Scholarships and Financial Support
On our website you can find scholarships here:
Deutschlandstipendium
Every year you can apply in April for this scholarship.
To the DeutschlandstipendiumFinding other scholarships and prizes
Companies and institutions can place their scholarships here
To the OverviewHow can you get financial support?
If you would like to look at other options for financing your studies in addition to the Job Exchange and the Career Service's funding programs, you will find what you are looking for here. We have put together a comprehensive collection of links on the subject of financing and funding.
A link collection
BAföG and housing benefit
The Federal Training Assistance Act, better known as “BAföG”, is a state education assistance program that benefits school pupils and people in further vocational training as well as students in particular.BAföG is granted half as an interest-free loan and half as a grant. You can find everything else about this under the links:
WohngeldStudents who are not entitled to BAföG or have lost their entitlement or only receive a loan under BAföG are generally entitled to housing benefit.
More information can be found at the Citizen service Karlsruhe.
- BAföG information
- BAföG without a German passport
- Abroad-BAföG
- BAföG when changing your study degree
- Applying for BAföG
- BAföG calculator
WohngeldStudents who are not entitled to BAföG or have lost their entitlement or only receive a loan under BAföG are generally entitled to housing benefit.
More information can be found at the Citizen service Karlsruhe.
Scholarships and funds
Search for your fitting scholarship or funding scheme:
- ScholarshipPortal
- Scholarships of BMBF
- Scholarship database of the DAAD
- e-fellows.net Scholarship database
- Search engine MyStipendium
- Scholarship overview for abroad from KIT-International
- Begabtenförderungswerke
- Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
- Stipendien des Studienförderwerks Klaus Murmann
- Stipendium für Berufserfahrene
- Muslimische Studienförderung des Avicenna Studienwerks
- Förderungen des Cusanuswerks
- Jüdische Begabtenförderung des Ernst-Ludwig-Ehrlich-Studienwerks
- Begabtenförderung des Evangelischen Studienwerks
- Studienförderung der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
- Stipendien der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung
- Stipendien der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
- Stipendium der Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung
- Studien- und Promotionsförderung der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
- Stipendien und Förderprogramme der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
- Studienwerk der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
- Scholarship for internship and study visit abroad (BPSA)
Studying with children
Here you find useful links for students with children:
Loans and Getting advice
Here you can find links to different studentloans:
Getting Advice:
Financial help - Study start KIT
On this page, Student Services has compiled a lot of information about financing your studies
To the Student serviceAStA- KIT
The general student committee offers a lot of information on their website and can help you in emergencies.
To AStASupport organizations for student life
KIT-Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.
As an official KIT sponsoring association, we actively support campus life at KIT and thus promote communication between active members, alumni and external partners
We support young academics through scholarships and scientific exchange
We manage free donations, earmarked donations and foundations to promote science, innovation and teaching.To the website Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.
We support young academics through scholarships and scientific exchange
We manage free donations, earmarked donations and foundations to promote science, innovation and teaching.To the website Freundeskreis und Fördergesellschaft e.V.
KIT Heinrich Hertz-Gesellschaft
The Heinrich Hertz Society (HHG) has been closely associated with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) since its foundation in 1966. Members of the Heinrich Hertz Society are leading personalities from science, business, government, culture, art and the liberal professions in the Karlsruhe technology region. It promotes discussion between representatives of these groups through its monthly events. It supports young academics from all Karlsruhe universities with scholarships and promotes the operation of the “Heinrich Hertz” guest lecturer house located on the south campus.To the Heinrich Hertz-Gesellschaft
KIT-Stiftung
The KIT Foundation sustainably promotes research, teaching and academic life at KIT.
Excellent science needs sustainable support - for outstanding research, excellent teaching and a vibrant academic life. With this in mind, private individuals and companies have jointly established the KIT Foundation. The KIT Foundation promotes the important work of scientists, supports students and implements outstanding projects. The KIT Foundation is transparent, efficient and personal. It is open to all interested citizens and companies and offers new and old friends and supporters of KIT innovative forms of private commitment to science.
To KIT-Stiftung
Excellent science needs sustainable support - for outstanding research, excellent teaching and a vibrant academic life. With this in mind, private individuals and companies have jointly established the KIT Foundation. The KIT Foundation promotes the important work of scientists, supports students and implements outstanding projects. The KIT Foundation is transparent, efficient and personal. It is open to all interested citizens and companies and offers new and old friends and supporters of KIT innovative forms of private commitment to science.
To KIT-Stiftung
Solar- und Umweltverein Fridericiana e.V. (solarfri)
The Solar and Environmental Association Fridericiana e.V. (solarfri) is a student university group at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. The purpose of the association is to promote solar energy and environmental protection, in particular ecological and sustainable behavior and ways of thinking in the student and academic context. To this end, the association uses income from the operation of the PV system on the roof of the canteen on Adenauerring to finance student projects that pursue socially or ecologically sustainable goals.To Solarfri
Studentisches Kulturzentrum
The Student Cultural Center was founded in 1992 as a non-profit limited company. The founding shareholders - and the current ones - were the Karlsruher Studentendienst e. V., the Studentenwerk Karlsruhe AöR and the University of Karlsruhe.To the Studentischem Kulturzentrum