Scholarships for Master's students and doctoral candidates

Funding - Financing - Scholarships

A scholar­ship is one of the ways to finance your Master's or doctoral studies at Leuphana Graduate School. In Germany alone, over 2,000 scholar­ship providers support the education and research of students and doctoral candidates.

On our website, we present the Landesstipendium (scholar­ship of the state of Lower Saxony), the Deutschlandstipendium, the scholarships of the 13 major organisations that promote young talent in Germany and scholarships offered by Leuphana itself. However, please do not hesitate to find out more about funding opportunities for your academic qualification!

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The scholarship funding allows students and doctoral candidate to fully focus on their Master's or doctoral studies.

Master's scholarships

As a scholar­ship holder in a Master's programme at Leuphana, you will not only receive financial support, but you can also often benefit from numerous other support services provided by the scholar­ship providers, foundations and funding organisations.

For the Master's programme  in International Law of Security, Peace and Sustain­able Develop­ment (ILSPSD) the EU support students with full scholar­ships as part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programme grants. On the web­site of the ILSPSD con­sortium you can find more infor­mations on the scholar­ships and the degree programme itself. The appli­cation window for the scholar­ships is open now up to and including 1 February 2026.

PhD Scholarships

As a doctoral candidate, you are primarily eligible for funding from the organisations that promote young talent at Leuphana.

An overview of the funding organisations, including their political or confessional orientation and liaison lecturers, can be found on this page:

You can find the current scholarship announcements from Leuphana via the following link: