Grants and funding
Grants and other financial aid ensure that all prospective students – regardless of their financial situation – have the opportunity to study at KL. The following list gives an overview of the available governmental and private financial aid.
grants.at is Austria’s largest online database for grants and research funding for all academic fields. Funding opportunities for students, graduates and researchers range from traditional grants to subsidies, academic awards, to national, European and international research programmes.
For more information, see www.grants.at
Students at private universities are entitled to study grants in the same way as students at Austrian state universities. Every Austrian student is entitled to apply for the public study grant. This study grant is a means of state financial support for students in accordance with the Austrian Study Support Act (Studienförderungsgesetz).
For more information, see www.stipendium.at
Students at an educational institution accredited as a private university are entitled to a family subsidy according to Section 2 of the Family Equalisation Act (Familienlastenausgleichsgesetz).
Eligibility for a familiy allowance
For more information, see www.bundeskanzleramt.gv.at
Social grants issued by the state of Lower Austria are intended to open up degree programmes at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences to as many prospective students as possible and to enable those who are unable or struggling to finance the tuition and fees from their own resources to study there.
KL Social Grants can be applied for by students who are registered as continually living at a main or secondary residence in Lower Austria and are eligible for social benefits.
- Funding for students of medicine: up to 80% of the semester tuition and fees
- Funding for psychology students: up to 25% of the semester tuition fees
For more information, see www.noe-stipendien.at.
Advice centre for KL grants
Gesellschaft für Forschungsförderung Niederösterreich m.b.H.
+43 2742 275 70 26
stipendien@gff-noe.at
Among other initiatives, the state of Lower Austria supports students at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences by issuing merit-based scholarships. KL students who demonstrate outstanding academic performance can apply for this once per academic year, with retroactive effect.
Funding for students in medicine and psychology: up to 20% of the annual tuition fees paid in the relevant academic year.
Social grants and merit-based scholarships are not mutually exclusive: up to two social grants and one merit-based scholarship may be awarded per academic year. For more information, see www.noe-stipendien.at and (for students) opencampus.kl.ac.at
Advice centre for KL grants
Gesellschaft für Forschungsförderung Niederösterreich m.b.H.
+43 2742 275 70 26
stipendien@gff-noe.at
The province of Lower Austria supports graduates of the human medicine programme at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences who, after completing their studies, work as a doctor at a hospital under the legal ownership of the province of Lower Austria or in private practice in the province of Lower Austria.
Further information can be found at www.noe-stipendien.at/stipendien/noe-sonderpraemie-medizin/
The province of Lower Austria provides funding for students who, after completing their training as a general practitioner, will work in a region in Lower Austria for at least five years.
Students who have entered at least the third year of their degree and can prove their academic success over the previous year are eligible.
For more information, see www.oead.at
The region of Lower Bavaria is committed to providing good medical care in Lower Bavaria and to supporting the next generation of physicians. Lower Bavaria therefore grants up to five scholarships per year for medical students at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences.
For more information, see www.bezirk-niederbayern.de/medizinstipendium
Study now, pay later: The income share agreement (ISA) offered by German company Brain Capital is an innovative model of student financing. Through the KL Education Fund, Brain Capital helps motivated and qualified students, regardless of their financial situation, to fund their studies at Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences.
Brain Capital was founded in 2005 at WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. With its origins in an initiative established by students for students, Brain Capital is today the largest provider of education funding in Europe and one of the leading partners for students, universities and investors in the implementation of alternative degree financing concepts.
For more information, see www.karl-landsteiner.braincapital.de
The Wiener Gesundheitsverbund supports students of human medicine who are aiming to complete their postgraduate training in the following specialisations:
- General medicine
- Anaesthesiology and intensive care medicine,
- Child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapeutic medicine,
- Clinical pathology and molecular pathology,
- Orthopaedics and traumatology,
- Psychiatry and Psychotherapeutic Medicine,
- Radiotherapy-Radiation Oncology or Radiology
Students at an Austrian university who are at least in the third year of their degree programme and can provide proof of academic success in the final year are eligible for funding.
Further information can be found at www.oead.at
