The Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports has announced that it has opened the deadline for the submission of applications for scholarships for the next academic year 2026-2027.
These grants for post-compulsory studies can be applied for until next May 18 through the electronic headquarters of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports.
These scholarships are intended for students who are going to study Baccalaureate, Vocational Training, Artistic, sports, language or university studies, among others, will be able to apply for their scholarship for the next academic year starting this Tuesday. They must complete a series of provisional data, which they can modify later, and they must do so within the established deadline even if they do not yet know the grades they will obtain this academic year, what they are going to study next year or whether or not they will continue with their education.
One of the novelties of this call is that university students and students of higher artistic education with partial enrollments who take between 48 and 59 credits, about 20,000 students, will be able to receive, if they meet the other requirements, part of the income scholarship and the residence scholarship (350 euros for each of them).
The second novelty refers to students with disabilities: nearly 2,000 university students and students of higher artistic education with disabilities between 25 and 64% will see the academic requirements related to the required course load to obtain a scholarship adapted: they will be considered full enrollment for scholarship purposes with 45 credits (instead of 60).
This new call also incorporates a specific improvement for students from Ceuta and Melilla who must travel to the Iberian Peninsula to study: the additional travel allowance is doubled from 442 to 888 euros, equating it to the existing one for island students.
In addition, the asset thresholds are updated by an average of 10%, since in the last 15 years they had not been modified.
It must be highlighted that, starting from this academic year, students with family residence in Catalonia must apply for the general scholarship in the corresponding calls (for university and non-university students) that the Generalitat de Catalunya has made public with the same application deadlines. In this way, that autonomous community assumes the transfer of state scholarships and study aid in the same way that the Basque Country has been doing for some years.
All this can be carried out thanks to a record budget, so that, together with the rest of the aid that will be approved this academic year, it will reach 2,559 million euros. This is the ninth consecutive increase in the allocation destined by the Government for scholarships and study aid, which has increased by 83% since 2018 (when 1,399 million was invested).