Application Deadline: 1 November, 2025
LOCATION: Switzerland
UNIL awards around ten excellence scholarships each year, exclusively to students who have graduated from a foreign university and whose academic results are of a very high standard.
ELIGIBILITY:
The list of all master’s degrees at UNIL, can be found here.
It is not possible to apply for the following master programmes:
Master from the School of Medicine
Master in Sciences and Practices of Education
Master of Law. Exceptions: Open to applications for Master’s Scholarship: Specialisms “International and Comparative Law,” “Legal Theory,” and “International Tax Law and Policy”
Master of Science in Physical Education and Sport Didactics
Master of Science in Health Sciences
Master of Science in Sustainable Management & Technology
Master of Science in Human Taphonomy
All MASs (3rd cycle programmes, Further Education programmes)
To have obtained a foreign university degree considered equivalent to a Swiss university bachelor before the beginning of the master’s programme at UNIL.
To have distinguished yourself during your studies, especially through particularly brilliant academic results.
To have a language level of at least C1 (according to the European Language Portfolio global scale) in French or at least C1 in English according to the language in which your chosen master is taught (to check on the programme’s page and also see information under FAQ “Which linguistic level is required for the master programme chosen”)
Not to be registered at UNIL
To have paid the CHF 200.00 Administrative fees (see document, “list of documents for an application“).
BENEFIT:
The scholarship is granted for the minimum statutory period of the programme chosen by the student. It amounts to CHF 1,600
