The purpose of this article is to analyze the state of affairs with teaching German at a non-linguistic university by identifying problems, opportunities and prospects for its study using the example of the Tashkent Institute of Chemical Technology. To achieve this goal, the author of the article used observation, description and comparison methods, as well as a statistical method. The article is based on materials from our own observations, as well as reporting and statistical data of recent years on the use of the German language in the scientific and educational space of the named non-linguistic university.