Level: Master
Tuition: Partial coverage
Deadline: Mar 1, 2025
Duration max: 24  months

Each year, 15 scholarships can be awarded.

The scholarship fee consists of:

  • Allowance of €654 per month.
  • All-in insurance (health, civil liability, repatriation)

Airline ticket and visa costs are NOT included in the grant. As a top-up grant student you pay the tuition fee as for EEA-students.

Note that this is not a full grant. It will be very hard to live and study in Ghent with only 654€/month. It’s highly recommended to have some extra funding.

Finaid max:  EUR

Quota:

The scholarship fee consists of:

  • Allowance of €654 per month.
  • All-in insurance (health, civil liability, repatriation)

Airline ticket and visa costs are NOT included in the grant. As a top-up grant student you pay the tuition fee as for EEA-students: 922 euro per 60 credits

The scholarship fee consists of:

  • Allowance of € 1000 per month.
  • All-in insurance (health, civil liability, repatriation)

How to apply?

You cannot apply yourself for this Top-Up Grant. There’s no application form to fill in. 
The programme you would like to study at, decides which top-student applicant will be in their top 3 list. If you want to stress the need for such a top-up grant you can contact the study program to motivate why they should take you up in their shortlist of candidates. If you are on that list, you will get a notification of that.

There's no open call for these grants, they are now incorporated in the normal application scheme to obtain admission. 
Only academically admitted students will be considered. 

Who's eligible?

New students who wish to obtain a Master's or Master-after-Master's degree at Ghent University.

Degree

  • You have to have a bachelor degree when applying for a Master programme.
  • You have to have a Master degree when applying for a Master-after-Master programme.

Nationality

You have to come from a country on the longlist of the OESO-DAC country list.

The application for academic admission should be submitted before the 1st of March

Selection criteria

The recommendations are based on:

  • The qualifications of the applicant for the Top-up grant
  • There is no strict age limit, although applicants below 40 years are preferred
  • The significance of the master's programme for the student's country
  • Validation of the knowledge in the student's country

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