This scholarship is designed for full-time first-year master students with excellent results, both from EEA and non-EEA countries. The scholarship amounts to a maximum of € 17.250 for prospective master students for the year 2025-2026. Students who wish to apply for this scholarship, need to meet specific requirements. Not only ESE students, but also students from other faculties can apply for this scholarship.
The Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship is not applicable to current ESE master students.
Requirements
- Must have never been enrolled before as a full degree master student at an educational institution in the Netherlands. However, it is allowed that a student has followed a pre-master programme before at the Erasmus School of Economics and is going to pursue a master programme at the Erasmus School of Economics in the academic year 2025-2026.
- Must be admitted to one of the following programmes*:
- Master Accounting, Auditing and Control
- Master Econometrics and Management Science
- Master Economics and Business
- Must have registered for one of the above-mentioned master programmes at Erasmus School of Economics in Studielink, as well as having submitted the application documents in the EUR Application Portal before 1 March 2025 (current ESE pre-master students can contact us for their application procedure) in order to be considered for the scholarship.
- Must have achieved excellent study results during his/her previous bachelor programme. This means an average final result of at least grade 7.50 on a grading scale of 1-10.
- Must be able to demonstrate the reason why this scholarship will enlarge his/her opportunity to study at Erasmus School of Economics by including a detailed financial statement, describing your financial situation and how you plan to finance your studies (i.e. cover your tuition fee payment), in case you will receive the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship.
Must have completed the immigration application. The deadline to complete the immigration procedure is 10 July. However, we instruct students with a scholarship application to send their immigration application by May at the latest. After May there will be no possibility for us to nominate another student for your scholarship.
(Completing the immigration procedure entails having submitted the immigration application documents, as well as having transferred the tuition fee + the deposit of living costs + the IND handling fee. For more information, please see the section ‘amount and payment’ below and the website on immigration procedures for prospective students.)
- Must eventually be enrolled no later than 1 September of the academic year for which the scholarship is being requested. An admission offer is not required at the moment of application, however, only students with an admission offer will be considered for the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship.
Terms and conditions
The applicant granted the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship should be aware that it applies to only one academic year, and he/she can only receive the scholarship once.
The scholarship will only be awarded when the applicant will start with the same programme for which he/she has applied and for which the applicant has received admission. Switching programmes after being awarded a scholarship is not possible.
The number of applications each year exceeds the number of available scholarships. No rights can therefore be derived when the above-mentioned minimum application criteria are met.
To be able to provide as many applicants with a scholarship, only 1 type of scholarship will be awarded to 1 applicant. This means you may apply for multiple scholarships; however, a combination of multiple scholarships will not be awarded.
Erasmus School of Economics reserves the right to withdraw the offer for the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship if the applicant fails to comply with the terms and conditions.
Amount and payment
The Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship amount of a maximum of € 17.250. The scholarship is split into multiple parts:
- The tuition fee will be waived, both for students paying the statutory fee or the institutional fee. For EEA/EU students, the tuition fee would have been €2.601. For non-EEA/EU students, the tuition fee would have been €19.950. For non-EEA/EU students, €2.601 of the tuition fee will be waived through the scholarship, the residual of €17.349 will be paid by the school.
- Living allowance equal to €1.200 per month, so €14.400 for one academic year.
- Personal allowance equal to €249 will be granted once.
- The immigration fee (if applicable) equal to €228 will be waived.
This means, should you be awarded with an Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship, only the living allowance and personal allowance will be transferred to your account. The tuition fee and immigration fee will only be waived.
Application procedure
To apply for the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship, you need to prepare the following documents:
- Motivation letter: stating your motivation to study at Erasmus School of Economics, showing evidence of being an excellent student and demonstrating why the scholarship would expand the opportunity to study at Erasmus School of Economics (max. two A4).
- Financial statement: describing your financial situation and the reason and need to receive the scholarship.
- Budget plan (pdf): overview explaining how you plan to finance your studies in case you will receive the Erasmus University
- Certified copy of your (most recent) academic transcript.
- Certified statement from your educational institution confirming your obtained GPA. The GPA template document below can be used for this. You can also provide a statement provided by your home university, but it is important that this statement contains the same information as our standard statement.
Once you have gathered all the required information, you can submit your application online via Osiris student.
You can find a detailed overview in 'How to apply for a scholarship in Osiris' (pdf).
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Application closed
The application will be open from 1 January 2025 until 1 March 2025 (deadline: 28 February 23:59). Please note that scholarship applications received – or incomplete – after the deadline, will not be considered.
The applications will be reviewed after 1 March 2025.
All applicants will be officially informed via e-mail about the outcome of their scholarship application. If you are awarded the Erasmus Trustfonds Scholarship, you will receive further details in the nomination email. All emails will be sent in the beginning of April.