Funding for studies
Financial Assistance
Questions about fees and charges or to finance studies?
We're here to help you.
From winter term 2026/27, the student union fee is 82 Euros per semester.
We are happy to advise you on the following topics:
Financing options
Not sure about a scholarship? There are a lot of opportunities or alternatives: BAföG, study loans or educational funds
BAföG
Erlangen-Nuremberg Student Service is responsible for the provision of benefits according to the German Federal Law on Education and Training Grants (“Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz” – “BAföG”).
For more information, please contact:
Studentenwerk Erlangen-Nürnberg (Erlangen-Nuremberg Student Service)
Amt für Ausbildungsförderung (Office for Education and Training Grants)
Hofmannstr. 27, D-91052 Erlangen
Phone: +49 9131 8917-0
Internet: www.studentenwerk.uni-erlangen.de
The Student Service provides regularly individual counseling in the premises of Ingolstadt University. The precise dates will be notified by the Office of Student Affairs.
Educational fund
In order to obtain funding from an educational fund, it is necessary to go through an application procedure, which varies according to the provider. However, in return, those applicants who successfully obtain funding agree to repay a percentage of their future gross salary over a certain period. Repayment only commences after successfully taking up employment.
Further details are available from https://www.bildungsfonds.de/
Student loans
Another method of financing the general living costs of a period of study is to take out a student loan. Student loans take the form of monthly payments, aimed primarily at securing the student's living costs.
One such possibility is the KfW student loan, which provides support ranging from a minimum of 100 EUR to a maximum of 650 EUR per month – without loan collateral and irrespective of income or assets. Information is available at KFW.
For students who are meanwhile at an advanced stage of their studies, there is the Federal government education loan programme. More information on education loans is available from the Federal Administration Office (Bundesverwaltungsamt).
Further information on other student loans is available from www.studienkredite.org.
Housing benefit
Under certain conditions, low-income households can receive a housing allowance as a state benefit to help cover rent costs. Applications for housing benefit are made at the local housing benefit office (Wohngeldstelle).
Information of the City of Ingolstadt is available from the housing benefit office.
Funding for periods abroad
There are many funding possibilities available for students in search of financial support for a period abroad. Information is available at the <link en studies going-abroad study-abroad step-4-financial-issues step-5-other-funding-scholarships external-link>Internation Office.
Loans to assist in financial hardship
The E.W. Kuhlmann Foundation was founded by Edith and Edmund Kuhlmann in Hamburg. The couple provide support for people in financial hardship and who are in education or retraining or are establishing a start-up.
The Kuhlmann Foundation awards the following repayable loans:
Rolling scholarship (Rollendes Stipendium)
Study completion assistance (Studienabschlusshilfe)
Student union fee
All students are required to pay the student union fee, currently 82 € per semester, when enrolling and reregistering for each semester. This also applies to students with leave of absence, and students undertaking a practical placement or semester abroad.
Tuition fees
From the summer term 2026, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) charges tuition fees of 800 euros (Bachelor) or 1.200 euros (Master) per semester for students from third countries in accordance with Art. 13 Para. 3 Sentence 1 No. 6 Bavarian Higher Education Innovation Act (BayHIG).
Tuition fees for students from third countries (non-EU, non-EEA)
Fees for Lifelong Learning
The THI Campus for Lifelong Learning charges fees for part-time Bachelor's degree programmes, continuing education Master's degree programmes, modular degree programmes and certificates. For information, please contact the colleagues at the THI Campus for Lifelong Learning.
Re-registration
All students are required to apply for continuation of registration in the required manner and within the specified time frame if they intend to remain registered during the following semester.
Here you will find Information about re-registration(.pdf)
For questions please send a mail to studienfinanzierung@thi.de
You missed re-registration?
Students who do not fulfill their responsibility to apply for continuation of registration will be expelled.
If you have missed the re-enrolment for next semester, please get in touch with us.(studienfinanzierung@thi.de).
You will receive an application form for re-registration in PRIMUSS. Please note the special comments if you are not the account holder or a student of THI Campus TCW.
Related topics
Studierendenwerk Erlangen-Nürnberg
Link to the BAföG-pages