A scholarship labelled “100%” sounds like a fully funded ticket to Germany. At the Berlin School of Business and Innovation (BSBI), however, applicants need to read that percentage carefully. BSBI is offering international applicants several scholarship routes that can reduce…
Scholarships in Germany
At the University of Hamburg, “scholarship” can mean three very different things in 2027: €300 a month for academic and social achievement, hundreds of euros a month to study elsewhere in Europe, or as much as €992 a month for…
A doctoral scholarship does not always need to fund an entire PhD to make a major difference. Sometimes the most valuable support arrives at the point where a researcher needs protected time to finish the dissertation, publish, and move into…
A fellowship that admits fewer than 2% of applicants is not the place for a generic postdoctoral proposal. The European University Institute (EUI) has opened applications for its Max Weber Fellowship 2027–2028, bringing around 65 early-career researchers to Florence, Italy,…
A PhD scholarship worth €1,750 a month in combined stipend and research support sounds attractive on its own. The Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich Studienwerk (ELES), however, is looking for something more specific than excellent grades. Its a German doctoral degree scholarship…
Not every scholarship in Germany is designed for applicants with perfect CVs and uncomplicated lives. At Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), the SIST LMU Equality Scholarship takes a different approach. It combines academic achievement with financial need and is specifically aimed…
A scholarship application is much easier when you can ask successful scholars what actually worked for them. That is exactly the opportunity the University of Potsdam is creating this autumn. Although applications for its current Universitätsstipendium Potsdam (Deutschlandstipendium) 2026/27 round…
Imagine writing your doctorate on Egyptian inscriptions, Byzantine Greek, Roman law or ancient philosophy—and then spending part of that PhD at Harvard, Oxford, Princeton or the University of Michigan. That possibility is built into the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient…
Berlin is not short of universities, but the Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) gives mathematics applicants something more unusual: one doctoral pathway built across Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin, with access to the wider MATH+ Cluster…
The Berlin School of Economics and Law, better known as HWR Berlin, is preparing to open its next Deutschlandstipendium competition for the Summer Semester 2027, giving high-performing international students a chance to receive €300 per month for one year. The…