How to apply for Deutschlandstipendium

• Length: max. 1-1,5 pages
• Content: Explain why you should get the scholarship
• Important in special cases: Please describe all information in your application (for example: social engagement, personal circumstances) in detail.
• If you have already received a Deutschlandstipendium in the past you can report from your experience.

• updatet resumé (1-2 pages)

If you are currently in the application process for a Bachelor's Degree Program, you must indicate the grade of your general university entrance qualification (HZB) when applying. If your higher education entrance qualification (HZB) is from a foreign country please use the same "uni-assist-grade" as for the application of the Bachelor´s degree programm on TUMonline.

If you do not yet have an examination notification for the winter semester 2022/23 or have not yet received a vpd from uni-assist, you have the option of sending it by

• upload to the portal by the end of the application period OR
• after the end of the application period by e-mail to deutschlandstipendiumspam prevention@tum.de by August 20, 2023 at the latest

If you are currently in the application process for a Master's Degree Program, you must indicate your Bachelor's grade when applying for Deutschlandstipendium. If the grade is not available yet please type in your average grade on your transcript of records.
If your Bachelor degree is not from the EU or is from a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or Switzerland please type in your "uni-assist-grade".

If you are currently enrolled at the TUM all credits until the previous WiSe (For example: Application SoSe 23 → ECTS and grades of the WiSe 22/23) will be considered. Only grades which are mandatory according to the examination regulations of your study course will be considered.

Please provide evidence to support the information you give in the application form. You can upload following certificates:

• Confirmations on voluntary work at the university and community service (last 36 months and hours per month)
  • Please note that the university commitment from SoSe 23 must be signed by the management of the student council or student clubs
  • In case, the confirmation for the management itself can be signed by the deputy
• Medical Certificates for physical or mental disorders
• Working contract or confirmation
• Care for own child
• Care for elderly or disabled close relative
• Orphanhood
• Background of war or refugee experience

Most of the aspects can only be considered if the certificates are attached. Only confirmations in German or English will be accepted. Please make sure, that the translation is made by an official translator.

Please don´t send any requests about Deutschlandstipendium to the Secretary of your department or institute. Don´t ask for reports of your professors because they won´t be considered.

The selection process is as follows:

1. After receipt of your application documents, the academic performance as well as the information on your commitment and, if applicable, on special life circumstances will be examined in accordance with § 3 StipG. It is mandatory that the so-called "soft factors" are sufficiently substantiated, e.g. by means of an official certificate. Unsubstantiated or insufficiently substantiated information cannot be taken into account. The scholarship is only awarded to applicants who, in addition to points for academic performance, receive additional points for their commitment or due to their special circumstances.
2. The selection committee reserves the right to invite individual applicants for personal interviews for a better evaluation.
3. At the September meeting of the selection committee, a list of proposals is drawn up from the applications, taking into account all the selection criteria and the earmarking of the sponsors. The scholarship holders will then be determined.
4. The successful applicants will then be informed by e-mail about the offer to join the scholarship program. They usually have a few days to accept the scholarship. If no acceptance is made within the period stated in the e-mail, the entitlement to the scholarship expires. 

5. The above offers for admission to the scholarship program will be sent out from October. If you have not yet received an acceptance or rejection, you are on the waiting list. There is a chance that we will email you an offer of admission to the program in the following months. It is not possible to give information on which place the applicant is on. Therefore, please refrain from inquiries.

6. As soon as all scholarships have been awarded, rejections will be sent by e-mail and will be visible on the application portal. In any case, you will receive information about the result of your application eventually.
7. The first installment payment (October/November) will be transfered by mid-December.

According to the German Scholarship Law (StipG - German only), private sponsors may appropriate two-thirds of their scholarships to a particular field or course of studies. 

Non-appropriated scholarships will be distributed proportionally among ALL departments.