Studying in Germany
Higher education in Germany
Germany is an increasingly attractive place in which to study, offering international degrees such as Bachelor and Master degrees, courses taught in English and a system which enables credits for attendance and examination passes to be accumulated and transferred. The following websites provide more information for foreign students, who plan to study in Germany.
Some 1.98 million students are currently studying at German institutions of higher education. Almost half of the them (48%) are women. A total of 376 higher education institutions offer study programm...
Facts about the German higher education system
Scholarships
There are numerous ways to obtain a scholarship for study in Germany. We have compiled the most important information for you here
The Bauhaus University in Weimar, Thuringia, describes itself as being eager to experiment, open and creative, and it seeks proximity to industrial practice. But now, it can also boast the title of “best international university 2011” in Germany. This year the university came first in the “international university” competition.
Weimar has the best international university in Germany
German Academic Exchange Service
For more than 75 years now, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has been committed to advancing academic relations between Germany and other countries as well as, more generally, to promoting the fields of education, science, culture and research. The 200 and more programmes of the DAAD pursues range from short-term exchanges for research or teaching purposes through to doctoral scholarships lasting several years for graduates from developing countries, from information visits by delegations of foreign university vice chancellors through to the long-term regional programmes conceived to establish efficient higher education systems in the Third World.
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation- AvH
The aim of the foundation is to award research followships and research awards to highly qualified academics. Annualy about 500 grants are awarded worldwide to allow foreign junior scholars with at least a Ph.D. and who have a number of scientific pubilcations to carry out a long-term research project of their own choice at a German research insitute. Applicants should not be more than 40, respectively 45 years of age.
Since 1953, a total of 27 scholarships have been awarded to Philippine nationals. The AvH maintains contact with former AvH scholars by inviting them to spend further short periods conducting research in Germany, by donation of academic literature and scientific equipment and by grants towards printing costs and the cost of attending academic conferences .
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
assist- Application Services for International Students
The service of assist is to provide support to international applicants to more than 50 German universities. With assist multiple simultaneous applications to more than one university can be handed in with only one set of authenticated and officially translated documents. As quality mark assist wil pre-check the application to make sure they are complete and fulfil all necessary formal requirements. Only if all requirements are met assist will pass in the applications to the universities applied to. Applicants to assist-universities will be informed quickly whether their prior academic record fulfils the formal requirement of the course and university they desire. Furthermore, in all programs without restricted admission, univerisities will now be able to issue their relieved acceptance sooner than before. Through assist the university of your choice will be relieved from paper-work so that they can spend additional time for personally counselling their international students. Since 2005 assist also offers the option to submit online applications.
assist- Application Services for International Students
