Full Masters Scholarships for Developing Countries in Netherlands

Students who have completed exchange programmes in the Netherlands are welcome to apply.

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 2020-2021 scholarship programme applicants.

Application deadline

The deadline for applying is up to and including 1 February 2020.

Duration of the UM Holland-High Potential scholarship

Application procedure

Step 1: Register for one of the participating Master’s programmes at Maastricht University. For further details on how to register for a Master’s programme at UM, please see your prospective programme’s webpage.

Once you have submitted your application via Studielink, 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 (see Step 2 below).

You are responsible for paying any handling fee your programme may require by 1 February 2020. To check whether your programme requires the payment of a handling fee, please check your programme’s webpage under the menu tab 'Admission requirements'.

Step 2: Please fill in the application form (log in with your UM account), 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.

If you have applied for multiple UM study programmes, the UM International Services Desk will ensure that your complete scholarship application is considered for all eligible programmes for which you have a conditionally approved or approved admissions status.

Curriculum vitae. Your CV should be up-to-date, contain relevant information about your education and (job) experience, and should not be longer 2 A4 pages.

Letter of motivation. Your letter of motivation should be up-to-date and specifically tailored to this scholarship programme. Generic letters of admission that do not directly address your motivation for UM Holland-High Potential scholarship selection will be rejected.

Your letter of motivation should be no longer than 1 A4 page. Be sure to argue why this scholarship is important to you, why you should be selected, and what your role as an ambassador of Maastricht University would be during your scholarship period, and during the upcoming years after you finish your studies at UM.

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 honours) for your entire study programme; or, 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. Please note that we check the authenticity of your referee by contacting your referee.

Therefore, ensure that you take the following steps when choosing a referee and submitting their details.

- Relationship to applicant: indicate your referee’s connection to you; is this your professor, thesis supervisor, employer? Please remember that family members may not function as referees.

- Work telephone number of your referee: Be sure to include the applicable country calling code.

- Work or institutional email address of your referee. Letters referencing only a personal email address will be rejected.

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.

Step 3: You will have to contact the referee you provided in your application form and ask them to submit their reference letter per email to hhp.scholarship@maastrichtuniversity.nl by midnight on 1 February 2020 (Central European Time).

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.

Recommendation letters should be dated and written no earlier than February 2019.

Please also note that it is your responsibility to liaise with your referee and ensure that they submit their letters before the deadline.

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.

Selection procedure

Step 1: The UM International Services Desk checks that all applications are complete after 1 February 2020.

Step 2: The UM International Services Desk sends all complete applications to each UM Faculty in February 2020.

Step 3: Each Faculty selects and ranks their top 5% of Scholarship applicants and sends these to the UM International Services Desk for a final check in March 2020.

Step 4: The UM International Services Desk confirms the Faculty selections by the end of March 2020.

Step 5: The UM International Services Desk will inform all candidates of their application status in April 2020.

Your status will be selected, waitlisted or rejected by the beginning of May 2020 at the latest.

Waitlisted application statuses will be changed to selected or rejected by May 2020.

Scholarship awardees will receive more information about the UM Pre-Academic Training programme and arrival in Maastricht upon receiving their award letters.

The UM Pre-Academic Training is a three-week mandatory component of the UM Holland-High Potential Scholarship programme.

The Pre-Academic Training takes place in August 2020.

Step 6: You must sign and return the award letter to the UM International Services Desk to accept the Scholarship.

For more information and application details, see; Full Masters Scholarships for Developing Countries in Netherlands

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