Scholarships for your financial independence
Are you looking for an easy way to reduce your tuition fees, preferably for the entire duration of your studies at IU?
Nothing could be easier: Each month, we award a total of four IU scholarships to individuals with especially inspiring backgrounds. In addition, you have access to many other types of financial support that can help fund your monthly tuition fees. Here’s a brief overview of your options.
IU Scholarship – for special people with special goals
Every month we award a total of four 50% scholarships to selected individuals who are not yet enrolled at IU International University of Applied Sciences. With the IU scholarship, we primarily support people with disabilities, women in tech, single parents or new beginners who want to follow their very own educational path.
In addition, our FirstGen Scholarships provide €2,944 in funding for first-generation university students.
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First Gen Scholarship
Are you planning to be the first in your family to pursue an academic career? To help you realise your dream of earning a university degree, we’ll support you with €2,944—this amount will be credited towards your monthly tuition fees.
Requirement: Send us a short essay about your motivation for studying and a written statement confirming you are the first in your family wishing to study.
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scholarship for people with disabilities
With a health impairment, you are used to master small or big challenges every day in order to make your dreams come true. We want to encourage this commitment so that you can also encourage others!
Requirement: You can prove that you have a permanent health impairment. In addition, you must submit current proof of your impairment in the form of a medical certificate or a severely disabled person's ID card.
scholarship for women in STEM study programmes
Are you setting out to conquer male-dominated industries with your tech skills? We are fully behind you - through our Women in Tech scholarship!
Requirement: You are applying for one of our Bachelor's or Master's degree programmes in the field of IT & Technology. In addition, you must present your motivation for a technical profession in a written letter of motivation.
scholarship for single parents
If you are a single parent studying at IU, you deserve more than just respect. Because you are not only concerned about your future, but also about that of your child, we would like to honour this personal achievement by supporting you financially.
Requirement: You are a single parent, have sole or shared custody and your child or children live with you.
Scholarship for Career Changers
You are planning an industry change and want to realign your professional path? This scholarship supports individuals who consciously choose a new start in a different industry. Education creates impact at every stage of life – even when traditional funding options no longer apply.
Requirement: An industry change is mandatory. In your motivation letter, describe your decision to change industries, your goals in the new industry, and why our support will help you move forward at this point.
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FirstGen Scholarship – €2,944 in support for first-generation university students
Are you planning to be the first in your family to pursue an academic career? To help you realise your dream of earning a university degree, we’ll support you with €2,944 — this amount will be credited towards your monthly tuition fees.
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Deutschlandstipendium – for particularly gifted students
Are you particularly talented, capable and already enrolled at IU? If you would like to receive financial support for your first degree, second degree, supplementary degree or Master's degree, the best thing to do is apply for a Deutschlandstipendium from the federal government. In this way, you can secure a welcome relief of 300 euros per month.
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Scholarship programmes from other organisations
In addition to the IU scholarship and the federal government’s Deutschlandstipendium, there are also numerous other scholarship programmes provided by non-profit foundations. Depending on the scholarship, the amount of financial support varies from 597 euros per month to 7,200 for your entire degree at IU.
Friedrich Ebert Foundation
Friedrich Naumann Foundation
Hans Böckler Foundation
Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
Advancement Scholarship (Aufstiegs-stipendium)
Scholarship for further education (Weiterbildungs-Stipendium)
German Academic Scholarship Foundation
Foundation of the German Economy – SDW/Förderwerk Klaus Murmann
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