The Master's degree programme in Chemical Engineering (MCE) is a purely English-language programme and lasts four semesters from the start to the completion of the Master's thesis. It is aimed in particular at foreign graduates who wish to continue their professional career in responsible positions in industry or science, preferably in Germany, after completing their Master's degree.

Application process step by step
During the programme, you must earn 120 credit points (CPs), of which 30 CPs are allocated to the Master's thesis and 55 CPs to ten compulsory modules. For the remaining 35 CP, you can choose between two categories, the compulsory elective modules and the free elective modules. Information on the modules can be found in the curriculum and in the examination and study regulations.

In the category of compulsory elective modules, you must earn 29 CPs. Here you can choose from a portfolio of at least 16 elective modules according to your interests. With the free elective modules, you are completely free to choose from all the modules offered at TUBAF. Thanks to the wide selection in the two compulsory elective categories, you can take many modules from one area of chemical engineering if you want to specialise in one discipline, or spread the modules across the various disciplines of chemical engineering if you want a broad education.

The ten compulsory modules have been carefully selected to ensure you are qualified to take on responsible positions in German industry or academia. They include modules that will teach you the German language, modules that will familiarise you with German and Saxon companies and their organisational structure, modules that will challenge your practical skills in hands-on laboratory/pilot plant work and modules that will provide essential process engineering knowledge at Master's level. The MCE programme does NOT teach science and engineering fundamentals and process engineering fundamentals at Bachelor level. They are assumed and the scientific training of future graduates on the MCE programme builds on them.

Chemical engineering (abbreviated to "ChemEng") deals with all processes in which substances are changed in their composition, type or properties by mechanical, thermal, chemical or biological processes. The electronic materials in your mobile phone, tablet, laptop or PC were obtained from raw materials with the help of ChemEng. The plastics, paints, coatings and foams that surround you were produced from chemical raw materials with the help of ChemEng. The food and luxury foods you eat and the medicines you consume are produced from natural substances with the help of ChemEng. Hydrogen, one of the energy sources of the future, is produced with the help of ChemEng. The greenhouse gas carbon dioxide is "captured" with ChemEng and stored or converted into chemicals, fuels and products. Municipal and industrial residues (waste), waste water and exhaust air streams are treated, purified and/or utilised by ChemEng. This list could be continued endlessly. Surely you have realised by now that ChemEng is a very relevant future technology for our supply of a healthy environment, energy, basic chemicals and food.