DAAD Scholarship Programmes for International Students and Researcher 2025

DAAD Scholarship Programmes for International Students | The portal for DAAD Scholarship Programmes for International Students and Researcher 2024 are now open, The aim of the scholarship programme is to support the qualification and employability of young academics and future professionals from developing and emerging countries.

It offers the opportunity to continue their academic and professional career in innovation-driving STEM fields in Germany with a Master’s degree in mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and engineering.

Benefit

• Tuition-free Master’s degree programme.
• monthly scholarship payments of 934 euros
• payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover
• annual study allowance of 460 euros
• Allowance for a personally chosen German language course during the scholarship period
• Reimbursement of the fee for a TestDaF or DSH test, which you can take either in your home country after you have received your Letter of Award or in Germany during your funding period.
• Funding is available for a complete Master’s degree (full-time, on-campus) at a state or state-recognised university in Germany in the STEM subjects of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and engineering.
  Interdisciplinary degree programmes must have a designated STEM focus.
• Funding for a Master’s programme already started in Germany cannot be granted.

Duration of the funding

• Funding is provided for 10 months to a maximum of 24 months
• It depends on the standard period of study of the chosen full-time Master’s degree programme.
• Please state the entire period for which you wish to apply for a scholarship in your application. For example, if you are planning a 2-year degree programme, you must directly indicate two years as the desired scholarship duration in your application.

Eligibility

• The scholarship programme is aimed at high-achieving students from developing and emerging countries who would like to complete a Master’s degree in the STEM subjects at a German university.
• ou can apply if you have completed your studies with a first degree recognised in Germany (e.g. Bachelor’s degree) by the application deadline at the latest.
• If you already have a Master’s degree, you cannot apply.

Requirements

• As a rule, your university degree should not date back more than 6 years at the time of the ap-plication deadline. Please read our important information for scholarship applicants / Section A, point 2.
• The legal and subject-specific admission requirements for a Master’s degree programme in Germany must be fulfilled. Please note that Master’s programmes at German universities are gen-erally consecutive. This means that the Master’s programme builds on the Bachelor’s pro-gramme.
• Please note that you yourself are responsible for ensuring your application for admission to the German university for your chosen study programme is submitted by the due date. It is therefore important that you find out about admission requirements, application and enrolment deadlines at your host university and regulations regarding entry into Germany in good time. If you have not yet received notification of admission at the time of application, you must submit this before the funding period begins. A Scholarship from the DAAD is only valid if you have been admitted to study im a Master’s programme in Germany.
• Your application cannot be considered, if you have been resident in Germany for longer than 15 months at the application deadline
• You must demonstrate above-average academic performance.

How to Apply

• Online application form
• Full curriculum vitae in tabular form (max. 3 pages)
• letter of motivation, 1 – 3 pages: statement about the academic and personal reasons for the planned study project in Germany. Please also read our important information for scholarship applicants / Section B, Point 1. Upload the letter of motivation under ‘study project/motivation’ in the DAAD portal.
• Letter of admission to the study programme at the host university in Germany. If you have not yet received notification of admission at the time of application, you must submit this before the funding period begins.
• Form ‘Information about your preferred master programmes’, duly completed (you can enter up to 5 Master‘s programmes). Please note that the DAAD does not consider and formally excludes Master’s programmes that charge tuition fees. Upload the form under ‘course profile’ in the DAAD portal.
• Certificates, proof of credits, certifications and translations may be scanned in non-certified form and uploaded to the DAAD portal. The DAAD reserves the right to request certified copies of the documents.
  Documents to be uploaded to the DAAD portal:

Application deadlines are updated annually in the second quarter. In most cases, they are in the same period as the previous year. You can find the current dates here:

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