Radboud Scholarship Programme

Radboud Scholarship Programme for International Students covers costs for visa, residence permit, health insurance and liability insurance (Insurance Passport for Students (IPS)).

Radboud Scholarship is a partial scholarship that will help reduce your tuition fee to € 2,209. For example: a grant holder in 2022/2023 will pay a tuition fee of only €2,209, instead of €16,000.

It is an English-taught Masters Degree Programme (with the exception of Erasmus Mundus Master’s programmes and joint-degree Master’s programmes).

About the Radboud Scholarship Programme

The Radboud Scholarship Programme is a very selective scholarship programme. It offers talented, highly motivated, non-EEA students with outstanding study results the opportunity to be awarded a scholarship for a complete English-taught Radboud University Master’s degree programme.

Eligibility:

You will only be eligible to apply for a Radboud Scholarship if you:

hold a non-EU/EEA passport
are not eligible for the lower EEA tuition fee for other reasons
have (will obtain) a Bachelor's degree achieved outside the Netherlands, have no degrees achieved in the Netherlands and did not receive any previous education in the Netherlands (exchange programmes excluded, provided that they are part of the bachelor degree achieved outside the Netherlands)
meet the English language proficiency requirement for the Master's programme of your choice
have been fully admitted to the English-taught Master's degree programme starting 1 September 2022 as stated in the formal letter of admission
are able to comply with the conditions for obtaining a visa for the Netherlands
are enrolled at Radboud University as a full-time student for the academic year and Master's degree programme for which the scholarship will be awarded

Selected Criteria:

All students applying for the Radboud Scholarship will be individually considered by the selection committee of the faculty they applied to.

The selection of the scholarship recipients will be based on the following criteria:

Academic excellence
- Outstanding study results in your present field of study, for example through grades, test scores, publications.
- Relevancy of your previous degree to the master’s programme.
- The ranking of the university where you obtained your previous degree(s).
Ambition
- The quality and relevance of your motivation letter for the Master’s programme.
- Show promise, based on previous achievements, performances and work in the relevant field of study.
- Life experience and/or extracurricular activities such as internships or volunteering.
References
- Quality of the recommendations in the two reference letters, preferably two academic references, please see these reference guidlines (pdf, 87 kB).

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How to apply for the Radboud Scholarship Programme

You can apply by indicating during your application for admission for a Master's programme in the OSIRIS Application system that you wish to apply for a Radboud Scholarship.

You will then be requested to upload three additional documents: two reference letters and a curriculum vitae.

If you already uploaded these documents for the Master’s programme application, you can upload the same documents again for your scholarship application.

The selection for the scholarship and the admission to the Master's programme are two separate processes: admission to the Master's programme does not imply selection for the scholarship.