Overview
State support for high-scoring first-year doctoral students admitted to non-state-funded study places with the right to a study scholarship.
Complete scholarship details
For doctoral recipients, the annual scholarship corresponds to the normative annual tuition price, or the institution's lower actual annual tuition price, and is paid as one-twelfth of that annual amount each month for 12 months. The current electronic request deadline for first-year doctoral students is 15 November.
Eligibility requirements
First-year doctoral students selected by their higher-education institution for a non-state-funded place carrying the right to a study scholarship must submit the electronic payment request by the stated deadline.
Tips for this scholarship
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Verified against the current official applicant-facing source on 8 September 2026; unknown facts were left unset.
Job and Scholarship is the discovery and verification layer. Confirm eligibility, dates, salary/funding and application instructions on the original source before submitting anything.
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