Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering Individual grants for excellent non-EEA students. Scholarships are awarded to pursue Master in Health Care Management or the master Health Economics, Policy & Law for the academic year 2017-2018.

Erasmus University Rotterdam is a public university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands, the city that also houses the largest port in Europe. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist and theologian.

Applicants whose first language is not English are usually required to provide evidence of proficiency in English at the higher level required by the University.

Course Level: Scholarships are available to pursue Master degree programme.

Study Subject: Scholarships are awarded in Health Care Management or the master Health Economics, Policy & Law.

Scholarship Award: The scholarship amounts to € 5,000. You will receive this in the first year of your studies. The scholarship will only be rewarded when you will start with the same programme for which you have applied and for which you have received admission.

Eligibility: For students to be eligible for this individual grant, they must:

be accepted and enrolled for either the master Health Care Management or the master Health Economics, Policy & Law in the academic year 2017-2018 as of 1 September 2017 at the latest; and

reside in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg or the following states of the Federal Republic of Germany: North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony or Bremen as of 1 September 2017 at the latest; and

be a national of a non-EEA country; and

have a bachelor degree with excellent results at university-level (students holding a degree from a university of applied sciences are not eligible for the grant) and in a relevant field;

be able to demonstrate excellence (an average final result of at least 8.0 or equivalent) in the student’s prior education (the bachelor degree that enables the student to be accepted for the master programme Health Care Management or Health Economics, Policy & Law); and

be motivated to graduate within one academic year and with excellent results, which must be demonstrated by a personal letter of motivation to the iBMG grant committee. The letter of motivation must describe the importance of the grant for the student and for his/her country of residence as well as the importance for iBMG.

Nationality: The following countries are considered to be part of the European Economic Area (EEA): Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom. All other countries are considered to be ‘non-EAA countries’.

Entrance Requirement: Applicants must have their previous degree.

English Language Requirement:  Applicants whose first language is not English are usually required to provide evidence of proficiency in English at the higher level required by the University.

How to Apply: The registration form shall be completed only if accompanied by:

a thesis is written during the student’s prior education (if the thesis is not finished yet or is not in English an English abstract of 3 A4 pages will have to be attached);

a personal letter of motivation;

a different letter of recommendation than the one used to apply for the master programme;

Students will be notified of the iBMG grant committee’s decision by no later than 1 July 2017.

Application Deadline: Students must submit their grant application before May 15, 2017.

To apply and for more information click Scholarship Link