Scholarships for Studying Abroad
Here, you can find information on funding opportunities for your stay abroad, from both the state as well as from organizations. Studying abroad is expensive in most of the cases. But if you put in the effort to research carefully, you will come across an astonishing number of potential funding opportunities.
On this website you will find a list of the most important scholarship providers. The list is not final. Your own research on the listed funding programs can open up additional options, see Scholarship databases.
'Auslandsbafoeg'
Grants from federal funds for living costs, travel expenses and tuition fees. Parents' allowances are higher than for 'Inlandsbafoeg'!
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) - Scholarships
The German Academic Exchange Service supports German students with a large number of well-funded scholarships for a wide variety of international projects.
ERASMUS+ Program
The ERASMUS+ program includes tuition fee waivers and simplified admission requirements as well as a partial scholarship.
IFI - 'Internationale Forschungsaufenthalte für Informatikerinnen & Informatiker'
With the "IFI" program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) enables research-oriented stays abroad for Master's and doctoral students in the field of computer science and awards full scholarships for stays of up to 6 months. The program is only valid for projects that will be concluded by June 2024. As the scholarship funds have already been exhausted, applications are unfortunately no longer possible.
PROMOS for short-term stays abroad
This program aims at increasing the mobility of German students funding them with a short-term scholarship up to six months.
Fulbright
The highly prestigious Fulbright program provides very well-funded full, partial and travel scholarships for study stays in the USA. You have to apply for it 1,5 years before your stay starts!
Federation of German-American Clubs (VDAC)
The Federation of German-American Clubs e.V. offers full scholarships for a number of universities in the USA. You have to apply 1,5 years before your stay abroad starts.