Student apartments in Munich
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München (Munich) hosts TUM and LMU — two of Germany's top-ranked universities. It is also the country's most expensive city for housing. Maxvorstadt and Schwabing sit between both campuses; Garching (TUM's main science campus) is a 30-minute U-Bahn ride and substantially cheaper.
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Top neighborhoods for international students
Maxvorstadt
Maxvorstadt sits between TUM's main building and LMU's main campus. The Pinakothek museums, the English Garden a short walk east. Munich's most expensive student neighborhood — and the one nearly every student wants.
$700 – $1,800 /mo
Schwabing
Schwabing is Munich's historic bohemian neighborhood — Leopoldstraße, Münchner Freiheit, the northern English Garden. Trendy cafés and a heavy LMU student presence.
$700 – $1,700 /mo
Garching
Garching is TUM's main science + engineering campus — a separate municipality north of Munich, 20 minutes by U6. Substantially cheaper than central Munich. Most TUM master's students live here.
$450 – $1,100 /mo
Neuhausen-Nymphenburg
Neuhausen sits west of the city centre — Nymphenburg Palace gardens, calmer than Schwabing, less hipster than Maxvorstadt. Strong international + family population.
$650 – $1,500 /mo
Universities in Munich
TUM
Munich
Technische Universität München (TUM) — consistently the highest-ranked German university in international tables. Main engineering and science campus is in Garching, 30 minutes by U-Bahn from central Munich.
LMU
Munich
LMU München — Germany's largest research university by enrolment, with strong humanities, medicine, and physics programmes. Central campus sits in Maxvorstadt next to the Pinakothek museums.