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[Apply Now] 2024-2025 DAAD Scholarship Programmes for International Students

With its development-oriented postgraduate study programs, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from developed and newly industrialized countries. Well-trained local experts who are networked with international partners play an important part in the sustainable development of their countries. They best guarantee a better future with less poverty, more education, and health. The scholarships offer foreign graduates from developed and newly industrialized countries from all disciplines and with at least two years’ professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master’s degree at a state or state-recognized German university and, in exceptional cases, to take a doctoral degree and to obtain a university qualification (Master’s/Ph.D.) in Germany.

The duration of the funding for each program is between 12 to 42 months (dependent on study programme). Individual scholarships exclusively for Postgraduate courses in Germany that are listed on the

Organizer: German Government
Degree Category: Postgraduates (Master’s/PhD)
Eligible Countries: Click Here
Application Closing Date: Varies Per Institution

Scholarship Benefits

  • Depending on academic level, monthly payments of 934 euros for graduates or 1,200 euros for doctoral candidates
  • Payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover
  • Travel allowance, unless these expenses are covered by the home country or another source of funding
  • Under certain circumstances, scholarship holders may receive the following additional benefits:
    – Monthly rent subsidy
    – Monthly allowance for accompanying members of family

Scholarship Eligibility

  • Candidates fulfil the necessary academic requirements and can be expected to successfully complete a study programme in Germany (above-average result for first academic exam – top performance third, language skills)
  • Candidates have a Bachelor degree (usually a four-year course) in an appropriate subject
  • Candidates have at least two years’ professional experience
  • Candidates can prove their motivation is development-related and be expected to take on social responsibility and initiate and support processes of change in their personal and professional environment after their training/scholarship

How to Apply

Interested applicants must read the full details about the program before proceeding to the application page. Check the official announcement page for more details about the application process. 

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