Apply for BAföG or study start-up aid
The Federal Education and Training Assistance Act (or BAföG) is the best and simplest way to finance your studies. The study start-up aid is a one-off grant and is used to finance expenses in connection with the start of studies.
Online application for BAföG or study start-up aid
Please use the electronic application via the BAföGdigital platform of the federal and state governments:
Apply for BAföG onlineApply for study start-up aid online
Important: For queries in connection with your electronic application on the BAföGdigital platform, please contact the hotline set up there +49 800 2236 341.
- As an alternative to the online application, interactive PDF forms are available for download or you can use the conventional paper forms, which are available from us at the Office for Financial Aid for Education.
- Please choose one method (medium) for submitting your documents. Under no circumstances should you use several methods at the same time, not even to submit documents twice for security reasons.
- Please send us all documents that you send to us by e-mail in PDF format only. This is generally easy to read and can be processed without any problems.
- In order to reduce the currently longer processing times as much as possible, we ask you to avoid enquiries about the status of processing.
We are exclusively responsible for students at the following universities:
- 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
BAföG funding in the school and vocational sector is generally the responsibility of the office in whose district the student's parents live. If the parents live in Dresden, please contact the state capital Dresden.
The Studentenwerk Chemnitz-Zwickau is responsible for processing BAföG applications from students at the Saxony Cooperative State University (formerly Berufsakademie Sachsen).