Compare all 16 German states for your medical approbation — in one place.

Which German federal state is best for the medical Approbation? It isn't "Berlin or Munich" — it depends on which stage you're in and which obstacle costs you the most. Hamburg grants the Berufserlaubnis in your first year without a passed FSP; Hesse can take up to two years to decide; in NRW the Anhörung is essentially mandatory — while Bavaria runs the equivalence assessment in-house and skips the GfG Bonn backlog entirely.

We compare all 16 German federal states for foreign-trained physicians: FSP and Kenntnisprüfung fees, fail rates from the latest chamber reports, total Approbation processing time, KP appointment wait, Berufserlaubnis policy, Anhörung frequency, non-EU policy, state funding programs, TV-Ärzte salaries, and rents in each capital — curated from official sources including BLÄK, LÄK BW, ZAABY, BezReg Münster, LSJV, Marburger Bund tables, Bundesärztekammer statistics, and state chamber Tätigkeitsberichte.

Pick 2–3 states to compare side-by-side, or click a single state for the detail page covering all 28 metrics. The coloured confidence dots show whether a value is officially confirmed or a community estimate — so you know what you can rely on.