# Financial Aids

**Source**: https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/study/for-students/finacial-aid/
**Parent**: https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/study/for-students/

## Scholarships, foundations, aid services

**Scholarships, foundations, aid services**

Many foundations and financial aid services offer scholarships to (partially) finance your studies. Criteria for the awarding of scholarships vary from one organization to another. \
You can check further possibilities at [Studentenwerk München](https://www.studentenwerk-muenchen.de/finanzierung/ "Link opens in a new window") or at [Studienfinanzierung LMU](https://www.lmu.de/de/workspace-fuer-studierende/support-angebote/studienfinanzierung/index.html "Link opens in a new window").\
Here is a short survey of financial aid possibilities.

- Further scholarships and financial support for [international students and international doctoral students](https://www.lmu.de/de/workspace-fuer-studierende/support-angebote/studienfinanzierung/stipendien/stipendien-fuer-internationale-studierende/index.html "Link opens in a new window") you will find at the link above.
- For LMU students who would like to go abroad, there are various scholarship and advisory services. (Auslands-BaFög, ERASMUS, LMU-PROSA, DAAD, etc. see [Financing Study Abroad](https://www.lmu.de/de/workspace-fuer-studierende/auslandserfahrung-sammeln/auslandsstudium/finanzierung/index.html "Link opens in a new window")).

- **Deutschlandstipendium**\
  The Deutschlandstipendium is thought to support especially talented and powerful students. The scholars have taken responsibility in the social environment, in the family, in an organization or in a social service responsibility or they have successfully mastered obstacles in their résumé.\
  [You can get further information here.](https://www.lmu.de/de/workspace-fuer-studierende/support-angebote/studienfinanzierung/stipendien/deutschlandstipendium/index.html "Link opens in a new window")\
  Special regulation for pharmacy students: [2015\_04\_12 Deutschlandstip Hinweise fuer PharmazeutInnen.pdf (PDF, 149 KB)](https://cms-cdn.lmu.de/media/18-cup/fakultaetswebsite-chemie-und-pharmazie/downloads-pdf/2015_04_12_deutschlandstip_hinweise_fuer_pharmazeutinnen.pdf "PDF-Link opens in a new window")

- **GDCh August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann Scholarship**\
  The August-Wilhelm-von-Hofmann-Foundation supports students of chemistry and related fields and student teachers in chemistry in semesters four to six of their bachelor’s, diploma or Exam studies with an amount of 300 euros per month. Applications can be submitted until end of January ([more information](https://en.gdch.de/gdch/foundations/hofmann-foundation.html "Link opens in a new window")).

- **BMBF-Stipendienplus** \
  Stipendienplus is an interactive platform of the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) and helps to find your individual scholarship.\
  mehr ([more information](https://www.stipendiumplus.de/dein-plus/finanzielle-foerderung.html "Link opens in a new window"))

- **myStipendium.de** \
  The [Stipendienportal](https://www.mystipendium.de/ "Link opens in a new window")  also helps students to find scholarships.\
  One program under this portsl is aimed at students with unconventional resumes, i.e., who break with classic patterns: ["Ich mach was anderes"](https://www.mystipendium.de/stipendien/aifs-ichmachwasanderes#ichmachwasanderes-Auslandsstipendium "Link opens in a new window")\
  The ["Dream New"](https://www.mystipendium.de/stipendien/dream-new-stipendium "Link opens in a new window") program provides support for studying in New Zealand.

- **BAföG** \
  "BAföG" is the abbreviation for the "Federal Education Advancement Law". This law regulates state financial aid for education. If your own or your parents' incomes do not suffice to finance your education and livelihood, then you are entitled to adequate state financial aid. **BAfög is not a scholarship!**\
  **[more information](https://www.cup.lmu.de/en/study/for-students/bafoeg.html).**

**Further Links**

- Online-Database of scholarships in Europe: [Scholarship-Portal](https://www.scholarshipportal.com/ "Link opens in a new window")

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