Masters Scholarships are scholarships for excellence awarded, exclusively to students who have graduated from a foreign university and whose academic results are of a very high level. With regard to this, candidates are invited to consult the page about the reference budget of a student at UNIL.

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.

ELIGIBILITY:

To have obtained a foreign university degree considered equivalent to a Swiss university bachelor before the beginning of the masters 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.

Not to be registered at UNIL

To have paid the CHF 200.00 Administrative fees (see document, “list of documents for an application”).

Candidates whose academic results are of a very high level (there is no list with required grades by country available).

Candidates must have graduated from a foreign university only: their qualification/university degree must be deemed equivalent to a Swiss university bachelor’s degree (180 ECTS credits). If the Masters Scholarship application file is complete, the Admissions Office (SII) will decide if the candidate is formally eligible. If this is the case, the application file will be forwarded to the faculty, which will decide whether the candidate is admitted to the chosen master program or not.

BENEFIT:

The scholarship is granted for the minimum statutory period of the program chosen by the student. It amounts to CHF 1,600 per month (for more details, refer to the “General Conditions for the Award of a Master’s Excellence Grant,” article 10).