Postgraduate studies: BaföG Master Funding Conditions

There are different ways to finance a construction study. Probably the best option: BAföG, because you will receive a non-interest-bearing loan and a subsidy for certain types of postgraduate studies, while for others you will only receive a full-interest loan. And unfortunately, in order to apply for these grants, you must fulfill certain conditions. Master BAföG, however, is not possible at all, since this is not paid for studies.

Bachelor and Master have to build on each other

§ 7 Abs. 1a BAföG provides for the promotion of a postgraduate course of studies, ie a postgraduate degree, only if the student is consecutively based on a Bachelor's degree course and the trainee has not yet completed a course of study other than the Bachelor's degree. It is irrelevant whether or not the trainee was acquired in Germany or abroad.

Rather, it is important that the bachelor's and master's programs have two related, graduated parts with a uniform examination procedure, and that the exam at the end of the first part is both a professional qualification and a prerequisite for continuing the course (consecutive, not postgraduate).

Working between the degrees

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In this case, the passed first (bachelor's) examination is valid for the duration of the immediately following second part of the Vocational Training not as a professional qualification. A temporal connection between the bachelor's and the postgraduate course is not required.

They may have been employed between the two study sections. On the contrary, professional activity can even be an advantage: if you have been working for three years or more, you will receive funding according to § 11,3 sentence no. 4 BAföG without consideration of your parents' income.

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1. 1 example: If you have a bachelor's degree in biology and would now like to put the master on top, then you have a chance of success with your BAföG application.
2. 2 example: If you already have a diploma or another degree, a Master's degree is only promoted as a second course in the special case (the corresponding regulations can be found in chapter 3.2).
3. 3 example: On the other hand, if you want to do your Master's degree alongside your profession, you can not count on any funding - according to the BAföG, only full-time study programs are currently funded.

bridging

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If you have completed your bachelor's degree and have not yet started your master's degree, BAföG will be granted for a maximum of one month as a bridging loan. This means that the funding initially ends when the Bachelor's final examination is passed, even if this is not at the end of the semester. Will the masterStudy started in the following semester and there is more than a month in between, you unfortunately have to get by without BAföG during this time. Because: The Preparation on a master's degree after the bachelor's is not an eligible education.

Hurdle age limit

Probably the biggest hurdle when applying for BAföG for postgraduate studies: the age limit. If you want to apply for BAföG, you must not be older than thirty at the beginning of the postgraduate studies (§ 10,3 BAföG), provided that this is consecutive (more only precise Definition in the next section).

However, there are various exceptions to non-consecutive and continuing education courses, e.g. B. for graduates of the second chance of education, professionals without formal higher education entrance qualification, who due to their professional qualification have been enrolled at a university, or for persons who were prevented from starting their education before the age of 30 for personal (e.g. illness) or family (e.g. raising children) reasons.

Exception at the age limit

However, an exception to the age limit is only possible if the trainee immediately, after e.g. B. obtained the higher education entrance qualification or an illness no longer prevented him from starting an apprenticeship, the education of his Choice has recorded.

Also for trainees who are through Vorlage If you can prove with a so-called rehabilitation certificate that you were a victim of political persecution in the GDR, the age limit does not apply (BAföG § 60,1). Whether an exception to the age limit is possible for you can be clarified by applying for a preliminary decision in accordance with BAföG §46,5 sentence 1 no. 4 in good time before starting the training.

Attention

This derogation from this age rule applies only to non-consecutive and advanced master's courses; In the case of consecutiveCourses, however, they are applied only in the case of a Bachelor's degree, since the beginning of this part of the study is regarded as the beginning of the study and not the beginning of the master's course.

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