Maastricht University Master’s Scholarship (fully funded) in Netherland, 2019.

1 February 2019

Holland

(Fully Funded)

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Maastricht University Holland-High Potential scholarship 

The Maastricht University (UM) Holland-High Potential Scholarship programme offers 24 full scholarships of €29.000 (including tuition fee waiver and monthly stipend) each academic year for highly talented students from outside the European Union (EU) who have been admitted to a Master’s programme at UM.

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The Scholarship programme consists of both the High Potential Scholarship (funded by the Maastricht University Scholarship Fund) and the Holland Scholarship, which is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in conjunction with Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences. It is aimed at international students from outside the EU/EEA who wish to follow a full degree programme in the Netherlands.

Specializations for studying on this opportunity:

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

• Art, Literature, and Society
• Arts and Heritage: Policy, Management, and Education
• European Public Affairs
• European Studies
• European Studies on Society, Science, and Technology
• Globalization and Development Studies
• Media Studies: Digital Cultures
• Politics and Society
• Research Master Cultures of Arts, Science and Technology
• Research Master European Studies

Faculty of Law

• European Law & Market Integration
• European Public Law & Governance
• General track
• Forensics, Criminology, and Law
• Corporate and Commercial Law
• Human Rights
• International Trade and Investment Law
• International and European Tax Law
• International and European Tax Law, American Specialisation (Double Degree Programme)
• Intellectual Property Law and Knowledge Management

Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences

• Biomedical Sciences
• Epidemiology
• Global Health
• Governance and Leadership in European Public Health
• Health Education and Promotion
• Healthcare Policy, Innovation, and Management
• Health and Rehabilitation
• Sports and Nutrition
• Work, Health and Career

Faculty of Science and Engineering

• Artificial Intelligence
• Public Policy and Human Development

Faculty of Psychology & Neuroscience

• Forensic Psychology
• Cognitive Neuroscience
• Development Psychology
• Health and Social Psychology
• Neuropsychology
• Legal Psychology
• Work and Organisational Psychology
• Drug Development and Neurohealth
• Fundamental Neuroscience
• Neuroeconomics
• Neuropsychology
• Psychopathology

School of Business and Economics

• Business Intelligence and Smart Services
• Economics
• Economics and Strategy in Emerging Markets
• Financial Economics
• IB/Entrepreneurship and SME Management
• IB/Information Management and Business Intelligence
• IB/Sustainable Finance

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English.

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ALL WORLD COUNTRIES (Except EU students).

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• 13 months for a one-year Master’s programme.
• 25 months for a two-year Master’s programme.

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• You hold nationality in a country outside the EU/EEA and meet the requirements for obtaining an entry visa and residence permit for the Netherlands.
• You have applied for admission to a full-time Master’s programme at Maastricht University for the 2019-2020 academic year.
• You meet the specific admission requirements of the UM Master’s programme to which you have applied.
• You have never participated in a degree-seeking higher education programme in the Netherlands. Students who have completed exchange programmes in the Netherlands are welcome to apply.
• You are not older than 35 years of age on 1 September 2019.
• You have obtained excellent results during your prior education programmes, as demonstrated by your latest grade transcript or certified by academic excellence. If several applicants are equally qualified, UM will give preference to applicants whose academic transcript or certified letter of academic excellence demonstrate that they are among the top 5% of the 2019-2020 scholarship programme applicants.
• Language requirements: It is essential that you speak, read and write English well. You must have passed an English language test. IELTS or TOEFL are commonly accepted, but institutions may accept other tests as well, like Cambridge English.

Note:The required scores are at least 550 (paper based) or 213 (internet based) for TOEFL. For IELTS a score of at least 6 is required.

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(Fully Funded)

The Scholarship Office pay:

• Living expenses: € 12,350 (13 months) or € 23,750 (25 months).
• Health & liability insurance: € 520 (subject to change in 2019).
• Visa application costs: € 192 (subject to change in 2019).
• Tuition fees: € 13,000, € 15,000 or € 17,500 depending on the tuition of your study programme
• Pre-Academic Training costs: € 695 (subject to change in 2019).

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First Step: Register for one of the participating Master’s programmes at Maastricht University via Studielink

Please Note:  

• you will receive a student ID number for Maastricht University. You will need a student number in order to complete and submit the Scholarship Application Form.
• only the study programmes in above are eligible for a UM Holland-High Potential Scholarship.
• you must be conditionally approved for admission to your study programme at UM in order to be awarded a Scholarship.
• if your study programme requires the payment of a handling fee as part of your programme’s admissions procedure, UM Scholarships do not cover handling fees. You are responsible for paying any handling fee your programme may require by 1 February 2019.

Second Step: Please fill in the application form, upload the following documents in .doc, .docx, or PDF format, and submit your application. Please note that you will only be able to submit your application once, so please ensure that all of your documents and referee contact details are up-to-date

• Curriculum vitae.
• Letter of motivation.
• Proof of academic excellence: You may upload one of the following documents in order to prove your academic excellence:

1. Your University transcript that explicitly states your grade point average or class ranking (i.e. first class honors) for your entire study programme.
2. A letter signed by your institution’s Head of Department or Registrar stating that you are one of the top 20 students in the graduating year of your study programme. Please ensure that the letter contains the contact details of your Head of Department or Registrar.

• The contact details of one referee: We note that we will be in contact with your referee and ensure that you take the following steps when choosing a referee and submitting their details. (Work telephone number of your referee–Work or institutional email address of your referee).

Third Step: Contact the referee you provided in your application form and ask them to submit their reference letter by email: [email protected] by 1 February 2019.
We have prepared Scholarship reference letter guidelines; please print these out or forward them to your referee, as they will help your referee to write a good reference letter on your behalf.

Please note that referees must be (former) professors, lecturers, or employers, and not family members.

Note:

• Applications for which we have not received reference letters are unfortunately incomplete, so please communicate on time with your referee about this important step in the Scholarship application process.
• The International Services Desk will inform all candidates of their application status in April. Your status will be selected, waitlisted or rejected by the beginning of May 2019 at the latest. Waitlisted application statuses will be finalised as selected or rejected by May 2019.

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