UNIL Master’s Grants for International Students in Switzerland 2023

UNIL in Switzerland invites applications for the UNIL Master’s Grants for International Students in Switzerland for the 2023/24 academic session.

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.

First of all, it is not possible to apply for the following programmes:

• Master from the School of Medicine
• Master of education
• Master of Law from the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne
• Master of criminal Law, magistracy specialism
• All MASs (PhD programmes)

Please note: for the Master of Law, only two specialisms, “international and comparative law” and “legal theory” are open to applications for Master’s scholarships.

Worth of Award

• The scholarship amounts to CHF 1,600 per month from 15 September to 15 July (or 10 months a year) for the complete duration of the masters (one and a half years or two years depending on the chosen masters), with the exception of cases of definitive failure after the first year.
• 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.

• To have obtained a foreign university degree considered equivalent to a bachelor’s at UNIL before the beginning of the master’s programme at UNIL.
• To have distinguished yourself during your studies, especially through particularly brilliant academic results.
• To have a language level of at least B2 (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’s is taught.
• Not been registered with UNIL
• To have paid the CHF 200.00 administration fee (see document, “list of documents to attach to your application”).

Withdrawal from the programme will lead to the suspension of the scholarship.