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Beauty Schools and Courses in Germany

4 verified schools and academies with a teaching location here, offering 9 courses and programs. This is the research done to date, not a complete list of every provider.

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11 programs & classes

Results are listed alphabetically. There is no price ranking: prices in different currencies and bases (per day, per course, per year, per instalment) are not comparable. Courses for teens and children appear only when you choose a youth audience. Online programs are never counted as physically located in a state or city. Items marked Sponsored are paid placements; they never change recognition status, verification or order.

About beauty training and licensing in Germany

How beauty training is organised

Beauty training in Germany runs on several parallel tracks. Cosmetics (Kosmetiker/in) can be learned as a three-year dual apprenticeship or, in many Länder, as a two-year school-based training at a Berufsfachschule ending in a state final examination; private schools such as Dr. von Morgenstern Schulen in Lower Saxony describe a two-year full-time course with about 34 lessons per week and a 560-hour external placement. Short private courses in make-up, permanent make-up, lashes and nail design are issued as school certificates, not state qualifications.

Source: morgenstern-schulen.de/lehrgang/kosmetik/

Qualification structures

Names and levels are local to Germany. Similar names in other countries are not interchangeable.

Kosmetiker/in (duale Ausbildung)
Listed by the Federal Employment Agency's Berufenet as a three-year recognised apprenticeship occupation. Source
Kosmetiker/in (schulische Ausbildung)
School-based training regulated at Land level, usually two years and ending in a state final examination (Berufenet listing); the school-published example at Dr. von Morgenstern Schulen ends with written, practical and oral state exams. Source
Kosmetikerin - staatlich geprüft (private school, one year)
Kosmetikschule Schäfer in Giessen offers a 12-month full-time course whose examination it says is run together with the Staatliches Schulamt. Source
Friseurmeister (Teil I und II preparation)
A Handwerkskammer (Cottbus) publishes a 430-hour preparation course for the Meister des Handwerks in hairdressing for people with a completed apprenticeship or several years of work in the trade (flyer dated 2023; 2025 course dates). Source

Languages and licensing

Teaching languages. Teaching is in German. Private career courses state German-language entry expectations (Dr. von Morgenstern Schulen asks for at least a B2 certificate where the school-leaving certificate is from outside Germany, Austria and German-speaking Switzerland). No English-taught course was found in this research pass.

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Official study information

Country information last reviewed 23 October 2026. 5 sources consulted.