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.
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
Students offered a scholarship will be exempt from the fixed registration fees for the courses, with the exception of the CHF 80.00 fees to be paid each semester.