly that "Die Warmendmieten enthalten die Energiekosten." The same price list covers TH Köln's other two campuses: at Gummersbach, "direkt an der Technischen Hochschule TH Gummersbach", Am Sandberg 7, 9, 11 at 287-297 €, Reininghauser Str. 41, 43 at 310-319 € and Auf der Platte 1 at 342-356 €; and at Leverkusen-Opladen, near the Leverkusen campus, Bahnstadtchaussee 29 at 465-486 €. Its legend defines EZ as a room off a corridor with shared kitchen, bathroom and WC, Ap as an apartment with kitchenette and shower room, and a WG-Zimmer as a lockable room sharing kitchen, bathroom and WC with one to seven other people. TH Köln warns that the KSTW is open to students at every Cologne university, not just TH Köln, that no admission offer is needed to apply, and that the wait can be six months or longer.

TUHH's own page states that it allocates a limited number of rooms in Studierendenwerk Hamburg residence halls, and that international degree students apply directly to Studierendenwerk Hamburg for accommodation. The Harburg complex has a single room type, so there is no rate table. The rent is all-inclusive.

HHU's own page recommends applying to Studierendenwerk Düsseldorf for a hall place and points to that provider's site for sizes and costs. Both rows quoted carry the same room label and differ only by floor area, so no tier table is given. The same provider table covers 25 Düsseldorf halls; some single apartments are cheaper and the larger flats, which need a WBS housing permit, are considerably more expensive.

Rent includes flat-rate utilities (heating, water, electricity), internet access and cable TV.

• Shared Triple Room — one single bed with bunk beds or three single beds€379
• Shared Double Room or Shared Bunkbed Room — two single beds or bunk beds€429

Every room has its own individual desk, kitchenette and ensuite bathroom. The residence has on-site laundry facilities, shared kitchens, a game room and communal areas. A refundable deposit is charged on top — €758 for the triple room, €858 for the double. UE's Berlin campus is served by a separate Edge Student Hub in Zossen, where the university says shared rooms typically start from €399 per month and single rooms and apartments cost more.

• Zimmer in Wohngemeinschaft fuer 4 oder 6 Personen€387
• Zimmer in Wohngemeinschaft fuer 9 oder 13 Personen mit eigenem Bad€427
• Zimmer in Wohngemeinschaft fuer 2 Personen, behindertengerecht€442
• Kleines Apartment€461
• Grosses Apartment€502

The operator's rate list states these rents include all Nebenkosten. Rooms come with a wardrobe, bed, table, chair and drawer unit and either a washbasin or a private bathroom; each living group has its own communal kitchen, some with a balcony. The building has washing machines, dryers and drying rooms, fitness, music, piano, billiards and table tennis rooms, study rooms, a large common room and a bar. Separately stated on the same page: a one-off 20 euro handling fee, a uniform 600 euro deposit, 18 euro parking, and up to 60 euros more on contracts shorter than twelve months. The cheapest rooms across the operator's other Ulm halls start at 287 euros.

• Einzelappartement, 20 qm, moebliert€388
• Einzelappartement barrierefrei, unter 26 qm, moebliert€471

The total rent contains the Betriebskosten, so there is no annual utilities reconciliation, and TV and internet connection are included. The deposit is two months' rent. Each apartment is furnished with a kitchenette and a shower room, and the residence has a common room, a laundry room, bicycle parking and car parking. Note that a 313 euro figure for this hall still circulates in DAAD's directory and in the operator's own press release; the live residence page says 388.

Gisma describes the offer as a six-month stay. Shared rooms, single rooms and apartments are available, all newly refurbished and fully equipped with secure access and free Wi-Fi, with a communal kitchen, games room and outdoor terrace. The residence is about 45 minutes from Berlin by train and 30 minutes from the airport. Airport pick-up is charged separately (€118 within Berlin, €166 from Berlin airport to Potsdam).

FH Aachen puts the realistic total monthly need at about 1,000 to 1,100 EUR depending on circumstances, and states the minimum living cost in Aachen and Jülich under the Düsseldorfer Tabelle 2026 at 990 EUR a month, or 11,880 EUR for a study year. The largest provider of halls of residence in Aachen and Jülich is the Studierendenwerk, which is cheaper but has long waiting lists, so apply early.

Places are very limited: LMU's International Office allocates them and says rooms can be guaranteed for only about half of applicants, so students are told to search for private accommodation in parallel. Rooms run September to the end of February or March to the end of July, usually for a maximum of one semester, and on acceptance three months' rent plus a deposit is transferred to the Munich Student Union. LMU's separate housing guidance notes that advertised German rents are usually Kaltmiete (basic rent excluding utilities) and that a deposit of one to three months' basic rent is normal.

The same table breaks the roughly EUR 1,210/month total student budget down as: rent EUR 400, health insurance approx. EUR 140, food EUR 350, free time min. EUR 150, semester fee approx. EUR 300/semester (EUR 50/month equivalent), miscellaneous approx. EUR 120. The page separately notes a first-rent-plus-deposit lump sum of roughly EUR 800-1,200 is needed on arrival.

RWTH publishes this inside a whole cost-of-living table: it tells students to plan on at least €1,100 a month in total, of which €400–600 is rent and utilities, €200–300 food, €100–150 health insurance, €20–40 study materials, €20–50 internet and mobile, and €50–200 other spending. A semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag) is payable on top at each re-registration.

The same sheet estimates rooms in private housing at 600-1,000 € a month including utilities; food, health insurance and leisure activities at 500 € a month; internet and mobile network at 25 € a month; and urban transport (the student Deutschlandticket) at 43 € a month. On top of living costs there is a student union fee of 82 € per semester and, for students who are liable for it, a tuition fee of 800 € per semester. THI states this is only a rough estimate and actual costs may vary.

The university's own page flags this 2021-survey figure as dated: 'Since 2021, rental and ancillary costs in particular have risen significantly nationwide... we would like to recommend that you please budget an average of around 150 euros more per month, especially for your rent and incidental costs.' The full monthly student budget in the same table totals EUR 997 (now recommended nearer EUR 1,150): rent EUR 409, then food, clothing, learning materials, telephone/internet, leisure, health insurance, and other costs.

The same table breaks the average monthly student budget in Bonn down as: rent EUR 410, food EUR 198, clothing EUR 46, transportation (car) EUR 89, health care costs EUR 100, communication EUR 31, leisure EUR 65, learning material EUR 31.

This is the university's budgeting guidance, not a tariff, and EBS says so on the page: the figures are estimates and depend on lifestyle and housing choice. The same budget puts health insurance at 130 euros a month, food at 250, clothing and leisure at 50-100 and the semester ticket at 156.75 euros for the Fall 2025 term, for a total of 1,000-1,200 euros a month. Named options near the Oestrich-Winkel campus include Rhein Village, 130 apartments housing 138 people immediately next to campus at a fixed price that already includes heating, electricity, water and high-speed internet, and Swan1628 serviced apartments of 15 to 40 sqm on Rheinallee from 190 EUR a week. Students must also register with the GEZ for the German broadcasting fee.

German universities do not allocate housing; students arrange it themselves. The same guidance says rooms in a Studierendenwerk Bonn student dormitory cost between 190 and 490 € depending on size and facilities and come already furnished (bed sheets can even be rented), but places are limited and applications — handled by the Studierendenwerk, which is independent of the university — should be made as early as possible, ideally right after admission; dormitories are in Bonn, Rheinbach and Sankt Augustin. Rooms in flat shares are generally unfurnished. Renting a whole apartment is the most expensive option at 300 to 600 € a month. A security deposit of one to three months' rent is normal, and the first month's rent plus damage deposit must be paid in person at the Studierendenwerk office before moving in. Every household also pays the public broadcasting fee of about 18 € a month.

TU Darmstadt describes Darmstadt rents as 'relatively expensive compared to the rest of Germany.' A mandatory broadcasting fee (Rundfunkbeitrag) of currently EUR 18.36/month (or EUR 55.08/quarter) is normally split among flatmates, on top of rent. A security deposit of 1-3 months' cold rent is standard.

The same table breaks the appr. EUR 1,200/month total student budget into: rent (incl. extra charges) EUR 600, food EUR 200, clothes EUR 47, learning material EUR 20, social contribution fee EUR 60/month (i.e. approx. EUR 360-380/semester, though the university states the exact per-semester figure changes every semester and does not publish a single current number), health insurance/medical fees EUR 150, communication EUR 33, leisure/culture/sports EUR 71. For a residence permit, the university separately states the financial-proof requirement is EUR 992/month (EUR 11,904/year), the same rate that applies to German students under the blocked-account system.

• Bed in a two-person apartment (shared with one same-sex student), per person€635
• Single apartment€970

The one-time final cleaning fee is €100.

The same page prices a one-room apartment at around €1,000/month, and notes a mandatory monthly broadcasting fee (GEZ) of €18.36 per apartment shared among tenants, plus a deposit typically of two to three months' rent. FU Berlin's general international-student budget guidance separately states a minimum of €934/month must be shown for a visa/residence permit (rent, food and leisure combined), which is not primarily a housing figure and was not used here.

• Shared room in a flat share€380
• Single room in a shared apartment€450

These are starting prices in a flat share and BSBI warns on the same page that they vary with the size of the flat, its location and its furnishings. Under a separate 'Studio/Flat rent' heading the page quotes central-Berlin studio prices by the week instead. BSBI also partners with Edge Student Hub, a student residence in Zossen about 45 minutes from central Berlin, where shared rooms start at 599 EUR a month, and offers discount codes for Erasmusu and Uniplaces; students must register their Berlin residence within 14 days of moving in.

• Type C — double room, shared bathroom (some with a shared lobby), 13–16m²€4,800
• Type B — single room, shared bathroom (some with a shared lobby), 13–16m²€8,160

Room rent only: the university states that accommodation on campus also requires a meal plan at an additional cost of €5,000 per academic year. A third room type, Type A (single room with private bathroom, usually reserved for 2nd- and 3rd-year students), costs €9,600 on a 12-month contract. Nine-month contracts are cheaper — €7,560 (Type A), €6,480 (Type B) and €3,780 (Type C). All four residential colleges have shared dining, study and recreation areas, and every floor has a separate kitchen. The university houses up to 1,250 students.