Program Description:

Title: DAAD MIDE Scholarship 2025

Application Deadline: 30th September 2025

HTW Berlin, the largest university of applied sciences in Berlin, offers an 18-month full-time Master’s degree program in “International and Development Economics” (MIDE), taught entirely in English. Designed for students from developing and transition countries as well as from Europe and other developed countries with a special interest in the economic challenges facing “third world” countries, the program prepares students to work in areas related to global economic affairs and development.
The Master’s program in International and Development Economics has been established for students who have a first degree in economics/business administration or other social sciences with a focus on economics. It is designed to enhance understanding of development economics, the international economic context in which socio-economic development takes place, and key sectors and policy areas that are relevant for developing countries, with a particular focus on financial institutions, environmental issues, and public enterprises. To understand the challenges of formulating current development policies, the program covers both the principal theoretical debates as well as specific contemporary examples of strategies, policies, and projects.

Academic admission requirements

• Bachelor’s degree*
• Proficiency in English

*The first degree must be equivalent to a three-year German Bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS).

Applicants with three years of study (180 ECTS) or the equivalent must either study an additional 30 ECTS at the university or prove that they have completed at least six months of professional employment or training since graduating. Applicants with an equivalent of three and a half or more years (210 ECTS) of study do not need to prove professional experience or take additional modules.

Applicants for a DAAD scholarship must come from a developing country and have at least two years of professional experience since graduation. Still, they should not have graduated more than six years ago.

Language requirements

One of the following:

• TOEFL paper-based: at least 580 points
• TOEFL computer-based: at least 237 points
• TOEFL Internet-based: at least 96 points
• IELTS grade (ACADEMIC) 7.0
• CPE (Certificate of Proficiency in English), all levels
• CAE (Certificate in Advanced English), all levels
• BEC Higher (Business English Certificate)
• TOEIC 800 points or higher
• If English was the official language of instruction for the first degree, please supply official proof. TOEFL or IELTS are not required in this case.

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