Admission to and Description of the Programme
All applicants must hold a Bachelors degree in a field related to power engineering (electrical, thermal) and demonstrate sufficient competence in the English language (IELTS 6,0 or equivalent TOEFL results). The final decision on admission will be taken by the examination board of the programme.

The programme will start at BTU Cottbus in the Fall/Winter semester (starting mid of October each year) and will take 4 semesters in total. It will be possible to study the programme fully in English language. Some additional modules in German will be offered.

After admission the students will be enrolled at BTU Cottbus. During their entire studies, including possible semesters abroad ( see Student Mobility Arrangements) students will continue to be enrolled at BTU Cottbus. 

The principal structure of the programme can be seen in Table 1 in the download “Graphical Overview and Module Tables”.

In each of the four semesters students have to collect 30 credit points according to the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). The amount of credits granted for each of the modules after the successful completion of the related examination is listed in Tables 2-4 in the download “Graphical Overview and Module Tables”.
 

Mentoring System and Study Plan
Students in the Masters programme ‘Power Engineering’ have to prepare their specific programme plans by the end of the first semester. In these plans the students have to define their own selection out of the modules offered. A student mentoring system on the basis of personal tutors will assure that these selections lead to an individually tailored, student-specific and highly specialised education in total. The study plan must be approved by the Examination Board. For each branch of studies at least one mentor will be available.
 

Industrial Internship
A 10 week industrial internship is part of the programme. For international students the opportunity will be offered to replace to ten week internship by a 6 week industrial internship or a study project with a total workload of 180 hours plus a German language Course. To provide students with the opportunity of familiarising themselves with domestic industry, BTU Cottbus is actively building a group of supporting industrial companies which will offer internships and topics for the Masters theses in different places throughout the world.

Master Thesis
In the 4^th semester the students have to prepare a master thesis with a total work load of 720 hours. This can be done either at BTU Cottbus or with external partners but under official supervision of BTU.

Within this framework of outgoing mobility (list of cooperating universities or industrial companies), it will be possible for students to work on their master thesis with those partners, providing the master thesis is officially supervised by a BTU-Professor in the MSc Power Engineering programme.

Degree
The degree “Master of Science in Power Engineering” will be awarded by BTU Cottbus upon successful completion of the programme. Under certain conditions it will be possible to earn a joint degree.

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