- Full-time doctoral students are eligible for full tuition waivers and living stipends for 48 months.
- In addition, Ph.D. students are eligible to apply for additional funding to support dissertation research and up to six months of studies at other universities.
- Other schemes available on a competitive basis include funding for research costs and conference participation.
If you submit your application by the scholarship deadline (1February 2023), you will automatically be considered for the CEU Doctoral Scholarship.
Please note that doctoral stipends are generally taxable (as self-employment income) in Austria as Austrian tax rules consider PhD studies as a professional activity rather than a continuation of education. Relatedly, for as long as you receive a CEU stipend, you need to register as “self-employed" with the relevant Austrian Insurance provider called SVS.
If a PhD student files a tax declaration with a taxable income above the minimum SVS threshold (€5,830.20 in calendar year 2022; €6,010.92 in calendar year 2023), then they will have to pay the SVS contributions.
More information for enrolled students is available here or on the svs sharepoint site. With questions please contact studentcenter@ceu.edu.
Detailed financial aid information is available here.
Please check also the CEU central website for tuition and costs of living.
For Student Services and Accommodation click on the link.
Student Awards
First year doctoral students demonstrating outstanding performance in their coursework and the comprehensive exam may also be nominated by the Doctoral Program Committee for the Academic Achievement Award. For upper year students the CEU Awards for Advanced Doctoral Students rewards outstanding research. Best Dissertation Awards are also given annually for imaginative research that takes an innovative approach in terms of the sources, the methodology and/or the research questions.