Utrecht Excellence Scholarships – The Netherlands

The Utrecht Excellence Scholarship offers a number of highly talented prospective students the opportunity to pursue a degree in a selected number of fields at Utrecht University.

Selected students receive a scholarship for the duration of the degree programme, which is a maximum of two years for a Prestige Master and three years for a Bachelor degree. 

Approximately 55 scholarships are awarded each year.

 

Amount of scholarship

Selected students are awarded a scholarship between 4 000 and 27 300 euro per year (Bachelor) or between 7,000 and 16,000 euro per year (Prestige Master’s).

Eligibility criteria

The applicant must meet the eligibility criteria in order to be considered for this scholarship. The applicant should:

1. Not have the Dutch or an EU/EER nationality;
2. Hold a non-Dutch secondary school diploma;
3. Have been admitted to an International Master’s programme within one of the Graduate Schools mentioned above, the Bachelor’s programme in Economics and Business Economics or to University College Utrecht;
4. Hold a relevant Bachelor’s degree (for a Master’s programme) or secondary school diploma (for a Bachelor’s programme), or an equivalent thereof;
5. Be able to comply with the conditions to obtain a Dutch visa; 

Failure to meet one or more of these criteria automatically means the student is not eligible for this scholarship.

Selection criteria

Eligible candidates are selected for a scholarship on the basis of the following criteria:

1. Their academic excellence and promise in the proposed field of study;
2. The academic quality and results of the preceding education, as evidenced, for example, by grades, test scores, publications, letters of recommendation;
3. The quality and relevance of the motivation letter (academic content, intercultural and communication skills, personal motivation);
4. The quality and feasibility of the financial plan in the application;
5. The quality of the application itself (completeness, accuracy, consistency).

Application

Further scholarship details and application procedures can be found at http://www.uu.nl/university/international-students/EN/financialmatters/grantsandscholarships/Pages/utrechtexcellencescholarships.aspx