Financial issues
Tution fee and social fee
In general, all students have to pay no tuition fee but a social fee of about EUR 225,- per semester. The social fee includes free use of public transport in whole North-Rhine Westphalia, and reduced prices for food and drinks bought in the canteen (Mensa) and the cafeterias.
German students may apply for a student loan from the NRW-Bank.
For more information, please go to http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/studienbeitrag (German only).
Scholarships
iMOS Scholarships
The International Office is able to support 5 scholarships for international students from developing and emerging countries. The scholarships comprise about 700 EUR per month (including health insurance) for 2 years. Eligible students will receive an invitation to apply for these scholarships.
Your embassy will provide you with detailed information about special scholarship programmes for your country.
The DAAD provides an overview of various types of students' funding at http://www.daad.de/deutschland/foerderung/stipendiendatenbank/00462.en.html
Other scholarship organisations (for most of these scholarships good German language skills are required):
Bundesstiftung Rosa-Luxemburg
www.rosalux.de
Cusanuswerk
www.cusanuswerk.de
DAAD
www.daad.de
Friedrich Naumann Stiftung
www.fnst.de
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
www.fes.de
Hans-Seidel-Stiftung
www.hss.de
Hans-Böckler-Stiftung
www.boeckler.de
Heinrich Böll Stiftung
www.boell.de
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
www.kas.de
Rheinstahl-Stiftung
http://www.thyssenkrupp-technologies.com/de/j_foerderung.php
Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft
www.sdw.org
Stiftung des deutschen Volkes
www.studienstiftung.de
This list is not exhaustive. Details about the above scholarships must be enquired from the respective foundations.
For another overview of scholarships go to www.studis-online.de/studinfo/stipendien.php3 (German only).
Student jobs
In order to pay the tuition and the social fee many students work during their studies. Students may get a student assistant position at the university or find a job with an employer outside the university. To find a job outside the university good German language skills are most often essential. Usually, it is possible to get a position in one of the university's institutes after the first semester, however, this again, depends on one's academic achievements. Student assistants usually work 9 hours per week, earning a monthly income of about EUR 400,-. Although there are relatively many of these positions available at the university, we cannot guarantee that you will find such a position when you come here.
By law, international students are allowed to work up to 3 months full-time or 6 months half-time plus 10 hours per week for student assistant positions within the university.
Comprehensive information about students jobs can be found here (German only):
www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/studienbuero/job.htm
The ASTA (Students' Union Executive Commitee) holds a regularly updated list of student jobs with employers outside the university at:
www.asta-bochum.de/jobboerse
The official job-site of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, which also includes many students jobs, can be found at:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/php-bin/stellen/stellen.html
The RUB Career Service holds a regularly updated list of online job-sites at:
http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/careerservice/jobboersen.html