How can I apply?

You can apply for a Germany Scholarship if you belong to one of the following categories:

• New students who would like to begin their studies at Heidelberg University in the winter semester,
• Students who would like to transfer to Heidelberg University in a higher semester or begin a Master's degree programme in the winter semester,
• Students enrolled at Heidelberg University (except for short-term students, doctoral students, students in the preliminary induction German course or the preparatory course (Studienkolleg)).

New and continuing students of medical informatics must apply for a Germany Scholarship at Heilbronn University.

Good to know: You have not yet received a confirmation of a university place at Heidelberg University for the upcoming winter semester or will enroll later? This is not a problem, because you can apply for a Germany Scholarship before having received a confirmation of a university place or before getting enrolled.

Please note: The application for a Germany Scholarship is not an application for a university place. Therefore, please apply additionally for a university place at Heidelberg University.

Note: Anyone who simultaneously receives other aptitude or performance-based financial support of 30 euros or more per month on average cannot receive a Germany Scholarship, even if approved. You can still apply for a Germany Scholarship if you are receiving other support in the amount specified above, but if approved, you must choose one or the other. Since BAföG is income-related, it is compatible with the Germany Scholarships.

The application must be submitted in electronic and written form (paper form) until 31 August 2025 at the latest. The online application portal can be accessed via a link on this website from 15 July to 31 August 2025. Your application is made for the funding period winter semester 2025 | 2026 – summer semester 2026. The information on the degree programme for which the application for a Germany Scholarship is being made thus refers to the upcoming winter semester (e.g. number of subject-related semesters or university semesters as of winter semester 2025 | 2026). 
Please remember to submit your online application until 31 August 2025 at the latest. In addition, the signed printout of the online scholarship application (online application form) together with the application documents listed below must be received in paper form Heidelberg University | University Administration | Division 8 | Department 8.2 | Seminarstraße 2 | 69117 Heidelberg no later than the end of the application period on 31 August 2025. If application documents are not written in German or English, an official certified translation into German or English is additionally required for these documents. In this case, please submit both the copy of the original document and the official certified translation in paper form to Heidelberg University | University Administration | Division 8 | Department 8.2 | Seminarstraße 2 | 69117 Heidelberg until 31 August 2025.

Please note the following steps for your application:

1. Register in the online application portal from 15 July 2025
2. Fill out the online application form and send it online until 31 August 2025 at the latest
3. Print out the online application form, sign it and submit it together with the required documents and certificates to Heidelberg University | University Administration | Division 8 | Department 8.2 | Seminarstraße 2 | 69117 Heidelberg until 31 August 2025 (date of the receipt stamp applies).

Please make sure to submit the following documents in paper form to Heidelberg University | University Administration | Division 8 | Department 8.2 | Seminarstraße 2 | 69117 Heidelberg:

• Signed printout of the scholarship application (online application form) submitted online
• Students who are in their 1st or 2nd subject-related semester of an undergraduate degree programme in the upcoming winter semester:
  a copy of the university entrance qualification certificate.
• Students who are in their 1st or 2nd subject-related semester of a Master’s degree programme in the upcoming winter semester: 
  a copy of the university degree certificate which is relevant to the degree programme for which the application for the Germany Scholarship is being made. 
  If you do not know your finale grade by the end of the application deadline on 31 August 2025 and/ or your degree certificate is not yet available, please submit a current transcript of records showing your average grade. Please submit a copy of your university degree certificate immediately, but not later than the late submission deadline (usually 15 October of each year; date of the receipt stamp applies) or, if this is not available by then, a provisional certificate of graduation showing the final average grade in paper form (date of the receipt stamp applies)
• Students who are in their 3rd or higher subject-related semester in the upcoming winter semester:
  the transcript of records of current date on the degree programme for which the application for a Germany Scholarship is being made.
  Exceptions to this apply to students of the following degree programs:
  • Human medicine
    Pre-clinical stage
    Qualified overall certificate including information on the percentile ranks* achieved (Heidelberg Faculty) or the semester ranking* (Mannheim Faculty)
    
    Transition from pre-clinical to clinical stage (1st semester of the clinical stage)
    Qualified overall certificate including information on the percentile ranks* achieved (Heidelberg Faculty) or the semester ranking* (Mannheim Faculty) and a copy of the certificate “Zeugnis über den Ersten Abschnitt der Ärztlichen Prüfung” (first stage of the medical state examination) including notification on results
    
    Clinical stage (2nd semester or higher of the clinical stage)
    Overall certificate including the results in the clinical stage, copies of the certificate “Zeugnis über den Ersten Abschnitt der Ärztlichen Prüfung” (first stage of the medical state examination) including notification on results and , if available, copies of the certificate “Zeugnis über den Zweiten Abschnitt der Ärztlichen Prüfung” (second stage of the medical state examination) including notification on results
     
  • Dentistry (according to the old degree programme rules and regulations for dentists (ZAPrO) from 26.01.1995 (commencement of studies by 30.09.2021))
    Pre-clinical stage
    Qualified overall certificate including information on the percentile ranks* achieved and, if available, a copy of the certificate “Zeugnis über die Naturwissenschaftliche Vorprüfung” (intermediate science examination) as well as performance records for “Kursus der Technischen Propädeutik (ZPK)”, “Phantomkurs I der Zahnärztlichen Prothetik” and “Phantomkurs II der Zahnersatzkunde”
    
    Transition from pre-clinical to clinical stage (1st semester of the clinical stage)
    Qualified overall certificate including information on the percentile ranks* achieved, a copy of the certificate “Zeugnis über die Naturwissenschaftliche Vorprüfung” (intermediate science examination), performance records for “Kursus der Zahnärztlichen Technischen Propädeutik (ZPK)”, “Phantomkurs I der Zahnärztlichen Prothetik” and “Phantomkurs II der Zahnersatzkunde” as well as a copy of the certificate “Zeugnis über die Zahnärztliche Vorprüfung” (intermediate dentistry examination)
    
    Clinical stage (2nd semester or higher of the clinical stage)
    Copies of the certificates “Zeugnis über die Zahnärztliche Vorprüfung“ (intermediate dentistry examination) and “Zeugnis über die Naturwissenschaftliche Vorprüfung“ (intermediate science examination) as well as certificates of the clinical performances
     
  • Dentistry (according to the new degree programme rules and regulations for dentists (ZApprO) from 08.07.2019 (commencement of studies by 01.10.2021))
    Pre-clinical stage
    Qualified overall certificate (pre-clinical stage I) including information on the percentile ranks* achieved and, if available, a copy of the certificate “Zeugnis über den Ersten Abschnitt der Zahnärztlichen Prüfung” (first stage of the dental state examination) including notification on results as well as a qualified overall certificate (pre-clinical stage II) including information on the percentile ranks achieved
    
    Transition from the pre-clinical to the clinical stage (1st semester of the clinical stage)
    Qualified overall certificate (pre-clinical stage I) and (pre-clinical stage II) each including information on the percentile ranks* achieved and copies of the certificates “Zeugnis über den Ersten Abschnitt der Zahnärztlichen Prüfung” (first stage of the dental state examination) and “Zeugnis über den Zweiten Abschnitt der Zahnärztlichen Prüfung” (second stage of the dental state examination) each including notification on results
    
    Clinical stage (2nd semester or higher of the clinical stage)
    Copies of the certificates “Zeugnis über den Ersten Abschnitt der Zahnärztlichen Prüfung” (first stage of the dental state examination) and if available, “Zeugnis über den Zweiten Abschnitt der Zahnärztlichen Prüfung” (second stage of the dental state examination), each including notification on results, as well as a qualified overall certificate of the clinical performances
    
    * If your transcript of records does not contain any information on the percentile ranks achieved or the semester ranking, please contact your responsible Examination Office | Dean of Studies Office and ask them to issue a corresponding certificate, which you can then submit to us.
• Copies of appropriate proof of voluntary engagements, voluntary internships, at least two years completed vocational training, gainful employments during studies or school, awards and prizes or personal and family circumstances if they are supposed to be considered in the application process.
• A current enrolment/ study certificate or notification of admission for the upcoming winter semester 2025 | 2026
• If the (individual) standard period of study in winter semester 2025 | 2026 is exceeded:
  Signed “
  ” with relevant proofs

If available, recommendation letters which have been explicitly prepared for the application for a Germany Scholarship.

Please note: For foreign documents and certificates that are not written in German or English, an official certified translation into German or English must be submitted in paper form in addition to the original document or its copy.
In the case of foreign grades, an official conversion of the final grade into the German grading system should also be submitted in paper form, if available.
(If no official conversion is available, the German equivalent grade can alternatively be calculated using the PDF form "Modifizierte bayerische Formel" see below. In this case, please submit the completed and printed PDF form with the calculation).