IU scholarships, Deutschlandstipendium or external funding programmes: find the right funding for your studies and save up to 50% on tuition fees.
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 & fundings
IU Scholarship & fundings – 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 Funding program provide €2,944 in funding 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.
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.
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.
The most important questions and answers about the IU scholarship:
We award four IU scholarships every month, which cover 50% of the tuition fees.
The FirstGen Funding program provides funding of €2,944.
You can sumit your application by the end of the month to be considered for that month. You also have the option to begin the application process for your desired degree program simultaneously with your scholarship application. It is important to start your studies only after you have received feedback on your scholarship application from us.
We will inform you of an acception or rejection approximately two weeks after the end of your application month.
Curriculum vitae
University entrance qualification
Written letter of motivation (max. 1 DIN A4 page)
FirstGen Scholarship: Short essay (max. ½ DIN A4 page)
You can only apply once for an IU scholarship.
The application period for the scholarship corresponds to the full calendar month (e.g. 1 January to 31 January). The selection of the people to be sponsored takes place in the following month.
Your application will only be valid for the month in which you send your documents – not for future months.
If you receive approval for the scholarship, your study contract must be signed within three months – otherwise your scholarship will expire. The start of your studies can be even further in the future.
Please note the special conditions for the FirstGen Funding. You can find them here.
Yes, changing your degree program is generally possible even if you already have a scholarship. The key requirement is that the scholarship conditions must continue to be met.
An exception applies to the Women in Tech scholarship: In this case, a change is only possible to degree programs in the field of IT and technology, as the funding is tied to this area.
Please always check before making a change whether the new degree program still meets the scholarship requirements.
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.
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.
Would you like to study worry-free in the Health & Social cluster at IU International University of Applied Sciences (IU)? Then apply for one of the available IU Sorgenfrei scholarships supported by Santander.
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.
With a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, you can receive up to 735 euros per month.
A scholarship from the Hans Böckler Foundation is currently 597 euros per month plus an additional 300 euros flat-rate allowance for tuition costs. Second degree programmes are not eligible for this scholarship.
The maximum funding amount from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is currently 597 euros per month and depends on your income. Bachelor students are funded from the 2nd semester onwards, Master students only if they have at most a Bachelor's degree.
The advancement scholarship is aimed at skilled workers with vocational training and several years of practical experience and supports a first university degree. Students in full-time studies receive a total of 1,072 euros per month, students in part-time studies 3.,045 euros per year.
With the further education scholarship, you receive grants of up to 8,700 euros for your studies. Only part-time courses of study that build on your training or your professional activity are funded. Admission is possible up to the age of 24. If you have completed credit periods, such as voluntary service or parental leave, you may be admitted up to three years later.
You will receive a maximum of 649 euros per month, depending on your parent's income. At the very least, you will receive a flat-rate allowance of 300 euros for tuition fees.
You will receive a maximum of 649 euros per month, depending on your parent's income. At the very least, you will receive a flat-rate allowance of 300 euros for tuition fees.
