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Degree completion funding for international students

Target group

All international students, full-time and part-time students, enrolled at Universität Hamburg whose monthly income ranges below EUR 450 can apply for degree completion funding.

The funding period is four to twelve months (max). International students eligible for BAföG, i.e. funding in accordance with the German Federal Education and Training Assistance Act (§ 8 Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz), cannot apply for degree completion grants.

"Free-movers" and doctoral students are excluded!

Funding period

  • the maximum funding period for students pursuing Diplom, Magister, Staatsexamen degrees is twelve months
  • BA, BSc/MA, MSc degree students can apply for the grant to cover their degree exam period. Funding periods begin with the applicants' registration for their degree exams and end with the final exam. Thus, the maximum funding period for these degrees is four months.

Application information

Application period

You can send your application all year long. It will be considered for the subsequent application period.

Dates of preclusion: 1 January / 1 April / 1 July


Preparing your application

Applications must be submitted complete and on time. Please start collecting your application documentation very timely to be ready for uploading everything onto the application portal.

You must submit an evaluation from your supervising professor. Your supervisor must be a professor at Universität Hamburg. Evaluations from visiting or acting professors are not accepted. Your evaluation must verify that you will complete your degree within the stated funding period. Please make sure that your supervisor also meets our deadline.

We hope that our online application checklist (pdf, in German only) will guide you through the application process.

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How to apply

Visit online aplication.

Subsequent to your application...

...it will take approximately two months before the Department of International Affairs will send out acceptance and rejection letters. Please be patient and refrain from contacting us while your application is being processed! You will hear from us as soon as possible.

We wish you good luck with your application! 
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Contact

Otília Dias
Staff code: -52.03-
Fellowships and grants
Mittelweg 177, Room S 1053
20148 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 42838-3311
Fax: +49 40 427977-034
Email: otilia.dias-at-verw.uni-hamburg.de
Deputy: Gabriele Warnke

Office hours

  • Mo 10-12 Uhr
  • Mi 11:30-12:30 Uhr
  • Fr 10-12 Uhr
  • Fr nach Vereinbarung 13-14 Uhr
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