The NL Scholarship Erasmus University is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and Erasmus University Rotterdam. The scholarship is meant for international students from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) who want to pursue a bachelor’s or master’s degree in the Netherlands. The EEA consists of the EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway and students from these countries thus cannot apply. The scholarship amounts to € 10.000.
On top of that, Erasmus School of Economics has created a separate fund to support excellent prospective master students. This scholarship concerns a partial tuition fee waiver of € 2.000 for the year 2025-2026. This Excellent Student Waiver is awarded in combination with the Erasmus University Holland Scholarship.
The Erasmus University Holland Scholarship is not applicable to current ESE master students.
Requirements
To qualify for financial support under the provision of the NL Scholarship Erasmus University, an applicant:
- Must be a national of a country that is not part of the European Economic Area (EEA).
- Must have never been enrolled before as a full degree 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 February 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 their previous bachelor programme, and if applicable, during the pre-master programme. This means an average final result of at least grade 8.0 on a grading scale of 1-10.
- Must be able to demonstrate the reason why this scholarship will enlarge their 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 University Holland 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 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 University Holland Scholarship.
Terms and conditions
The applicant granted the NL Scholarship Erasmus University should be aware that it applies to only one academic year and they can only receive the scholarship once.
The scholarship will only be awarded when the applicant will start with the same programme for which they have 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 as possible with a scholarship, only 1 type of scholarship will be awarded to 1 applicant. This means they 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 NL Scholarship Erasmus University if the applicant fails to comply with the terms and conditions.
Amount and payment
The NL Scholarship Erasmus University amount of € 10.000 is split into two parts: € 5.000 is used as reduction on the tuition fee, the other € 5.000 will be received by the student through 10 monthly payments. The amount of € 5.000 that the student will receive, can be used as part of the required living fee deposit for the immigration procedure.
The student will receive an additional partial tuition fee waiver of € 2.000 from Erasmus School of Economics which can be – together with the Erasmus University Holland Scholarship tuition fee reduction – deducted from the total amount of college tuition fee for 2025/2026.
This means, should you be awarded with an Erasmus University Holland Scholarship and Erasmus School of Economics Waiver, you are to transfer the remaining part of your tuition fee + remaining deposit for the cost of living + IND handling fee before 15 May.
Application procedure
To apply for the NL Scholarship Erasmus University, 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 enlarge 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: overview explaining how you plan to finance your studies in case you will receive the NL Scholarship 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 be used for this. You can also a statement provide 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 'How to apply for a scholarship in Osiris' (pdf).
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Application
The application will be open from 1 November 2024 until 1 February 2025. 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 NL Scholarship Erasmus University, you will receive further details in the nomination email. All emails will be sent in the beginning of April.