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AAU dates the rate only as \"the academic year 2026 (two semesters)\" — no 2026/27-style academic year appears against it — so the period label carries the university’s own wording rather than an inferred year, and AAU adds that \"Fees are subject to change\" and that any difference must be paid before enrolment. Note for anyone hoping to offset this: the same page states that \"Aalborg University does not offer tuition waivers or scholarships for bachelor's programmes\", which is why no scholarship is recorded for these degrees. First-semester tuition falls due about three months before studies start, later semesters one month before."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"DKK","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","notes":"Aalborg scopes tuition to students from outside the EU/EEA, so an EU/EEA student pays none. Zero means confirmed tuition-free. The university states separately that \"EU/EEA citizens are not required to pay application fee\" either."}}],"costContext":{"value":"Tuition is not the only fee. Aalborg charges every non-EU/EEA applicant a 150 EUR application fee, paid through its webshop and due before 15 March; an application not paid for by that date is never processed. EU/EEA citizens pay no application fee."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"Study start"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Applicants holding a foreign entry examination must have their signed Signature page received by the AAU Admissions Office before 15 March, 12 noon. The application itself is started at optagelse.dk, the Danish national portal, and is not complete until the Signature page arrives."},"curriculum":{"notes":"All six semesters. Each semester pairs three 5-ECTS courses with a 15-ECTS group project (20 ECTS for the final bachelor's project). 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The test is one route to AAU's underlying requirement, which is English at Danish level B (equivalent to CEFR B2); the requirement can also be met through the applicant's own upper-secondary schooling."},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":85,"minimumPerComponent":"minimum score of 20 in each section","notes":"Printed as \"TOEFL (internet-based + Home Edition)\". AAU does not accept \"TOEFL MyBest Scores\"."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"An upper secondary school exam, plus English at level B, Mathematics at level A with a minimum grade of 4.0 in average, and one of these combinations: Physics B and Chemistry B; Physics B and Biotechnology A; or Geoscience A and Chemistry B. 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Aalborg also states plainly that it offers no tuition waivers or scholarships for bachelor’s programmes, so a fee-paying applicant should expect to meet the whole cost unaided."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15. marts kl. 12"},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"aalto-biotechnology","universityId":"aalto","name":"Biotechnology","award":"MSc (Tech)","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.aalto.fi/en/study-options/biotechnology-master-of-science-technology","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":17000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"non-eu","periodLabel":"Tuition fees for rights to study beginning on or after 1 August 2025","notes":"Aalto prices master's tuition by field, not by programme: EUR 17 000 per academic year covers every master's programme in the Field of Technology. EU/EEA and Swiss citizens pay nothing. Aalto publishes it as the rate for study rights beginning on or after 1 August 2025 rather than for a named academic year. 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The same page prices a semester at SR 47,000 and a credit hour at SR 3,917 for students taking 11 or fewer credit hours, and adds \"Note: VAT is applicable\" on top of the figure. A non-refundable SR 20,000 seat reservation and first instalment is due before the academic year, plus a SR 600 application fee. International undergraduates must enrol in at least 12 credit hours per semester to keep their legal status in Saudi Arabia. The page states no academic year anywhere, so the figure is recorded as undated."}},"costContext":{"value":"The Life Sciences degree offers two tracks — Biological Sciences & Nanotechnology, and Environmental Sciences & Sustainability. The first two years are common to both and students begin track-specific courses in the third year. Alfaisal publishes no per-year study plan table for this degree, so no duration or curriculum is recorded."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"entryRequirements":null},{"id":"amity-dubai-biotechnology","universityId":"amity-dubai","name":"Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology","award":"BS","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://amityuniversity.ae/join-amity/fees/bachelors-degree","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":2200,"currency":"AED","basis":"per-credit-unit","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Works out to AED 279,400 total over the 4-year, 127-credit programme at this per-credit rate, excluding VAT. Amity Dubai advertises scholarships of up to 50% off all degrees."}},"costContext":{"value":"AED 279,400 total for the whole 4-year, 127-credit programme (AED 2,200 per credit, excluding VAT). Amity Dubai's own Fees page states no academic year or any other validity period anywhere near this per-credit rate table (only a page-level \"Last Updated On: 16/02/2025\" stamp and the site-wide \"© 2026\" footer, neither of which this project treats as evidence of a fee's validity period), so the figure is recorded as verified cost context rather than a structured, dated fee. 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The JOD figure is recorded. `creditsPerYear` is not set: the page gives a whole-degree credit count, not a yearly load. The page states no academic year, so the fee is recorded undated, and Amman publishes no separate international rate."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"amu-poznan-ma-biotechnology","universityId":"amu-poznan","name":"Biotechnology","award":"master (magister)","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://rekrutacja.amu.edu.pl/en/studies-cataloge/biotechnology,483","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":3000,"currency":"PLN","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","notes":"Adam Mickiewicz University's Faculty of Biology states this as the semester tuition fee for the FIRST year of the two-year Master's programme; the page does not state a rate for the second year. The fee can be paid in 4 instalments of PLN 750 each. 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The cited page never states which academic year the figure applies to, so it is recorded as undated. Paid in two equal instalments per academic year; €35,000 in total across the five years, plus a non-refundable €150 application file-management fee and a non-refundable €1,000 enrolment deposit. 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Multiple award types available for international and domestic students."}}]},{"id":"birmingham-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"birmingham","name":"Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/subjects/biosciences-courses/biotechnology-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":29160,"currency":"GBP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27"}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2027}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"AAB at A-Level including specific subjects (Chemistry/Biology/Human Biology named in the contextual offer detail); a contextual offer of BBB including Chemistry/Biology/Human Biology is available to eligible applicants."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"bologna-genomics","universityId":"bologna","name":"Genomics","award":"Laurea (First Cycle Degree/Bachelor)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://corsi.unibo.it/1cycle/Genomics","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":2805,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","academicYear":"2026/2027","notes":"This is the CEILING, not a flat price. 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Bologna's own words: \"If you do not submit the ISEE or documents for foreign income, you can choose whether to pay ... an amount equal to the maximum all-inclusive contribution set for the programme you are enrolling on, plus the fixed fee of EUR 157.04.\" That EUR 157.04 (regional student-support tax, stamp duty and insurance) sits ON TOP of the figure recorded here -- the source table states the contribution is \"al netto della Tassa regionale per il diritto allo studio, dell'imposta di bollo e del premio assicurativo\" -- and is deliberately not added in, because Bologna never prints the combined total. Worth knowing: a student with citizenship of a country Italy classifies as particularly poverty-stricken/developing, or as non-OECD, whose family income and assets are held entirely outside Italy, qualifies instead for a reduced flat fee. 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Separately, Bologna runs a simpler opt-in scheme for applicants whose family has income and assets solely outside Italy, requiring only a signed declaration rather than certificates: for the 2026/27 academic year, a first-year (freshman) student on a first-cycle (Bachelor's) or single-cycle degree pays a fixed EUR 500 + EUR 157.04 (about EUR 657/year total) if their citizenship is on Bologna's own list of \"particularly poor and developing countries\", or a fixed EUR 1,000 + EUR 157.04 (about EUR 1,157/year total) if their citizenship is any other non-EU, non-OECD country. Applicants from EU/OECD countries, or whose family has income/assets partly in Italy, instead fall under the standard ISEE-banded system, whose ceiling is programme-specific and can run well above these reduced fixed fees. 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Bologna's own words: \"If you do not submit the ISEE or documents for foreign income, you can choose whether to pay ... an amount equal to the maximum all-inclusive contribution set for the programme you are enrolling on, plus the fixed fee of EUR 157.04.\" That EUR 157.04 (regional student-support tax, stamp duty and insurance) sits ON TOP of the figure recorded here -- the source table states the contribution is \"al netto della Tassa regionale per il diritto allo studio, dell'imposta di bollo e del premio assicurativo\" -- and is deliberately not added in, because Bologna never prints the combined total. Worth knowing: a student with citizenship of a country Italy classifies as particularly poverty-stricken/developing, or as non-OECD, whose family income and assets are held entirely outside Italy, qualifies instead for a reduced flat fee. 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Separately, Bologna runs a simpler opt-in scheme for applicants whose family has income and assets solely outside Italy, requiring only a signed declaration rather than certificates: for the 2026/27 academic year, a first-year (freshman) student on a first-cycle (Bachelor's) or single-cycle degree pays a fixed EUR 500 + EUR 157.04 (about EUR 657/year total) if their citizenship is on Bologna's own list of \"particularly poor and developing countries\", or a fixed EUR 1,000 + EUR 157.04 (about EUR 1,157/year total) if their citizenship is any other non-EU, non-OECD country. Applicants from EU/OECD countries, or whose family has income/assets partly in Italy, instead fall under the standard ISEE-banded system, whose ceiling is programme-specific and can run well above these reduced fixed fees. 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This programme falls under the table's \"All other Program\" row (BDT 8,250/credit) — the same rate as the separately-listed Pharmacy and CSE rows; only Law (BDT 8,800/credit) and the Architecture programme's Studio Course Fee (BDT 8,800/credit) differ. No domestic/international split is published anywhere on this page, hence audience 'all-students'. A one-time BDT 33,900 admission fee and a per-semester fee (BDT 9,350 for most programmes) apply on top."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"brocku-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"brocku","name":"Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://brocku.ca/programs/undergraduate/biotechnology/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":39834.95,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","periodLabel":"2026 (Spring to Winter entry)","notes":"Flat-fee option for the \"All Other ARTS OR SCIENCES\" international band (as opposed to the per-credit rate of $7,966.99/credit). Brock's international rate is locked at the level set for a student's year of entry and held for up to 5 academic years for a first degree; this is the rate for students entering in 2026. This program is not billed separately from the general Arts/Sciences band that covers most Faculty of Mathematics and Science programs."}},"costContext":{"value":"Brock's per-credit and flat-fee tuition rates exclude per-credit and sessional ancillary fees, which are billed on top, and the whole schedule is marked subject to change."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"curriculum":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"no band below 6.0","notes":"Brock also accepts TOEFL iBT, Duolingo (110), CAEL (70, no band below 60), PTE (58), CAE/CPE (176) and completion of the IB diploma with English A."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Ontario Secondary School applicants: Advanced Functions (min. 70%) or Calculus and Vectors (min. 70%); Chemistry (min. 70%); two further courses from Biology, Physics, Earth and Space Science, a second 4U math, or English. 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No application required.","coverage":"Tiered by admission average: 95.0%+ = $20,000 Year 1 + up to $4,000/yr renewal (max $32,000 total); 90.0-94.9% = $15,000 Year 1 + up to $3,000/yr renewal (max $24,000); 85.0-89.9% = $8,000 Year 1 + up to $1,500/yr renewal (max $12,500); 80.0-84.9% = $4,000 Year 1 + up to $1,000/yr renewal (max $7,000).","notes":"Renewable for up to three years (two renewals for a three-year degree), subject to annual Board of Trustees approval and meeting renewal requirements."}}]},{"id":"btu-biotechnology-msc","universityId":"btu-cottbus","name":"Biotechnology","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.b-tu.de/en/biotechnology-ms/aims-and-scope","durationYears":{"value":1.75},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Same institution-wide tuition-free policy that applies to every other BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg course listed here: 'BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg does not charge tuition fees.' Only the standard semester fee (EUR 351.66, including a transport ticket) applies, for every student regardless of nationality."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"winter"},{"month":"April","label":"summer"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For the winter-semester intake (4-semester version): April 20 to July 15. For the summer-semester intake (3-semester version): December 1 to January 15. Same deadlines apply to applicants with a German or a foreign entrance qualification, though foreign applicants apply via uni-assist rather than BTU's own portal."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"Certificate of proficiency in English (per BTU's own published handout)","notes":"BTU's admission page does not state specific minimum test scores directly on the page itself, only that a valid (non-expired, non-medium-of-instruction) certificate is required; exact accepted tests/scores are detailed in a linked handout document."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) with 210 ECTS (for the 3-semester version) or 180 ECTS (for the 4-semester version), including at least 70 ECTS of biological/biomedical/biochemical/biophysical subjects, plus a thesis or equivalent publication. Relevant Bachelor's fields: Biotechnology, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Bioengineering, Molecular Biology, or research-oriented Human/Veterinary Medicine with a relevant focus; other Human/Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy degrees are not accepted. Admission is limited (numerus clausus), and German language skills are not required to apply."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"notes":"An intensive, laboratory-based research training programme in cell biology, microbiology, bioanalytics and laboratory diagnostics, concluding with a five-month Master's thesis project often carried out at a national or international research institution or enterprise. Offered in two versions with different intakes: a 3-semester version starting in summer, and a 4-semester version starting in winter (recorded here as the average, 1.75 years). Distinct from the university's separate English-taught Biotechnology Bachelor's, recorded as btu-biotechnology listed here.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship) at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg","criteria":"Awarded to BTU students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and social commitment. Income-independent, so it is not means-tested.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, initially limited to two semesters. Does not count toward BAföG and does not have to be repaid.","notes":"Half of the award is funded by the federal government and half by regional companies, institutions or private individuals. At the time of collection BTU stated the next application period would begin in October 2026 with awards expected in April 2027. BTU publishes no numeric grade threshold, so none is recorded here. BTU separately awards STIBET I graduation scholarships and awards for particularly dedicated international students through its International Relations Office."}}]},{"id":"btu-biotechnology","universityId":"btu-cottbus","name":"Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.b-tu.de/en/biotechnologie-bs-fh","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg's own 'Finances' page states the institution-wide policy plainly: 'A semester fee (Semestergebühr) of 351.66 Euros including a semester transport ticket applies and is to be paid every semester to maintain enrollment. BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg does not charge tuition fees.' This is an institution-wide statement (not scoped to that one programme), reused here as the same policy applies across BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg. Genuinely tuition-free for every student, EU and non-EU alike -- only the standard semester fee applies."}},"costContext":{"value":"No tuition fee for this degree. BTU is a public university in Brandenburg and its own FAQ for international applicants states that students \"will be required to pay semester fees\" and then names the only four programmes that additionally charge tuition — Urban Design, Forensic Sciences and Engineering, Public Administration and Business Law for Technology Companies — none of which is a STEM bachelor's. Every STEM bachelor's course page here prints a single cost line: \"Semester fee 373,80 €\". BTU's own living-costs table amortises that to about EUR 62 per month and puts the rest of a student budget at: rent including additional costs EUR 220-340 (Cottbus average in 2025: EUR 287), food EUR 200, healthcare including health insurance EUR 100, and other expenses EUR 280-406 — a total of EUR 857-1,103 per month. BTU describes Cottbus and Senftenberg as among the most inexpensive university locations in Germany, with accommodation available from as little as EUR 180 a month."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For applicants with a foreign higher education entrance qualification, the deadline for the Winter Semester 2026/2027 is 15 July 2026 — the same date whether or not the programme has an admission restriction (numerus clausus). Applicants holding EU/EEA citizenship get an extension to 15 August 2026. The application window opens on 1 March 2026 and runs through uni-assist (My assist), not directly to BTU. BTU warns that the deadline applies to the applicant only: uni-assist's own review time is not included, and documents cannot be corrected or added once the deadline has passed, so applying early matters."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"DSH","minimumPerComponent":"Level 2","notes":"German-language requirement (DSH-2). BTU accepts equivalents including TestDaF 4x4 and DSD 2. Applicants who do not yet hold the final certificate may still apply if they submit proof of German at B2 level plus proof of registration for a recognised exam (DSH, TestDaF etc.) by the application deadline; the final certificate can then be submitted by the time of enrolment. BTU runs its own \"Bridge to Studies\" preparatory DSH course, which requires a B1 certificate to enter and is offered for the winter semester only."},{"test":"TestDaF 4x4","notes":"Named by BTU as an accepted equivalent to DSH Level 2."},{"test":"DSD 2","notes":"Named by BTU as an accepted equivalent to DSH Level 2."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"},"notes":"German-taught. Note the seven-semester standard period (rather than the usual six) and that it is taught at Campus Senftenberg, not the main Cottbus campus. Accredited by ACQUIN; open admission.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship) at BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg","criteria":"Awarded to BTU students who demonstrate exceptional academic achievement and social commitment. Income-independent, so it is not means-tested.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, initially limited to two semesters. Does not count toward BAföG and does not have to be repaid.","notes":"Half of the award is funded by the federal government and half by regional companies, institutions or private individuals. At the time of collection BTU stated the next application period would begin in October 2026 with awards expected in April 2027. BTU publishes no numeric grade threshold, so none is recorded here. BTU separately awards STIBET I graduation scholarships and awards for particularly dedicated international students through its International Relations Office."}}]},{"id":"cambridge-ba-chemical-engineering-and-biotechnology","universityId":"cambridge","name":"Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology","award":"BA (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.undergraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/courses/chemical-engineering-biotechnology-ba-hons-meng","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":44214,"currency":"GBP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Cambridge bands overseas courses into fee Groups 1-5; Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology sits in Group 4 (£44,214), the highest band apart from Group 5 (Medicine/Veterinary Medicine). This is the University composition (course) fee only: all international/overseas fee status students normally have to pay an annual College fee in addition to University tuition fees, which varies between Colleges and is published in Cambridge's 'Undergraduate tuition fees 2026-27' document. The fee page states fees listed are per year and are fixed for the duration of the course. Figures are the published 2026-entry rates; fees for 2027 entry will be published no later than 1 October 2026. Admissions assessment: all applicants must take the Engineering and Science Admissions Test (ESAT)."}},"domesticTuition":{"value":{"amount":9790,"currency":"GBP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"domestic","academicYear":"2026-27","notes":"Cambridge's \"Home Students (First UG degree)\" fee for this course — the first figure in its row of the University's own \"Undergraduate tuition fees 2026-27\" table, quoted here alongside the second-degree and International figures from the same row. That column is the complete fee: the document's footnote [4] adds a College fee only for Home (Second UG degree) and International students, not for Home first-degree students. Cambridge splits fee status only into \"Home\" and \"International\", with no home-nation split — it defines Home as, broadly, a UK national resident in the UK for the last three years — so this is what applicants domiciled in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all quoted."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","year":2027,"label":"Michaelmas Term"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 October 2026, 6pm UK time (2027 entry or deferred entry in 2028)"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Prince Philip Scholarship","criteria":"Open to permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region applying for a first degree at Cambridge. 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Admissions assessment: all applicants must take the Engineering and Science Admissions Test (ESAT)."}},"domesticTuition":{"value":{"amount":9790,"currency":"GBP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"domestic","academicYear":"2026-27","notes":"Cambridge's \"Home Students (First UG degree)\" fee for this course — the first figure in its row of the University's own \"Undergraduate tuition fees 2026-27\" table, quoted here alongside the second-degree and International figures from the same row. That column is the complete fee: the document's footnote [4] adds a College fee only for Home (Second UG degree) and International students, not for Home first-degree students. Cambridge splits fee status only into \"Home\" and \"International\", with no home-nation split — it defines Home as, broadly, a UK national resident in the UK for the last three years — so this is what applicants domiciled in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all quoted."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","year":2027,"label":"Michaelmas Term"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 October 2026, 6pm UK time (2027 entry or deferred entry in 2028)"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Prince Philip Scholarship","criteria":"Open to permanent residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region applying for a first degree at Cambridge. 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This is the University Composition Fee only; the same tool adds a separate estimate for living costs. The tool does not say which year the figure is for."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"chulalongkorn-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"chulalongkorn","name":"Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.chula.ac.th/en/programs/25620014003106/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":149500,"currency":"THB","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"2027 Admissions Criteria","notes":"BBTech's own site labels its admission cycles by year rather than academic-year notation; its 2026 intake had already closed by the time of collection (August 2026) and its site had moved on to publishing '2027 Admissions Criteria' as the next open cycle, with rounds running December 2026 - May 2027 and classes beginning the following August. The figure recorded (149,500 Baht) is the Regular-Semester Total/Semester for Foreign (Non-Thai) students, comprising a Tuition Fee of 79,500 Baht plus a Special Academic Fee of 70,000 Baht. A Summer Session total of 84,630 Baht also applies if taken (optional)."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"August","year":2027,"label":"First Semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"2027 Admissions Criteria (tentative): International Admission Round 1, December 2026 - February 2027; International Round 2, March - May 2027."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":79,"notes":"Internet-based Test"},{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6},{"test":"CU-TEP","minimumOverall":80},{"test":"DET","minimumOverall":110,"notes":"Duolingo English Test"}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"CU-AAT (Math Section)","required":false,"notes":"One of several accepted Mathematics-test options for BBTech admission (others: SAT Math >=550, ACT Math >=25, IB Diploma HL Math >=5, Gaokao Math >=70, GCE A-Level >=B)."},{"name":"TBAT (Physics, Chemistry, Biology)","required":false,"notes":"Thai Biomedical Admissions Test; one of several accepted Biology/Science-test options (others: AP Biology >=3, IB Diploma Biology >=4, GCE A-Level Biology >=C, GED Science Subject >=165)."}]},"academic":{"value":"Applicants have completed high school or passed an equivalent high school standard test or be currently in their final year of high school (Grade 12 in the US system or Year 13 in the British system)."},"interview":{"value":"Required and heavily weighted: Interview Score is 40% of the total admission evaluation (the largest single component), conducted on-site or online depending on the admission round."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"constructor-bremen-bsc-chemistry-biotechnology","universityId":"constructor-bremen","name":"Chemistry and Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["chemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://constructor.university/programs/undergraduate-education/chemistry-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":11925,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Constructor is a private university and charges EU and non-EU students the same tuition: EUR 11,925 per semester. A one-time enrolment fee is added in the first semester (EUR 640 for EU students, EUR 940 for non-EU). Constructor says every admitted student receives an individual financial package, and that all students are considered for an academic achievement scholarship based on their school GPA."}},"costContext":{"value":"The sticker price is high for Germany, but Constructor's own financing page says almost nobody pays it flat: every admitted candidate gets an individual financing offer made up of scholarships and tuition deferrals, and all students are automatically considered for an academic achievement scholarship worth up to EUR 10,000, awarded on school grade point average and communicated immediately after admission. Because the university publishes no grade threshold for it, it is described here rather than recorded as a criteria-gated scholarship. Under the Tuition Deferral Program a student repays the deferred part only after entering the job market. 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Three years, 180 credit points, on Constructor's residential Bremen campus, structured on its CHOICE-CORE-CAREER '4C Model' with a mandatory internship and a study-abroad option in the fifth semester. The teaching-language citation is Constructor's institution-wide statement from its undergraduate FAQ (\"all our undergraduate programs are taught entirely in English\"), which is the form the programme pages themselves do not repeat as a labelled field. The university now publishes this fee for 2027/28. The academic year is left as it was: this country runs a calendar year and that field requires a straddling one, so inventing a split year here would assert something the university does not say.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Academic Achievement Scholarship","criteria":"Every admitted student is automatically considered, on the basis of their school grade point average (GPA). No separate application is required, and the scholarship amount is communicated immediately after admission. Requires an active admission offer to Constructor University.","coverage":"Partial tuition coverage of up to EUR 7,000 per academic year.","notes":"Constructor publishes no minimum GPA figure for this award — the amount is scaled to the applicant's GPA rather than gated by a stated threshold — so no numeric bar is recorded. The award is a cash amount rather than a stated percentage of tuition, so no coveragePercentage is recorded either. Constructor also offers tuition-deferral financing alongside scholarships."}},{"value":{"name":"Talent Scholarship","criteria":"For exceptional applicants, considered on both GPA and participation in extracurricular activities such as olympiads, competitions, conferences, summer camps, workshops and courses. No separate application is required, but SAT results must be submitted with the application, and selected students are invited to an interview with Constructor's Talent Recruitment Team. Open to all applicants who submitted by 1 February 2026; further awards are reserved for students from German high schools with a 1 July 2026 deadline.","coverage":"EUR 10,000 per academic year, replacing the Academic Achievement Scholarship rather than adding to it.","notes":"Constructor publishes no numeric GPA threshold for this award, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"cust-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"cust","name":"BS Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://cust.edu.pk/fee-structure/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":14000,"currency":"PKR","basis":"per-credit-unit","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"CUST’s fee table is introduced with \"The fee structure of various degree programs for the fiscal year 2026-27 is given below and it is subject to annual revision\", and its columns are \"Per Cr. Hr. 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The course page itself carries no academic year, so the fee is recorded as undated; DCU separately publishes the same figure in its \"Undergraduate Fees 2026-2027\" schedule at dcu.ie/fees/undergraduate-fees-2026-2027."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"eu-eea","undated":true,"notes":"DCU's own course page prints three separate lines: a \"Full time Student Contribution\", an \"EU Status Fee\" and a \"Non EU Fee\". The figure recorded here is the EU Status Fee — the tuition line for an EU student — and the Student Contribution of €2,543 is charged on top of it, not included in it. Where the page bands the fee by year (the integrated-masters engineering courses quote \"€6,679 (Year 1 - 4), €6,800 (Year 5 Integrated Masters)\"), the Year 1-4 rate is the one recorded, matching the year band of the non-EU fee alongside it; the quote shows the later band in full. 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DCU does not publish the amount or a grade threshold on this page.","notes":"Recorded because the award is named and its eligibility route is stated; DCU publishes no figure or grade bar for it, so no coverage percentage or grade field is set."}}],"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"no less than 6.0 in any one component"},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":92}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null}},{"id":"debrecen-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"debrecen","name":"Biotechnology, BSc","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://edu.unideb.hu/p/biotechnology-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":6500,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"The University of Debrecen prices each English-taught degree separately and publishes the figure as a plain per-year amount in US dollars on the programme page. 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Of the four programs on that list, only Biotechnology is STEM under this project's scope; General Medicine, Stomatology (Dentistry) and International Relations are excluded (medicine/dentistry and non-STEM respectively)."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"Biology","required":true,"notes":"Entrance test 1 for this programme, per FEFU's official 2026/2027 foreign-citizens admission list."},{"name":"Chemistry","required":true,"notes":"Entrance test 2 for this programme, per FEFU's official 2026/2027 foreign-citizens admission list."}]},"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"fh-aachen-biotechnologie","universityId":"fh-aachen","name":"Biotechnologie","nameEnglish":{"value":"Biotechnology"},"award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.fh-aachen.de/en/studies/degree-programmes/biotechnology-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"FH Aachen charges no tuition fees. Every student pays a semester fee (the student activity fee) of about €310 per semester."}},"costContext":{"value":"North Rhine-Westphalia abolished general tuition fees at its public universities in 2011, and FH Aachen's own FAQ for incoming (international/exchange) students confirms this directly: asked plainly 'Do I need to pay tuition fees at FH Aachen?', the university answers that it 'does not charge tuition fees.' What every enrolled student pays instead is the semester fee (a social contribution plus a student-body contribution), which FH Aachen's own Semester Fee page states as EUR 384.60 for the 2026/27 winter semester; it funds the Studierendenwerk Aachen, the AStA student union, and a semester ticket covering public transport across North Rhine-Westphalia. The FAQ page separately quotes the fee at 'approx 310,00€ per semester' -- both figures are FH Aachen's own, from different points in its fee cycle."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"each winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Application deadline for a study place: beginning of June to 31 August, applied to via hochschulstart.de followed by a direct application to FH Aachen."},"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"No admission restriction (\"Admission Restriction: none\"). Applicants register centrally via hochschulstart.de and then apply directly to FH Aachen."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"},"notes":"German-taught Bachelor's degree run by the Faculty of Chemistry and Biotechnology, based in Jülich; official course title is \"Biotechnologie\". 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The award is only possible while the regular study period is maintained.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month for one year (the funding year starts with the winter semester on 1 October and runs 12 months), plus a strong network, a dedicated sponsor and exclusive workshops, company visits and networking events. Re-application is possible, so the award can be held repeatedly, potentially across the whole degree.","notes":"Financed half by private donors — companies, foundations, institutions, associations and individuals — and half from federal BMBF funds. FH Aachen has run it for over 15 years; the 2026 application phase ran 23 June to 14 July. The award is made regardless of income and BAföG status and does not count towards BAföG. FH Aachen explicitly publishes no fixed grade requirement, so no numeric bar is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"fh-aachen-biotechnology-m-sc","universityId":"fh-aachen","name":"Biotechnology (M.Sc.)","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.fh-aachen.de/en/studies/degree-programmes/biotechnology-msc","durationYears":{"value":1.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"FH Aachen charges no tuition fees. 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No further per-row date label is printed beside the figure beyond the document's own '2026' title, so it is recorded as undated."}},"domesticTuition":{"value":{"amount":9537,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"domestic","periodLabel":"2026","notes":"A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) student contribution, not a Flinders-set tuition price: the Australian Government sets the maximum contribution per funding cluster (field of study) and revises it annually, and a degree draws topics from more than one cluster. Flinders publishes this annual indicative CSP figure on each course page, beside the separate domestic full-fee-paying (FFP) rate for the same course. Available only to domestic students offered a CSP, and deferrable through a HECS-HELP loan rather than paid upfront. This figure equals the Australian Government's 2026 maximum student contribution for the funding cluster covering Allied Health, Other Health, Built Environment, Computing, Visual and Performing Arts, Engineering, Surveying, Environmental Studies, Science, Pathology, to the dollar — so it is the national band rate itself, charged unchanged, not a number this university worked out for this course. Every course here in that cluster carries the same rate, which is why the scope is recorded as faculty-wide rather than priced for this course."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Flinders Vice-Chancellor Excellence Scholarship","criteria":"For new international students: undergraduate applicants require an equivalent minimum ATAR of 95 or above, postgraduate applicants an equivalent of 6.5 GPA or above. 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No separate application — eligibility is determined during course application assessment and confirmed in the offer letter.","coverage":"A 25% reduction in tuition fees for the duration of the course.","coveragePercentage":25,"basis":"merit","notes":"Recorded as merit because the award's only qualifying test is an academic score band, and Flinders introduces this family of awards as \"designed to recognise international students with high academic performance\". Bars are stated as ATAR ranks and Flinders-equivalent GPAs rather than percentages, so no numeric bar is recorded. 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No separate application — eligibility is determined during course application assessment and confirmed in the offer letter.","coverage":"A 30% reduction in tuition fees for the duration of the course.","coveragePercentage":30,"basis":"merit","notes":"The higher tier of the same scheme as the Global Scholarship, qualifying on a higher academic band. Recorded as merit for the same reason: the sole qualifying test is academic achievement and Flinders describes the family as recognising \"high academic performance\". Bars are ATAR ranks and Flinders-equivalent GPAs, not percentages, so no numeric bar is recorded. Same course exclusions as the Global Scholarship; none apply to the programs on StudyPath."}},{"value":{"name":"Flinders Kickstart Scholarship","criteria":"Available to new international students of any nationality commencing a coursework course at Flinders (citizens of Australia and New Zealand, Australian permanent residents and other permanent visa holders are ineligible). Applicants need only meet the entry criteria for the course they wish to study. Not available to applicants transferring in with more than one third of the course total unit value as credit from another institution.","coverage":"A 20% reduction in tuition fees for the duration of the course.","coveragePercentage":20,"notes":"Basis left unset: unlike the other three Flinders awards, the Kickstart Scholarship states no academic band and no financial test — meeting the course entry requirements as a commencing full-fee international student is the whole of it. Students who deferred because of a visa refusal or delay still count as commencing students. 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This entry records the lowest (Category A) tier. A non-refundable evaluation-test fee of EGP 1,200 and a refundable lab-use deposit of EGP 10,000 (or EUR 420) also apply. The Faculty of Applied Sciences and Arts and the Faculty of Dentistry are priced separately on the same page and are NOT covered by this shared rate."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null,"notes":"Listed on GUC's own Programs page under the Faculty this programme belongs to (Biotechnology). Duration not recorded here — not confirmed for this programme."},{"id":"groningen-life-science-and-technology","universityId":"groningen","name":"BSc in Life Science and Technology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.rug.nl/bachelors/life-science-and-technology/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":19800,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Groningen prices tuition by faculty, not by individual degree, so this is the rate every bachelor's programme in the Faculty of Science and Engineering charges: the 'university tuition fee II' a non-EU/EEA student pays for 2026-2027. Students with an EU/EEA, Swiss or Surinamese nationality pay the much lower Dutch statutory fee."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"h-darmstadt-biotechnology","universityId":"h-darmstadt","name":"Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://h-da.de/en/studies/study-programmes/study-programmes/natural-science-and-mathematics/biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Hesse charges no tuition at its public Hochschulen. h_da charges no tuition for this or any other Bachelor's degree, to German and international students alike. The mandatory semester contribution (EUR 401.00 for winter semester 2026/2027) is not tuition."}},"costContext":{"value":"Hesse has not introduced tuition fees at its public Hochschulen -- h_da charges no tuition for this or any other Bachelor's degree, to German and international students alike; its own Study financing page states plainly 'No tuition fees are charged at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, you will only need to pay the semester contribution.' The mandatory semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag) for winter semester 2026/2027 is EUR 401.00, made up of a Student union fee (EUR 103.00), Culture ticket (EUR 2.71), Student body fee (EUR 15.51), Administration fee (EUR 50.00, waived for exchange students), the nationwide 'Deutschlandsemesterticket' public-transport pass (EUR 226.80), and a Rental Bike System contribution (EUR 2.98) -- identical for every enrolled student regardless of nationality. 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The 2026 application round had already closed at the time of this collection (retrieved 18 August 2026); the 2027 call was expected to open in January 2027.","coverage":"EUR 450/month for 6 months (EUR 2,700 total).","notes":"Institution-wide award, not tied to any specific degree programme."}},{"value":{"name":"Final Degree Scholarship for International Students (Bachelor's Thesis Phase)","criteria":"For non-EU international students close to, or already admitted to, their bachelor's thesis, who are staying in Germany during the thesis-writing phase and have no income higher than the current maximum BAfoG rate during that period. Selection also weighs: an emergency situation through no fault of the applicant's own, good academic performance, the quality of a professor's recommendation letter, and completeness of the application documents.","coverage":"EUR 450/month for 3 months plus a EUR 150 final instalment (to be requested within 6 months of the degree date).","notes":"Documents due by 15 Feb / 15 May / 15 Aug / 15 Nov."}}],"notes":"Faculty of Chemistry and Biotechnology. 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HAW Hamburg's International Office separately advertises excellence scholarships for international students."}}],"applicationDeadline":{"value":"1 June–15 July (winter semester)"}},{"id":"hku-bsc-molecular-biology-and-biotechnology","universityId":"hku","name":"Molecular Biology & Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.scifac.hku.hk/prospective/ug/6901-bsc/majors","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":249000,"currency":"HKD","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"HKU charges one flat tuition rate to non-local (international) undergraduates across all of its STEM Faculties and Schools collectively (Dentistry, Engineering, Medicine, Science; School of Biomedical Engineering, School of Computing and Data Science, School of Innovation) -- HKD 249,000/year, inclusive of a STEM-specific surcharge over the non-STEM rate (HKD 224,000/year for Architecture, Arts, Business and Economics, Education, Law, Social Sciences and School of Future Media). 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This is a single flat rate published for all non-local undergraduates; the fees page does not break it down by School or programme."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"Fall Term / Commencement of the 2026-27 Academic Year"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"8 January 2026 (Main Round deadline for applicants with international qualifications applying for entry in the 2026/27 academic year). An Early Round deadline of 20 November 2025 and a Late Round deadline of 30 June 2026 also exist."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6,"notes":"IELTS Academic for UKVI is also accepted."},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":80,"notes":"Applies to tests taken prior to 21 January 2026 (Total Score, one sitting). From 21 January 2026 onwards the required Total Score is 4.5 on TOEFL’s redesigned scale. 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A top-up scholarship may additionally be offered by the School/Programme Office, capped at full tuition fee plus HK$60,000 allowance per year.","coverage":"45 points: full tuition plus a HK$60,000 annual living allowance, renewable for the normative duration of study. 44 points: full tuition p.a., renewable. 43 points: half tuition p.a., renewable. 40-42 points: half tuition, one-off payment.","notes":"HKUST publishes equivalent tiered University Admissions Scholarships for other qualification types (GCE A-Level/International A-Level, SAT/Advanced Placement, and other international qualifications) with their own grade thresholds and payouts, plus a separate Global Learners Scholarship and application-based non-academic awards — see HKUST's Academic Admissions Scholarships pages."}}]},{"id":"hs-bremen-internationaler-studiengang-technische-und-angewandte-biologie-b-sc","universityId":"hs-bremen","name":"Internationaler Studiengang Technische und Angewandte Biologie (B.Sc.)","award":"Bachelor of Science","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hs-bremen.de/studieren/studiengang/internationaler-studiengang-technische-und-angewandte-biologie-b-sc/","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Hochschule Bremen charges no tuition fees; students pay a semester fee each semester."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Deutsch"}},{"id":"hs-fresenius-msc-medical-pharmaceutical-biotechnology","universityId":"hs-fresenius","name":"Medical & Pharmaceutical Biotechnology","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hs-fresenius.com/study-programs/medical-pharmaceutical-biotechnology-master/","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":12240,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Fresenius University of Applied Sciences is a private university that charges the same tuition to domestic and international students. This is the general annual master's-level tuition estimate from the university's 'Finances & Costs of Studying in Germany' overview page, not a figure specific to this programme — individual programme pages do not themselves publish a number."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences","criteria":"Open to anyone enrolled at Fresenius University of Applied Sciences or who has already signed a study contract — all degree programmes offered are eligible, including distance-learning, postgraduate and second degrees. Awarded for above-average performance at school, university and/or at work, demonstrated in particular by a final school grade of 2.0 or better, or for current students an average grade of 2.0 or better (German 1–6 scale, where 1.0 is best). Anyone already receiving talent-based support averaging EUR 30 or more per month is ineligible, and the scholarship is not paid during a semester of leave.","coverage":"Funding runs for 12 months, from 1 September to 31 August. Further funding can be applied for up to the end of the standard period of study. Where a course ends after six months of funding, six months of funding is exceptionally possible.","notes":"The application period runs 1–31 May each year; there is no summer-semester selection round. Fresenius's own Deutschlandstipendium page does not state the monthly amount, so none is recorded in this entry. Fresenius's Finances page states separately that German citizenship is not required to apply for the Deutschlandstipendium (https://www.hs-fresenius.com/finances/), and that Fresenius does not currently run scholarships of its own aimed at international students. The grade bar is on the German 1–6 scale where a lower number is better, so it is stated in prose rather than in minimumGPA, which is matched against higher-is-better scales.","minimumGermanGrade":2}}]},{"id":"hs-fulda-bsc-food-technology","universityId":"hs-fulda","name":"Food Technology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","biotechnology","food-science"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hs-fulda.de/en/studyprogramme/food-technology-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Same institution-wide Hesse state policy already recorded on Fulda's other programmes on StudyPath: no tuition fee for any student (Hesse is a tuition-free state), only the standard semester contribution."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"1 May to 15 July, for both German and foreign educational certificates, for the October (winter-semester) intake."},"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a university entrance qualification. No admission restriction (Numerus Clausus). Applicants choose at application whether to study the German-language modules (requiring German at CEFR level C1/DSH-2), the English-language modules (requiring English at CEFR level B2 -- no specific named test such as IELTS/TOEFL is stated), or a mix -- the university assesses language skills to determine the track."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English or German (student's choice)"},"notes":"IMPORTANT: unlike most entries on StudyPath, this is a dual-track programme -- students choose at application whether to take German-language modules, English-language modules, or a free mix, and the university tests language skills to place them accordingly. Included here because a genuinely complete English-medium pathway through the whole degree is confirmed on the university's own page ('study in German, English or a free choice of language'), but international students should confirm current English-track module availability directly with Fulda before applying, since some elective modules may only run in German in a given semester. An interdisciplinary food-engineering degree covering the whole 'farm to fork' chain: natural sciences (food chemistry, food microbiology), process/bioprocess engineering, food and pharmaceutical technology, and food-business management. An 8-semester 'Food Technology PLUS' variant with an integrated two-semester period abroad is also available (240 ECTS instead of 210).","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at Fulda University of Applied Sciences","criteria":"Supports particularly gifted and high-achieving students of any nationality. Applicants are expected to show not only good achievement but a willingness to take on responsibility — for example voluntary work in an association or institution. The holder must be enrolled at Fulda University of Applied Sciences for the entire two-semester funding period and hold a German bank account in their own name.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month plus a non-material framework programme, for one academic year running 1 October to 30 September. Half is funded by the federal government and half by private sponsors.","notes":"Applications run annually from 1 June to 1 August; the deadline for funding from winter semester 2026/27 was 1 August 2026. The award is initially approved for one year and an extension is generally possible by re-entering the application procedure. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"hs-fulda-bsc-industrial-biotechnology","universityId":"hs-fulda","name":"Industrial Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hs-fulda.de/en/studyprogramme/industrial-biotechnology-b-sc","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Fulda University of Applied Sciences is a public university in the German state of Hesse, one of the states that charges no tuition fee at all (not even a non-EU-specific one). Its own international-students page states this directly and institution-wide, not specific to Industrial Biotechnology. Only the standard semester contribution (approx. EUR 400, covering Studierendenwerk administration, the student council (AStA) and the Deutschland-Ticket for regional/local public transport) applies to every student."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at Fulda University of Applied Sciences","criteria":"Supports particularly gifted and high-achieving students of any nationality. Applicants are expected to show not only good achievement but a willingness to take on responsibility — for example voluntary work in an association or institution. The holder must be enrolled at Fulda University of Applied Sciences for the entire two-semester funding period and hold a German bank account in their own name.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month plus a non-material framework programme, for one academic year running 1 October to 30 September. Half is funded by the federal government and half by private sponsors.","notes":"Applications run annually from 1 June to 1 August; the deadline for funding from winter semester 2026/27 was 1 August 2026. The award is initially approved for one year and an extension is generally possible by re-entering the application procedure. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}],"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 July"}},{"id":"mittweida-biotechnology","universityId":"hs-mittweida","name":"Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.cb.hs-mittweida.de/en/study-programs-of-the-faculty/biotechnology-bachelor/","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Hochschule Mittweida's own course pages state \"Tuition: No\" in their fact box for every programme collected here. Students still pay a semester fee (EUR 107.00: EUR 92 to the Studentenwerk, EUR 15 to the student body), which is not tuition."}},"costContext":{"value":"No tuition fee. and Hochschule Mittweida states it on the course page itself, where the fact box reads \"Tuition: No\" for every programme collected here. What every student pays instead is the semester fee (Semesterbeitrag), which is not tuition: EUR 107.00 per semester, made up of EUR 92 for the Studentenwerk and EUR 15 for the student body, passed on in full by the university to those two organisations. That is one of the lowest semester contributions in Germany — roughly a third of the EUR 300-400 typical elsewhere — because it carries no semester public-transport ticket. Enrolment is only possible once it has been paid, and it is refundable up to the start of lectures if the place is not taken up. Mittweida may charge real tuition for distance-learning, continuing-education and second-degree courses (set separately in a tuition fee notice), none of which applies to a first full-time bachelor's. One further cost applies only to applicants routed through the Studienkolleg: a EUR 250 application fee covering the pre-admission and invitation, later deducted from the course fee, non-refundable if the applicant does not turn up."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"Winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"International applicants face an earlier deadline than domestic ones — 15 May, not 15 July — for a winter-semester start on a programme without admission restrictions, which is every programme collected here. Missing documents may then be added until 31 May. The application window opens 15 April of the same year for most programmes, but 15 October of the previous year for the mathematics degrees. For a summer-semester start the deadline is 15 January for everyone (window opens 15 October), though Mittweida notes that only the Social Work bachelor's actually begins in the summer semester — every STEM bachelor's here starts in the winter. Applications go directly through Mittweida's own portal, not uni-assist. The university advises international applicants in particular to apply early because the visa process can take a long time."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"DSH","minimumPerComponent":"at least DSH-2","notes":"German-taught programme. Mittweida also accepts TestDaF 4 x TDN 4, the Feststellungsprüfung (FSP), the Goethe-Institut C2 exam, the Goethe Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung (ZOP), DSD level II, telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule, PNDS and ÖSD C2 (ZC2). Anyone holding a German Abitur or a passed FSP is exempt from the language test; some other European secondary certificates are accepted case by case after a certificate check."},{"test":"TestDaF","minimumPerComponent":"4 x TDN 4","notes":"Named by Mittweida as accepted proof of German language skills."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"german"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"German-Scholarship (Deutschlandstipendium) at Hochschule Mittweida","criteria":"Open to anyone enrolled at Hochschule Mittweida, explicitly including first-year students (\"You can apply as a freshman or as a student in a higher semester\"), with a current certificate of enrolment. Mittweida states the selection criteria are work and non-professional achievement, social engagement and responsibility, and challenges overcome in the applicant's personal career — not grades alone. Applications go through Mittweida's own applicant portal.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month for at least two semesters. Half comes from federal funds and half from companies, institutions and private individuals.","notes":"Open to international students: Mittweida's own reporting records 12 of 37 new scholarships in the 2025/26 funding year going to international students. The scholarships page was visibly out of date at the time of collection — it still names \"wintersemester 2023/2024\" as the next funding period and a 1 June 2023 portal opening — so check the current call before relying on those dates; the EUR 300/month coverage and the criteria are the stable terms of the national scheme. Mittweida separately notes that Studienstiftung scholarships (EUR 300 to roughly EUR 1,044 a month) exist but are by nomination from an examination office or professor, not by application."}}],"notes":"German-taught, six semesters, 180 ECTS, no admission restriction, no tuition. Two study fields: Molecular Diagnostics and Environmental Biotechnology. Leads on to the Genomic Biotechnology master's. Mittweida's winter semester officially begins on 1 September, with lectures from 22 September — a month earlier than the 1 October start used by German universities, and by most other universities on StudyPath. Plan visa and travel accordingly."},{"id":"offenburg-biotechnologie","universityId":"hs-offenburg","name":"Biotechnologie","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hs-offenburg.de/studium/bachelor/biotechnologie","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","periodLabel":"Seit dem Wintersemester 2017/18","notes":"The Baden-Wurttemberg tuition fee for international students, applied here at a Hochschule (university of applied sciences) exactly as it is at the state's research universities: EUR 1,500.00 per semester, i.e. EUR 3,000 per year. Offenburg publishes it in German as \"1.500,00 Euro je Semester\". It is set by state law rather than by the university, so it is institution-wide and not priced per course. It sits ON TOP of the ordinary semester charges, which Offenburg itemises separately as EUR 80.00 administrative contribution + EUR 65.00 social contribution to the Studierendenwerk Freiburg + EUR 25.00 student-body contribution = EUR 170 per semester. A second degree is charged EUR 650.00 per semester instead. Importantly, Offenburg states it can exempt a limited number of international students from this fee, in full or in part, where it considers them particularly gifted (Sect. 6(4)-(5) LHGebG), under its own statute on exemption for special aptitude — so the fee is not unconditionally fixed for a strong applicant. Students on international master's programmes additionally pay a flat service fee of EUR 150.00 per semester; that does not apply to these bachelor's degrees. The page carries no academic-year label, so the period is recorded as the page itself states it."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","notes":"Offenburg quotes the state law directly: liability for the fee falls on international students who hold no EU/EWR nationality and no German university entrance qualification. An EU/EEA national is outside that definition and is charged no tuition, which is what the zero records. The semester contribution all students pay is a separate, non-tuition charge."}}],"costContext":{"value":"Offenburg is in Baden-Wurttemberg, the one German state that charges non-EU international students tuition — EUR 1,500 per semester (EUR 3,000 per year) — and it applies at universities of applied sciences like this one, not only at the big research universities. On top of it, Offenburg charges an administrative contribution of EUR 80.00 per semester, a social contribution of EUR 65.00 for the Studierendenwerk Freiburg, and a student-body contribution of EUR 25.00, giving EUR 170 per semester in ordinary charges; for the teaching-degree cooperation with the Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg a further EUR 28.00 semester-ticket contribution applies. Worth knowing before ruling Offenburg out on price: it states it can waive the international tuition fee in whole or in part for a limited number of students it considers particularly gifted. Every one of these bachelor's degrees runs seven semesters and includes a paid-practice semester in industry, which is the usual Fachhochschule model and partially offsets the cost."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Wintersemester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Winter-semester entry only, with applications closing on 18 September."},"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Allgemeine oder fachgebundene Hochschulreife, or Fachhochschulreife — a general or subject-specific higher education entrance qualification, or the university-of-applied-sciences entrance qualification."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"},"notes":"German-taught. Offenburg awards either a Bachelor of Engineering or a Bachelor of Science for this degree depending on the route taken — recorded here as B.Sc. with that dual award noted, since the course page states both. Seven semesters including a practical semester.","industryPlacement":{"scheme":{"value":{"term":"Praxissemester","requirement":"compulsory","scope":"program-specific","kind":"internship-semester"}},"duration":{"value":{"stated":"1 Praxissemester","minimum":1,"unit":"semesters"}},"degreeLength":{"value":{"extendsDegree":false,"stated":"7 Semester (inkl. 1 Praxissemester)"}},"notes":"Offenburg states the practical semester inside the published Regelstudienzeit rather than on top of it: the standard seven semesters already contain it, so it does not lengthen the degree beyond the advertised 3.5 years. Every Offenburg bachelor's course page on StudyPath states the same thing on its own page, which is why each record is cited to its own course rather than to one campus-wide statement."},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at Offenburg University","criteria":"All students enrolled at Offenburg University can apply, including before their studies begin and during a practical semester. Selection is on special achievements and talents: for first-semester students the grade of the university entrance qualification, and for continuing Offenburg students the ECTS credits earned so far and their average grade.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, for a funding period of at least one year. Half is financed by the federal government and half by private sponsors, so each sponsor's money has double the effect.","notes":"Awarded once a year for the winter semester. Applications are made by sending a signed, scanned application form with all supporting documents as a single PDF by email; postal applications are not accepted. Offenburg has run the scheme since winter semester 2011/12. The scholarship information sits on Offenburg's student-advising page after a site restructure — every URL that search engines still index for its dedicated scholarships pages returns HTTP 404. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"hsbi-apparative-biotechnologie","universityId":"hsbi","name":"Apparative Biotechnologie","award":"Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","engineering-biochemical"],"officialUrl":"https://www.hsbi.de/studiengaenge/apparative-biotechnologie-bachelor","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Deutsch"}},{"id":"htw-berlin-mba-life-science-management","universityId":"htw-berlin","name":"MBA&E Life Science Management","award":"MBA","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["business-management","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://lsm.htw-berlin.de/","durationYears":{"value":1.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":18500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"HTW Berlin is a public university, but this is one of its fee-based postgraduate international programmes (per its own homepage), same fee-charging pattern as the sibling MBA&E Business Administration and Engineering programme. Payable in instalments. Admitted students may apply for the LSM Professional Enhancement Grant, which covers 50% of the tuition fee for one selected student per cohort."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Priority deadline of February 28 each year, for winter-semester entry; individual applications are still accepted after that date (contact admission-lsm@htw-berlin.de), subject to remaining places."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL"},{"test":"IELTS","notes":"No minimum score is published; the programme states only that proof of English proficiency (TOEFL, IELTS or equivalent) is required."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a first academic degree (Bachelor's or equivalent) plus at least one year of relevant professional experience. No GMAT or GRE required. Backgrounds in life sciences, healthcare, biotechnology or related technical/business fields are encouraged, though applicants from other relevant fields with strong motivation and experience may also be considered. Applicants from India, China, Vietnam or Mongolia need an APS certificate (from Summer Semester 2027, Indian applicants may also need the Digital Master Assessment Test, dMAT)."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"notes":"Based at HTW Berlin's Wilhelminenhof campus, aimed at professionals with life science, technology or business backgrounds moving into management/leadership roles in Pharma, Biotech, MedTech and Digital Health. Includes a new 'AI in Life Sciences' module, industry excursions, trade fairs, a Company Engagement Program, and a Master's thesis often carried out in collaboration with a company. The programme's own homepage states over 96% of graduates are employed within three months of graduating, by multinational companies. Internationally accredited (EHEA standards, listed in the European Quality Assurance Register); #1 in Graduate Recruitment 2021-2024 per a Wirtschaftswoche survey of 500 German companies; StudyCheck Award 2026 for most popular university in Berlin. Graduates can apply for an 18-month job-seeking visa after completing the programme.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"LSM Professional Enhancement Grant at HTW Berlin","criteria":"Open to applicants who have been admitted to the MBA&E Life Science Management programme; one selected student per cohort receives the award.","coverage":"Covers 50% of the tuition fee for the one selected student.","notes":"Distinct from the university-wide Deutschlandstipendium listed below. Students are also encouraged to apply for external funding, including DAAD scholarships and other national/international schemes."}},{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at HTW Berlin","criteria":"Open to students of all nationalities who are enrolled at HTW Berlin, or will be enrolled at the start of the funding period, and still have at least two semesters of standard study time ahead of them. Academic or school performance is weighed together with personal development, social engagement and other social criteria. The award is income-independent and does not count against BAföG.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month for at least one year, financed half by private funders (companies, foundations, associations and private individuals) and half by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.","notes":"Awarded annually at the start of the winter semester for 12 months, 1 October to 30 September; applications run roughly 15 June to 15 July. HTW Berlin also runs an alumni scholarship fund alongside the scheme. Quote is from HTW Berlin's German-language Deutschlandstipendium page, which is where it states the figure. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"ipp-porto-biorrecursos","universityId":"ipp-porto","name":"Licenciatura em Biorrecursos (ISEP)","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.isep.ipp.pt/Course/Course/88","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":4500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"P.PORTO sets the international propina per SCHOOL, not per course: the quoted row reads \"ISEP — Todos os cursos de Licenciatura — 697 € — 4 500 €\", so 4 500 € covers every ISEP bachelor's including Licenciatura em Biorrecursos (ISEP). The 697 € beside it is the national/EU rate and is NOT what a non-EU applicant pays. Other P.PORTO schools are priced differently on the same table."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null,"notes":"The source is in Portuguese, quoted as published. In English it says: English gloss: \"Duration: 3 years / 6 semesters\"."},{"id":"itba-ingenieria-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"itba","name":"Ingeniería en Biotecnología","award":"Ingeniería","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.itba.edu.ar/grado/ingenieria-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"ITBA does not publish its undergraduate tuition on its website. This programme's own page states that aranceles are calculated from the number of credits taken in each cycle and directs applicants to email ingreso@itba.edu.ar for the figure, so no per-year price could be verified here."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"March","label":"marzo"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"izmir-economics-genetics-and-bioengineering","universityId":"izmir-economics","name":"Genetics and Bioengineering","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["genetics","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://gbe.ieu.edu.tr/en","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":12750,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"One rate covers every four-year undergraduate programme at IUE: USD 12,750 a year for new international students registering in 2026-2027, payable in two instalments. IUE also publishes a scholarship and discount regulation for undergraduate and associate programmes, so many admitted students pay less than this figure."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"jagiellonian-molecular-biotechnology","universityId":"jagiellonian","name":"Molecular Biotechnology","award":"Master's degree (second-cycle)","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://studia.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/kierunki/wbbib/molecu.biot","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"ku-btech-biotechnology","universityId":"kathmandu-university","name":"B Tech in Biotechnology","award":"B Tech","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://ku.edu.np/news-app/notice-regarding-fee-structure-for-ug-program-in-science-and-engineering3660?search_school=10&show_on_home=0","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1380000,"currency":"NPR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"computed":{"baseAmount":690000,"multiplier":2,"rule":"the course fee is 2 times the normal fee"},"notes":"From Kathmandu University's own \"Notice regarding Fee Structure for UG Program in Science and Engineering\" (a School of Science / School of Engineering notice originally published 2017-07-18, still the live linked fee schedule when last checked). The page's own \"Normal Course Fee\" is the TOTAL cost of the whole programme (4 or 5 years), not a per-year figure. Note 2 on the same page states: \"Course fee for students from SAARC countries is 1.5 times the normal fee. For students from other than SAARC countries, the course fee is 2 times the normal fee.\" This record uses the non-SAARC international multiplier (2x); a SAARC-country applicant would instead pay 1.5x. On top of the course fee, students pay a refundable NPR 10,000 caution deposit, NPR 1,000/year medical insurance, and a one-time admission fee of NPR 127,000 (Engineering/Architecture/Pharmacy) or NPR 126,000 (other programmes)."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"July","label":"Fall"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"klef-btech-bt","universityId":"kl-university","name":"B.Tech (BT)","award":"B.Tech","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.kluniversity.in/ir/financials.html","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5080,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"AY 2024-25","notes":"From KL University's (KLEF) own International Relations \"Financials\" page, table \"Tuition & Hostel Fee for Foreign Students for the AY 2024-25\", section \"(I) Approved Tuition Fee for Self-Sponsored Foreign Students\". This is the per-year tuition figure for students outside SAARC countries, who the page states must pay in USD (SAARC-country students may instead pay the equivalent in INR at the same institution). Excludes the separate hostel fee."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"kth-bioteknik-civilingenjor-300-hp","universityId":"kth","name":"Bioteknik, civilingenjör, 300 hp","award":"Civilingenjör","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","engineering-biochemical"],"officialUrl":"https://www.kth.se/utbildning/civilingenjor/bioteknik","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":151000,"currency":"SEK","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2027/2028","notes":"IMPORTANT: the five-year civilingenjor programme is priced in two bands and this is the FIRST one. Years 1-3 cost SEK 151,000 per academic year; years 4 and 5 are second-cycle and cost SEK 192,500 per academic year under the same decision, so the full 300 hp is not five times this figure. Payable only by students who are not citizens of an EU/EEA country or Switzerland. Invoiced one semester (30 hp) at a time in advance through Ladok; the Migration Agency processes the residence-permit application only after KTH confirms the first semester is paid. A separate SEK 900 application fee is collected by universityadmissions.se. Rates apply to studies starting 2027/2028 and to students newly admitted from 15 September 2026."}},"costContext":{"value":"KTH prices its degrees one programme at a time on its English-language fee page, naming each programme alongside its figure. This programme is taught in Swedish and is not named there, and its own page carries no fee wording of any kind. KTH publishes nothing for it, so nothing is recorded."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"August","year":2026,"label":"Höstterminen"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 april"},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ktu-bsc-industrial-biotechnology","universityId":"ktu-lithuania","name":"Industrial Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://apply.ktu.edu/courses/course/208-bsc-industrial-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":4201,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"KTU prices tuition by study-field group rather than by individual programme: this flat rate applies to every bachelor's programme in the Engineering Sciences, Technology Sciences, Informatics Sciences, Physical Sciences and Mathematics Sciences study field groups, not to this programme alone. Applies to the institutional admission route for foreign (non-EU/non-state-funded) citizens. KTU offers partial or full tuition fee waivers to candidates with outstanding results (see scholarships)."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":5.5},{"test":"TOEFL","minimumOverall":75}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Senior high school diploma with a minimum average grade (CGPA) above 60%, no more than 3 years after graduation, including a minimum CGPA above 60% in final exams of Mathematics and Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Information Technologies, Geography or Engineering Technologies."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"KTU Scholarship for International Applicants","criteria":"First-year Bachelor's applicants with a strong academic record and motivation. Open to all international applicants; every applicant who submits an application through KTU's online application system is automatically considered — no separate scholarship application is required.","coverage":"Full or partial tuition fee waiver, depending on the applicant's entrance/competition score.","notes":"The exact waiver percentage is determined case-by-case from the applicant's entrance score and is not published as a fixed grade ladder."}}]},{"id":"kyoto-applied-life-sciences-faculty-of-agriculture-kyoto-iup","universityId":"kyoto","name":"Applied Life Sciences (Faculty of Agriculture, Kyoto iUP)","award":"Bachelor's Degree","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biochemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.iup.kyoto-u.ac.jp/Application_Guidelines_for_October_2027_Enrollment.pdf","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":535800,"currency":"JPY","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Application Guidelines\nfor October 2027 Enrollment","notes":"This is Kyoto iUP's published sticker rate for the 4-year undergraduate course (JPY 282,000 one-time admission fee is separate, shown in the same quote) — Japan's standard national-university tuition band, identical to the rate the University of Tokyo's GSC transfer programme publishes. It is NOT what most Kyoto iUP students actually pay: the university states 'Scholarships that include full admission fee waivers and full or partial tuition fee waivers for four-and-a-half years are available for all Kyoto iUP students,' with the admission fee waived in full for every student and the tuition waiver full-or-partial depending on merit, so most admits pay less than this figure. A monthly allowance of up to JPY 120,000 is also paid to every student during the 6-month preparatory course. Kyoto University does not publish any other scholarship for international undergraduates outside Kyoto iUP."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"kyushu-iup-bioresource-bioenvironment","universityId":"kyushu","name":"International Undergraduate Program in Bioresource and Bioenvironment","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology","earth-environmental"],"officialUrl":"https://iup.eng.agr.kyushu-u.ac.jp/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":535800,"currency":"JPY","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"As of April 1, 2020","notes":"Kyushu University is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the same standard rate — there is no separate international tuition — so this is recorded as institution-wide and all-students. The cited page states no academic year, only \"(As of April 1, 2020)\", so that exact string is kept as the period label rather than inferring a year. The rate is corroborated by the October 2027 International Undergraduate Program application instructions, which bill it as 267,900 JPY per semester (Fall 2027 + Spring 2028 = 535,800 JPY). On top of tuition there is a one-time enrolment fee of 282,000 JPY and an application fee of 10,000 JPY for applicants holding foreign nationality only. IUP students who apply and reside outside Japan get half of the first year's tuition waived (see scholarships)."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","year":2027}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Application period 7–17 December 2026 (documents due by 5 p.m. Japan time on 17 December 2026), for October 2027 entry."},"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"EJU","required":false,"notes":"Under Type B admission (applicants who graduated from a high school outside Japan) the EJU is only one of the accepted standardized tests: GCE A/AS Level or International A Level, the IB Diploma, ACT and AP are listed as alternatives in section 4.5.1, along with country-specific tests such as GAOKAO, HKDSE, CSAT, UEC and STPM in 4.5.2. Submitting one of them is compulsory; which one is the applicant's choice. Type A admission — a separate route not recorded here — is for students who sit the Japanese University Entrance Examinations."}]},"academic":{"value":"Type B route: applicants who have graduated (or will graduate) from a high school outside Japan, or from an international/foreign school in Japan, or who obtained the IB at a high school in Japan. Roughly 10 places in total across Types A and B. Type A is the separate route for students taking the Japanese University Entrance Examinations."},"interview":{"value":"Yes, for shortlisted applicants. A first screening on documents is followed by a second screening combining a document evaluation with an online interview; estimated interview window for October 2027 entry is 19 February – 12 March 2027."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English. All classes except the Japanese language classes are taught in English."},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Exemption of Half Tuition (International Undergraduate Program)","criteria":"Hold foreign nationality only, have acquired the qualification to apply to Kyushu University outside Japan, reside outside Japan at the time of application, and enter Japan on a new student visa to study at Kyushu University.","coverage":"Half of the first year's tuition (two semesters) waived — 267,900 JPY per semester reduced to 133,950 JPY. Second year onwards is charged at the full rate.","notes":"The source says \"half\" rather than a numeric percentage, so no coveragePercentage is recorded. Awarded on the stated conditions rather than on grades."}},{"value":{"name":"Kyushu University International Undergraduate Scholarship","criteria":"Up to ten successful applicants for the October admission (MEXT Scholarship recipients excluded) who hold foreign nationality only, acquired their application qualification outside Japan, reside outside Japan when they apply, and enter Japan on a new student visa. From the second year a maximum of ten students with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the previous year are selected.","coverage":"A monthly allowance of 60,000 JPY.","notes":"The source states a GPA bar of 3.0 but never names the scale it is on, so minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset rather than guessed. Applied for by filling in the scholarship section of the application form."}},{"value":{"name":"Japanese Government (MEXT) Scholarship — university recommendation","criteria":"Successful applicants with outstanding screening results are eligible to apply; Kyushu University selects several of them and recommends them to MEXT individually.","coverage":"Four years at 117,000 JPY per month, exemption of the enrolment fee and the tuition fee for four years, and return airline tickets to Japan.","notes":"Conditional on the university's new proposal being approved by the Japanese Government, per the same page. This is the university-recommendation route into MEXT, distinct from the embassy-recommendation route recorded under national scholarships."}}]},{"id":"leibniz-hannover-plant-biotechnology","universityId":"leibniz-hannover","name":"Plant Biotechnology","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","botany"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uni-hannover.de/en/studium/studienangebot/info/studiengang/detail/pflanzenbiotechnologie","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"}},{"id":"lethbridge-bsc-agricultural-biotechnology","universityId":"lethbridge","name":"Agricultural Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ulethbridge.ca/future-student/program/agricultural-biotechnology","internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":24662.2,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/2027","notes":"ULethbridge publishes one annual international undergraduate tuition estimate covering all majors, so this is not a price set for this specific degree. Compulsory fees published in the same table add CAD $1,697.74 — student administrative fees $615.80, fine arts access $28.44, sport and recreation $235.94, Students’ Union fees including health/dental insurance and a UPass $807.56, and a $10.00 student magazine levy — bringing the university’s own stated annual total to CAD $25,185.64. This is the 2025/2026 estimate, which is what the university publishes as an annual figure; its 2026/2027 international fee schedule is published per course instead (see cost context)."}},"costContext":{"value":"The annual tuition figure recorded here is ULethbridge’s own 2025/2026 published estimate. The university has separately issued a 2026/2027 Fall & Winter fee schedule for international undergraduates on its main programme campus, effective 1 May 2026, but that schedule prices tuition per course rather than as an annual total — so the 2026/27 annual equivalent depends on the course load a student actually registers in, and is not stated by the university as a single number."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"Fall"},{"month":"January","label":"Winter"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"June 15 is the application deadline for international students. The university’s general application deadline for the Lethbridge campus is June 30, and December 15 is its early-admission deadline (which is also the deadline for Board of Governors’ scholarship consideration)."},"entryRequirements":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Board of Governors' Admission Scholarship","criteria":"Attend ULethbridge within five years of graduating high school and without having studied at another post-secondary institution; submit the admission application before December 15; and have a Grade 12 admission average of 80% or higher. No separate scholarship application — admission applicants are automatically considered.","coverage":"Up to CAD $1,000, awarded once on entry","minimumPercentage":80,"notes":"The university’s page for this award states no nationality restriction, so it is not an international-specific award; it is the entrance scholarship ULethbridge attaches to its own December 15 early-admission deadline. Note that the international application deadline (June 15) is later than the December 15 date this award requires, so an international applicant has to apply well ahead of the general international deadline to be considered."}}]},{"id":"lodz-tech-industrial-biotechnology","universityId":"lodz-tech","name":"Industrial Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://apply.p.lodz.pl/en/enrollment/enroll/fees-and-scholarships","durationYears":{"value":3.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":9000,"currency":"PLN","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"TUL charges 9000 PLN a SEMESTER for every first-cycle programme at its International Faculty of Engineering, which is where this degree is taught. \"FT\" in the row means full-time. Only the first semester's fee goes to the university's published bank account; after that a student pays into an individual account number. Several programme names wrap across two lines in this table, so a quote may carry only the tail of the name — this row is Industrial Biotechnology."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"lpu-btech-biotechnology","universityId":"lpu","name":"B.Tech. 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The footnote also states programme fee is applicable for successive sessions for continuing batches admitted in 2026-2027."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"lpu-bsc-biotechnology-microbiology-hons","universityId":"lpu","name":"B.Sc. (Hons.) (Hons. with Research) (Biotechnology/ Microbiology)","award":"BSc (Hons.)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","microbiology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.lpu.in/lpu-assets/download/international/international-admissions-and-fee-handbook-inr.pdf","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":80000,"currency":"INR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"From LPU's own \"International Admissions and Fee Handbook\" (INR edition), table \"Programme Details with Fee Structure\", section \"PROGRAMMES AFTER (10+2) 12TH GRADE/(A LEVEL)\". The amount is the *Fee in INR ($)(Per Sem.) figure. The handbook's own footnote states this INR fee \"will be applicable for students with nationality India (NRI)/Bhutan/ Sri Lanka/ Nepal/ Bangladesh/ Maldives/ Afghanistan\" — a defined international-student audience, distinct from LPU's separate domestic-Indian-resident fee and from a separate USD-billed handbook for other nationalities not covered by this one."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"lpu-bsc-biotechnology-microbiology","universityId":"lpu","name":"B.Sc. Biotechnology/ B.Sc. 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The handbook's own footnote states this INR fee \"will be applicable for students with nationality India (NRI)/Bhutan/ Sri Lanka/ Nepal/ Bangladesh/ Maldives/ Afghanistan\" — a defined international-student audience, distinct from LPU's separate domestic-Indian-resident fee and from a separate USD-billed handbook for other nationalities not covered by this one."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"mahidol-muic-bsc-food-science-technology","universityId":"mahidol","name":"Bachelor of Science in Food Science and Technology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","chemistry","food-science"],"officialUrl":"https://muic.mahidol.ac.th/en/programs/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1296000,"currency":"THB","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"MUIC prices this degree as a whole-programme figure, not per year: the page heading reads \"Approximate Tuition and Education service fee (for four-year Bachelor Program)\". Its table carries two columns, Resident and Non Resident, in that order — 1,010,400 Baht and 1,296,000 Baht for this major — and the Non Resident figure is the one recorded here; see the cost note below for the passage that names the two columns. MUIC calls the figure approximate and adds \"The aforementioned fees may be subject to change.\" The page states no academic year, so the fee is recorded as undated; its only date evidence is a table heading of \"(ID 688xxxx onwards)\" and a footer reading \"Updated on 25 August 2025\". An education service fee of 24,000 Baht per trimester and a 1,500 Baht per trimester insurance premium for full-time international students are charged on top."}},"costContext":{"value":"Every MUIC fee table has two columns, Resident and Non Resident, in that order: 4,000 vs 5,700 Baht per lecture credit and 7,200 vs 9,000 Baht per lab/studio credit. On top of the programme total, MUIC charges a one-time admission fee of 10,000 Baht, an education service fee of 24,000 Baht per trimester, and — for full-time international students only — an insurance premium of 1,500 Baht per trimester."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"entryRequirements":null},{"id":"manipal-dubai-biotechnology","universityId":"manipal-dubai","name":"BSc - Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.manipaldubai.com/programs/bsc-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":57750,"currency":"AED","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"batch starting in September 2026","notes":"Manipal Academy of Higher Education Dubai publishes one annual tuition figure per programme, labelled \"for the batch starting in September 2026\" rather than by academic year, so the period label carries that wording. The figure is inclusive of 5% VAT and is the same for every nationality — MAHE Dubai publishes no separate international rate. It is payable in four instalments. Compulsory extras sit on top and are published on the same page: registration AED 3,150, a refundable AED 500 caution deposit, a degree certificate fee of AED 850, a one-off alumni fee of AED 100 + VAT, transport of AED 2,125-2,850 per semester by sector, and a new student visa of AED 5,460-8,715 plus a refundable AED 3,000 visa deposit. On-campus hostel accommodation is AED 30,000-40,000 a year depending on occupancy. Evening-mode BTech variants (Civil, Electrical & Electronics, Mechanical) are cheaper at AED 45,150 a year over 3 years but are not recorded separately here. The page states \"3 years+ 1 year (Hons.)\" — 3 is the base degree; a fourth year adds the honours award. The fee table also lists this programme as 3 years."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"25 August 2026"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":5,"notes":"Only required where the medium of instruction was not English. The primary route is a minimum 60% in English in the qualifying (Grade 12) exam; failing that, MAHE Dubai’s own English Competency Test and/or a 6-week Bridge Program passed at 60%."},{"test":"TOEFL","minimumOverall":5,"notes":"MAHE Dubai states one combined bar — \"submit IELTS/TOEFL with overall 5\" — without giving TOEFL its own scale, so the figure recorded here is exactly what the page states rather than a converted TOEFL iBT score. Confirm with admissions before booking a test."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Pass in the 10+2 examination or its recognised equivalent, with the two years of study including Physics, Chemistry, English and Biology, and a minimum of 55% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Biology."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Merit based Scholarship for Undergraduate Programs","criteria":"Awarded on the qualifying school result. CBSE/ISC: above 95% earns 30%, 90-95% earns 25%, 80-89% earns 20%, 70-79% earns 15%. A-Level: 2 A* earns 30%, 1 A* and 1 A earns 25%, 2 A earns 20%, 1 A and 1 B earns 15%. O-Level: 2 A earns 20%, 1 A and 1 B earns 15%.","coverage":"15% to 30% waiver on tuition fees only, for the Admission Year 2026-2027. Continuation in later years requires a minimum 7 CGPA in the previous year and no academic backlog.","minimumPercentage":70,"notes":"minimumPercentage records the lowest published band (70%, which earns the 15% award), not the bar for the top 30% award; the payout is a four-step band so no single coveragePercentage is recorded. The A-Level bar is published as grade counts (\"2 A Stars\", \"1 A & 1 B\") rather than a single grade string, so minimumALevelGrades is not recorded."}},{"value":{"name":"Mahila Sarvashiksha Abhiyan (Girl Child Scholarship)","criteria":"Academically strong Indian girls in the UAE who face financial challenges, applying to an undergraduate programme. Offered in partnership with the Indian Embassy.","coverage":"100% tuition fee waiver on UG programs.","coveragePercentage":100,"notes":"Nationality- and gender-restricted (Indian female students in the UAE) and need-assessed; MAHE Dubai publishes no numeric grade bar for it, so no minimumPercentage is recorded. MAHE Dubai also publishes a Sports Scholarship (5-50% first-year waiver for national or state representatives, by interview) and the donor-funded Al Da’em Scholarship Program."}}]},{"id":"manipal-btech-biotechnology-mit","universityId":"manipal","name":"B.Tech in Biotechnology","award":"B.Tech","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.manipal.edu/mit/program-list/btech.html","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":28400,"currency":"USD","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026-27","notes":"From Manipal's own \"Foreign / NRI Category Course Fees\" sheet for 2026-27, in US DOLLARS. The figure recorded is the \"2026-27 Batch Total (US $)\" column, i.e. the cost of the WHOLE course rather than one year (that total is the sum of the first year's tuition+other fees plus the remaining years' tuition and other fees, and it balances exactly on the sheet). CHECK WHETHER A CHEAPER SHEET APPLIES TO YOU: Manipal publishes a separate, lower fee schedule for SAARC and other economically weaker countries, so an applicant from (for example) Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka should look at that one instead. A refundable caution deposit of US $200 sits outside the total."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"July"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"April 30"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"manipal-bsc-biotechnology-msls","universityId":"manipal","name":"B.Sc.Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.manipal.edu/msls-manipal/program-list/bsc-biotechnology.html","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":9350,"currency":"USD","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026-27","notes":"From Manipal's own \"Foreign / NRI Category Course Fees\" sheet for 2026-27, in US DOLLARS. The figure recorded is the \"2026-27 Batch Total (US $)\" column, i.e. the cost of the WHOLE course rather than one year (that total is the sum of the first year's tuition+other fees plus the remaining years' tuition and other fees, and it balances exactly on the sheet). CHECK WHETHER A CHEAPER SHEET APPLIES TO YOU: Manipal publishes a separate, lower fee schedule for SAARC and other economically weaker countries, so an applicant from (for example) Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka should look at that one instead. A refundable caution deposit of US $200 sits outside the total."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"July"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"April 30"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"manipal-bsc-hons-biotechnology-msls","universityId":"manipal","name":"B.Sc.(Hons) Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc. (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.manipal.edu/msls-manipal/program-list.html","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":12400,"currency":"USD","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026-27","notes":"From Manipal's own \"Foreign / NRI Category Course Fees\" sheet for 2026-27, in US DOLLARS. The figure recorded is the \"2026-27 Batch Total (US $)\" column, i.e. the cost of the WHOLE course rather than one year (that total is the sum of the first year's tuition+other fees plus the remaining years' tuition and other fees, and it balances exactly on the sheet). CHECK WHETHER A CHEAPER SHEET APPLIES TO YOU: Manipal publishes a separate, lower fee schedule for SAARC and other economically weaker countries, so an applicant from (for example) Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh or Sri Lanka should look at that one instead. A refundable caution deposit of US $200 sits outside the total."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"manitoba-bsc-microbiology","universityId":"manitoba","name":"Microbiology (BSc)","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology","microbiology"],"officialUrl":"https://umanitoba.ca/explore/programs-of-study/microbiology-bsc","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":804,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-credit-unit","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","creditsPerYear":30,"creditsNote":"The Faculty of Science states this degree is 'approximately 4 years (120 credit hours)', which is 30 credit hours a year at a full course load, and the Registrar's office gives the same pattern as its worked example: a programme requiring 30 credit hours each year in the Regular Session has a normal full load of 15 credit hours each term.","notes":"UM charges undergraduate tuition per credit hour at the rate of the teaching unit that offers each course, so a Faculty of Science student pays $804.00 per credit hour on Science courses but a different rate on electives taken elsewhere (Arts is $689.23 per credit hour on the same 2026-2027 table). At 30 credit hours of Science courses a year this rate is about $24,120. Compulsory endowment, student-organization, technology and lab fees are charged on top, as is the Manitoba International Student Health Plan, which international students must join."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"Fall (September)"},{"month":"January","label":"Winter (January)"},{"month":"May","label":"Summer (May)"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"International applicants: 1 May for the fall (September) intake, 1 October for winter (January) and 1 February for summer (May). Canadian and permanent-resident deadlines are later (1 August, 1 December, 1 April). To be considered for the International Undergraduate Student Entrance Scholarship, apply by 1 March."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"6.0 in each of the four modules (listening, reading, speaking, writing)","notes":"The same requirement covers IELTS Academic (computer or paper) and IELTS Indicator; One Skill Retake results are accepted. The same page also lists PTE 58 and Duolingo 120 (with 105 in each component) as alternatives."},{"test":"CAEL","minimumOverall":60,"notes":"Canadian Academic English Assessment, online or test centre."},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":4.5,"notes":"On TOEFL's new score scale, for tests taken on 21 January 2026 onward, with a minimum of 4.0 in each of Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking. For tests taken before 20 January 2026 the requirement is 86 overall with 20 in each component."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"British-patterned (GCE) applicants need the General Certificate of Education with at least two subjects at A Level and three at GCSE/IGCSE/O Level, and for the Faculty of Science an equivalent minimum average of B (80%) across English First Language Literature, Mathematics, one of Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science or Physics, and a fourth academic course, with no grade below D (60%). UM publishes a separate requirement table for each country and curriculum on this page; where more applicants qualify than there are places, higher averages than the published minimum are needed."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"International Undergraduate Student Entrance Scholarship","criteria":"International students on a valid study permit who apply for admission to any Faculty or School by 1 March, pay international tuition rates, and achieve a minimum high school average of 85% over the best five senior-level academic courses from UM's approved General Entrance Scholarship list. Recipients must enrol in at least 24 credit hours across the following fall and winter terms.","coverage":"Tiered by high school average and reset each year. UM publishes its 2024-2025 values as an example: $3,000 for averages of 95% or higher, $2,000 for 90% or higher and $1,000 for 85% or higher.","minimumPercentage":85,"notes":"Cannot be held with a UM International Baccalaureate Entrance Scholarship or any other award from the UM Entrance Scholarship programme. UM separately runs an International Undergraduate Student Scholarship for continuing students (minimum sessional GPA 3.5 and at least 24 credit hours completed), whose value it does not publish, and bursaries that first-year international students are not eligible for."}}],"curriculum":{"notes":"Manitoba does not publish a semester-by-semester plan on this page. The courses below are the examples it does publish; the full course list lives in the Academic Calendar, which the page links to but does not reproduce.","blocks":[{"label":"Sample course offerings","kind":"requirement-group","modules":[{"name":"MBIO 1010: Microbiology I"},{"name":"MBIO 2420: Introductory Virology"},{"name":"MBIO 2700: Biochemistry 1"},{"name":"MBIO 3010: Mechanisms of Microbial Disease"},{"name":"MBIO 3282: Microbial Communities"},{"name":"MBIO 3430: Molecular Evolution"},{"name":"MBIO 3600: Molecular Microbiology Techniques"}],"notes":"The page introduces these with \"Here are some examples of the courses offered for this program\" — they are illustrative, not a complete or scheduled requirement list, and they span all years of the degree."}]},"costContext":{"value":"On top of tuition, every international student at UM is enrolled in the Manitoba International Students Health Plan, which is mandatory and gives primary health care benefits equivalent to Manitoba Health."}},{"id":"mate-hungary-agricultural-biotechnology-msc","universityId":"mate-hungary","name":"Agricultural Biotechnology (MSc)","award":"MSc","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://en.uni-mate.hu/bsc-and-msc-programmes-in-english-tuition-fees","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":3000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"MATE charges self-funded international students EUR 3,000 per semester on this programme (taught at its Gödöllő campus), for students starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. The first two semesters' fees must be paid before admission and entry to Hungary."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"medical-university-lodz-biotechnologia-studia-i-stopnia","universityId":"medical-university-lodz","name":"Biotechnologia (studia I stopnia)","award":"First-cycle degree (studia I stopnia)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://rekrutacja.umed.pl/studia-w-jezyku-polskim/biotechnologia/","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"medical-university-lodz-biotechnologia-studia-prowadzone-w-jezyku-angielskim-studia-ii","universityId":"medical-university-lodz","name":"Biotechnologia - studia prowadzone w języku angielskim (studia II stopnia)","award":"Second-cycle degree (studia II stopnia)","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://rekrutacja.umed.pl/studia-w-jezyku-polskim/biotechnologia/","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"metu-bs-food-engineering","universityId":"metu","name":"Food Engineering","award":"BS","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-general","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://fde.metu.edu.tr/en/undergraduate-program","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1200,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-term","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2025/26","notes":"METU bills international undergraduates a flat rate per faculty rather than per individual programme. This is the Faculty of Engineering rate for students who started their programme in the 2023-2024 Fall semester or later (1200 USD per semester = 2400 USD/year across fall+spring). The USD figure is converted to Turkish lira near each semester's payment date at the Central Bank's selling rate, with a lira floor set by the Turkish Official Gazette. As of this collection (5 Aug 2026) METU had not yet published a 2026/27 table; this 2025-2026 table was still the live, linked document on METU's tuition-fee page."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"Fall semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"1 June – 12 July 2026 (application period for the 2026-2027 academic year; METU opens a new international-undergraduate application window each year, announced on the ISO website)"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL IBT","minimumOverall":75,"notes":"Threshold to be exempted from METU's one-year English Preparatory Class at registration. Not required to apply for admission itself."},{"test":"PTE ACADEMIC","minimumOverall":65,"notes":"Threshold under METU's equivalence table for PTE Academic exams taken after 12 November 2024 (55 applied before that date)."},{"test":"METU EPE","minimumOverall":60,"notes":"METU's own English Proficiency Exam, sat by admitted students without a qualifying TOEFL/PTE score at registration. IELTS has not been accepted for this exemption since a University Senate decision dated 23 December 2022 (sessions from 24 December 2022 onward excluded) — unlike most universities, where IELTS is normally accepted."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"SAT I","required":false,"notes":"Minimum total score of 1200, plus a minimum Math sub-score of 700/800, required for this Faculty of Engineering programme. 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Awarded to a maximum of 10% of all registered international undergraduates per year (quota distributed across faculties); not available to students whose tuition is covered by another institution or who are enrolled in an international joint-degree program.","coverage":"Exemption from fifty percent of the tuition fee for the relevant semester, for the following academic year.","minimumGPA":3,"gpaScale":"4.00","notes":"Awarded automatically each year based on academic performance at the end of the spring semester; no separate application is needed for currently-enrolled students who meet the CGPA threshold (eligible students are notified by e-mail). METU's CGPA is on a 4.00 scale per its own academic regulations (oidb.metu.edu.tr), though this specific page states the 3.00/3.50 figures without repeating '/4.00' next to them. The source states the discount as 'fifty percent' in words rather than as a digit, so no coveragePercentage is recorded here."}},{"value":{"name":"Tuition Fee Exemption (International Undergraduate Students)","criteria":"For international undergraduate students admitted through METU's international students quota who are continuing in their programs (not newly admitted) and are within the program's normal duration of education: a cumulative GPA (CGPA) of 3.50 or above at the end of the spring semester. Awarded to a maximum of 10% of all registered international undergraduates per year (quota distributed across faculties); not available to students whose tuition is covered by another institution or who are enrolled in an international joint-degree program.","coverage":"Full exemption from the tuition fee for the relevant semester, for the following academic year.","minimumGPA":3.5,"gpaScale":"4.00","notes":"Awarded automatically each year based on academic performance at the end of the spring semester; no separate application is needed for currently-enrolled students who meet the CGPA threshold (eligible students are notified by e-mail). METU's CGPA is on a 4.00 scale per its own academic regulations (oidb.metu.edu.tr), though this specific page states the 3.00/3.50 figures without repeating '/4.00' next to them. The source states this as a 'full exemption' rather than as a '100' digit, so no coveragePercentage is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"milan-biotechnology","universityId":"milan","name":"Biotechnology (Biotecnologie)","award":"Laurea (First Cycle Degree/Bachelor)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://www.unimi.it/en/education/bachelor/biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"There is no single international rate at UniMi. The second instalment depends on the student's country of origin, in three groups, crossed with the degree's tuition area. These degrees sit in area B (Allegato 1 to the same regulation), where a group A student pays EUR 256.00 for 2026/2027, a group B student EUR 1,164.00 and a group C student EUR 4,101.12. The groups are a wealth split rather than an EU one: group A includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Egypt; group B includes China, Turkey, Brazil and Indonesia; group C is the high-income list and holds Germany, France and Spain alongside the USA and the Gulf states. Every student also pays a first instalment of EUR 146 (EUR 130 regional tax plus EUR 16 stamp duty), and group C students settle a higher regional tax of EUR 190 with the second instalment. These rates apply to students newly enrolling in 2026/2027."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Limited-enrolment three-year programme with a mandatory admission test; the course page does not itself name the specific test. 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Computer Science, the only other English-taught bachelor's major, costs the same."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"for English-taught programs"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"English proficiency (B2 CEFR level or equivalent)","notes":"MIPT's own application checklist for the English-taught track lists this as optional documentation rather than a hard minimum score/test, unlike a typical IELTS/TOEFL bar."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"MIPT publishes no formal grade bar for this program; its page instead lists basic school knowledge in physics, biology, mathematics and chemistry at a high level as the specific entry expectation, alongside time-management skills and perseverance."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"mipt-medical-biotechnology-master-s","universityId":"mipt","name":"Medical biotechnology (Master's)","award":"Master's degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://eng.mipt.ru/programs/medical-biotechnology/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":605000,"currency":"RUB","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"MIPT's published yearly fee for this English-taught master's programme. No academic year is given."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"newcastle-australia-bachelor-biotechnology","universityId":"newcastle-australia","name":"Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor of Biotechnology","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.newcastle.edu.au/degrees/bachelor-of-biotechnology","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":48220,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"From the University of Newcastle's own official '2026 International Fee-Paying Undergraduate Indicative Annual Program Fees' schedule (program code 10981, CRICOS code 059879B): 'Indicative annual fees are based on a full year full-time load (80 units).' The schedule's own title states these are the 2026 figures, but does not print a machine-checkable academic-year token directly beside this row, so it is recorded as undated here."}},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6,"minimumPerComponent":"IELTS section minimum - 6.0"}]}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"University of Newcastle International Excellence Scholarship (2027)","criteria":"For new international full fee-paying students commencing an eligible CRICOS-registered undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree at the University of Newcastle from Trimester 1, 2027. Applicants must be able to meet the financial obligations of a full fee-paying international student, must not hold another University scholarship without prior approval, must not be in a program under an international-enrolment quota, and must reside within 50km of the campus named on their Confirmation of Enrolment. No application is required — scholarships are assessed automatically on application for admission.","coverage":"A dollar value equivalent to 20% of the gross annual international tuition fee, applied as a tuition fee reduction each term against the units enrolled at Census date. 500 are available for 2027.","coveragePercentage":20,"basis":"merit","notes":"Newcastle states the scholarship \"has been established to attract high-performing students\" and \"acknowledges applicants with a strong academic background\" — an achievement framing with no financial-need assessment, so merit rather than both. Excluded: English Language Bridging, Enabling, Non-Award, Exchange or Study Abroad, higher degrees by research, degrees without a CRICOS code, standalone graduate certificates and diplomas, offshore-campus and online delivery, internal transfers at an Australian campus, externally sponsored and Australia Awards students, and transfers from Newcastle's Singapore campus — none of which describes a program on StudyPath."}},{"value":{"name":"University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor's International Academic Merit Scholarship (2027)","criteria":"For international students commencing an eligible CRICOS-registered undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree from Trimester 1, 2027, who have achieved a minimum selection rank of 85 or equivalent (undergraduate) or a 4.5/7 GPA in an eligible qualification (postgraduate). Applicants must be able to meet the financial obligations of a full fee-paying international student, must not be in a program under an international-enrolment quota, must reside within 50km of the campus named on their Confirmation of Enrolment, and must not hold another University scholarship without prior approval.","coverage":"A dollar value equivalent to 30% of the gross annual international tuition fee, applied as a tuition fee reduction each term against the units enrolled at Census date. 270 are available for 2027.","coveragePercentage":30,"basis":"merit","notes":"Newcastle says this award \"has been established to attract academically gifted international students\" and \"acknowledges applicants with a strong academic background\" — merit, with no need element. The undergraduate bar is a \"minimum selection rank of 85\", which is an ATAR-style rank rather than a percentage mark, and the postgraduate bar is a 4.5/7 GPA on Newcastle's own scale; neither is recorded as a numeric bar, since doing so would silently treat a rank as a percentage."}},{"value":{"name":"University of Newcastle 'Excelencia Internacional' Scholarship (2027)","criteria":"For international full fee-paying students from South and Central America — specifically citizens of the states and territories listed in Appendix 2 of the scholarship's Terms and Conditions — commencing an eligible CRICOS-registered undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree from Trimester 1, 2027. Applicants must be able to meet the financial obligations of a full fee-paying international student and must not hold another University scholarship without prior approval.","coverage":"A dollar value equivalent to 25% of the gross annual international tuition fee, plus guaranteed fully funded on-campus accommodation for the first semester (up to 12 weeks), plus up to 60 hours of University-delivered English language tuition at no cost for students who do not yet meet the English requirements for their program. A maximum of 25 are awarded in 2027.","coveragePercentage":25,"basis":"merit","notes":"Newcastle describes this award as established \"to attract high-performing students from South and Central America\" and says it \"acknowledges applicants with a strong academic background\" — achievement-framed, with no hardship test, so merit. The country list itself is published only in the Terms and Conditions PDF (Appendix 2), so it is described here as Newcastle describes it rather than enumerated."}}],"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February","year":2027,"label":"Semester 1"}]}},{"id":"nottingham-malaysia-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"nottingham-malaysia","name":"BSc (Hons) in Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.nottingham.edu.my/ugstudy/course/biotechnology-bsc-hons","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":60000,"currency":"MYR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"2026 entry","notes":"UNM prices this course separately from the Malaysian-resident rate (RM52,000/year); audience recorded as international. Fixed Tuition Fee policy applies (\"pay the same amount each year until you graduate\"), but a 6% Sales and Service Tax (SST) applies to non-Malaysian citizens on top of this figure from 1 July 2025."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"September 2026"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6,"minimumPerComponent":"no less than 5.5 in each element"},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":80,"minimumPerComponent":"minimum 17 in Writing and Listening, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking","notes":"For tests taken up to January 2026."},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":4.5,"minimumPerComponent":"no less than 4.0 in each element","notes":"For tests taken from February 2026 (revised scoring scale)."},{"test":"PTE Academic","minimumOverall":65,"minimumPerComponent":"no less than 59 in each element"}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"A Level: BCC, including two science-based subjects from Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Mathematics, excluding Critical Thinking and General Studies (STPM: BC+C+ on the same subject basis)."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"University of Nottingham Malaysia High Achiever's Scholarship (HAS) — A-Level AAA","criteria":"New undergraduate applicants (first year of study) achieving AAA at A-Level (grades in religion, general studies, physical education and other non-relevant subjects are generally excluded from assessment; a required grade of A or B must be met exactly — A- or B- do not qualify). Automatically assessed at application; no separate application required.","coverage":"25% tuition fee reduction on first-year undergraduate study only; does not extend to subsequent years.","minimumALevelGrades":"AAA","coveragePercentage":25,"notes":"The University's High Achiever's Scholarship eligibility appendix lists a specific-subject requirement on top of the general A-Level grade bar for some departments (e.g. Mathematics for Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences programmes; Mathematics and Physics, or Mathematics and Chemistry/Physics, for most Engineering programmes; Chemistry or Biology for Biosciences/Biomedical Sciences programmes) — check the exact subject required for this specific programme on the university's eligibility appendix before relying on a grade alone."}},{"value":{"name":"University of Nottingham Malaysia High Achiever's Scholarship (HAS) — A-Level AAB","criteria":"New undergraduate applicants (first year of study) achieving AAB at A-Level (grades in religion, general studies, physical education and other non-relevant subjects are generally excluded from assessment; a required grade of A or B must be met exactly — A- or B- do not qualify). Automatically assessed at application; no separate application required.","coverage":"20% tuition fee reduction on first-year undergraduate study only; does not extend to subsequent years.","minimumALevelGrades":"AAB","coveragePercentage":20,"notes":"The University's High Achiever's Scholarship eligibility appendix lists a specific-subject requirement on top of the general A-Level grade bar for some departments (e.g. Mathematics for Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences programmes; Mathematics and Physics, or Mathematics and Chemistry/Physics, for most Engineering programmes; Chemistry or Biology for Biosciences/Biomedical Sciences programmes) — check the exact subject required for this specific programme on the university's eligibility appendix before relying on a grade alone."}},{"value":{"name":"University of Nottingham Malaysia High Achiever's Scholarship (HAS) — A-Level ABB","criteria":"New undergraduate applicants (first year of study) achieving ABB at A-Level (grades in religion, general studies, physical education and other non-relevant subjects are generally excluded from assessment; a required grade of A or B must be met exactly — A- or B- do not qualify). Automatically assessed at application; no separate application required.","coverage":"15% tuition fee reduction on first-year undergraduate study only; does not extend to subsequent years.","minimumALevelGrades":"ABB","coveragePercentage":15,"notes":"The University's High Achiever's Scholarship eligibility appendix lists a specific-subject requirement on top of the general A-Level grade bar for some departments (e.g. Mathematics for Computer Science/Mathematical Sciences programmes; Mathematics and Physics, or Mathematics and Chemistry/Physics, for most Engineering programmes; Chemistry or Biology for Biosciences/Biomedical Sciences programmes) — check the exact subject required for this specific programme on the university's eligibility appendix before relying on a grade alone."}}]},{"id":"nsu-bs-biochemistry-biotechnology","universityId":"nsu-bangladesh","name":"BS in Biochemistry & Biotechnology","award":"BS","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biochemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.northsouth.edu/tuition-fees/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":8000,"currency":"BDT","basis":"per-credit-unit","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"Effective from Spring 2026","notes":"From North South University's own \"Tuition and Other Fees\" page, its \"B. Tuition Fees (Per Credit): Effective from Spring 2026\" table, which prices every undergraduate programme it lists at one flat per-credit rate — BDT 8,000 — with no domestic/international split published anywhere on the page, hence audience 'all-students'. A one-time BDT 25,000 admission fee, a refundable BDT 10,000 caution deposit and per-semester lab/library/activity fees (BDT 2,000-3,000 each) apply on top of tuition."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"ntnu-biotechnology","universityId":"ntnu","name":"Biotechnology","award":"Master's degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ntnu.edu/studies/msbiotech","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":205600,"currency":"NOK","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"NTNU prices tuition for students from outside the EU/EEA/Switzerland by field category rather than by programme. This programme's page does not name its category, but as a natural science programme it falls under Category 2 (\"Natural sciences, technology, sports and health sciences, social sciences, educational sciences, performing arts, media studies\"): NOK 205,600 per academic year (60 ECTS) for 2026/27. It is not one of the programmes NTNU lists with a separate fee. EU/EEA/Swiss citizens pay no tuition."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ntu-taiwan-bfn-biotech-food-nutrition","universityId":"ntu-taiwan","name":"Bachelor Program of Biotechnology and Food Nutrition","award":"Bachelor's degree","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://bfn.ntu.edu.tw/about/1","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":58520,"currency":"TWD","basis":"per-term","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"NTU prices undergraduate tuition by college, not by programme: this is the Science / Bio-resources & Agriculture column rate, which is what a BFN student pays (BFN sits within the College of Bioresources and Agriculture), not a BFN-specific figure. Charged per semester; two semesters make an academic year (NTD 117,040). The schedule was passed at NTU's 3,216th Administration Meeting on 26 May 2026 and the total shown is Tuition (NTD 35,980) plus Fees (NTD 22,540). It matches the same college rate on NTU Admissions' international-student fee table, which carries no academic year of its own and is captioned 'for reference only'."}},"costContext":{"value":"BFN's own site does not publish a tuition figure and defers entirely to NTU's Office of International Affairs for admissions and fees. NTU does not price this programme separately: tuition is set by college, so a BFN student pays the Science / Bio-resources & Agriculture rate (BFN sits within the College of Bioresources and Agriculture). NTU Admissions' international-student fee table shows that rate as NTD 58,520 per semester but carries no academic year and is captioned 'for reference only'; the dated figure recorded above comes from NTU's own 2026/27 tuition-and-fee schedule, which lists the identical total."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2027,"label":"2027 September Entry"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"BFN's own Admission page states applicants should 'directly refer to the website of the Office of International Affairs (OIA)' and use NTU's general application system. For the 2027 September Entry cycle: 1st Round online application runs September 29 (11am) to November 5, 2026; 2nd Round runs December 1 (11am), 2026 to January 19, 2027."},"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"General NTU-wide standard for all international undergraduate applicants (BFN's own site publishes no department-specific academic threshold and refers applicants entirely to the general OIA process): at least a high school diploma or equivalent."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Mixed, with the core of the degree mandated in English. BFN's own curriculum page states: 'Departmental required courses (45 credits) and departmental elective courses (36 credits) MUST be taken in English. Courses taught in Chinese will not count towards these requirements.' Those two blocks together total 81 of the degree's 128 credits (the entire major-specific science and biotechnology/food-nutrition curriculum). Separately, the 12-credit 'Common compulsory courses' block includes 6 credits of Mandarin and 6 credits of Foreign Language/English, and the general-education plus free-elective credits (roughly 35 of 128 credits) are not stated to be English-restricted. BFN's homepage separately states: 'The main target students of the Bachelor Program are international students.'"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"NTU Scholarship for International Degree Student","criteria":"Open to currently-enrolled international undergraduate students at National Taiwan University (this is NTU's own scholarship, separate from the government-administered Taiwan Government/MOE Scholarship listed on the same page). Students become eligible to apply once matriculated, via NTU's International Degree Current Students System, in the annual April-May application window; no separate GPA or grade threshold is published for this specific award. Does not include dual-degree students.","coverage":"Tuition waiver of up to NTD 65,000 (exclusive of administrative fees, thesis advisor's fees, insurance, accommodation, internet service, credit fees and other such fees) plus a monthly stipend of NTD 8,000, awarded for one year and renewable by reapplication each following academic year.","notes":"NTU also administers several Taiwan Government Scholarships (MOE, MOFA, Taiwan Elite, Taiwan-Europe Semiconductor) for enrolled international students on the same source page, each with its own GPA renewal standard and stipend, and separate graduate-only NTU awards (International Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Loyalty Award, Centennial Fellowship)."}}]},{"id":"ntu-taiwan-master-program-in-global-agriculture-technology-and-genomic","universityId":"ntu-taiwan","name":"Master Program in Global Agriculture Technology and Genomic Science (Global ATGS)","award":"Master's degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","genetics"],"officialUrl":"https://atgs.ntu.edu.tw/about/overview","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":80000,"currency":"TWD","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"nust-pakistan-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"nust-pakistan","name":"Biotechnology","award":"BS","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://asab.nust.edu.pk/departments/department-of-industrial-biotechnology/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5400,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"NUST publishes one flat international-student rate (\"All UG Programmes\") rather than pricing degrees individually, so this is an institution-wide figure, not programme-specific. Additional one-off charges on the same page: USD 600 non-refundable admission processing fee and USD 250 refundable security deposit; USD 120/year health-facilities charge. The cited page states \"for the year 2026-27\" for its adjoining national-student (PKR) fee table; the international (USD) table sits directly beneath it on the same \"Fee Structure\" page with no separate year label of its own, so 2026/27 is inferred from the page's single stated year rather than restated next to the USD figures. 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OVGU states it has supported 416 high-achieving students under the scheme, in cooperation with over 100 companies, foundations, associations and private individuals plus the federal government. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"polyu-applied-biology-with-biotechnology","universityId":"polyu","name":"Applied Biology with Biotechnology","award":"BSc (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.polyu.edu.hk/study/ug/international/2027/js3923","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":240000,"currency":"HKD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2027/28","notes":"PolyU charges one flat non-local rate across every full-time government-funded Bachelor's Degree programme, so this is institution-wide rather than programme-specific; this programme's own 2027 page lists it as Government-Funded. PolyU's word for this population is \"non-local\": a student who needs a student visa / entry permit to study in Hong Kong, an IANG visa, or a dependant visa issued at age 18 or above. It rises from HK$200,000 for 2026/27 entry. 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Rhine-Waal also distributes the nationwide Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship): a EUR 300/month stipend (EUR 3,600/year) 'for highly talented and motivated students, regardless of origin,' awarded partly on academic merit and partly on social involvement and other personal achievements — the university's own page states no specific grade or percentage bar, so it is recorded here as broad context rather than as a named, criteria-gated scholarship."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"Winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 July, for the winter-semester intake — restricted-admission (N.C.) programme."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"English (CEFR)","notes":"Level B2 with an internationally recognised certificate, per this programme's own admission-requirements text. 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The annual figure beside it, 375,840,000 VND, is explicitly \"indicative based on an average student's study load\", and the whole section is headed \"Tuition fee 2026 for Undergraduate programs (estimated)\". The US dollar column on the same table is RMIT's own indicative conversion, not a price, so it is not recorded. The page states no academic year, so the section heading is used as the period label instead."}},"costContext":{"value":"RMIT Vietnam's fee table gives two figures per row: a Vietnamese dong fee and an indicative US dollar equivalent. 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International students enter this Japanese-taught programme through the Special Screening Examination for Privately Funded International Students, which requires the EJU, and are admitted to the School as a whole rather than to one of its departments."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Japanese"}},{"id":"sdu-kemi-og-bioteknologi","universityId":"sdu","name":"Kemi- og bioteknologi","award":"Bachelor / civilingeniør","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.sdu.dk/da/uddannelse/bachelor/kemi_biotek","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":17300,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"non-eu","periodLabel":"September 2026 intake","notes":"SDU charges nothing to students from the EU/EEA or Switzerland; this is the rate for everyone else. 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A EUR 3,500 one-off specialised preparatory language course is required first for applicants who do not already speak Bulgarian."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Bulgarian"},"scholarships":null},{"id":"srh-university-msc-industrial-biotechnology-and-bioengineering","universityId":"srh-university","name":"Industrial Biotechnology and Bioengineering","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","engineering-chemical"],"officialUrl":"https://www.srh-university.de/en/master/industrial-biotechnology-and-bioengineering/e/","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5750,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","undated":true,"notes":"SRH University is a state-recognised private university financed by tuition fees, per its own page -- the same private-tuition model that applies to the university’s other courses. EU/EEA citizens (including Western Balkans, Switzerland and Ukraine) instead pay EUR 950/month for the whole duration of study. A one-off enrolment fee also applies (EUR 750, or EUR 1,000 for non-EEA applicants without a settlement permit)."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"April","label":"summer semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Rolling admission -- applicants can register at any time via the online portal, with no fixed deadline stated."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":90},{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6.5}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a Bachelor's degree in biotechnology, life sciences, chemistry, engineering, medicine or a similar field, plus good knowledge of cell and molecular biology, chemistry, biochemistry, and statistics."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"notes":"Blends hands-on laboratory work, AI-driven analysis and engineering methods to develop scalable biotechnological solutions, moving between lab work, digital tools and applied projects from the first semester. Includes modules on biotech entrepreneurship, intellectual property and technology transfer. Delivered at SRH's Leipzig campus; currently in accreditation, per the university's own page. An optional study-abroad programme is available.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"SRH Scholarship","criteria":"Open to applicants and students of SRH University at all of its locations. Awarded to talented students in one of six defined life situations: students with a family, students with disabilities, young entrepreneurs, talented pupils and bachelor's students in their first year of study, exceptional social commitment, and master's students. An applicant may apply in two categories at once, and must supply a motivation letter, one letter of recommendation, a CV and evidence for the category claimed.","coverage":"A full scholarship covering the tuition fees from the start of funding through to the end of the standard period of study.","notes":"Awarded once a year through SRH's application portal; the selection board comprises professors, the rector, the diversity officer and students. At the time of collection the winter semester 2026/27 application phase had already closed. SRH publishes no numeric grade or GPA threshold for this award and does not express the award as a percentage of tuition, so no numeric bar or coverage percentage is recorded here. SRH separately advertises programme-specific scholarships (e.g. a performance scholarship, a Women in Tech scholarship) worth up to 50% of first-year tuition, and takes part in the DAAD-funded STIBET programme."}}]},{"id":"srm-ist-biotechnology","universityId":"srm-ist","name":"B. Tech - Biotechnology","award":"B.Tech","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.srmist.edu.in/admission-international/engineering/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":7000,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Annual Tuition Fee in USD 2026","notes":"From SRM Institute of Science and Technology's own \"Programs Offered - Foreign\" table on its Engineering International Admissions page, which lists a separate annual tuition fee per branch for Foreign-category international applicants (distinct from its separate NRI/PIO/OCI fee table on the same page, which carries an automatic scholarship discount not offered to the Foreign category)."}},"costContext":{"value":"The published figure is the annual tuition from SRM's international fee table. SRM charges a one-time registration fee of US$300 on top of it, plus examination fees as applicable, neither of which is included in the tuition figure."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"30-Aug-26"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"srm-ist-biotechnology-genetic-engineering","universityId":"srm-ist","name":"B. 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SRM charges a one-time registration fee of US$300 on top of it, plus examination fees as applicable, neither of which is included in the tuition figure."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"30-Aug-26"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"srm-ist-biotechnology-food-technology","universityId":"srm-ist","name":"B. 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SRM charges a one-time registration fee of US$300 on top of it, plus examination fees as applicable, neither of which is included in the tuition figure."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"30-Aug-26"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"stuttgart-technische-biologie","universityId":"stuttgart","name":"Technische Biologie","nameEnglish":{"value":"Technical Biology"},"award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.student.uni-stuttgart.de/studiengang/Technische-Biologie-B.Sc-00003./","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","periodLabel":"Since winter semester 2017/18","notes":"This is the Baden-Wurttemberg exception to Germany's no-tuition norm: since winter semester 2017/18 the state has required non-EU/EEA international students to pay EUR 1,500.00 per semester (EUR 3,000 per year) at all its state universities, Stuttgart included. The rate is set by state law (LHGebG) rather than by the university, so it is institution-wide, not priced per course. It sits ON TOP of the ordinary semester fee, which Stuttgart puts at currently EUR 184.00 per semester (administrative fee EUR 80.00 + Stuttgart Student Services EUR 96.50 + student council EUR 7.50). The page has carried no academic-year label since the fee was introduced, so the period is recorded as the page states it (\"Since winter semester 2017/18\") rather than inferring a current year. Exemptions exist but are narrow and mostly humanitarian/residence-based (settlement permit, recognised refugee status, five years' legal residence and work in Germany, and similar categories under Sect. 5 LHGebG); an exemption application must be submitted no later than the day of enrolment. Note also that a second degree is charged EUR 650.00 per semester instead, but only for students who are already exempt from the international fee. Stuttgart states explicitly that DAAD scholarships do not cover the EUR 1,500 tuition fee."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","notes":"Baden-Württemberg charges its EUR 1,500 per-semester tuition fee only to non-EU/EEA students, and Stuttgart lists EU/EEA citizenship among the cases where \"the tuition fee will automatically not be charged\" — no application needed. Zero here means confirmed tuition-free, not uncollected. A separate semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag) is still payable by every student; that is an administrative and student-services charge, not tuition, and is deliberately not recorded as one. An EU/EEA student taking a SECOND degree is outside this: Stuttgart prices that at EUR 650."}}],"costContext":{"value":"Stuttgart is in Baden-Wurttemberg, the one German state that does charge non-EU international students tuition: EUR 1,500 per semester (EUR 3,000 per year) at all its state universities, not just Stuttgart. On top of that every student pays a semester contribution of approximately EUR 180 (Stuttgart puts the exact current figure at EUR 184.00 for students). Stuttgart's own budgeting guidance for international students is blunt about the rest: living costs in Stuttgart are \"rather high\" and a student needs at least EUR 992 per month, plus roughly EUR 1,700 per semester for tuition and semester fees combined. Its published monthly breakdown is: rent for a room in a shared flat approx. EUR 350-600 (plus electricity, water and heating), compulsory health insurance approx. EUR 130 for students up to age 30, public broadcasting fee EUR 18.36, and public transport approx. EUR 30. Stuttgart also warns explicitly that DAAD scholarships do not cover the EUR 1,500 tuition fee. Even so, EUR 3,000/year in tuition remains very low by international standards."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter Semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Winter-semester entry only — Stuttgart admits to no bachelor's programme in the summer semester. For programmes with selective admission (NC) or an entrance exam the application period is 15 May – 15 July; for programmes without selective admission it runs 15 May – 15 September. Applications close at midnight on the stated day and are not accepted afterwards. Non-EU applicants apply through Stuttgart's C@MPUS portal, and applicants with credentials from China, India, Pakistan or Vietnam must additionally upload an APS/HEC certificate."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TestDaF","minimumPerComponent":"TestDaF level 4 or better in all four parts of the test","notes":"German-language requirement — every Stuttgart bachelor's programme is taught in German, and the university states that proof of German must be supplied at the time of application: conditional admission subject to later proof of language skills is explicitly not possible. The same page also accepts DSH with an overall result of DSH-2 or above, telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule, the DSD II of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education, ÖSD C2, the German section of a Studienkolleg assessment test, and a prior degree taught in German. Stuttgart runs its own preparatory German course (3 weeks to two semesters) ending in the TestDaF exam for applicants who do not yet meet the bar."},{"test":"Goethe Certificate","minimumPerComponent":"C1 or C2","notes":"Accepted as an alternative to TestDaF. The page names the Goethe Certificate C1 or C2 (Großes deutsches Sprachdiplom/GDS), and separately the older Großes/Kleines Deutsches Sprachdiplom and the Zentrale Oberstufenprüfung (ZOP) in their pre-2012 versions."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"},"notes":"German-taught. Stuttgart's technical-biology degree sits between the life sciences and bioprocess engineering.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium (Germany Scholarship) at the University of Stuttgart","criteria":"An achievement scholarship open to enrolled University of Stuttgart students. Awarded on academic grades together with at least one additional 'soft' criterion — subject-related and non-subject qualifications and achievements (e.g. prizes, internships), extracurricular or social/political engagement, or circumstances that have complicated the applicant's educational biography. Selection is by a ranking list drawn up by each degree programme's commission, faculty by faculty.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, half from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and half from private donors such as foundations, companies and individuals. Awarded for one year (two semesters) at a time; renewal requires a fresh application.","notes":"Applications are handed in over roughly ten days each January, for funding starting in April; the applicant must be enrolled at the University of Stuttgart in the following summer semester. At the time of collection the 2026/27 round had closed and the university expected the 2027/28 call to be announced around December 2026. The scholarship is not tied to nationality and the university publishes no numeric grade threshold, so no grade bar is recorded here. It does not reduce BAföG."}}]},{"id":"sunway-bsc-hons-medical-biotechnology","universityId":"sunway","name":"BSc (Hons) Medical Biotechnology","award":"BSc (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://sunwayuniversity.edu.my/faculty-of-medical-and-life-sciences/courses/bsc-hons-medical-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":39000,"currency":"MYR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"Year 2026","notes":"On successful completion, graduates are also awarded a degree from Lancaster University -- \"They will be awarded two certificates, making them graduates of both Sunway University and Lancaster University\" (this course page). The page lists RM39,000 as the fee \"for Malaysian students\" and USD9,593 \"for international students\", but also states international students actually pay in RM equivalent and that the USD figure is only an indicative estimate at the prevailing exchange rate -- i.e. this is the same RM39,000 annual fee shown in two currencies, not a separate/lower international rate. Excludes application, registration and other miscellaneous fees."}},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"January"},{"month":"April"},{"month":"September"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6},{"test":"MUET","minimumOverall":4,"notes":"Published as \"MUET Band 4\". Malaysian/other school-leaving equivalents are also accepted: SPM English B+, UEC English B4, O-Level English (1119) Credit B3, or Sunway Intensive English Programme (IEP) Pass Level 4 (minimum 65%). TOEFL is not listed as an accepted test on this course page."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"STPM: Average C+ or CGPA 2.33 (minimum 2 Principals). A-Level: minimum 12 points (minimum Grade D in at least 2 subjects). Other accepted routes on this page: Australian Matriculation (ATAR 60), Canadian Matriculation (60%), Monash University Foundation Year (60%), Sunway Foundation in Science Technology (CGPA 2.30), UEC (max 26 points from 5 subjects, all Grade B), or IB (min 25 points excl. bonus). Also requires SPM (or equivalent) with three credits including Mathematics, one science subject and one other subject."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Sunway Entrance Scholarship — Cambridge GCE A-Level ABB/BBB/AAC/ABC","criteria":"New freshmen entering a Sunway University undergraduate degree programme (excluding degrees offered by the Sunway School of American Education and the Doctor of Medicine programme) achieving ABB, BBB, AAC or ABC at Cambridge GCE A-Level. Open to Malaysian or international citizens. Applicable for intakes within 2 years of the academic certificate's issue.","coverage":"RM6,000 per year tuition fee waiver, applicable from Year 1 to Year 3 of the degree, subject to maintaining a minimum CGPA of 3.25 yearly (for Sunway University and Lancaster University affiliation programmes) or a 60% grade average yearly (for the Victoria University programme).","minimumALevelGrades":"ABB/BBB/AAC/ABC","notes":"The payout is a fixed RM amount per year rather than a percentage of tuition, so coveragePercentage is not recorded."}},{"value":{"name":"Sunway Entrance Scholarship — Cambridge GCE A-Level AAA/AAB","criteria":"New freshmen entering a Sunway University undergraduate degree programme (excluding degrees offered by the Sunway School of American Education and the Doctor of Medicine programme) achieving AAA or AAB at Cambridge GCE A-Level. Open to Malaysian or international citizens. Applicable for intakes within 2 years of the academic certificate's issue.","coverage":"RM11,000 per year tuition fee waiver, applicable from Year 1 to Year 3 of the degree, subject to maintaining a minimum CGPA of 3.45 yearly (for Sunway University and Lancaster University affiliation programmes) or a 65% grade average yearly (for the Victoria University programme).","minimumALevelGrades":"AAA/AAB","notes":"The payout is a fixed RM amount per year rather than a percentage of tuition, so coveragePercentage is not recorded."}}]},{"id":"superior-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"superior","name":"BS Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.superior.edu.pk/academics/fee-structure/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":115000,"currency":"PKR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"Fall 2026","notes":"The table's columns are \"Program Name\", \"Admission Fee (PKR)\", \"Misc. / Sem (PKR)\", \"Semesters\", \"Tuition 1st Sem (PKR)\" and \"Total Fee (PKR)\". The recorded figure is the first-semester tuition (115,000); the degree runs 8 semesters, admission costs 20,000 once and 7,500 of miscellaneous charges fall due each semester, and Superior's own whole-degree total is 1,000,000. Superior publishes no separate international rate."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"susu-19-04-01-biotechnology-food-biotechnology","universityId":"susu","name":"19.04.01 Biotechnology (Food Biotechnology)","award":"Diploma (Master’s level)","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","food-science"],"officialUrl":"https://www.susu.ru/en/education/masters-degree-programs/190401-biotechnology-food-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Russian"}},{"id":"susu-18-04-02-energy-and-resource-conservation-processes","universityId":"susu","name":"18.04.02 Energy and Resource Conservation Processes in Chemical Technology, Petrochemistry and Biotechnology","award":"Diploma, master’s degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.susu.ru/en/education/masters-degree-programs/180402-energy-and-resource-conservation-processes-chemical","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Russian"}},{"id":"szabist-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"szabist","name":"BS (Biotechnology)","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://szabist.edu.pk/fee-structure/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":2890,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"SZABIST is one of the few Pakistani universities that publishes a separate foreign-student rate beside the domestic one, and the recorded figure is the foreign per-semester net fee — NOT the rupee column next to it. Each block gives, per programme, a per-credit-hour and a per-semester rate in each currency, with the subsidy shown as 0%. Lab charges of $60 a semester are additional, plus a one-off admission fee of Rs 30,000 and a refundable Rs 15,000 security deposit. The regular-programmes table carries no academic year — the only \"2026-2027 session\" line on the page belongs to SZABIST's separate University of London programmes — so this is recorded undated."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"taltech-toidu-ja-biotehnoloogia","universityId":"taltech","name":"Toidu- ja biotehnoloogia","award":"Bakalaureuseõpe","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["food-science","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://taltech.ee/sisseastuja/bakalaureuseoppe-erialad/toidu-ja-biotehnoloogia","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"5. juuli 2027 kell 12:00"},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Estonian"}},{"id":"tartu-bsc-science-and-technology","universityId":"tartu","name":"Science and Technology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology","chemistry","engineering-general"],"officialUrl":"https://ut.ee/en/curriculum/science-and-technology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":6000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Charged to everyone admitted to this English-taught bachelor's curriculum: the University of Tartu states plainly that there are no tuition-waiver places on English-taught bachelor's programmes, and that from 2026/2027 it no longer offers tuition waivers to newly admitted students from outside the EU/EEA either. Estonian-taught programmes remain free, but they are taught in Estonian. The page cited carries the 2026 admission cycle (application deadline 15 April, admission test 8-9 May 2026) and states its curriculum version as 2026/2027; Tartu does not print an academic-year label beside the fee itself. Non-EU/EEA applicants must pre-pay half the first semester's fee on receiving an offer, with the rest due by 20 September; 90% of the pre-payment is refundable if the place is declined before studies start. A separate application fee applies."}},"costContext":{"value":"No tuition-waiver places exist on any of the University of Tartu's English-taught bachelor's programmes, so the fee above is what every admitted student pays. 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Tartu also accepts Cambridge English (169) and PTE Academic (59)."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"entry test","required":true,"notes":"A mathematics admission test set by the University of Tartu, held online on the testid.ut.ee platform on 8-9 May 2026. Only candidates scoring above 51 on the motivation letter qualify to sit it. Eight assignment types, 100 minutes, pen/paper/calculator/formula sheet allowed, one attempt only and no restart if the connection drops; at least 51 of 100 points are needed to pass and reach the interview. It is Tartu's own programme test, not a competitive national entrance examination, and it counts for 20% of the final admission score."}]},"academic":{"value":"Higher secondary education, plus a secondary-school result in Mathematics and in one of Biology, Chemistry or Physics. 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It is a whole-programme total against the stated 3-year duration, not a yearly rate. Effective 1 July 2025 Taylor's adds a 6% Malaysian Service Tax for non-Malaysian citizens on all fees and charges except the International Security Deposit and EMGS application fees, and states that fees are reviewed annually."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February"},{"month":"April"},{"month":"September"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"th-wildau-biosystemtechnik-bioinformatik-m-sc","universityId":"th-wildau","name":"Biosystemtechnik/Bioinformatik (M.Sc.)","award":"Master of Science","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["bioinformatics","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.th-wildau.de/studieren-und-weiterbilden/studiengaenge/biosystemtechnik-bioinformatik-m-sc","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Deutsch, Englisch"}},{"id":"tohoku-chemistry-and-biotechnology-japanese-taught","universityId":"tohoku","name":"Chemistry and Biotechnology (工学部 化学・バイオ工学科, Japanese-taught)","award":"Bachelor's degree","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","chemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tohoku.ac.jp/en/admissions/admission_undergraduate.html","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":535800,"currency":"JPY","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Tohoku is a Japanese national university and charges every undergraduate the standard national rate, 535,800 yen a year, the same for Japanese and international students; a one-off admission fee of 282,000 yen and an application fee of 17,000 yen apply on top, and Tohoku can waive a third, half or all of the tuition for students in financial difficulty. International students enter this Japanese-taught programme through Tohoku's Privately Financed International Students Entrance Examination, which requires the EJU and a TOEFL iBT score of 79 or higher."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Japanese"}},{"id":"toronto-hbsc-biotechnology","universityId":"toronto","name":"Biotechnology","award":"HBSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/future-students/programs/biotechnology","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":66110,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Read off Table D1 (\"International Tuition Fees for Undergraduate Direct-Entry Programs\") of the same fee report already cited for other U of T programs, under \"ARTS & SCIENCE incl. UTM & UTSC\" — the flat rate covering every Arts & Science bachelor's programme EXCEPT the handful the table lists separately at a higher rate (Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Science; Commerce/Business Administration; Management UTM; Communication, Culture & Information Technology). Psychology is not one of those exceptions, so the general rate applies. The three money columns are 2025-26, 2026-27 (approval) and 2027-28 (information); this is the 2026-27 figure for a student entering in 2026."}},"costContext":{"value":"U of T bills tuition either as a flat program fee or per course, and charges compulsory incidental and ancillary fees on top of it; the ACORN invoice separates the two as tuition and non-tuition charges."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"tu-berlin-biotechnology","universityId":"tu-berlin","name":"Biotechnology","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tu.berlin/en/studying/study-programs/all-programs-offered/study-course/biotechnology-b-sc","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Berlin charges no general tuition fees at its public universities. TU Berlin's own 'Financing Your Studies' page states there are no tuition fees to pay, with continuing-education master's programmes the only exception; this programme is not one of them, so only the standard semester fee applies, which every student pays regardless of nationality."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"tubs-biotechnologie","universityId":"tu-braunschweig","name":"Biotechnologie","nameEnglish":{"value":"Biotechnology"},"award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/studienangebot/biotechnologie-bachelor","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Lower Saxony abolished its general Studienbeitrag; TU Braunschweig states the EUR 500 study fee last levied in summer semester 2014 is no longer charged. Students still pay the Semesterbeitrag (EUR 472.50 for winter semester 2026/27), which is not tuition."}},"costContext":{"value":"No tuition fee. Lower Saxony abolished its general Studienbeitrag and TU Braunschweig states plainly that the EUR 500 study fee last levied in summer semester 2014 \"wird nicht mehr erhoben\" (is no longer charged). The only compulsory payment is the Semesterbeitrag, and TU Braunschweig publishes the exact figure and its breakdown for Wintersemester 2026/27: EUR 472.50 per semester = EUR 150.00 Studierendenwerksbeitrag (student services) + EUR 247.50 Studierendenschaftsbeitrag including the Deutschlandsemesterticket (nationwide public-transport pass) + EUR 75.00 Verwaltungskostenbeitrag (administrative fee). It is due by 1 August for a winter semester and 1 February for a summer semester, and is charged identically regardless of nationality. Two caveats a long-staying student should know: Langzeitstudiengebühren of EUR 500.00 per semester begin once the standard period of study is exceeded by more than six semesters, and students over 60 pay a study fee of EUR 800.00 per semester."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Wintersemester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For international applicants, the window for a winter-semester (October) start is 1 June – 15 July; for a summer-semester (April) start it is 1 December – 15 January. EU citizens applying to a bachelor's programme with free (unrestricted) admission get a longer window: 1 June – 15 October for the winter semester and 1 December – 1 April for the summer semester — so the effective deadline is materially earlier for non-EU applicants. Documents are uploaded as a single PDF via the online application form; TU Braunschweig asks that nothing be sent by post. Acceptance letters for unrestricted bachelor's courses are generally sent 4 to 6 weeks after the deadline."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TestDaF","minimumPerComponent":"at least 4 points in each section of the test","notes":"German-language requirement. TU Braunschweig also accepts telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule, DSH 2, the Sprachdiplom of the Kultusministerkonferenz (Stufe II), the C2-Zertifikat of the Goethe Institute and the Feststellungsprüfung of the Studienkolleg. Useful concession for the many unrestricted (zulassungsfrei) programmes here: for a non-restricted degree programme you only need to prove at the time of application that you are attending a German course at level B2 — but one of the full certificates must still be produced for enrolment, and TU Braunschweig states that enrolment is not possible without it. TestDaF and DSH can both be taken at the university's own Language Centre."},{"test":"telc Deutsch C1 Hochschule","notes":"Accepted as an alternative to TestDaF 4x4."},{"test":"DSH 2","notes":"Accepted as an alternative to TestDaF 4x4."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Restricted admission (zulassungsbeschränkt) — a numerus clausus applies and places are allocated competitively. A higher education entrance qualification sufficient for university study in the applicant's home country is required; in some cases TU Braunschweig requires prior study at an accredited university at home, or completion of a German Studienkolleg foundation course."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Deutsch"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium (TU Braunschweig)","criteria":"High-achieving students (leistungsstarke Studierende) who are within the standard period of study (Regelstudienzeit). 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Need-based rather than grade-based, so no academic bar is published.","coverage":"EUR 400 per month for 2 semesters.","notes":"TU Braunschweig's own hardship scholarship — the largest monthly amount of its three in-house awards.","basis":"need"}},{"value":{"name":"Landesstipendium Niedersachsen","criteria":"Students within the standard period of study. TU Braunschweig lists the selection criteria as being a first-generation university student (Erstakademiker*in), having a refugee background (Fluchthintergrund), or voluntary commitment (Engagement) — none of which is a grade bar, so no numeric threshold is recorded.","coverage":"EUR 500 as a one-off payment (einmalig).","notes":"A single payment, not a monthly stipend — materially different from the other two awards listed on the same page."}}],"notes":"German-taught, six semesters. Zulassungsbeschränkt (numerus clausus) and winter-semester entry only. A distinct degree from Biologie and from Bio-, Chemie- und Pharmaingenieurwesen — all three checked separately."},{"id":"tu-darmstadt-synthetic-biology","universityId":"tu-darmstadt","name":"Synthetic Biology","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/studieren/studieninteressierte/studienangebot_studiengaenge/studiengang_330176.de.jsp","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"tu-delft-life-science-and-technology","universityId":"tu-delft","name":"MSc Life Science and Technology","award":"MSc","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tudelft.nl/en/education/programmes/masters/lst/msc-life-science-and-technology","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":25633,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27"}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"tu-dresden-bsc-molekulare-biologie-biotechnologie","universityId":"tu-dresden","name":"Molecular Biology and Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","biotechnology","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://tu-dresden.de/studium/vor-dem-studium/studienangebot/sins/entrance/313","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"Saxony is one of the German states that has not introduced tuition fees for a first Bachelor's degree, and TU Dresden's own semester-fee page confirms tuition under Saxony's Higher Education Act (SächsHSG §13) is charged only in specific cases: a distance-learning course (EUR 100/semester), a second/further degree after already completing one (EUR 350/semester), long-term study exceeding the standard period by 4+ semesters (EUR 500/semester), or a handful of named special courses -- none of which apply to a standard international student taking this on-campus Bachelor's degree for the first time. What every enrolled student (German, EU or international) pays instead is the compulsory semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag) -- TU Dresden's own International Students FAQ states this \"is not a tuition fee\" and \"costs approx. 300 € for direct study students,\" covering the student-union/student-body social contribution and usually a semester ticket for local public transport. On scholarships, the same FAQ is candid that TU Dresden \"does not generally award full-time scholarships\" -- aside from a limited number of short-term awards (e.g. around the graduation phase), the main broad-based support is the nationwide Deutschlandstipendium (EUR 300/month for at least one academic year, half funded by the federal government and half by private sponsors), open to enrolled students and applicants of any nationality and judged on academic performance, social engagement and personal circumstances rather than a stated numeric grade cutoff."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"This is TU Dresden's only NC (numerus clausus) restricted programme among the STEM Bachelor's degrees on StudyPath. Non-EU international applicants still apply between 1 April and 15 July for the winter-semester first-semester intake, but German and EU applicants face a shorter, competitive window (1 June - 15 July) and the programme participates in the nationwide DoSV coordinated-application system, which requires an applicant ID (BID) and authentication number (BAN) from Hochschulstart for German/EU applicants."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"DSH (Deutsche Sprachprüfung für den Hochschulzugang)","minimumOverall":2,"notes":"German university-entrance language exam; DSH 2 is the standard bar TU Dresden requires for admission to a German-taught degree."},{"test":"TestDaF","minimumOverall":4,"notes":"\"German as a Foreign Language for University Applicants\" test, overall score of at least level 4 in all sections."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"General or subject-related higher education entrance qualification (Abitur) or a comparable qualification -- but unlike every other STEM Bachelor's programme on StudyPath for TU Dresden, this is a limited-admission (numerus clausus / NC) degree: places are allocated by a selection procedure rather than granted to every qualified applicant. Applicants whose foreign qualification does not directly grant access to German higher education must first complete a Studienkolleg (preparatory college) year in the M-course track before starting this degree."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"German"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"MINT-Stipendium (STEM Scholarship)","criteria":"Awarded to incoming first-year students who completed their Abitur at a MINT-EC school, a school in the MINT Zukunft schaffen network, or a TU Dresden partner school, and who are starting a STEM subject (Mathematics, Informatik, Natural Sciences or Technology) at TU Dresden. A teacher's letter of recommendation is required with the application.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month for the first year of study, plus a buddy/mentoring programme and networking events with regional STEM employers and GFF members.","notes":"Awarded by the Association of Friends and Sponsors of TU Dresden (GFF). Eligibility is tied to having attended a specific network of mostly German STEM-focused secondary schools, so most international applicants from outside that school network would not qualify -- included here for completeness rather than as a broadly available award."}}],"notes":"The only NC (numerus clausus) restricted programme among the TU Dresden STEM Bachelor's degrees collected here -- every other one listed is open admission. About 50% of the curriculum is practical laboratory work."},{"id":"ilmenau-biotechnische-chemie","universityId":"tu-ilmenau","name":"Biotechnische Chemie","nameEnglish":{"value":"Biotechnical Chemistry"},"award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["chemistry","biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tu-ilmenau.de/en/study/before-the-study/range-of-courses/bachelor/biotechnical-chemistry-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"TU Ilmenau is a public university in Thuringia. The semester fee is not tuition; it includes the semester ticket for free regional-train travel in Thuringia."}},"costContext":{"value":"No tuition fee. TU Ilmenau is a public university in Thuringia and states plainly that it \"does not charge general tuition fees\"; the only recurring charge is a semester contribution (Semesterbeitrag) of approximately EUR 300, which is not tuition — it is collected by the university on behalf of the Studierendenwerk Thüringen and the student body, and it includes the semester ticket for free travel on regional trains throughout Thuringia. Two other charges are worth budgeting for, both published by TU Ilmenau itself: a one-off EUR 75 application fee for each application submitted with non-European certificates, and a EUR 500 per-semester fee for exceeding the standard period of study (from the university's General Fee Schedule). TU Ilmenau adds that the cost of living in Ilmenau is much lower than in a major city, and that the Studierendenwerk Thüringen runs about 1,600 dormitory rooms in Ilmenau costing between 200 and 345 euros (the page does not state the period those rents cover, so no accommodation range is recorded for this university)."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"1. Oktober"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For applicants holding certificates from outside the EU/EEA, the bachelor's application window for the winter semester runs 16 January to 15 July. There is no summer-semester intake for any bachelor programme. Applicants with EU/EEA certificates (and, for bachelor's applications, Turkey) get until 15 September. Applications for the winter semester 2026 are still handled directly through TU Ilmenau's own campus portal; TU Ilmenau states that every application for 2027 or later with international certificates must instead be submitted through uni-assist. TU Ilmenau charges EUR 75 per application submitted with non-European certificates and warns that processing takes 4-6 weeks for a bachelor's application and that a visa normally takes about three months on top."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"German language skills","minimumPerComponent":"at least B1","notes":"TU Ilmenau requires a recognised certificate in the teaching language of the degree. B1 German is the minimum level accepted for a bachelor's application and leads only to conditional admission; an application with C1 leads to direct admission if everything else is in order. A conditionally admitted applicant must supply an accepted C1 certificate by the start of the degree, and TU Ilmenau runs its own fee-charging Academic Preparation Course (APC language course) to get there. 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TU Ilmenau states there is no legal entitlement to the award.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, independent of income, for a minimum of one year and a maximum of the standard period of study — EUR 3,600 per year. Half is funded by a private sponsor and half by the federal government.","notes":"Cannot be combined with other talent- or performance-related material support from a domestic or foreign institution (unless that support averages under EUR 30 a month). The current call is for funding starting in winter semester 2026/27 for a maximum of two semesters, awarded on 1 October 2026, with the Mobility Online application portal open 29 June to 17 July 2026. A follow-up grant can be applied for each year, so it is possible to hold it for the whole degree while within the standard period of study."}}],"notes":"German-taught, six semesters, 180 ECTS, open admission, no pre-study internship — but a compulsory three-month industrial or research internship in the sixth semester. TU Ilmenau's English page for this degree still prints several of the profile rows in German (\"6 Semester\", \"1. Oktober\", \"Deutsch\"), which is why the quoted evidence below is partly German."},{"id":"tuhh-msc-chemical-and-bioprocess-engineering","universityId":"tuhh","name":"Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["engineering-chemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tuhh.de/tuhh/en/studying/before-studying/degree-courses/masters-programs/chemical-and-bioprocess-engineering","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"Same institution-wide TUHH policy already recorded on the Environmental Engineering course: TUHH does not charge tuition fees to any student, only the standard semester contribution applies."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter semester"},{"month":"April","label":"Summer semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For the winter-semester intake: June 1 to July 15. For the summer-semester intake: December 1 to January 15."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"sufficient German language skills for application and enrollment","notes":"Required specifically of applicants who do not hold a German Bachelor's degree -- effectively every genuine international applicant. TUHH's page does not state a specific German CEFR level, nor any English test score, on this page."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a Bachelor's degree in chemical and bioprocess engineering, process engineering, bioprocess engineering, or a related field. 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A newly-accredited (accreditation 'in preparation' as of this check) research-oriented Master's spanning chemical/pharmaceutical industry, food/biotechnology, and energy/environmental technology, with a core-qualification phase (5 of 10 specialist modules) plus a compulsory Responsible Management module and a 3rd semester well-suited to studying abroad.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium (German Scholarship) at TU Hamburg","criteria":"Open to anyone enrolled in a degree programme at TU Hamburg for the approval period, or who meets the admission requirements and is about to begin studying. Awarded across all disciplines and independently of financial need. Selection is based on school or academic performance, which counts for 70% of the overall score; TU Hamburg states the underlying concept of achievement is intentionally broad, so above-average grades count as much as a willingness to take responsibility or successfully overcoming challenges in one's personal or educational path.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month, paid monthly by TU Hamburg — EUR 150 from private sponsors (companies, foundations, alumni and other private persons) and EUR 150 from the Federal Government. Funding is provided for one year and can be prolonged by submitting a new application.","notes":"144 students held the award in a recent round — 76 bachelor's and 68 master's students — and TU Hamburg funds well over 100 holders a year. Performance being explicitly weighted at 70% of the score is unusually specific, but TU Hamburg publishes no grade threshold, so no numeric bar is recorded."}}]},{"id":"tum-msc-chemical-biotechnology","universityId":"tum","name":"Chemical Biotechnology","award":"M.Sc.","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","engineering-chemical"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tum.de/en/studies/degree-programs/detail/chemical-biotechnology-master-of-science-msc","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":4000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"non-eu","undated":true,"notes":"TUM's own page states this program specifically -- not TUM's general policy -- charges third-country students tuition; a different rate from the Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics course (EUR 6,000/semester), confirming these program-specific fees are set individually rather than as one blanket TUM figure. The standard Studentenwerk semester fee applies on top for everyone."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","notes":"TUM's own tuition page answers \"Who has to pay tuition fees?\" by scoping them to international students from non-EU countries, so an EU/EEA student is charged no tuition. Zero means confirmed tuition-free. The programme pages themselves carry no EU figure, which is why this is cited to TUM's central fee page. The student union and semester fees payable by every student are not tuition and are not recorded here."}}],"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter semester"},{"month":"April","label":"Summer semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"For the winter-semester intake: January 1 to May 31. For the summer-semester intake: October 1 to November 30."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"sufficient English language skills","notes":"TUM's page does not name specific certificates or minimum scores for this programme on this page; evidence must be submitted before the application deadline."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Requires a recognized undergraduate degree (e.g. a Bachelor's) and successful completion of TUM's aptitude assessment procedure."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"notes":"Delivered at TUM Campus Straubing for Biotechnology and Sustainability, not the main Munich campus. Focuses on harnessing biogenic raw materials and waste streams for innovative materials, products and value-creation systems, combining micro/molecular biology, chemistry and process engineering; students can specialise toward electro-biotechnology or materials science. TUM's own page notes most modules are in English but some courses may be taught in German -- contact the departmental advisor for the language of any specific module. First two semesters are core courses plus electives (including internships); third semester is further electives; fourth is the Master's thesis.","scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at TUM","criteria":"Open to bachelor's and master's students at TUM and to school leavers about to begin studying at TUM. Explicitly not purely merit-based: TUM states that grades alone are not decisive and that the award rewards students who take on responsibility, show commitment, or master their personal path in life.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month plus contact with TUM's industry and cooperation partners, for a period based on the standard period of study. Half is financed by the federal government and half by a sponsor from industry or the private sector.","notes":"TUM awards Deutschlandstipendium scholarships at large scale — more than 9,600 TUM students have received financial and non-material support under the programme since it began. Scholarship holders also join the Ideal support programme of events with foundations and companies. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"tum-bsc-bioeconomy","universityId":"tum","name":"Bioeconomy","award":"B.Sc.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["earth-environmental","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.tum.de/en/studies/degree-programs/detail/bioeconomy-bachelor-of-science-bsc","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":2000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"non-eu","undated":true,"notes":"Policy in force for newly enrolling students since winter semester 2024/25 (bachelor's degrees are priced at either EUR 2,000 or EUR 3,000 per semester depending on the programme), but the program page itself states no academic year next to the 2,000-euro figure. Charged on top of the EUR 97 (or EUR 82 at TUM Campus Straubing) per-semester student-union contribution every student pays."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","notes":"TUM's own tuition page answers \"Who has to pay tuition fees?\" by scoping them to international students from non-EU countries, so an EU/EEA student is charged no tuition. Zero means confirmed tuition-free. The programme pages themselves carry no EU figure, which is why this is cited to TUM's central fee page. The student union and semester fees payable by every student are not tuition and are not recorded here."}}],"costContext":{"value":"TUM's own program page states the non-EU tuition fee directly: 'The tuition fees for international students from third countries for this degree program are 2,000 euros per semester.' This is charged on top of the EUR 82 per-semester student-union contribution (the TUM Campus Straubing rate) every student pays. TUM's central non-EU tuition-fee page confirms the policy — in force for newly enrolling students since the winter semester 2024/25 — prices bachelor's degrees at either EUR 2,000 or EUR 3,000 per semester depending on the programme; Bioeconomy sits at the lower EUR 2,000 rate. Neither the program page nor the central fee page attaches an academic-year or dated 'as of' label to this figure, so it is recorded here rather than as a dated structured fee. TUM's own need-and-merit 'Scholarship for International Students' (a one-time EUR 500-1,800 per semester) and the Deutschlandstipendium (EUR 300/month, explicitly 'not purely a merit-based scholarship') can offset the fee, but neither publishes a stated grade/class-rank bar, so neither is recorded as a named, criteria-gated scholarship."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"October","label":"Winter Semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"15 May – 15 July, for winter-semester entry"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"English language proficiency (no certificate required)","minimumPerComponent":"a good knowledge of the language is essential","notes":"No language certificate is required to apply; TUM's own page notes courses are 'mainly' English (some modules German-only) and that 'as courses are usually held in English, a good knowledge of the language is essential.' The Aptitude Recommendation procedure itself is conducted in English."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"Aptitude Recommendation (SOV)","required":true,"notes":"A mandatory online test (roughly 15 minutes, 10-20 questions in English, covering programme content, mathematics/natural sciences, and basic economics/social science). TUM's own page states the test result \"has no impact on your potential admission. However, participation in the test is a required part of the complete application.\""}]},"academic":{"value":"Admission requirements and the application procedure vary by the type of higher-education entrance qualification held; applicants with a qualification obtained outside the EU/EEA generally have their documents reviewed in advance through uni-assist. TUM requires proof of participation in the Aptitude Recommendation (SOV) online test described above."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Deutschlandstipendium at TUM","criteria":"Open to bachelor's and master's students at TUM and to school leavers about to begin studying at TUM. Explicitly not purely merit-based: TUM states that grades alone are not decisive and that the award rewards students who take on responsibility, show commitment, or master their personal path in life.","coverage":"EUR 300 per month plus contact with TUM's industry and cooperation partners, for a period based on the standard period of study. Half is financed by the federal government and half by a sponsor from industry or the private sector.","notes":"TUM awards Deutschlandstipendium scholarships at large scale — more than 9,600 TUM students have received financial and non-material support under the programme since it began. Scholarship holders also join the Ideal support programme of events with foundations and companies. No numeric grade threshold is published, so none is recorded here."}}]},{"id":"turin-biotechnology","universityId":"turin","name":"Biotechnology (Biotecnologie)","award":"Laurea (First Cycle Degree/Bachelor)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://en.unito.it/studying-unito/programs/degree-programs/biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026-2027","notes":"Turin does not price by nationality but by the GDP per capita at purchasing power parity of the student's (or their parents') country of residence, and it publishes a dedicated schedule for exactly this reader -- a student resident abroad, who cannot obtain an Italian ISEE. The EUR 500.00 recorded here is the LOWEST of six bands and the one covering most of the world's international student population (countries whose GDP per capita PPP is up to EUR 26,000). The full published table, for enrolment up to the 2nd year fuori corso: up to EUR 26,000 -> EUR 500.00; EUR 26,000.01-34,000 -> EUR 600.00; EUR 34,000.01-40,000 -> EUR 700.00; EUR 40,000.01-50,000 -> EUR 800.00; EUR 50,000.01-60,000 -> EUR 1,000.00; above EUR 60,000 -> EUR 1,500.00. From the 3rd year fuori corso each band rises (EUR 550.00 to EUR 1,650.00). Check your own country against Allegato A of Turin's Regolamento tasse e contributi a.a. 2026-2027 rather than assuming the lowest band. Three things sit outside this figure: a first instalment of EUR 156.00 (regional student-support tax plus stamp duty) is added to every band; individual degree programmes may levy their own Contributi aggiuntivi; and a student resident in one of the countries Italy designates as particularly poor (Ministerial Decree 176 of 24/02/2026) is exempt from the contribution altogether and pays only the EUR 156.00. Note also the deadline trap: request the reduction after 26 February 2027 and Turin charges the maximum contribution instead. From 2026-2027 the ISEE parificato is no longer accepted for reducing this contribution."}},"costContext":{"value":"The University of Turin does not price this degree individually; it uses one institution-wide fee schedule banded by the GDP per capita (PPP) of the applicant's country of residence rather than by degree programme. On top of a flat EUR 156 first instalment (regional tax plus stamp duty) charged to every student, the university's own fee page sets the further 'full-comprehensive contribution' at EUR 500/year for applicants from countries with GDP per capita PPP at or below EUR 26,000, rising through EUR 600, 700, 800 and 1,000 to a ceiling of EUR 1,500/year for countries above EUR 60,000 -- roughly EUR 656 to EUR 1,656/year all-in. Applicants from Italy's officially-designated 'particularly poor countries' list for 2026-2027 are exempt from the comprehensive contribution and pay only the EUR 156 first instalment. The page also warns that 'any additional contributions required by your specific degree course must also be added', and does not state whether this limited-enrolment Biotechnology programme carries one, so this general schedule is recorded rather than a guaranteed course-specific figure."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"TOLC-B","required":true,"notes":"CISIA Online Test administered by CISIA; required for this 'local programmed' (limited-enrolment) degree."}]},"academic":{"value":"Limited-enrolment ('local programmed') three-year degree requiring the TOLC-B admission test. Taught partly in English and partly in Italian, per the university's own programme summary."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English and Italian"},"scholarships":null},{"id":"u-tokyo-international-graduate-program-in-chemistry-and-biotechnology-master","universityId":"u-tokyo","name":"International Graduate Program in Chemistry and Biotechnology — Master's","award":"Master's degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["chemistry","engineering-chemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.chembio.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/e/admission/exam_special.html","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":535800,"currency":"JPY","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"The University of Tokyo's central fee table gives one annual tuition for every Master's and professional course in its graduate schools apart from the School of Law (which charges JPY 804,000), and it is the same for Japanese and international students. A one-time admission fee of JPY 282,000 is charged on top. The table states no academic year. Students on a Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship pay no tuition."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"uade-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"uade","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://uade.edu.ar/facultad-de-ingenieria-y-ciencias-exactas/licenciatura-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":593867,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-month","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","notes":"UADE prices every degree as a monthly instalment, not an annual or per-term figure — recorded here as 549,979 ARS/month, the \"pack de 5 materias\" rate (five subjects per cuatrimestre, a standard full-time load), not the lower single-subject rate of 115,787 ARS/month UADE also publishes on the same page. UADE's own wording is \"desde\" (from) — a floor, not a guaranteed price; a heavier course load or later intake could cost more. This is also charged every month across a roughly four-to-five-month cuatrimestre, not across a twelve-month year, so multiplying by 12 to estimate an annual cost would overstate it — UADE states no annual total anywhere on this page. Same rate for every applicant regardless of nationality; UADE does not publish a separate international fee. In force from 1 July 2026 (1.° de julio de 2026 on UADE's own page).","undated":true}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"ualg-biotechnology","universityId":"ualg","name":"Biotecnologia","nameEnglish":{"value":"Biotechnology"},"award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ualg.pt/en/curso/1530","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":3500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2025/2026","notes":"A RANGE, NOT A SINGLE PRICE. UAlg charges holders of the Estatuto do Estudante Internacional (Portugal's international-student statute) between EUR 3,500 and EUR 4,500 a year for a Licenciatura, payable in up to 10 monthly instalments; the figure recorded here is the bottom of that range, and the course you choose can put you at the top of it. A MUCH LOWER BAND EXISTS FOR SOME NATIONALITIES: students from the CPLP (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa -- Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Timor-Leste) and from Latin America pay between EUR 1,500 and EUR 4,500, so a Brazilian or Angolan applicant may pay less than half of this. For comparison, the domestic propina on the same page is EUR 697.00. The row is identified by its own figures: the neighbouring bands on the same page are a flat EUR 1,500 for CTeSP courses and EUR 2,000-4,500 for Mestrados, so the 3.500/4.500/1.500/4.500 combination belongs only to the Licenciaturas (1.º Ciclo) block. Cited from UAlg's Portuguese page deliberately: it is headed 'Ano letivo de 2025/2026' while the English translation of the same page still carries the 2024/2025 heading with identical figures."}},"costContext":{"value":"UAlg publishes a RANGE for international students, not a figure: for first-cycle degrees, students covered by the International Student Statute pay \"between 3,500 and 4,500 Euros\", or \"between 1,500 and 4,500 Euros\" if they are from a CPLP (Portuguese-speaking) country or Latin America, against 697,00 € for a domestic or EU student. Payable in up to 10 monthly instalments."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Portuguese. UAlg states \"Language of Teaching\" on each course page, directly under the degree's level and mode."},"scholarships":null},{"id":"uba-lic-biotecnologia","universityId":"uba","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://ingresantes.exactas.uba.ar/licenciatura-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":4.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"UBA charges no tuition fee for any undergraduate degree, for Argentine and foreign students alike. Foreign applicants enter through the same Ciclo Básico Común as domestic students."}},"costContext":{"value":"UBA charges no tuition fee for any of its undergraduate degrees, for Argentine and foreign students alike. Its own FAQ page states plainly that degree courses are not fee-charging: there is nothing to pay to enrol, attend classes, or sit exams. Foreign applicants enter through the same Ciclo Básico Común (shared first year) as domestic students, with no separate fee track for internationals — only a validated secondary-school diploma and a Spanish-language certificate are required (see entry requirements). This degree is taught jointly by four UBA faculties (Exactas y Naturales, Farmacia y Bioquímica, Agronomía and Veterinaria)."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"March","year":2026,"label":"1er Cuatrimestre"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"13 March 2026 (enrolment window for the 1er Cuatrimestre 2026 intake)"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"SIELE Global","notes":"Nivel C1 (equivalent to CEFR C1). Required of applicants whose secondary studies were completed in a non-Spanish-speaking country."},{"test":"Certificado de Español Avanzado – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (UBA)","notes":"UBA's own advanced Spanish certificate, treated as equivalent to CEFR C1."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[]},"academic":{"value":"Completed secondary education (Título de nivel secundario completo), validated by Argentina's Ministry of Education (Ministerio de Educación de la Nación)."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ucc-bsc-food-science","universityId":"ucc","name":"Food Science","award":"BSc (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","chemistry","biology","food-science"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ucc.ie/en/ck505/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":27000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Row taken from UCC’s \"International Undergraduate Fees 2026/27\" schedule: €27,000 is the \"Non-EU Fee (Full Time)\" column for this CAO course code. The €210 in the same row is a separate annual capitation fee payable on top, and the \"Bench Fee\" column is N/A. EU/EEA applicants who qualify under Ireland’s Free Fees Scheme pay a different (much lower) charge and are not covered by this figure. The schedule states fees are per academic year and are subject to change from year to year on a multi-year programme."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"eu-eea","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"The last figure in this row is UCC's \"Fee 3 (EU Tuition Fee)\" column; the row's other figures are the €7,530 total, the €210 Student Capitation and the €2,500 Student Contribution, which are separate charges and are not included in the amount recorded here. UCC states: \"Under the terms of the HEA - Free Fees Initiative (FFI) the Higher Education Authority (HEA) will pay the EU Tuition Fee to University College Cork on behalf of the student except in the case of students not meeting the criteria of this initiative, in which case the total fee (i.e. fee 1 + fee 2 + fee 3) is payable by the student.\" So an eligible EU student does not pay this €4,820 themselves; an ineligible one pays the €7,530 total.","amount":4820}}],"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"Start of Academic Year 2026-27"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"31 May 2026 for non-EU international applicants (2026/27 entry); applications opened 1 December 2025 and some competitive programmes close earlier once places are filled"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"6.0 in each band","notes":"The band shown is the one UCC publishes for undergraduate degree programmes in the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science, which is the college that runs every course listed here. UCC also accepts Duolingo, TOEFL iBT, Pearson PTE Academic, LanguageCert, Trinity ISE, the Oxford Test of English and others; those sit in separate sections of the same page too far apart to quote contiguously, so only the IELTS band is recorded here."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Irish Leaving Certificate: at least six subjects, with minimum grade H4 in one subject, H5 in another and O6/H7 in four others, including English O6/H7, Irish O6/H7, and O6/H7 or H4 in Mathematics and in a Lab Science."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"curriculum":{"notes":"First-year modules only; years 2-4 are described in prose on the course page with no module list.","blocks":[{"label":"Year 1 Modules","kind":"period","modules":[{"name":"BC1001 Introduction to Biochemistry and the Biological Basis of Disease"},{"name":"BL1004 Physiology and Structure of Plants and Animals"},{"name":"CM1005 Introductory Chemistry for Food and Nutritional Sciences"},{"name":"FS1005 Food Technology, Culture, and Ethics"},{"name":"FS1006 Success Skills for Food Scientists"},{"name":"MA1001 Calculus for Science Part 1"},{"name":"MA1002 Calculus for Science Part 2"},{"name":"MB1003 Microbiology in Society"},{"name":"PY1008 Physics for Biomedical, Environmental, Food & Nutritional Sciences"}]}]},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"SEFS International Undergraduate Scholarships 2026/27","criteria":"International (non-EU) undergraduate students with an accepted offer on a programme in the College of Science, Engineering and Food Science. Awarded automatically at offer stage; no application required.","coverage":"€2,000 fee reduction in each year of study, renewable for 4 years (or the duration of the course) subject to progressing each year.","notes":"A flat cash reduction, not a percentage, so coveragePercentage is deliberately unset. There is no stated grade bar at all — eligibility is simply holding an accepted offer in SEFS — so minimumPercentage / minimumALevelGrades / minimumGPA are all left unset rather than invented. Applicants may not hold more than one UCC scholarship; where more than one applies, the higher-value one is used. Capitation fees remain payable."}}]},{"id":"uchile-ingenieria-en-biotecnologia-molecular","universityId":"uchile","name":"Ingeniería en Biotecnología Molecular","nameEnglish":{"value":"Engineering in Molecular Biotechnology"},"award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://uchile.cl/carreras/4957/ingenieria-en-biotecnologia-molecular","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":6398600,"currency":"CLP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"año académico 2026","notes":"On top of the annual arancel every student also pays the Derecho Básico de Matrícula of $217.600 per year. Chile publishes no separate international rate: this decree fixes one annual arancel per programme for all first-year undergraduates, whatever their nationality."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"PAES","required":true,"notes":"Chile's national Prueba de Acceso a la Educación Superior. Applicants are ranked on a weighted score combining school grades, class ranking and PAES subject tests; the exact weighting shown here is this degree's own. Applicants who completed secondary school abroad apply through the university's separate 'Ed. Media en el Extranjero' special-admission quota, which is small (a handful of places per degree)."}]},"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ucsi-honours-in-biotechnology","universityId":"ucsi","name":"Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Biotechnology","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/programmes/bachelor-science-honours-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":140396,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"UCSI states separate approximate TOTAL-programme fees for Local and International Students; this is the International figure. The page calls it an estimate (\"different countries have different visa processing charges and administrative fees\") and says a 6% service tax applies to non-Malaysian citizens from 1 July 2025. No academic year is stated on the page."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ucsi-master-of-science-biotechnology","universityId":"ucsi","name":"Master of Science Biotechnology","award":"Master of Science Biotechnology","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.ucsiuniversity.edu.my/programmes/master-science-biotechnology","durationYears":{"value":1.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":75051,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"UCSI states separate approximate TOTAL-programme fees for Local and International Students; this is the International figure. The page calls it an estimate (\"different countries have different visa processing charges and administrative fees\") and says a 6% service tax applies to non-Malaysian citizens from 1 July 2025. No academic year is stated on the page. This is the \"without bridging course\" figure; the page gives RM 85,261 for students who need the bridging course."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"udec-bioingenieria","universityId":"udec","name":"Bioingeniería","award":"Bioingeniero/a","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-biomedical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://admision.udec.cl/bioingenieria/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":7730261,"currency":"CLP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"2026","notes":"The sticker arancel, kept whole rather than discounted. Chile publishes one annual arancel per degree and charges it to everyone; Gratuidad and the state fee caps that reduce it for Chilean students in the lower income deciles run on Chilean state funding, so an international student should expect the full figure. UdeC applies an automatic Beca Interna of $1.002.629 at enrolment to every student, new or continuing, who does not have Gratuidad -- which is the position an international student is in -- bringing the payable figure to $6.727.632. That conditional discount is deliberately not folded into the price, per the project rule that a discount must not be presented as the fee. The page's own arithmetic (7.730.261 minus 1.002.629 equals 6.727.632) confirms the 7.730.261 belongs to this degree and not to a neighbouring block on the page. A separate matrícula of $52.795 applies."}},"costContext":{"value":"UdeC publishes Bioingeniería's arancel as $ 7.730.261, alongside an automatic Beca Interna UdeC that reduces it for students without state gratuidad, and a separate Valor Matrícula. There is no separate international tariff. It is recorded as context rather than a structured fee because the page heads the figure simply \"Arancel\" and never says whether that is per year or for the whole degree."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"uevora-biotecnologia","universityId":"uevora","name":"Licenciatura em Biotecnologia","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uevora.pt/estudar/cursos/licenciaturas?cod=9016","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":2500,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Évora sets ONE flat international propina for every first-cycle degree, so this is an institution-wide figure rather than a price for Licenciatura em Biotecnologia specifically. It is the cheapest international propina of any Portuguese university on StudyPath — 2 500,00 € against 5 000 at Aveiro, 6 500 at Minho and 7 000 at both Coimbra and Iscte. The same decree sets 697,00 € for national and other EU students, which is the figure beside it in the quote and is NOT what a non-EU applicant pays."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Português"},"scholarships":null,"notes":"The source is in Portuguese, quoted as published. In English it says: English gloss: \"Duration: 6 semesters/180 ECTS (159 compulsory and 21 optional in course units).\" Page headed \"Biotecnologia / Licenciatura / Ano Letivo 2026/2027\". Length recorded in years from a statement the university makes in semesters. Two semesters is one academic year, the pace a full-time student normally takes, so the conversion changes the unit and not the fact."},{"id":"ufc-ceara-biotecnologia-biotechnology","universityId":"ufc-ceara","name":"Biotecnologia (Biotechnology)","award":"Bacharelado","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://profissoes.ufc.br/biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"BRL","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"UFC is a federal public university, and Brazilian public universities charge no tuition. For foreign students, UFC's international office points to PEC-G, a Brazilian government programme: free places for a full undergraduate degree, in courses across every field, with no fees and no entrance exam. PEC-G is open to students from countries that have a PEC agreement with Brazil."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ufro-biotecnologia","universityId":"ufro","name":"Biotecnología","award":"Biotecnólogo","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://admision.ufro.cl/biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5434000,"currency":"CLP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"año 2026","notes":"UFRO's price list gives one annual tuition (arancel) per degree for 2026 and makes no distinction by nationality. An annual enrolment fee (matrícula) is charged on top."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ufro-ingenieria-civil-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"ufro","name":"Ingeniería Civil en Biotecnología","award":"Ingeniero civil en biotecnología","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-biochemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://admision.ufro.cl/ingenieria-civil-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5430000,"currency":"CLP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"año 2026","notes":"UFRO's price list gives one annual tuition (arancel) per degree for 2026 and makes no distinction by nationality. An annual enrolment fee (matrícula) is charged on top."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"ukm-plant-biotechnology","universityId":"ukm","name":"Bachelor of Science (Plant Biotechnology)","award":"Bachelor of Science","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://shape.ukm.my/storage/lampiran/struktur_yuran/FST/pra/strukturyuran_FST_UKMi_pra_F_int_120242025.pdf","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":74070,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"From UKM's own Faculty of Science and Technology international-student fee schedule, published by UKMShape. This is the full 8-semester (4-year) total: a RM2,520 one-off registration fee plus RM71,550 tuition. UKM states the figures are approximate and serve as a guideline, and that the schedule is subject to review."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"notes":"UKM's fee schedule prints \"BIOTHECNOLOGY\"; recorded here with the standard spelling."},{"id":"ukm-biotechnology-with-management","universityId":"ukm","name":"Bachelor of Science (Biotechnology with Management)","award":"Bachelor of Science","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","business-management"],"officialUrl":"https://shape.ukm.my/storage/lampiran/struktur_yuran/FST/pra/strukturyuran_FST_UKMi_pra_F_int_120242025.pdf","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":74070,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"From UKM's own Faculty of Science and Technology international-student fee schedule, published by UKMShape. This is the full 8-semester (4-year) total: a RM2,520 one-off registration fee plus RM71,550 tuition. UKM states the figures are approximate and serve as a guideline, and that the schedule is subject to review."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"notes":"UKM's fee schedule prints \"BIOTHECNOLOGY\"; recorded here with the standard spelling."},{"id":"ulisboa-ist-biological-engineering","universityId":"ulisboa","name":"Biological Engineering","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/education/courses/undergraduate-programmes/biological-engineering/","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":7000,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"This is Instituto Superior Técnico’s own annual fee under Portugal’s \"Estatuto do Estudante Internacional\" (international-student statute), which applies to non-EU applicants; it is not a University of Lisbon-wide rate — other ULisboa schools set their own. €2,000 of it is payable up front as a non-refundable vacancy reservation, counting as the first two of ten instalments. A €100 application fee, an annual academic fee and school insurance are charged separately. EU nationals and applicants who qualify as \"nationals\" pay the much lower Portuguese public tuition instead."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"Reception week for admitted international students, 2026/27"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Three application calls for 2026/27: applications close 6 February 2026 (1st call), 22 May 2026 (2nd call) and 17 July 2026 (3rd call), each at 5pm WET."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"Portuguese language","minimumPerComponent":"level B1","notes":"Required of applicants who did not attend secondary education (or an equivalent programme) in Portuguese. Técnico asks for a B1 certificate at application and for B1 to be demonstrated by the end of the first year. A separate English B1 certificate is required for the bachelor’s programmes that are taught in English — Técnico does not say on this page which those are, so the teaching language is left unverified for each programme rather than guessed."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, and Descriptive Geometry","required":false,"notes":"Técnico runs its own entrance examinations on 4 May 2026 for international bachelor’s applicants who do not hold valid secondary-school final examination results usable for application. Optional for applicants who do hold them. €60 per exam, non-refundable; papers may be sat in Portuguese or English."}]},"academic":{"value":"The Special Admission Regime for International Students is open to nationals of non-EU member states holding a secondary-school certificate (or equivalent) that qualifies them for higher education in their own country. Applicants who are considered Portuguese nationals cannot use this route."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"umfst-targu-mures-medical-biotechnology","universityId":"umfst-targu-mures","name":"Medical Biotechnology","award":"Master's degree","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://umfst.ro/facultatea-de-farmacie/en/educational-offer/masters-degree-studies/medical-biotechnology/","durationYears":{"value":1},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Hungarian"}},{"id":"unc-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"unc-cordoba","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.fcq.unc.edu.ar/biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Confirmed tuition-free by UNC's own Statute, Article 82: \"El ingreso, como así también el desarrollo posterior de la enseñanza, serán completamente gratuitos. Serán de aplicación los principios constitucionales de gratuidad y equidad.\" - both entry and the subsequent running of teaching are completely free, under the constitutional principles of gratuidad and equidad. No nationality condition is attached. Undergraduate study only; UNC charges for posgrado. Separately, UNC's student FAQ confirms the enrolment side: '¿Tiene algún costo la inscripción a las carreras? La inscripción NO incluye tasas obligatorias en ninguna carrera.' Foreign applicants face documentation rather than fees - a legalised or apostilled secondary certificate, and Spanish proficiency (CELU, DELE, DAAD or ACTFL) for anyone whose first language is not Spanish. RECHECK FLAG: this rests on the university's statute rather than on a page written for foreign applicants. Argentine national universities were given room from 2024 onwards to charge non-resident foreigners, and a university could act on that without amending its statute, so a reader planning on this should confirm with the university's admissions office. UNRC and UNLP publish evidence that is specific to foreign students, and so stronger.","undated":true}},"costContext":{"value":"Argentina's Higher Education Law (Ley 24.521) reserves free undergraduate tuition at state universities for Argentine citizens and for foreigners who hold permanent residency in the country -- a foreign student without permanent residency has never been automatically covered by that guarantee, and the law leaves individual institutions free to charge such students. This programme's own official FCQ page (cited alongside for duration) states the career's title and length but does not itself address tuition or fees for international students at all -- unlike FaMAF's licenciatura pages elsewhere on StudyPath, this FCQ page carries no general \"pública, gratuita\" statement either. Whether UNC actually charges non-resident international undergraduates, and how much, is not stated on any official unc.edu.ar or fcefyn.unc.edu.ar page found. This is a live, actively-discussed question as of September 2026 -- the national government has been pushing universities to exercise this existing legal right to charge non-resident foreigners, and Argentine press has reported UNC saying it does not currently intend to -- but neither position is stated on an official university page, so no tuition figure (free or paid) is recorded here."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"uni-giessen-agrobiotechnology-m-sc","universityId":"uni-giessen","name":"Agrobiotechnology (M.Sc.)","award":"Master of Science","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uni-giessen.de/en/study/courses/master/agrobiotechnology","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"No tuition is charged for this programme, whatever your nationality. 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The course page words it as \"ca. € 1200 per year\" and attaches no academic year to it, hence undated. The University’s study guide breaks the same amount into two instalments of €600 (due 13 October 2026 and 31 March 2027) for students within one year of the normal length of the programme, rising to €900 + €600 from the second year beyond it; a €16 revenue stamp, and a €30 fine for late payment, are charged separately. Foreign students holding an Italian government grant are fully exempt on request, and holders of a South Tyrol provincial grant are reimbursed. Places are capped and split by nationality: this programme lists 50 EU + 4 Non-EU."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","year":2026,"label":"Classes: 28/09 - 23/12/2026"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Non-EU applicants must apply in the Early Bird session: 02/03 - 28/04/2026 (by noon local time). 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That publication's printed first-year cell ($43,904 - $44,808) disagrees with the indicative first-year ranges published on this course's own fees page ($52,944 - $62,208 for 2026 and $55,556 - $65,344 for 2027), but both publications state an identical total-course figure, so the agreed total is the figure recorded. The same fees page states these estimates assume a standard full-time enrolment and that actual tuition fees payable will be the sum of the fees for all subjects enrolled. Accepting an offer requires a minimum deposit of AUD$17,000, credited against tuition; Overseas Student Health Cover is additional, and international students do not pay the Student Services and Amenities Fee. 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Accepting an offer requires a minimum deposit of AUD$17,000, credited against tuition; Overseas Student Health Cover is additional, and international students do not pay the Student Services and Amenities Fee."}},"costContext":{"value":"Melbourne states its figure is indicative and varies with the number of subjects taken, their credit-point value, and the discipline band of each subject — so two students on the same degree can be billed different amounts."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February"},{"month":"July"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS (academic English Only)","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"with writing 6.0; speaking 6.0; reading 6.0; listening 6.0","notes":"Melbourne's standard undergraduate band (UoM English Level 1), which the university's own table lists as applying to the Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Biomedicine among others. 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The page's own fee methodology note states 'Annual tuition fees are based on 2025 rates and the equivalent full-time student load as per the recommended study sequence in the relevant program' even though the labelled figure is presented as the 2026 rate. Offered on-campus at Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay. Students choose one major (96 units) from Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Ecology or Mathematics, plus a minor from a wider list including Agriculture and Aquaculture, Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology and Sustainability. Actual fees vary with courses selected and enrolment load."}},"domesticTuition":{"value":{"amount":12485,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"domestic","periodLabel":"2026 Fees","notes":"A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) student contribution, not a UniSC-set tuition price: the Australian Government sets the maximum contribution per funding cluster (field of study) and revises it annually, and a degree draws units from more than one cluster. UniSC publishes this course-level estimate itself, labelled 'CSP estimate'; what a student actually pays depends on the units enrolled in. Available only to domestic students offered a CSP, and deferrable through a HECS-HELP loan rather than paid upfront."}},"costContext":{"value":"UniSC's published figure is an indicative fee covering one year of full-time study, not the cost of the whole degree."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"March","label":"Trimester 1"},{"month":"July","label":"Trimester 2"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"UniSC's own International Application dates page does not publish a fixed on-time closing date for the international-student category for any 2026/2027 trimester or session intake — the 'International Students' row for every listed intake simply reads 'Contact UniSC International', unlike domestic categories, which do have fixed on-time due dates (e.g. 27 November 2026 for direct undergraduate applicants starting Trimester 1, 2027). Prospective international applicants should contact UniSC International directly to confirm processing timelines for their intended trimester."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6,"minimumPerComponent":"minimum 5.5 in each subtest"},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":76,"minimumPerComponent":"minimum score of 18 for writing"}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"Minimum ATAR/Selection Rank of 50.00 at Sunshine Coast and Moreton Bay campuses. 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The figure is the total for the whole programme, not a yearly rate: the sheet states \"Fees structure is based on minimum or common period of study\", and fees are \"charged is subject to students' registration each semester\", so it is normally paid in semester instalments. The sheet also states \"Fees are applied to 2025/2026 intake and onwards unless stated otherwise\", \"Fees are subject to change\", and that accommodation is not included. 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Galway adds: \"Most EU students applying through the CAO will be eligible for the ‘Free Fees Initiative’\" — for those students the State pays this tuition and the student pays the Total Fee of € 2,640 (contribution plus levy) instead. 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On top of it, applicants from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland pay a non-refundable €170 application fee and a one-off €500 deposit towards possible immigration expenses, payable in full with the first full-year fee on arrival and returned on request after graduation. Caveat worth knowing about the source: apply.lu.lv personalises deadlines and requirements to the visitor’s citizenship (it guessed a non-EU citizenship when this page was archived), so a reader should re-check the figure against their own citizenship selection. The only one of these four programmes where the page states that EU/EEA/Swiss citizens, EU long-term residents and Ukrainian civilians holding temporary protection in Latvia can compete for a state-funded (free) study place, with a 5 July 2026 deadline. That route is not open to other non-EU applicants, who pay the fee recorded here.","academicYear":"2026/27"}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"August","year":2026,"label":"Autumn semester 2026/27"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":4,"notes":"The University publishes two TOEFL iBT bars on the same line, on two different scales: at least 80 for a test taken on or before 21 January 2026, or a minimum score of 4 for a test taken after that date (the new TOEFL band scale). The 4 is the figure that applies to any test sat now."},{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6,"notes":"Printed as \"at least score 6.00\"; the page does not state which IELTS module or any per-section minimum."},{"test":"PTE Academic","minimumOverall":55}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"SAT","required":true,"notes":"Required of every applicant who completed secondary education outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland — the international case — hence required: true. The bar is a total score of at least 1200. Applicants schooled inside the EU/EEA/Switzerland are not asked for it."}]},"academic":{"value":"For non-EU/EEA/Swiss applicants: a general secondary school diploma; English language proficiency; grades in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Biology of at least 8 on Latvia’s 10-point scale; an average grade across all subjects of at least 6, with every grade passing (at least 4); and an SAT total of at least 1200 for anyone whose secondary education was completed outside the EU, EEA or Switzerland."},"interview":{"value":"All applicants are asked to take part in an online interview as part of admission."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"university-of-queensland-biotechnology","universityId":"university-of-queensland","name":"Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor of Biotechnology","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://study.uq.edu.au/study-options/programs/bachelor-biotechnology-2456","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":60952,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Approximate yearly cost of tuition (16 units)","notes":"Approximate yearly tuition for 16 units, a standard full-time load, shown on the programme page's international view as the 2027 indicative rate. Fees vary by course selection and are reviewed each year."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"university-of-rijeka-biotehnologija-i-istrazivanje-lijekova","universityId":"university-of-rijeka","name":"Prijediplomski sveučilišni studij Biotehnologija i istraživanje lijekova","award":"univ. bacc. biotechn. et pharm. inv.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","pharmacology"],"officialUrl":"https://biotech.uniri.hr/studiji/prijediplomski-sveucilisni-studij-biotehnologija-i-istrazivanje-lijekova/","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"The University of Rijeka sets annual tuition at EUR 1,330.00 for study programmes in the Faculty of Biotechnology and Drug Development. Croatian and EU citizens studying full time are subsidised from the state budget and normally pay nothing. Students from outside the EU pay at most three times that amount, and the exact figure is set by the faculty rather than by the University — this faculty does not publish it, so no single international fee can be quoted for this programme."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"uos-bs-biomedical-informatics","universityId":"university-of-sharjah","name":"Biomedical Informatics","award":"B.S.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["computer-science","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.sharjah.ac.ae/en/Academics/CI","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":63740,"currency":"AED","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"all-students","periodLabel":"Academic Year 2022/2023","notes":"This is a college-wide flat rate: the University of Sharjah's official tuition PDF lists every College of Computing and Informatics undergraduate program (Computer Science, Information Technology - Multimedia, Business Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity Engineering, Biomedical Informatics) in one merged table block sharing this single Semester/Annual/Per-Credit-Hour rate -- the same row-span pattern the PDF uses for every other college's shared-rate program groups (confirmed visually against the PDF's rendered table). No separate international-student rate is shown; this appears to be the standard published rate. This applies to Students admitted from Academic Year 2022/2023 onwards (the PDF's own title), not a single fixed year, so the period label is used instead of the academic year."}},"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"university-of-warsaw-biological-therapeutics","universityId":"university-of-warsaw","name":"Biological Therapeutics","award":"Magister","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology","pharmacology"],"officialUrl":"https://informatorects.uw.edu.pl/en/programmes-all/BT-PRK/S2-PRK-BT/","durationYears":{"value":2},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"uwa-bp028","universityId":"university-of-western-australia","name":"Bachelor of Molecular Sciences","award":"BMolSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biochemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/courses/bachelor-of-molecular-sciences","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":52000,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Fees for year 2026 ( Starting 2026 )","notes":"Annual international tuition fee for 2026 from UWA Fee Calculator; based on standard 48 credit points per year. Total course credit points and per-credit-point rates shown on calculator; fees reviewed annually and subject to increase.","academicYear":null}},"costContext":{"value":"UWA reviews tuition annually and states that fees are subject to increase under its Acceptance Contract, so the published rate applies to the year of entry rather than to the whole degree."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February","label":"Semester 1"},{"month":"July","label":"Semester 2"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"no band less than 6.0","notes":"UWA's standard undergraduate English Language Competency (ELC) requirement. Higher standard (7.0 overall, 6.5 each band) applies to some courses including Law, Education, Nursing, and some Health degrees. The same page lists TOEFL iBT, PTE Academic, Cambridge C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency, LanguageCert Academic, and UWA CELT Bridging Course as accepted alternatives at corresponding bands; those sit in adjacent rows and could not be brought inside one contiguous quote, so only the IELTS standard band is recorded structurally."}]}},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"UWA Global Excellence Scholarship","criteria":"High-achieving international students commencing an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework program; automatic consideration with admission application; academic merit based.","coverage":"Up to AUD $48,000 over four years (undergraduate) or AUD $24,000 over two years (postgraduate)","coveragePercentage":null,"notes":"One of UWA's flagship international awards; awarded automatically on admission; details on UWA international scholarships page. Other awards include the International Student Award ($5,000/yr fee reduction for select countries) and Vice-Chancellor's Scholarships (50–100% tuition).","basis":"merit"}}]},{"id":"university-of-wroclaw-biotechnology","universityId":"university-of-wroclaw","name":"Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://international.uni.wroc.pl/en/admission-full-degree-studies/programmes-english/biotechnology-5","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":4200,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"The university's fee table gives EUR 3000 a year for EU candidates and, for non-EU candidates, EUR 4200 in the first year and EUR 4000 after; the first-year non-EU figure is shown."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"university-of-zagreb-biotehnologija","universityId":"university-of-zagreb","name":"Biotehnologija","award":"univ. bacc. ing. biotechn.","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.pbf.unizg.hr/studiji/prijediplomski-studiji/biotehnologija","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"Zagreb’s own 2026/2027 admissions call states that its undergraduate programmes taught in English sit outside the responsible ministry’s support system and that their students pay the full cost of study — which is why the call prices those programmes, along with Medicine, Dentistry and Veterinary Medicine, and prices nothing else. This programme is taught in Croatian, is not priced anywhere in that call, and its faculty publishes no fee page of its own, so no figure is recorded."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"unl-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"unl-litoral","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.unl.edu.ar/carreras/licenciatura-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":null,"costContext":{"value":"Argentina's Higher Education Law (Ley 24.521) reserves free undergraduate tuition at state universities for Argentine citizens and for foreigners who hold permanent residency in the country -- a foreign student without permanent residency has never been automatically covered by that guarantee, and the law leaves individual institutions free to charge such students. This programme's own official page (cited alongside for duration) does not itself address tuition or fees for international students at all -- unlike some other public universities on StudyPath, UNL's own site carries no general \"free of charge\" statement either. Whether UNL actually charges non-resident international undergraduates, and how much, is not stated on any official unl.edu.ar page found. This is a live, actively-discussed question as of September 2026 -- the national government has been pushing universities to exercise this existing legal right to charge non-resident foreigners -- but StudyPath only records what an official source actually states, so no tuition figure (free or paid) is recorded here."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"unlp-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia-y-biologia-molecular","universityId":"unlp","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología y Biología Molecular","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.exactas.unlp.edu.ar/licenciatura_en_biotecnologia_y_biologia_molecular","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Confirmed tuition-free, and stated by UNLP on the page it writes specifically for foreign applicants: \"La Universidad Nacional de La Plata es una institución pública, gratuita y sin cupos que cuenta con 17 Facultades y más de 165 titulaciones de grado y pregrado\" - public, free and without entry quotas, across its grado and pregrado degrees. The page prices nothing at all: the only requirements it sets a foreign applicant are a student visa (VISA DE ESTUDIANTE, applied for through the Argentine foreign ministry after conditional enrolment), an in-person handover of paper documents at the chosen faculty, and, for anyone whose first language is not Spanish, a CELU or UNLP CertEA Spanish certificate at a level each academic unit sets for itself. Two limits worth knowing: enrolment for 2026 ran 10 November to 12 December and an applicant may register for only one degree per enrolment round. This records tuition only - books, materials, living costs and any faculty student-centre levy are outside what the page speaks to.","undated":true}},"costContext":{"value":"Argentina's Higher Education Law (Ley 24.521) reserves free undergraduate tuition at state universities for Argentine citizens and for foreigners who hold permanent residency in the country -- a foreign student without permanent residency has never been automatically covered by that guarantee, and the law leaves individual institutions free to charge such students. UNLP's own catalog page for Licenciatura en Biotecnología y Biología Molecular does not address tuition or fees for international students at all, but the university's central page for foreign applicants (\"Información para aspirantes extranjeros\") states in general terms that \"La Universidad Nacional de La Plata es una institución pública, gratuita y sin cupos\" -- though that is general institutional framing addressed to all foreign applicants broadly, not a specific commitment that non-resident students are exempt from fees, so it does not itself resolve the question below. Whether Universidad Nacional de La Plata actually charges non-resident international undergraduates, and how much, is not stated on any official unlp.edu.ar page found. This is a live, actively-discussed question as of September 2026 -- the national government has been pushing universities to exercise this existing legal right to charge non-resident foreigners -- but StudyPath only records what an official source actually states, so no tuition figure (free or paid) is recorded here."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"unq-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"unq-quilmes","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.unq.edu.ar/carrera/21-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia/","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Confirmed tuition-free by UNQ's own Statute, Article 7(a): the University \"Garantiza la gratuidad de la enseñanza de grado en todas las carreras ofrecidas en su modalidad presencial\" - it guarantees free undergraduate teaching in ALL degrees offered in its in-person mode. READ THE CONDITION: the guarantee is scoped to modalidad presencial, and UNQ separately runs UNQ Virtual, whose distance degrees are NOT covered by it. All eleven UNQ courses here are in scope - each one's own unq.edu.ar page states 'Modalidad: Presencial' in its fact box, checked individually. Undergraduate only; postgraduate is outside the article. Foreign applicants present a passport or national ID plus a residence certificate (permanent, temporary or transit) and a legalised or apostilled secondary qualification. RECHECK FLAG: this rests on the university's statute rather than on a page written for foreign applicants. Argentine national universities were given room from 2024 onwards to charge non-resident foreigners, and a university could act on that without amending its statute, so a reader planning on this should confirm with the university's admissions office. UNRC and UNLP publish evidence that is specific to foreign students, and so stronger.","undated":true}},"costContext":{"value":"Argentina's Higher Education Law (Ley 24.521) reserves free undergraduate tuition at state universities for Argentine citizens and for foreigners who hold permanent residency in the country -- a foreign student without permanent residency has never been automatically covered by that guarantee, and the law leaves individual institutions free to charge such students. UNQ's own page for Licenciatura en Biotecnología names Ley 24.521 as the legal basis for its admission conditions (\"Condiciones de ingreso: Las establecidas por la Ley Nº 24521 de Educación Superior, o las leyes que eventualmente la reemplacen, y las reglamentaciones vigentes de la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes.\"), but that reference is only about admission requirements in general and does not itself address tuition or fees for international students. Whether Universidad Nacional de Quilmes actually charges non-resident international undergraduates, and how much, is not stated on any official unq.edu.ar page found. This is a live, actively-discussed question as of September 2026 -- the national government has been pushing universities to exercise this existing legal right to charge non-resident foreigners -- but StudyPath only records what an official source actually states, so no tuition figure (free or paid) is recorded here."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"unsl-licenciatura-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"unsl","name":"Licenciatura en Biotecnología","award":"Licenciatura","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://carreras.unsl.edu.ar/carreras/lic-biotecnologia","durationYears":{"value":5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":0,"currency":"ARS","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","notes":"Confirmed tuition-free by the University's own Statute, Article 5: \"El ingreso y el desarrollo de la enseñanza es gratuito en los niveles de grado en cualesquiera de los establecimientos que integran la Universidad\" - entry and the running of teaching are free at undergraduate level in every establishment that makes up the University. Article 4 on the preceding line commits UNSL to free access for students and anyone else wishing to complete their studies, subject to admissibility rules. The guarantee is constitutional for this university rather than a year's price list, so there is no academic year to attach. Foreign applicants face documentation requirements rather than a fee: a legalised and apostilled secondary diploma, validation of that qualification within 12 months of enrolling, and, for non-Spanish speakers, a CELU certificate at Intermediate/Muy Bueno. Postgraduate study is not covered by Article 5. RECHECK FLAG: this rests on the university's statute rather than on a page written for foreign applicants. Argentine national universities were given room from 2024 onwards to charge non-resident foreigners, and a university could act on that without amending its statute, so a reader planning on this should confirm with the university's admissions office. UNRC and UNLP publish evidence that is specific to foreign students, and so stronger.","undated":true}},"costContext":{"value":"Argentina's Higher Education Law (Ley 24.521) reserves free undergraduate tuition at state universities for Argentine citizens and for foreigners who hold permanent residency in the country -- a foreign student without permanent residency has never been automatically covered by that guarantee, and the law leaves individual institutions free to charge such students. This programme's own official carreras.unsl.edu.ar page (cited alongside for duration) states the career's title, faculty and length but does not itself address tuition or fees for international students at all -- UNSL's own site carries no general \"free of charge\" statement either. Whether UNSL actually charges non-resident international undergraduates, and how much, is not stated on any official unsl.edu.ar page found. This is a live, actively-discussed question as of September 2026 -- the national government has been pushing universities to exercise this existing legal right to charge non-resident foreigners -- but StudyPath only records what an official source actually states, so no tuition figure (free or paid) is recorded here."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"unsw-bsc-science","universityId":"unsw","name":"Bachelor of Science","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biology","chemistry","physics","mathematics","genetics","immunology","microbiology","bioinformatics","biotechnology","ecology","food-science","marine-biology","materials","molecular-biology","neuroscience","pharmacology","physiology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.unsw.edu.au/study/undergraduate/bachelor-of-science","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":61000,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"2026","notes":"UNSW's own published \"2026 Indicative first year full fee\" for international students in the Faculty of Science, described on the page as \"based on an estimated average using historical student enrolment patterns... The amount you pay will vary depending on the calendar year you enrol, the courses you select and whether your study load is more or less than 1 Equivalent Full Time Student Load (8 courses per year).\" Collected in August 2026, while UNSW's 2027-intake applications were open but before any 2027-labelled fee figure was published on this page, so the most recent confirmed (2026) rate is recorded rather than assumed to still apply, or guessed forward, for 2027 entry. The indicative full fee to complete the degree (tuition plus ≈AUD $1,000/yr study-related costs, compounded across the programme) is separately published as part of the same block. Other fees and charges (e.g. Student Services and Amenities Fee) are not included."}},"domesticTuition":{"value":{"amount":9500,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"domestic","periodLabel":"2026","notes":"A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) student contribution, not a UNSW-set tuition price: the Australian Government sets the maximum contribution per funding cluster (field of study) and revises it annually, and a degree draws courses from more than one cluster. UNSW's card label reads 'Full Fee' but the block is headed 'Commonwealth Supported Place: Student Contribution' — this is the subsidised domestic contribution, not a full-fee place. It is the Year 1 amount at a standard full-time load of 48 credit points (1.0 EFTSL); UNSW publishes a separate figure for the whole degree on the same page, which is higher per year because later years draw on higher-band courses and the rates are reviewed annually. Available only to domestic students offered a CSP, and deferrable through a HECS-HELP loan rather than paid upfront."}},"costContext":{"value":"UNSW publishes an indicative first-year fee based on an estimated average. It covers tuition only — UNSW states outright that other fees and charges are not included in the figure."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"On-time applications for admission usually close at the end of September each year for Term 1 admission (late applications accepted with a late fee, subject to availability); most Term 1 offers are made in December and January. International applicants generally apply via the UNSW Applicant Portal rather than UAC."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS Academic","minimumOverall":6.5,"minimumPerComponent":"min. 6.0 in each subtest","notes":"UNSW's English-language-requirements page lists this exact 6.5-overall/6.0-per-subtest bar against several undergraduate faculty rows in its score table, including the Science faculty row (read directly from the same table; the shortest contiguous quote citable here lands on the table's Arts, Design & Architecture row, which carries the identical figure). UNSW accepts IELTS Academic, IELTS One Skill Retake and IELTS UKVI (online IELTS is not accepted). TOEFL iBT 90 overall (min. 23 writing, 22 reading/listening/speaking), PTE Academic, Cambridge C1 Advanced/C2 Proficiency and other pathways are also accepted for undergraduate study; test must be dated within 2 years of intended start."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"UNSW International Student Award","criteria":"For international students who are citizens of an eligible country, commencing full-time study as a new student on campus in a UNSW Diploma, undergraduate or postgraduate coursework program in 2026 or 2027, holding an offer of admission and not already a UNSW student. Programs offered by AGSM, UNSW Online, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Foundation Programs, Transition Program Online, any Hexamester-calendar program, and Study Abroad students are excluded. Applicants submit a personal statement of no more than 500 words on their reasons for studying the proposed program.","coverage":"A 20% contribution towards tuition fees each term for the duration of the program. It can be combined with other UNSW scholarships, but not with special offers or tuition fee arrangements under the Sponsor Partners Program.","coveragePercentage":20,"basis":"merit","notes":"UNSW publishes an explicit \"How will I be assessed?\" section for this award: applicants are assessed on their ability to demonstrate \"Academic Merit\" and \"Aptitude and commitment to studies\". That is a statement about how the award is decided, not merely a bar to apply, and no financial circumstances are named — hence merit rather than both. Confirmation arrives within two days of the offer. The award cannot be deferred."}},{"value":{"name":"UNSW International Scientia Coursework Scholarship (PUCA1025)","criteria":"For international coursework students. UNSW states the award rewards high academic achievement, leadership demonstrated at school, in the workplace or in the community, and extracurricular activities such as sport, cultural activities, volunteer work or work experience. A separate scholarship application is required.","coverage":"Either full tuition fee support for the minimum duration of the program, or a $20,000 contribution each year towards tuition fees for the minimum duration of the program. Recipients may also receive invitations to UNSW networking events and guaranteed entry to the UNSW Professional Development Program.","basis":"merit","notes":"Merit is stated in UNSW's own words — the award \"rewards students with high academic achievement, leadership skills ... and extracurricular activities\" — with no financial-need element, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage is recorded: UNSW writes \"full tuition fee support\", never a percentage, and inventing 100 would be putting a number in the university's mouth."}},{"value":{"name":"Australia's Global University Award (PUCA1026)","criteria":"For international students applying to UNSW. No separate application is needed — anyone who meets the eligibility criteria is automatically considered when they apply to study at UNSW. UNSW states the scholarship rewards students with high academic achievement.","coverage":"A once-off payment of $10,000 towards tuition fees.","basis":"merit","notes":"UNSW's description — \"This scholarship rewards students with high academic achievement\" — is a direct statement about what the award is given for, so merit is recorded. There is no financial-need element and no application, so it is not both. A fixed cash contribution rather than a percentage, so no coveragePercentage."}},{"value":{"name":"UNSW College Award (PUCA1027)","criteria":"For any student who has successfully completed a UNSW College Foundation Studies program and plans to study a UNSW bachelor's degree. Considered automatically — no separate application. UNSW states the award rewards high academic achievement during UNSW College Foundation Studies.","coverage":"A once-off payment of $10,000 towards tuition fees.","basis":"merit","notes":"Recorded as merit on UNSW's own wording that it \"rewards students with high academic achievement during their UNSW College Foundation Studies\". This route is only open to students who came through UNSW College Foundation Studies — it is not a general international award — but it applies to any UNSW bachelor's degree, so it attaches to every undergraduate program here. A fixed cash contribution, so no coveragePercentage."}}]},{"id":"up-diliman-bs-molecular-biology-and-biotechnology","universityId":"up-diliman","name":"Bachelor of Science in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology","award":"BS","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","biochemistry","molecular-biology"],"officialUrl":"https://nimbb.upd.edu.ph/?page_id=7956","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":1500,"currency":"PHP","basis":"per-credit-unit","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"all-students","academicYear":"2024/25","notes":"UP Diliman charges the same PHP 1,500 per-unit tuition rate to all undergraduates regardless of nationality (no separate international per-unit rate exists in the Schedule of Fees). However, the same Schedule of Fees separately lists a mandatory Educational Development Fee (EDF) charged only to foreign undergraduate students, on top of tuition and other fees: US$300 per semester for non-resident aliens, or US$150 per semester for resident aliens. UP Diliman's Office of the University Registrar separately states the combined undergraduate matriculation fee (tuition, miscellaneous fees, and student fund) is about PHP 27,500 per semester for a 17-unit non-laboratory course load, before the EDF surcharge; laboratory fees of PHP 100-1,800 per subject apply on top where relevant.","creditsPerYear":34,"creditsNote":"UP Diliman's Registrar quotes a standard 17-unit semester load for undergraduates, so 34 units across the two-semester year."}},"costContext":{"value":"Beyond tuition and fees, UP Diliman's own guidance for foreign/international undergraduates estimates total personal living costs (lodging, board, school materials, personal allowances, and laundry) at about PHP 103,000-112,000 for one year (two semesters), not including travel or clothing."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"August","label":"first semester"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Not later than 15 April each year, for first-semester admission (no second-semester admission for foreign applicants)"},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"TOEFL","minimumOverall":500,"notes":"Score is for the paper-based test; UP also accepts a computer-based score of 173 or an internet-based score of 61. Required only if the applicant's native language, or medium of instruction in secondary school, was not English."},{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":5.5}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"UPCAT","required":false,"notes":"Foreign/international freshman applicants are not required to sit the UPCAT if they qualify for automatic admission via SAT, GCE, or IB. UPCAT is only taken by those who fail to meet the automatic-admission requirements, and a student who takes the UPCAT but does not qualify can no longer be admitted under automatic admission."},{"name":"SAT","required":false,"notes":"One of three qualifying examinations (SAT, GCE, or IB) accepted for automatic admission of foreign/international freshman applicants; only one is needed. Redesigned SAT minimum: 620 Math and 650 Evidence-Based Reading and Writing."},{"name":"GCE","required":false,"notes":"Alternative qualifying examination for automatic admission: 2 ordinary-level passes and 3 advanced-level passes."},{"name":"International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB)","required":false,"notes":"Alternative qualifying examination for automatic admission of foreign/international freshman applicants."}]},"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Filipino and English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"UP Oblation Scholarship","criteria":"Awarded to the top 50 qualifiers of the UP College Admission Test (UPCAT) system-wide, identified by UPCAT scores and University Predicted Grades.","coverage":"Free tuition, miscellaneous fees, and laboratory fees, plus a book allowance of PHP 2,250 per semester and a monthly incentive allowance of PHP 3,000.","notes":"A UP System-wide award (not exclusive to UP Diliman students, though many enrol at Diliman); reported here from a UP System news article dated 3 August 2026 recognising the 2026 Oblation Scholars. Of the 50 qualifiers that year, 22 chose to enrol at UP. No single tuition percentage is stated in the source (it says \"free tuition\" rather than \"100%\"), so coveragePercentage is deliberately left unset."}},{"value":{"name":"UP Presidential Scholarship","criteria":"Competitive award for continuing UP Diliman undergraduates (2nd through 5th year) with an overall general weighted average (GWA) of 1.75 or better (UP’s GWA scale runs 1.0-5.0, where a lower number is the better grade); no grade of 5.0, DRP, or unremoved 4.0/INC in any semester; not pursuing a secondary bachelor’s degree.","coverage":"A monthly stipend of PHP 2,000 and a semestral book allowance of PHP 2,000.","notes":"Sourced from a specific SIKAP (UP Diliman Office of Scholarships and Grants) call for applications published 14 Aug 2025 with a deadline of 31 Aug 2025; the underlying GWA-1.75 policy recurs annually and is confirmed system-wide on upcat.up.edu.ph, which also lists a companion award, the UP Presidential Leadership Grant, open to students with a GWA of 2.75 or better — that page does not state the Leadership Grant’s payout, so it is not recorded here as a separate structured entry. minimumGPA/gpaScale are deliberately left unset: UP’s GWA scale runs in the opposite direction to the ascending 0-4.0/5.0 scales the site’s grade-matching checker assumes (a lower GWA is a better grade here), so storing \"1.75\" as a minimumGPA would invert the matching logic rather than clarify it."}}]},{"id":"upei-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"upei","name":"Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.upei.ca/programs/biotechnology","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":9718,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2025/2026","notes":"UPEI charges every undergraduate the same base tuition, billed per three-credit-hour course at CAD 763.00 (a typical full-time load of 10 courses/30 credit hours a year is therefore roughly CAD 7,630 in base tuition); international students then pay this ADDITIONAL 'International students fee' of CAD 9,040.00 per annum on top of that base tuition, for a combined total of roughly CAD 16,670/year before mandatory UPEI/Student Union fees and international medical insurance."}},"costContext":{"value":"This degree is a joint pathway with Holland College: the technical, lab-based content is delivered as Holland College's Bioscience Technology diploma program, combined with theoretical science courses at UPEI. Students can start at either institution and finish with the same articulated UPEI degree; current UPEI students cannot simply declare Biotechnology as a major and must submit a new application to enter the program."},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"UPEI International Student Entrance Award","criteria":"Granted annually to international students joining UPEI from high schools in Canada or other countries who hold a valid Canadian study permit. Applicants must demonstrate strong academic performance in high school with converted averages between 90% and 100% (or equivalent GPA) and/or rank in the top 5% to 10% of their class; participate in extracurricular activities such as volunteering, tutoring, sports or the arts; provide strong recommendations from teachers or instructors with direct experience of their academic work; show strong English language skills; and show strong potential for future academic development, leadership and contribution. Students are considered automatically when their application is evaluated and admission letters are sent.","coverage":"$1,000 to $3,000, credited to the student's UPEI Student Account towards tuition and fees. The number available depends on funding, and UPEI states the awards are limited, so early application is encouraged.","minimumPercentage":90,"basis":"merit","notes":"Recorded as merit: UPEI's criteria are academic performance, class rank, extracurricular participation, references, English ability and future potential — achievement and contribution throughout, with no financial-need element anywhere. The 90% floor of the published 90–100% converted-average band is recorded as given; UPEI offers class rank in the top 5–10% as an alternative route, which is stated in prose. After the first year (a minimum of two terms), international students may become eligible for UPEI's Celebrating Student Achievement – Academic Excellence Awards."}}],"notes":"The university now publishes this fee for 2026/2027. The academic year is left as it was: this country runs a calendar year and that field requires a straddling one, so inventing a split year here would assert something the university does not say."},{"id":"upm-biotechnology-with-honours","universityId":"upm","name":"Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology with Honours","award":"Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology with Honours","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://biotech.upm.edu.my/akademik/prasiswazah-1718","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":96000,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"October 2025","notes":"UPM's tuition table for new international undergraduates entering in October 2025 lists this programme at MYR 12,000 a semester over 8 semesters (4 years), MYR 96,000 in total. The tuition fee does not include housing, a medical check-up, insurance or visa processing fees, and a registration fee is charged in the first semester. Applicants must attend an interview before being admitted to this programme."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"usach-ingenieria-civil-en-biotecnologia","universityId":"usach","name":"Ingeniería Civil en Biotecnología","award":"Ingeniero Civil en Biotecnología","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://admision.usach.cl/carreras/ingenieria-civil-en-biotecnologia","durationYears":{"value":5.5},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":6782000,"currency":"CLP","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"ARANCELES 2026","notes":"USACH prices this degree by income decil and publishes a separate row for foreign students, labelled 'ESTUDIANTES EXTRANJEROS QUE NO CUMPLEN LO DISPUESTO EN LA LETRA A DEL ARTICULO 103' -- article 103(a) of Chile's higher-education law is the residence condition, so this is the rate for a foreign student without Chilean residency, and it is that row that is recorded here rather than any of the decil rows. Gratuidad and the state fee caps that cut the decil rates run on Chilean state funding and do not reach this reader. USACH's separate Decil 10 row on the same page carries the same figure."}},"costContext":{"value":"USACH’s Aranceles 2026 table gives three figures per carrera, in this column order: Decil 7, Decil 8-9, and “ESTUDIANTES EXTRANJEROS QUE NO CUMPLEN LO DISPUESTO EN LA LETRA A DEL ARTÍCULO 103 Y DECIL 10” — the last being the rate charged to foreign students who fall outside Chile’s Article 103(a) gratuidad rules. For Ingeniería Civil en Biotecnología that third figure is $6.782.000. A semester Matrícula of $106.000 applies on top. This is recorded as prose rather than as a structured fee because the page never states whether the arancel is per year or for the whole degree, and guessing between those is a five-fold error."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null,"notes":"The source is in Spanish, quoted as published. In English it says: \"PROFESSIONAL TITLE: Civil Engineer in Biotechnology / DURATION: 11 SEMESTERS\". Length recorded in years from a statement the university makes in semesters. Two semesters is one academic year, the pace a full-time student normally takes, so the conversion changes the unit and not the fact."},{"id":"uskt-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"uskt","name":"BS Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uskt.edu.pk/FeeStructure","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":60000,"currency":"PKR","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"all-students","undated":true,"notes":"USKT publishes a block per programme headed \"One Time Fee\" (an admission fee of Rs 15,000 and a registration fee of Rs 15,000) followed by \"Semester 1\" and the tuition for that semester. The recorded figure is that first-semester tuition, not a yearly or whole-degree total, and the two one-off fees are charged on top. The page states no academic year anywhere, so the fee is recorded undated. USKT publishes no separate international rate."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"uskudar-bioengineering-english","universityId":"uskudar","name":"Bioengineering (English)","award":"Bachelor","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["engineering-biochemical","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://international.uskudar.edu.tr/en/tuition-fee","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":5000,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Üsküdar's international fee table gives three money columns per programme: $ 5.000 per year, $ 4.500 paid in advance, and $ 2.500 per term. The full per-year rate is recorded; the advance figure is a discount for paying up front and the per-term figure is the same year split in two. Üsküdar prices its English-medium and Turkish-medium intakes of the same degree differently, and they are separate rows."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English. Üsküdar names the medium of instruction in the programme title on its international fee table, and lists English-medium and Turkish-medium intakes of the same degree as separate rows at different prices."},"scholarships":null},{"id":"ustc-bs-biotechnology","universityId":"ustc","name":"Biotechnology","award":"Bachelor's Degree","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://ic.ustc.edu.cn/en/v7info.php?Nav_x=6","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":26000,"currency":"CNY","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","notes":"USTC's International College publishes one flat undergraduate tuition rate for all majors and all international applicants — this Application Guideline states no separate academic-year label next to the fee itself, so the period label is drawn from the online-application window stated on the same page for this admission cycle. On top of tuition: an Insurance fee of 800 RMB per academic year, and on-campus dormitory fees of 500-1,000 RMB per month depending on room type and size. There is no application fee.","undated":true}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"Online Application window for the international undergraduate route: 14 November 2025 to 31 March 2026. Applicants must first sit the China Scholastic Competency Assessment (CSCA) and submit its results with the application; university assessment follows in April or May, with admission decisions in June or July."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"HSK","minimumOverall":5,"notes":"USTC's international undergraduate route requires the new HSK (Chinese proficiency test) Level 5 or above, since teaching is in Chinese. Applicants whose native language is Chinese, or who can show they were schooled in a Chinese-medium high school, are exempt from this requirement."}]},"admissionsTests":{"value":[{"name":"China Scholastic Competency Assessment","required":true,"notes":"Referred to on USTC's own page as the \"CSCA Test\". Compulsory subjects: Professional Chinese (STEM) and Mathematics; plus one elective subject chosen between Physics and Chemistry. Organised by the China Scholarship Council; results must be submitted with the online application."}]},"academic":{"value":"Non-Chinese citizens with a valid passport, in good physical and mental health, who have been awarded (or, for 2026 graduates, will complete by July 2026) a senior-high-school graduation certificate equivalent to a Chinese one. Separate eligibility rules apply to emigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and to applicants born abroad with one or both parents holding Chinese citizenship."},"interview":{"value":"USTC's admission decision is a comprehensive evaluation that explicitly includes interview performance alongside academic performance, qualifications and certificates, though the guideline does not separately describe interview logistics or timing."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Chinese"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"USTC Fellowship (Undergraduate)","criteria":"Excellent applicants may apply for the USTC Fellowship through the same Online Application System used for admission; USTC does not publish a numeric grade bar for the award.","coverage":"Covers the tuition fee and insurance fee in full, plus a monthly stipend of 2,500 RMB and an accommodation subsidy."}}]},{"id":"utm-biotechnology-with-honours","universityId":"utm","name":"Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology with Honours","award":"Bachelor of Science in Biotechnology with Honours","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://science.utm.my/undergraduate/bachelor-of-science-biotechnology/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":63000,"currency":"MYR","basis":"total-program","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"From UTM's \"International Undergraduate Fees\" page (the same page the existing UTM records cite), which prices by programme field, not by programme. Figures are for students \"exempted from Bridging Programme (GCE A-Level, IB, SAT2, American Diploma, Australian Matriculation leavers or equivalent)\"; the page says fees exclude accommodation, USD values are estimates, and \"The fees are subject to change\". No academic year is stated. This is the \"Science\" field row: RM13,258 for semester 1, RM49,742 for semesters 2-8, RM63,000 total tuition."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"uts-bachelor-science-biotechnology-chemistry","universityId":"uts","name":"Science (Biotechnology / Chemistry / Medical Science majors)","award":"Bachelor of Science","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","chemistry"],"officialUrl":"https://www.uts.edu.au/courses/bachelor-of-science-biotechnologymedical-science","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":25508,"currency":"AUD","basis":"per-term","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","undated":true,"notes":"UTS's own Course Summary Table lists course code C10242 / CRICOS 040705B once, with multiple major options sharing the same code and fee: Biotechnology, Chemistry, a Flexible major (Life and Environmental Sciences / Chemical and Physical Sciences), and Medical Science. This is the single underlying Bachelor of Science course; recorded with the Biotechnology and Chemistry majors' Discipline ids since both are offered under the one CRICOS code."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"UTS Academic Merit International Scholarship","criteria":"For commencing international students (not Australian or New Zealand citizens or Australian permanent residents) who meet all admission requirements for the chosen UTS undergraduate (including Honours) or postgraduate coursework program and commence full-time and on campus in Sydney. Not available to students of UTS online or distance degrees, or to recipients of other UTS scholarships, grants or the UTS Alumni Advantage Program for the duration of the scholarship. UTS's published selection process is academic merit in the qualification used as the basis of admission.","coverage":"15% of UTS tuition fees for the standard number of credit points required for the course.","coveragePercentage":15,"basis":"merit","notes":"UTS publishes an explicit \"Selection process\" heading whose content is \"academic merit in the qualification used as the basis of admission\" — a statement about how the award is decided, not merely an entry bar — and no financial circumstances are considered, so merit rather than both. The page also tags the scholarship \"Merit\". The 15% figure applies to students commencing in 2026; UTS's international scholarships page notes the rate was 20% for those who commenced in 2025. Available for intakes up to Spring 2028. Assessed automatically with the course application."}},{"value":{"name":"UTS Vice-Chancellor's International Undergraduate Scholarship","criteria":"For international students commencing an undergraduate degree at UTS. UTS states the scholarship recognises exceptional international students who embody UTS values of innovation and impact.","coverage":"A full tuition scholarship for the standard course duration.","basis":"merit","notes":"Recorded as merit on UTS's own characterisation — it \"recognises exceptional international students who embody UTS values of innovation and impact\". Achievement and contribution, not hardship, so merit rather than both. No coveragePercentage: UTS writes \"Full tuition scholarship\" and never a percentage figure, and supplying 100 would be a number the university has not published."}},{"value":{"name":"UTS GCE A Level and International Baccalaureate Scholarship","criteria":"For international undergraduate students entering UTS on the basis of GCE A Level or International Baccalaureate results. Listed by UTS among its undergraduate scholarships and grants for international students; the majority of UTS scholarships require no separate application and are assessed automatically against the course application.","coverage":"A 50% tuition fees scholarship for the standard course duration.","coveragePercentage":50,"notes":"Basis left unset. UTS's international scholarships page states the qualification the award is tied to and its value, but does not say on this page how recipients are selected — and this project does not treat an award being tied to a qualification type as a claim that selection is decided on achievement. UTS runs a separate, explicitly merit-tagged award (the Academic Merit International Scholarship) where that claim is actually made."}},{"value":{"name":"UTS Academic Excellence International Scholarship","criteria":"Listed by UTS among the scholarships available to commencing international students for both undergraduate and postgraduate coursework study at UTS in Sydney. The majority of UTS scholarships require no separate application — students are assessed automatically and offered a scholarship if they meet the eligibility criteria.","coverage":"A 30% tuition fees scholarship for the standard course duration.","coveragePercentage":30,"notes":"Basis left unset despite the award's name. UTS's international scholarships page gives the value and the level it covers but makes no statement about how recipients are chosen, and the word \"Excellence\" in a title is not the university claiming that selection is decided on academic achievement. UTS does make that claim explicitly for its Academic Merit International Scholarship, which is why that one carries merit and this one does not."}}],"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February","label":"Autumn session"},{"month":"July","label":"Spring session"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"30 November"}},{"id":"vilnius-tech-bioengineering","universityId":"vilnius-tech","name":"Bioengineering","award":"Bachelor of Science in Technology","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","engineering-biomedical"],"officialUrl":"https://vilniustech.lt/en/international-students/study-programmes/undergraduate-and-integrated-studies/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":4950,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"VILNIUS TECH publishes two undergraduate rates for non-EU students: EUR 3,950/year for its business-side bachelor's programmes and EUR 4,950/year for Engineering/IT/Technologies, which is the band this programme sits in. On top of tuition, a EUR 100 non-refundable application fee and a EUR 200 registration fee (paid with the first tuition instalment) apply. Continuing students pay per semester, due before 15 September and 15 February."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"eu-eea","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Lithuania charges EU citizens real tuition, and Vilnius Tech publishes a separate, lower price list for them: \"Tuition Fee for European Union Citizens and Permanent Residents — The following tuition fees for one year (2026-2027 academic year) are set for EU and Permanent Residency students.\" Recorded per year, the basis the page itself states, and grouped exactly as Vilnius Tech groups its programmes.","amount":4201}}],"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"In Lithuanian or English"}},{"id":"vit-biotechnology","universityId":"vit","name":"B.Tech - Biotechnology","award":"B.Tech","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://vit.ac.in/engineering-programmes-vellore-campus","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":9000,"currency":"USD","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026-2027","notes":"VIT's International Admissions fee page publishes one flat B.Tech tuition rate for International (NRI/Foreign) students that applies across every B.Tech specialisation offered at the Vellore campus, not a per-branch figure — a one-time refundable USD 100 caution deposit is charged on top in the first year."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null},{"id":"wageningen-biotechnologie","universityId":"wageningen","name":"Bachelor's in Biotechnologie (Biotechnology)","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.wur.nl/en/education/bachelor/bachelor-biotechnologie","durationYears":{"value":3},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":18300,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Wageningen charges one institutional rate for every bachelor's programme (including Dutch-taught ones like this), so this is the same figure already recorded on StudyPath’s other Wageningen bachelor's programmes. Students with a Dutch, EEA, Swiss, Surinamese or Ukrainian nationality pay the Dutch statutory fee instead - EUR 2,694 for 2026-2027, stated on the same page - so the non-EU rate is roughly seven times higher and is the decisive cost fact for an applicant from outside Europe."}},"additionalTuition":[{"value":{"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"eu-eea","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"The Dutch statutory fee (wettelijk collegegeld). WUR's asterisk defines who counts: the same page states \"Students with a nationality other than from NL/EEA/SME¹ countries are considered NON-EU students\". A student taking a second bachelor's is outside this rate — WUR prices that separately at institutional tuition fee 2.","amount":2694}}],"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"Dutch"},"scholarships":null},{"id":"wageningen-master-s-in-biotechnology","universityId":"wageningen","name":"Master's in Biotechnology","award":"MSc","level":"postgraduate-taught","disciplines":["biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.wur.nl/en/education/master/masters-biotechnology","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":21900,"currency":"EUR","basis":"per-year","scope":"institution-wide","audience":"non-eu","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Wageningen's master's study-expenses page gives one tuition rate for students from outside the EU/EFTA, with no breakdown by programme; EU/EFTA students pay the Dutch statutory fee of EUR 2,694 for 2026/27. The same table estimates EUR 22,500 for 2027/28. Admitted non-EU/EFTA students are invoiced up front for the first year's tuition, 12.5 months' living allowance, health and liability insurance and the residence-permit cost."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":null,"languageOfInstruction":null},{"id":"wits-bsc","universityId":"wits","name":"Bachelor of Science (BSc)","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["computer-science","mathematics","physics","chemistry","biology","earth-environmental","microbiology","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.wits.ac.za/science/undergraduate/","durationYears":null,"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":104100,"currency":"ZAR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Average tuition fee for the first year of study","computed":{"baseAmount":52050,"multiplier":2,"rule":"International undergraduate students from outside of SADC pay double the local tuition fees"},"notes":"A RANGE, NOT A SINGLE PRICE. Wits’ 2026 Fees Book gives the average first-year local tuition for the BSc as a range, ZAR 52,050 to ZAR 80,750, because the BSc is a flexible degree priced from the individual courses a student registers for rather than as one package. The amount recorded here is double the bottom of that range; a student from outside SADC choosing more expensive courses can pay up to double the top of the range, roughly ZAR 161,500. Wits does not publish an international amount as a number anywhere in its 2026 Fees Book — only the rule \"International undergraduate students from outside of SADC pay double the local tuition fees\" (General Information, same document), applied here to the range's own lower bound. SADC-country nationals pay the local rate instead, plus a separate International Registration Fee of ZAR 6,970 a year, and are not who this figure describes. 75% of the year's fees (plus accommodation, if in residence) must clear before registration, with the remaining 25% due by 30 June 2026; medical aid cover is compulsory."}},"costContext":{"value":"Wits’ 2026 Fees Book gives the average first-year local tuition for the BSc as a range, ZAR 52,050 to ZAR 80,750 (roughly USD 2,900-4,500), because the BSc is a flexible degree priced from the individual courses a student registers for rather than as one package. The internationalTuition value above records only the doubled bottom of that range; an undergraduate from outside SADC choosing pricier courses pays up to roughly ZAR 161,500 (double the top of the range), which is about USD 9,000 a year at 2026 rates — still among the cheaper research-university tuitions anywhere on StudyPath. Its International Students Office states the rule that turns the local figure into what an overseas student actually pays: students from SADC member countries (Angola, Botswana, Comoros, DR Congo, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe — Rwanda is also included in the fee-book table) pay the local tuition plus a non-refundable International Registration Fee of ZAR 6,970 a year, while undergraduates from anywhere else — the rest of Africa and the rest of the world — pay double the local tuition and no IRF. 75% of the year’s fees (plus accommodation, if in residence) must clear before registration, with the remaining 25% due by 30 June 2026. Medical aid cover is compulsory, paid directly to the provider, and proof of it is required before the International Students Office will issue registration clearance. Re-verified 5 Sep 2026 against the same Fees Book: still only a range."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February","label":"Start of Term"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"30 September 2026 for the 2027 academic intake, for all undergraduate programmes except Health Sciences, Architectural Studies, Audiology, Speech-Language Pathology and BA Film and TV, which closed on 30 June 2026. Residence applications run 1 April to 30 September 2026. An applicant may apply for a maximum of three programmes, and Wits states it will not deal with third-party agents applying on an applicant’s behalf."},"entryRequirements":{"language":{"value":[{"test":"IELTS","minimumOverall":6.5},{"test":"Cambridge English Language Assessment (CAE)","minimumOverall":185},{"test":"TOEFL iBT","minimumOverall":100,"notes":"Wits accepts TOEFL only \"in exceptional cases\": 100 on the internet-based test, 600 paper-based or 250 computer-based. A pass in English Language at GCSE/GCE/IGCSE Ordinary level, or an equivalent to South African matriculation Higher Grade English, is also accepted in place of a test."}]},"admissionsTests":null,"academic":{"value":"An applicant with a non-South African school-leaving qualification must have it assessed for Matriculation Exemption before Wits will admit them to a first-year undergraduate degree, and must produce the exemption certificate at registration. Wits then ranks applicants on its own Admission Points Score (APS), calculated from the best seven subjects including Life Orientation and including any faculty-specific compulsory subjects; Mathematics is core and compulsory for every numerate programme, which includes the whole of Engineering and the Built Environment and Science. Wits states that meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee a place — first-year intake numbers are capped by the Department of Higher Education and Training and final selection depends on results and available places. Only one Matric upgrade/rewrite attempt is considered."},"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"}},{"id":"wlu-biochemistry-biotechnology","universityId":"wlu","name":"Biochemistry & Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biochemistry","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.wlu.ca/programs/science/undergraduate/biochemistry-biotechnology-bsc/index.html","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":36624,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","academicYear":"2026/27","notes":"Laurier's own international tuition table gives this as the 2026/27 tuition for two terms (fall + winter, full-time course load of five half-credit courses per term) for this programme's fee category. A further CAD 2,338-3,282 in student fees (more with co-op) is charged on top per two terms."}},"languageOfInstruction":{"value":"English"},"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Laurier Renewable Entrance Scholarship (international students)","criteria":"All international applicants to Laurier are automatically assessed; the scholarship is awarded on the final high school admission average and no application is required. The top tier is the President's Gold Scholarship, awarded on admission and renewable in upper years for four years (five for approved double degree programs) when renewal requirements are met.","coverage":"$5,000 to $6,000 CAD a year, renewable at the same amounts in upper years as an in-course scholarship. The President's Gold Scholarship is worth $6,000 CAD a year for international students; a recipient who does not meet the renewal requirements in upper years falls back to the $5,000 CAD in-course scholarship.","basis":"merit","notes":"Laurier states the scholarship \"is awarded based on your final high school admission average\" with no application — the admission average alone decides it, so merit is recorded. No financial circumstances are considered. No numeric bar: Laurier publishes a band table rather than a single stated minimum on this page."}},{"value":{"name":"Laurier Inspiring Lives Scholarship","criteria":"Available exclusively to international students beginning undergraduate studies at Laurier, in any undergraduate program at any campus. Applicants must have applied to Laurier, accepted their offer, be entering their first year in the fall term, and be paying full-time international tuition fees in that term. Laurier states there is no minimum admissions average required to apply. A separate application is required, including a video of no more than two minutes describing how the applicant inspires lives of leadership and purpose.","coverage":"$500 to $5,000 CAD, which can be stacked with entrance scholarships and other competitive scholarships and awards.","basis":"merit","notes":"A useful edge case for the merit/need judgement. Laurier says the award goes \"to students who inspire lives of leadership and purpose in their communities and through their extracurricular activities\", and states explicitly that there is no minimum admissions average — so it is a talent and contribution award rather than a grades award, but still merit in the schema's sense of achievement-based selection, and emphatically not need: no financial circumstances are assessed. For fall 2024 Laurier awarded 26 of these to students from 13 countries. Applications for the 2026 round were closed at the time of collection; the scholarship is awarded annually."}}],"costContext":{"value":"Laurier publishes this as a first-year international figure for 2026/27 and states that it is subject to increase for 2027/28."},"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"September","label":"fall term"},{"month":"January","label":"winter term"}]},"applicationDeadline":{"value":"April 1, 2027"}},{"id":"xiamen-malaysia-marine-biotechnology","universityId":"xiamen-malaysia","name":"Bachelor of Science in Marine Biotechnology (Honours)","award":"BSc (Hons)","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["marine-biology","biotechnology"],"officialUrl":"https://www.xmu.edu.my/courses/bachelor-science-marine-biotechnology-honours","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":31000,"currency":"MYR","basis":"per-year","scope":"program-specific","audience":"international","periodLabel":"Academic Year 2026","notes":"Total programme cost over 4 years is RM 124,000. Excludes administrative fees (Application and Registration Fee RM 318, International Student Fee RM 2,650/year covering admin/EMGS/visa/insurance) and a 6% Sales & Service Tax (SST) applied to higher-education services for non-Malaysian citizens from 1 July 2025. The Malaysian rate for the same programme (RM 30,000/year, RM 120,000 total) is lower — this figure is specifically the \"International\" column."}},"costContext":null,"intakes":{"value":[{"month":"February"},{"month":"April"},{"month":"September"}]},"applicationDeadline":null,"entryRequirements":{"language":null,"admissionsTests":null,"academic":null,"interview":null},"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":[{"value":{"name":"Merit Scholarship (STPM / A-Level / UEC route)","criteria":"For new undergraduate applicants presenting UEC, STPM or A-Level results, banded purely by count of Grade A results (A+, A or A-): 1 / 2 / 3 / 4-or-more Grade A's. A separate table on the same page (SACE/AUSMAT/NEW HSC, IB Diploma, Monash Foundation Year) is explicitly marked \"Applicable to Malaysian applicants only\" and is not recorded here. This UEC/STPM/A-Level table carries no such restriction on the page, but XMUM separately directs \"international students' scholarships\" enquiries to its International Student Recruitment Office rather than detailing them on this page, so an international applicant should confirm this table's eligibility directly with XMUM before relying on it.","coverage":"25% / 50% / 75% / 100% tuition fee scholarship for 1 / 2 / 3 / 4-or-more Grade A results respectively, for undergraduate programmes (STPM/A-Level/UEC route). Renewal each year depends on the student's CGPA ranking relative to peers in the same programme and intake.","notes":"No single minimumALevelGrades or coveragePercentage recorded because the award pays out at four different rates depending on how many Grade A results are achieved, not one fixed bar and payout."}}]},{"id":"yorku-bsc-biotechnology","universityId":"yorku","name":"Biotechnology","award":"BSc","level":"undergraduate","disciplines":["biotechnology","genetics"],"officialUrl":"https://www.yorku.ca/science/programs/undergraduate-programs/biotechnology/","durationYears":{"value":4},"internationalTuition":{"value":{"amount":40000,"currency":"CAD","basis":"per-year","scope":"faculty-wide","audience":"international","periodLabel":"fall/winter 2026-2027","notes":"York publishes one approximate international rate for \"Most programs (Arts and Sciences)\" rather than a Biology-specific figure; fees are based on 30 credits/5 courses per term. Actual course-by-course fees are posted on York's separate Course and Program Fees page, not recorded here."}},"costContext":{"value":"York charges supplementary fees per credit on top of tuition — typically $40 to $50 a credit depending on faculty and programme — covering student levies, athletics and recreation, health and counselling and other student supports."},"intakes":null,"applicationDeadline":{"value":"March 24, 2027"},"entryRequirements":null,"languageOfInstruction":null,"scholarships":null}]