Scholarship at the start of studies: Faculty and companies support high-achieving transport students - Apply now! (Application deadline: 15 September 2023)

IKOS Consulting Deutschland GmbH endows the first company scholarship at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences for the winter semester 2023/24

Tens of thousands of engineers will be needed in Germany alone in the coming years. This includes thousands of transport engineers and traffic scientists. According to the online platform Statista, there were an average of 475 vacancies for every 100 unemployed engineers at the end of 2022. The best job prospects, therefore, for the future graduates of the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences at TU Dresden.

There could be many more of these graduates every year, according to the faculty's numerous partners in business and administration. For this reason, the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences and several companies are now taking a new approach in order to draw attention to transport studies at the TU Dresden and to attract the best young talents to study in Dresden: By means of 2-year scholarships starting as early as the first semester of the Master's programme. The aim is to support particularly talented applicants who can be expected to achieve outstanding results in their studies and careers.

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The first company to financially support such a scholarship at the "Friedrich List" Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences in order to actively shape its own engineering and specialist staff is IKOS Consulting Deutschland GmbH, based in Berlin. The scholarship, financed by IKOS and awarded by the faculty, will be granted for the first time in the winter semester 2023/24 for 24 months to a first-semester student from one of the two Master's degree programmes "Railway System Engineering" or "Electrical Transportation Systems". The scholarship holder receives 750 euros per month.

Applicants who apply for a place on one of the two Master's degree programmes for the winter semester 2023/24 can also apply for the IKOS scholarship at the same time. The application deadline for both the study place and the IKOS scholarship is 15 September. The Faculty Council appoints a committee to award the scholarship and appoints the chairperson.

Detailed information on the IKOS scholarship as well as on the application and selection procedure