The Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication (ESHCC) offer scholarships for excellent non-EEA students, both prospective and current. This scholarship partially waives the institute tuition fee for selected students from non-EEA countries who meet all the requirements to qualify for the statutory tuition fee except for having a non-EEA nationality and whose grades in their previous programs are considered excellent. The waiver is provided by the faculty as well as the university, through the established ‘Regeling Profiteering Erasmus University Rotterdam’.
Study Subjects and Level:
Scholarship is to learn any of the courses offered by the Erasmus University Rotterdam in Netherlands. And the scholarship is for pursuing undergraduate and master degree at Erasmus University Rotterdam in Netherlands.
Eligibility:
- Application for the scholarship is open for prospective and current students of our international Bachelor and Master programmes, studying at ESHCC in the academic year 2014/2015, from all non-EEA countries, provided they would be charged the non-EEA tuition fee.
- Excellence is proven if the GPA achieved during the previous education is at least the equivalent of the Dutch grade of 8.0 on the Dutch grading scale 1 – 10.
- We consider the GPA achieved during previous education as:
- A prospective Bachelor student: The GPA of last two years of secondary school or the GPA of the final exam
- A current Bachelor student at the EUR: The GPA of the preceding year in the Bachelor
- A prospective Master student: The GPA of the complete Bachelor program
- A current Research Master student: The GPA of the preceding year in the Master
- The applicant will have to provide an explanation of the local grading system, taken from the official website of the national Ministry of Education, which will be used alongside the grade information included in the country modules of NUFFIC.
Scholarship Open for: The students from all non-EEA countries can apply for this scholarship.
Scholarship Value:
- The scholarship takes the form of a waiver being the amount of money that will be subtracted from the full non-EEA tuition fee. For the scholarship, no actual transmission of money takes place.
- The scholarship part is 50% of the non-EEA tuition fee and will be subtracted from the full non-EEA tuition fee before the start of the academic year, enabling the beholder to immediately pay the reduced tuition fee; either at once or in installments. The student has to pay 50% of the institute tuition fee
Notification: The award of the scholarship will be announced no later than 15 June 2014.
How to Apply?
Complete the online application form and attach the required documents:
Prepare digital copies of the following documents:
- An explanation why you would need a scholarship
- An explanation why you would deserve a scholarship, comprising a description of academic excellence and if applicable other merits
- If already offered, admission statement of the program (prospective students) / Proof of enrollment at EUR for the current academic year (current students)
- Certified copies of the grade list to date, as available at the moment of application (prospective students) / Progress overviews from OSIRIS, including the GPA (current students)
- If applicable, an explanation of the local grading system, taken from the official website of the national Ministry of Education.
Application Deadline: 1st April 2014.
For further information: Excellence Scholarship at Erasmus University
