Adolf Feizlmayr Foundation Scholarship for International Students

Montanuniversität Leoben is Austria's specialist university for mining, metallurgy, materials science, petroleum and subsurface engineering, and industrial energy technology — a small campus in Styria with unusually deep industry links. Be clear about what is on offer financially, because the internet is full of pages overstating it. Leoben does not run a large scholarship for international students. What it has is the Adolf Feizlmayr Foundation, endowed by an Austrian pipeline engineer specifically to support foreign students at Leoben, which distributes roughly EUR 10,000 a year in small grants; individual awards are capped at EUR 500 per semester per student, or about LKR 173,000. A separate Feizlmayr merit fund of similar size rewards academic excellence in petroleum engineering, subsurface engineering and compound energy technology. Both are announced once or twice a year through the university gazette and student email, and the rectorate decides amounts on advice from a board. The real reason Leoben is affordable is not a scholarship at all: it is an Austrian public university, so tuition for a non-EU citizen is EUR 726.72 per semester plus a EUR 26.20 student union fee — around LKR 501,000 a year in total, less than a single term at many UK or Australian universities. Austria also allows a tuition remission on application in special cases, and waives fees outright for students from the UN list of least developed countries. Sri Lanka is not on that list, so budget for the full non-EU rate.

Announced once or twice per academic year through the Montanuniversität Leoben gazette and student mail rather than on a fixed public calendar — enrolled students should watch their university email and contact stipendien@unileoben.ac.at