RWTH Aachen University is a German technical university that opened in 1870, when its first academic year began with 201 students. It states that it has ten faculties and about 190 courses of study, and reports 44,382 students in winter semester 2025/26, including 15,811 international students from 141 countries. RWTH states it charges no additional tuition fees for international students from non-EU countries.

Uppsala University, founded in 1477, is the first university in the Nordic countries. The university states it has approximately 54,521 registered students at Bachelor's and Master's level and employs on average 7,626 people. It reports offering around 80 Bachelor's programmes, roughly 100 Master's programmes including about 80 international Master's programmes, and approximately 1,900 freestanding courses.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is a public university based in Trondheim with three campuses. Its About page traces the institution's roots to the 1760 foundation of Det Trondhiemske Selskab and states it has 43,500 students, of whom about 3,815 are international, across 507 study programmes. NTNU says its main profile is science and technology, alongside humanities, social sciences, economics, medicine and health sciences.

Tampere University is a public university in Tampere, Finland, which describes itself as the second largest research university in the country. It states that more than 23,000 students study there each year, with teaching and research concentrated on technology, health and society. Students from outside the EU, EEA and Switzerland in English-taught programmes pay annual tuition of EUR 10,000 to EUR 12,000.