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Scholarships

Financial as well as non-material support is available through scholarships, too - and here, it is not only excellence that matters: volunteer work and social commitment can also speak in favour of you.  

The website StipendiumPlus.de provides an overview of 13 scholarship organisations for gifted students which are supported by the government (BMBF). Which scholarshiop is the best for you? Find out more from the scholarship database herausfinden. On this site you find more inforamtion for applicants, too.

Vacasol GmbH awards once a year five scholarships (Vacasol Global Engagement Scholarship) of EUR 1,000 each. Eligible are steudents from any programmes who demonstrate volunteer or communcal work during theuir studies or plan on a stay abroad of minimum three months.

You can find detailed information on the German scholarship programme here: Deutschlandstipendium.

If you are looking for funding of a stay abroad, then please check out this page on our website provided by the International Office.

International students and students with a refugee background can use this page on our website which is also provided by the International Office to get information about funding.

Students' loans

If you do not have the opportunity to fund your studies via BAföG, a supplementary job or family funding, students' loans can provide a solution. 

The state-owned bank KfW offers different types of loan, e.g., the KfW student loan or the education loan.

Festo Bildungsfonds provides loans to students of technical and engineering programmes. However, these are not meant for beginners - you must jhave already passed your first exams (iwebsite only available in German).