What Is Deutschlandstipendium?
The "Deutschlandstipendium" is a scholarship program in Germany that supports exceptional university students irrespective of their background. It combines private and public funding, providing each recipient with 300 euros monthly for 12 months. Eligible applicants include students enrolled at German universities, with selection based on academic merit, personal achievements, and social engagement.
Who Is Eligible?
You are eligible to apply if you:
1. Fulfill the admission criteria for studies at KLU.
2. Are already enrolled in a degree program at KLU or have been admitted to KLU and are going to start soon.
Application & Scholarship Period
- The application period will start on March 27 - May 31, 2026
- The scholarship period will be Sept. 2026 - Aug. 2027 (12 months)
What Are the Basic Criteria?
The Deutschlandstipendium has a core focus on merit. Only students with very good grades have a chance to receive this scholarship. Study starters and current KLU students will be evaluated separately.
If you are yet to start at KLU, this means mainly the grade of your university entrance qualification or your latest degree is important - to the date of your application. If you already study at KLU, this means mainly your current KLU grade point average (GPA); the GPA will be verified and missing grades from exams will be considered.
Furthermore, to assess the full potential of each applicant, the following criteria will also be recognized if your GPA is good to very good:
- Special achievements, awards, and prizes, as well as previous work experience and internships.
- Extracurricular activities such as voluntary work or societal, social, and political engagement or participation in associations and societies (“Verbände und Vereine”) and religious communities.
- Special personal or familial circumstances.
How to Apply?
Following the call for application sent out by the Dean of Programs, the application portal will be open for the mentioned application period.
Apart from some personal information, you will be asked to submit the relevant information respective to the criteria and documentation where necessary.
For more details about your eligibility and the evaluation process, please refer to the 'Further Information' section below. Based on our experience, successful applicants for this merit-based scholarship typically demonstrate strong academic performance, generally reflected by a GPA of 1.7 or better.
Experiences From Our Scholarship Holders
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Phan Huyen (M.Sc. Global Logistics & Supply Chain Mgt, Class of 2022) is one of currently twelve students who are scholarship holders of the 'Deutschlandstipendium' at KLU.
In this personal insight, she shares how this special scholarship has supported her so far.
Check out our playlist with more videos on how Deutschlandstipendium supports KLU students.
Our Scholarship Holders 2022/23
Besides my studies, I work for both action family e.V. and ChefTreff. As a youth leader at Action Family, I organize the vacation camps, and at ChefTreff, as Lead of Operations and Network, I work with my team of eight students and young professionals to put together what is now Germany's largest talent event. It's not always easy to juggle everything. The Deutschlandstipendium has helped me financially to implement my voluntary activities with Action family and ChefTreff and to make my everyday life during my semester abroad more carefree. I am convinced that support from the scholarship can provide a certain freedom to implement other projects alongside my studies.
Patrick Anton Brodisch, BSc in Business Administration, Class of 2024
The Deutschlandstipendium’s financial support has been of great help for me. Specifically, for financing my studies. I also dedicated part of this financial aid to further personally develop myself: I took German courses that allow me to better integrate into the German community and have better professional opportunities. Another very important thing for which the Deutschlandstipendium helped me was for my visa. Having this scholarship facilitated my visa process and helped me meet the financial requirements needed.
Astrid Gandara Martinez, MSc in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Class of 2023
The Deutschlandstipendium provided me with a safety net and some relief amid this rising inflation to help me with my daily expenses. I donated a portion of my scholarship money to a NGO. The NGO takes care of adults and children with down syndrome from poor families which cannot afford private facilities. We also organized a meal for underprivileged children of my locality and provided them with school stationaries. As an international student at KLU, the student period is a very stressful period with respect to finances. Students try to save every possible penny to minimize their expenses. The students at KLU come from all sorts of backgrounds and have their own fights and challenges going on in their life. Each student has their own unique story, and they are the heroes of it. A helping hand in the form of the Deutschlandstipendium plays an important role in a student’s mental and physical well-being and it also motivate students to contribute towards society.
Madhav Haresh Patel, MSc in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Class of 2023
Thanks to the Deutschlandstipendium, I was able to better focus on extracurricular activities such as Advisupply and the buddy program. I would not have pursued my ambitions if I had been preoccupied with other issues that prevented me from being productive. The financial aid gave me a sense of responsibility and that someone had counted on me, which motivated me to move forward in daily life. I believe that the engagement of companies could bring a strong synergistic effect to students who are studying with ambitions while giving the opportunity to grow both from an academic perspective and a social perspective.
Jomeen Oh, MSc in Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Class of 2023
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