| Baden-Württemberg |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions (to be abolished from summer semester 2012) |
| Bavaria |
general tuition fees of between 100 and 500 euros per Semester (to be abolished from winter semester 2013-14) |
| Berlin |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Brandenburg |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Bremen |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions; 500 euros per semester for long-term students |
| Hamburg |
general tuition fees of 375 euros per semester (to be abolished from winter semester 2012-13) |
| Hesse |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Mecklenburg-West Pommerania |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Lower Saxony |
general tuition fees of 500 euros per Semester (to be abolished from winter semester 2014-15); long-term students’ fees between 600 and 800 euros per semester |
| North-Rhine-Westphalia |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Rhineland-Palatinate |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions; long-term students’ fees of 650 euros per semester |
| Saarland |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions; long-term students’ fees of 400 euros per semester |
| Saxony |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Saxony-Anhalt |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions; long-term students’ fees of 500 euros per semester |
| Schleswig-Holstein |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions |
| Thuringia |
no general tuition fees at state higher education institutions; long-term students’ fees of 500 euros per semester |