Our scholarships are based on criteria of academic excellence and are granted for 12 and sometimes even 24 months, thus covering either one year or the entire two-year Master's degree adapted to the living expenses in Jena.
Dr. Kim Lammers in the ultrafast optics lab.
Unlike many other countries in the world, Germany offers excellent tuition-free university education to any individual fulfilling the academic requirements. In other words, higher academic education in Germany is virtually free. The Friedrich Schiller University requests a minor administrative fee of 240 Euro per semester for enrolling in our program. However, we offer a range of highly attractive financial scholarships to help cover our students' living expenses. Applicants for the M.Sc. Photonics program in our School can additionally apply for the following scholarships: