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Over 31,400 students received a German scholarship in 2023, with the number of such grants increasing by three per cent.
According to the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), students with a scholarship now represent 1.1 per cent of the total student population, while 5,000 international students benefited from these grants last year, Studying-in-Germany reports.
The scholarship program law, the Deutschlandstpendium was launched in 2011 and since then, thousands of hardworking students have benefited from their grants.
Vast Majority (84%) of Scholarships Granted to German Students
Out of a total of 31,424 scholarships granted in 2023, German students were the main beneficiaries, with 26,342 students or 83.8 per cent of the total, being scholarship recipients.
On the other hand, 5,082 international students received a scholarship in Germany throughout 2023. With a minor change between genders, women foreign students were granted more scholarships – 2,588 over 2,494 men.
Engineering students were top recipients (10,943) for both international and local scholarship holders, with the second subject group to follow being law, economics and social sciences (9,083).
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61% of Scholarship Holders Are University Students
With 19,113 scholarship holders, university students represent the main beneficiaries of grants in 2023, accounting for 60.8 per cent of the total scholarships awarded.
Students in technical colleges represent the second largest, with 10,435 beneficiaries or 33.2 per cent of the total. Pedagogical colleges had the lowest number of scholarship holders as well as funders, 71 and 16, respectively.
Based on calculations, 9,572 donors funded scholarships for a little over three students, with the average amount of donors being financed being €3,447.
Over 9,500 Private Donors Funded €33 Million for University Scholarships
Universities raised €33 million in funds for scholarships, four per cent more than in 2022, with the number of donors also increasing by five per cent (9,572).
Scholarships of €300 monthly are shared between the government and private donors, with the funding usually running for at least two semesters.
The largest share of funders were corporations, representing 32 per cent of all donors and offering €9.8 million for scholarships. The rest is shared between the legal entities as well as private individuals or individual companies.
As per provinces, around 1.9 per cent of all students in Saarland universities were scholarship holders. On the other hand, Thuringia universities had the lowest number of scholarship holders – with only 0.5 per cent of students.
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