The Welcome Scholarship Program 2025

The German University Foundation (DUS) developed the Welcome scholarship program for refugee bachelor's students living in Germany , which launched in October 2015. The core of the scholarship program is to provide scholarship recipients with one-on-one support from university professors close to their field of study and their location, who are placed through the German University Foundation. In addition, the scholarship offers other non-material benefits to facilitate successful studies and entry into the German job market. 
 

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineSeptember 1, 2025
• Study LevelUndergraduate
• SponsorGerman University Foundation (DUS)
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• Provision of a university lecturer with relevant expertise and local knowledge as a mentor
• Support of mentoring relationships by the DUS
• Seminars on the development of key competencies (twice a year, mandatory) on the following topics: 
   
  • Mentoring as an opportunity and a task
  • Self- and learning management
  • Presentations and self-presentation
  • Application training
  • Business etiquette and communication
  • intercultural skills 
     
• One personal one-on-one coaching session with a professional coach during your studies.   
• Travel reimbursement for seminars and other trips related to Welcome.
• Participation in scientific events (e.g. DHV symposium) and integration into relevant networks.
• Provision of an annual call-off budget per scholarship holder for study-related costs
• Digital package for the purchase of digital technology, once per scholarship 

Requirements

• Certificate of enrollment
• German at C1 level
• Fled
• Placement in a Bachelor's degree program at a German university, art or music college ( humanities, economics, MINT subjects) in the first or max. 2nd semester (excluding dual and private universities) or
• Study place in a state examination program at a German university, art or music college ( medicine, pharmacy, law) in the first or max. 2nd semester (excluding dual and private universities) The Welcome scholarship program is not
  aimed at Master's students
• BAFÖG or adequate financing 

Check also:
2026 Fully Funded Humboldt Research Fellowship
2026 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship

Application Deadline

How To Apply

Please send your application with a letter of motivation (max. one page) in which you explain your expectations of the scholarship, a CV (max. 2 pages) as well as certificates and the certificate of enrollment exclusively electronically and summarized in a pdf file by September 1, 2025 by email to Ms. Simone Geerdsen:[email protected].

For more information, kindly visit German University Foundation scholarship webpage.