About
The DAAD Scholarship (daadscholarship.com) is an independent international higher education NEWS publication covering the global study-abroad landscape. We are a newsroom, built around the conviction that prospective international students deserve the same quality of reporting and analysis that readers of any serious news outlet take for granted.
We do not run a scholarship database or a listings directory. We report, we analyze, and where the evidence warrants it, we take a position. Every day, governments, universities and foundations announce new ways to fund international study and skilled migration, and most of these announcements reach students stripped of context. Our job is to put the context back.
What We Cover
Our reporting spans the full architecture of cross-border academic and professional mobility. This includes Global fully funded scholarships, government-sponsored fellowships, university studentships and research assistantships, postdoctoral positions, and the expanding category of skill-shortage work visas and post-study work routes that now shape where international talent actually goes.
We cover the major programmes, including Universities Scholarships/fellowships/studentship opportunities, DAAD, Fulbright, Chevening, Erasmus Mundus, the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission, Vanier, Australia Awards, MEXT, the China Scholarship Council and the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships, alongside smaller regional funds, institutional awards and private foundation grants that rarely break into the English-language press. On the policy side, we track visa fee changes, post-study work rights, recognition of foreign qualifications, and the immigration reforms that decide whether an offer letter translates into an actual arrival.
Our Editorial Approach
We write in the tradition of serious education journalism. Our articles are reported, sourced and opinionated where opinion is warranted. We publish news, criticism, reviews, comparative analysis and longer research features, working in a register closer to The Economist or Times Higher Education than to the glossy marketing copy that dominates the scholarship corner of the internet.
In practice that means we check funding figures against primary sources. We read the fine print on eligibility, bonds and return-service clauses. We are willing to say when a prestigious-sounding programme is less generous than its branding implies, and when an obscure award is quietly one of the best deals available. The goal is clarity, candour and respect for the reader’s time.
Who We Write For?
Our readers are prospective and current international students, early-career researchers, academic advisers, and families navigating the often opaque world of foreign study. They come to us from across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Europe and beyond. What they share is a need for information they can trust and analysis they can use, whether they are comparing two fellowship offers, weighing a skilled-worker visa against a master’s programme, or deciding whether a destination country is still worth the investment.
Our Contributors
Our articles are produced by a team of education journalists and specialist contributors with experience covering higher education policy, international admissions, research funding and immigration. Contributors bring first-hand knowledge of the systems they write about, whether as former scholarship recipients, academic advisers, researchers or working reporters. Bylines on the site reflect the individuals responsible for each piece of reporting.
Editorial Independence
DAAD Scholarship is editorially independent. We do not accept payment in exchange for favorable coverage, and we do not publish sponsored content disguised as editorial. Universities and funders cannot buy their way onto our pages. When we recommend a programme, it is because our reporting supports the recommendation. When we criticize one, it is for the same reason.
Get in Touch
We welcome tips, corrections, pitches from journalists, and questions from readers. If a scholarship, fellowship or visa route deserves scrutiny and has not yet crossed our desk, tell us. If we have made an error, tell us that too. Our commitment is to the reader, and that commitment begins with being reachable.
For editorial enquiries, story pitches and corrections, please use the contact form available on the site.