FAQ - End-of-study-scholarship

Foreign nationals with foreign educational qualifications are international students who have obtained their higher education entrance qualification

• at a school abroad,
• a foreign school in Germany or
• at a German school abroad

or who supplemented their foreign higher education entrance qualification with a German Studienkolleg.

No. Our call for applications is aimed exclusively at international degree-seeking students. If you have any questions regarding funding, please contact the Graduate Center.

No. Our call for applications is directed exclusively at international degree-seeking students who are completing their entire studies at TH Köln.

No. Our call for applications is directed exclusively at international degree-seeking students who are in the final phase of their studies and whose previous academic achievements indicate that a qualified degree will be achieved in a maximum of 12 months.

No. For this scholarship, you must be in Germany during the final phase.

If you are working on your thesis in the EU, you can apply for an Erasmus scholarship.

You can apply to PROMOS for stays outside the EU to prepare dissertations.

If, in addition to your foreign nationality, you also have the German citizenship or you only have the German nationality, you are not considered a foreign student - even if you completed your school education abroad. That is why you cannot apply for this scholarship.

Yes.

Yes.

If students receive a partial scholarship through public funds, supplemental funding is permitted up to the amount of a full scholarship.

Yes, but you must declare the scholarship to the BAföG office, which will then check whether the BAföG rate will be reduced.

The letter of recommendation may be written by a lecturer of TH Köln.

The academic title of the lecturer is not important. The letter of recommendation should not be older than 3 months.

Students can receive up to 556 EUR per month. 

Students with care obligations (in particular single parents and people with children or relatives in need of care) and students with health impairments (people with disabilities or chronic illnesses) can receive up to 992 EUR.

You may receive the scholarship for a maximum of 6 months.

Yes, this is generally possible.

In addition to a monthly scholarship of EUR 556, you may earn EUR 992 gross.

If the sum of the scholarship and the gross additional income exceeds the applicable limit of EUR 1,548, the scholarship must be reduced by the corresponding overdraft. This limit applies for each month in which the part-time work is carried out.

Example: You earn EUR 1,200 gross per month. You therefore earn EUR 208 too much. Your grant would be reduced by EUR 208 : You would receive a grant of EUR 348.

If you earn more than EUR 1,298 gross per month, you cannot receive a scholarship.

You can get a monthly scholarship of EUR 992.

If you work part-time, you can earn EUR 556 gross in addition to the scholarship.

If you earn more than EUR 556 gross, your scholarship will be reduced by the amount you earn too much.

Example: You earn EUR 950 pre-tax per month. That means you earn EUR 394 too much. Your scholarship for a thesis would be reduced by EUR 394. You would therefore receive a scholarship of EUR 598.

If you earn more than EUR 1,298 gross per month, you cannot receive a scholarship.

A tax identification number (IdNr or tax ID) is assigned to each person who is registered with a primary place of residence or sole residence in a civil registry in Germany. It was sent to you by letter from the Federal Central Tax Office (BZSt) after your initial registration with the city.

The IdNr consists of 11 digits and is valid for life.

You can find further information on the BZSt website.

If you do not know your number, you can ask to be notified again. This is only possible by post and can take up to 4 weeks.

The tax office responsible for you is determined by your registration address (the address you registered at the Residents' Registration Office).

Here you can search for the tax office using your zip code.