Deadlines for this scholarship
An award closing is only the first of the dates that matter. After it there is the deposit that keeps your place, the unconditional offer the funder wants to see before it pays, and a last day to arrive and register. Where the funder publishes none of these, the row says so — a blank is what the official page actually says, not something we have left out.
| Stage | Date | Standing |
|---|---|---|
| Apply to the scheme by Act on this one | 01 Feb 2027 | 12 weeks left |
Who can apply
Undergraduates and graduates from non-European universities, so Pakistan/India/Bangladesh/Gulf nationals are in scope.
What the award is
OeAD's Ernst Mach line for undergraduate and graduate (Bachelor's or master's) students from non-European countries to study at an Austrian university of applied sciences, funded for 4-10 months. The 2027/2028 call, published by OeAD in September 2026, closes on 1 February 2027; the monthly amount is not given on the call page. Related OeAD lines in the same call are the Ernst Mach Follow-up Grant (postdocs/lecturers from non-European developing countries, deadline 1 February 2027) and Ernst Mach Grant - ASEA-UNINET, which is limited to Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, so it is not open to Pakistanis. Official source: https://oead.at/de/aktuelles/artikel/2026/09/oead-scholarship-programmes-and-further-grants-to-austria-for-2027-28 (checked 29 October 2026).Where these dates came from
OeAD's 2027/28 grants announcement sets this university-of-applied-sciences line's closing date at 1 February 2027 (https://oead.at/de/aktuelles/artikel/2026/09/oead-scholarship-programmes-and-further-grants-to-austria-for-2027-28, checked 30 October 2026); the grant page (https://oead.at/en/study-research-teaching/overview-grants-and-scholarships/ernst-mach-grant) confirms applicants submit via grants.at and that the target group is non-European students. No tuition/CAS/enrolment date or monthly amount is published, so those columns stay blank.
Deadlines move. Always confirm on the funder's own page before you book anything — the link above is where we read it.
