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2025 DAAD DEVELOPMENT SCHOLARSHIPS

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With its development-oriented postgraduate study programmes, the DAAD promotes the training of specialists from development and newly industrialised countries. Postgraduate courses are currently offered in the following areas:


• Economics, business administration, political economics

• Development cooperation

• Engineering and related sciences

• Regional and urban planning

• Agricultural and forestry sciences

• Natural and environmental sciences

• Medicine and public health

• Social sciences, edu


SCHOLARSHIP BENEFITS

The scholarships offer foreign graduates from development and newly industrialised countries from all disciplines and with at least two years' professional experience the chance to take a postgraduate or Master's degree at a state or state-recognised German university, and in exceptional cases to take a doctoral degree, and to obtain a university qualification (Master's/PhD) in Germany.


  • Duration of the funding: 12 to 42 months (dependent on study programme)

  • Depending on academic level, monthly payments of 992 euros for graduates or 1,300 euros for doctoral candidates

  • Payments towards health, accident and personal liability insurance cover

  • Travel allowance, unless these expenses are covered by the home country or another source of funding


Under certain circumstances, scholarship holders may receive the following additional benefits:


  • Monthly rent subsidy

  • Monthly allowance for accompanying members of family


Selection


  • Candidates fulfil the necessary academic requirements and can be expected to successfully complete a study programme in Germany (above-average result for first academic exam – top performance third, language skills)

  • Candidates have a Bachelor degree (usually a four-year course) in an appropriate subject

  • Candidates have at least two years' professional experience

  • Candidates can prove their motivation is development-related and be expected to take on social responsibility and initiate and support processes of change in their personal and professional environment after their training/scholarship


ACADEMIC PROGRAMS



Institution


Degree

Duration

Deadline


* Intake every two years - next intake 2026





Economic Sciences/Business Administration/Political Economics





HTW Berlin

MA

17 months

31.08.2024

GAU Göttingen

MSc

24 months

01.10.-15.11.2024

U Leipzig

MBA

22 months

01.10.2024

Development Cooperation





RU Bochum

MA

18 months

30.09.2025

U Bonn/United

Nations University

MSc

24 months

15.12.2024

U Bonn

PhD

42 months

31.08.2024

HS Rhein-Waal

MA

18 months

01.05.-01.06.2024

TU Dresden/ UNU

FLORES/ IOER

PhD

42 months

31.03.2024

Engineering and Related Sciences





TU Dresden

MSc

24 months

15.10.2024

U Flensburg

MEng

24 months

see website

U Hannover

MSc

24 months

30.09.2024

U Oldenburg

MSc

24 months

15.10.2024

HfT Stuttgart

MSc

18 months

15.10.2024

U Stuttgart

MSc

24 month

01.08.-30.09.2024

BHU Weimar

MSc

24 months

15.10.2024

Regional and Urban Planning





TU Berlin

MSc

18 months

31.08.2024

TU Dortmund

MSc

24 months

01.10.2024

U Stuttgart/ Ain Shams

University

MSc

24 months

see website

Agricultural and Forest Sciences





TU Dresden

MSc

24 months

30.10.2024

U Giessen/


U Hohenheim

PhD

42 months

31.08.2024

GAU Göttingen

MSc

24 months

31.10.2024

U Hohenheim

MSc

24 months

15.12.2024

Natural and Environmental Sciences





U Bremen

MSc

24 months

15.10.2024

TU Darmstadt

MSc

24 months

15.12.2024

U Freiburg

MSc

24 months

15.10.2024

U Greifswald

MSc

24 months

01.12.2024

TH Köln

MSc

24 months

30.09.2024

TH Köln/

German Jordanian University

MSc

24 months

15.11.2024

Medicine/Public Health





Charité Berlin/ FU Berlin/

HU Berlin

MSc

12 months

15.10.2024

U Freiburg

MSc

12 months

15.04.-15.10.2024

U Heidelberg

MSc

12 months

15.05.-15.10.2024

U Bonn

MSc

12 months

01.09.-15.11.2024

LMU München

PhD

36 months

01.12.24-01.01.2025

Social Sciences, Education and Law





PH Ludwigsburg / Helwan University

Cairo

MA

24 months

see website

Munich Intellectual Property Law

Center (MIPLC)

LL.M.

12 months

15.10.2024

Media Studies





HS Bonn-Rhein- Sieg/DW

Akademie/U Bonn

MA

24 months

31.03.2025





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