diff --git a/tests/datamodules/test_utils.py b/tests/datamodules/test_utils.py
index fcb1f82f584..3f8dba3c5dd 100644
--- a/tests/datamodules/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/datamodules/test_utils.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
-from torchgeo.datamodules.utils import group_shuffle_split
+from torchgeo.datamodules.utils import group_shuffle_split, split_prefixed_kwargs
 
 
 def test_group_shuffle_split() -> None:
@@ -44,3 +44,20 @@ def test_group_shuffle_split() -> None:
 
         assert len(set(train_indices1) & set(test_indices1)) == 0
         assert len(set(groups[train_indices1])) == 2
+
+
+def test_split_prefixed_kwargs() -> None:
+    kwargs = {
+        'testprefix1_param1': 10,
+        'testprefix1_param2': 20,
+        'testprefix2_param3': 30,
+        'other_param': 40,
+    }
+
+    testprefix1_kwargs, testprefix2_kwargs, other_kwargs = split_prefixed_kwargs(
+        'testprefix1_', 'testprefix2_', **kwargs
+    )
+
+    assert testprefix1_kwargs == {'param1': 10, 'param2': 20}
+    assert testprefix2_kwargs == {'param3': 30}
+    assert other_kwargs == {'other_param': 40}
diff --git a/torchgeo/datamodules/geo.py b/torchgeo/datamodules/geo.py
index e8e3aedd194..1c3afe4ae4d 100644
--- a/torchgeo/datamodules/geo.py
+++ b/torchgeo/datamodules/geo.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
     RandomBatchGeoSampler,
 )
 from ..transforms import AugmentationSequential
-from .utils import MisconfigurationException
+from .utils import MisconfigurationException, split_prefixed_kwargs
 
 
 class BaseDataModule(LightningDataModule):
@@ -46,14 +46,17 @@ def __init__(
             dataset_class: Class used to instantiate a new dataset.
             batch_size: Size of each mini-batch.
             num_workers: Number of workers for parallel data loading.
-            **kwargs: Additional keyword arguments passed to ``dataset_class``
+            **kwargs: Additional keyword arguments passed to the ``DataLoader``
+                if prefixed with 'dataloader_', else passed to ``dataset_class``.
         """
         super().__init__()
 
         self.dataset_class = dataset_class
         self.batch_size = batch_size
         self.num_workers = num_workers
-        self.kwargs = kwargs
+        self.dataloader_kwargs, self.kwargs = split_prefixed_kwargs(
+            'dataloader_', **kwargs
+        )
 
         # Datasets
         self.dataset: Dataset[dict[str, Tensor]] | None = None
@@ -287,6 +290,7 @@ def _dataloader_factory(self, split: str) -> DataLoader[dict[str, Tensor]]:
             num_workers=self.num_workers,
             collate_fn=self.collate_fn,
             persistent_workers=self.num_workers > 0,
+            **self.dataloader_kwargs,
         )
 
     def train_dataloader(self) -> DataLoader[dict[str, Tensor]]:
@@ -431,6 +435,7 @@ def _dataloader_factory(self, split: str) -> DataLoader[dict[str, Tensor]]:
             num_workers=self.num_workers,
             collate_fn=self.collate_fn,
             persistent_workers=self.num_workers > 0,
+            **self.dataloader_kwargs,
         )
 
     def train_dataloader(self) -> DataLoader[dict[str, Tensor]]:
diff --git a/torchgeo/datamodules/utils.py b/torchgeo/datamodules/utils.py
index 4c3aab63b61..a79e7b3c887 100644
--- a/torchgeo/datamodules/utils.py
+++ b/torchgeo/datamodules/utils.py
@@ -169,3 +169,29 @@ def group_shuffle_split(
             test_idxs.append(i)
 
     return train_idxs, test_idxs
+
+
+def split_prefixed_kwargs(*prefixes: str, **kwargs: Any) -> tuple[dict[str, Any], ...]:
+    """Split kwargs into prefixed and other kwargs.
+
+    Args:
+        *prefixes: Prefixes to filter kwargs by.
+        **kwargs: Keyword arguments to filter.
+
+    Returns:
+        Tuple of prefixed kwargs and other kwargs.
+    """
+    prefixed_kwargs: list[dict[str, Any]] = [{} for _ in prefixes]
+    other_kwargs: dict[str, Any] = {}
+
+    for key, value in kwargs.items():
+        matched = False
+        for i, prefix in enumerate(prefixes):
+            if key.startswith(prefix):
+                prefixed_kwargs[i][key[len(prefix) :]] = value
+                matched = True
+                break
+        if not matched:
+            other_kwargs[key] = value
+
+    return *prefixed_kwargs, other_kwargs