How to apply for BAföG!

Apply for BAföG with the Financial Aid Office

The Federal Education and Training Assistance Act (or BAföG) is the best and simplest way to finance your studies.

If you study at one of the universities in our purview, you can apply for BAföG with the Financial Aid Office.

All universities in our purview

Technische Universität Dresden
IHI - Internationales Hochschulinstitut Zittau
Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden
Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden
Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber Dresden
Palucca Hochschule für Tanz Dresden
Evangelische Hochschule Dresden
Hochschule Zittau/Görlitz
Hochschule für Kirchenmusik Dresden
Fachhochschule Dresden - Private Fachhochschule
DIU Dresden International University

Advices and a kind request for your application

There are various ways to apply for BAföG:

You can use the conventional mail to send us your documents
You can create an account at https://www.bafoeg-digital.de and submit paperless documents through this portal
You can send emails with attached forms and documents
Of course, you can also visit us during office hours and hand over all the documents personally and at the same time still receive concrete advice

Unless you come in person, we ask you to choose one way (medium) of submitting documents. Under no circumstances should you use more than one way at the same time, and certainly not for submitting documents twice to be on the safe side. We would also like to point out that we still work with paper files at the office. This means that all documents that reach us electronically still have to be printed out by us.

In order to reduce the currently longer processing times as much as possible, we ask you to avoid inquiries about the status of the processing.

Forms for your BAföG application

You can apply for BAföG assistance by one of the following means:

Apply for BAföG assistance by filling out these online PDF forms on your computer:

Download the PDF forms for BAföG application

Apply for BAföG assistance by filling out the paper forms – you can pick up the paper forms at the Financial Aid Office or at a Studentenwerk location:

Your Financial Aid Office

Use the electronic application via the application assistant "BAföGdigital" from the federal and state governments:

to the BAföGdigital online application

Important: For queries in connection with your electronic application on the BAföGdigital platform, please contact the hotline set up there +49 800 2236 341.

Note for pupils and students of the BA Dresden

The Office for Educational Support of the City of Dresden is responsible for processing BAföG applications from pupils and students of the Dresden University of Cooperative Education (BA Dresden):

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