The Maastricht University (UM) Holland-High Potential Scholarship programme offers 24 full scholarships of €29.000 (including tuition fee waiver and monthly stipend) each academic year for highly talented students from outside the European Union (EU) who have been admitted to a Master’s programme at UM.
The Scholarship programme consists of both the High Potential Scholarship (funded by the Maastricht University Scholarship Fund), and the Holland Scholarship, which is financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in conjunction with Dutch universities and universities of applied sciences. It is aimed at international students from outside the EU/EEA who wish to follow a full degree programme in the Netherlands.
All candidates must meet the following requirements:
Living expenses |
€ 11,400* (12 months) or € 22,800* (24 months) |
Paid to students by the UM International Services Desk |
Health & liability insurance |
€ 700* |
Arranged for and paid by the UM International Services Desk |
Visa application costs |
€ 174* |
Arranged for and paid by the UM International Services Desk |
Tuition fees |
€ 13,800*; € 15,500* or € 16,800* depending on the tuition of your study programme |
Arranged for and paid by the UM International Services Desk |
Pre-Academic Training costs |
At cost |
Arranged for and paid by the UM International Services Desk |
*These amounts are subject to change for academic year 2021-2022
Step 1: Register for one of the participating Master’s programmes at Maastricht University. For further details on how to register for a Master’s programme at UM, please see your prospective programme’s webpage. Once you have submitted your application via Studielink, you will receive a student ID number for Maastricht University. You will need a student number in order to complete and submit the Scholarship Application Form (see Step 2 below).
Step 2: Please fill in the application form as per the table below:
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) | Application form |
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) | Application form* |
Faculty of Psychology and Neurosciences (FPN) | Application form |
Faculty of Science and Engineering (FSE) | Application form* |
Faculty of Law (FL) | Application form* |
School of Business and Economics (SBE) | Application form* |
* log in with you UM account
Upload the following documents in .doc, .docx, or PDF format, and submit your application. Please note that you will only be able to submit your application once, so please ensure that all of your documents and referee contact details are up-to-date. If you have applied for multiple UM study programmes, the UM International Services Desk will ensure that your complete scholarship application is considered for all eligible programmes for which you have a conditionally approved or approved admissions status.
Please note that you will only be able to submit your application once, so please ensure that all of your documents and referee contact details are up-to-date.
Step 3: You will have to contact the referee you provided in your application form and ask them to submit their reference letter per email to hhp.scholarship@maastrichtuniversity.nl by midnight on 1 February 2021 (Central European Time).
We have prepared scholarship reference letter guidelines; please print these out or forward them to your referee, as they will help your referee to write a good reference letter on your behalf. Please note that referees must be (former) professors, lecturers, or employers, and not family members. Recommendation letters should be dated and written no earlier than February 2020. Please also note that it is your responsibility to liaise with your referee and ensure that they submit their letters before the deadline. Applications for which we have not received reference letters are unfortunately incomplete, so please communicate on time with your referee about this important step in the scholarship application process.
Step 1 |
Register for a master's |
Step 2 | Fill out the application form See the table in step 2 |
Step 3 | Ask you referee to send a reference letter |
Step 1: The UM International Services Desk checks that all applications are complete after 1 February 2021.
Step 2: The UM International Services Desk sends all complete applications to each UM Faculty in February 2021.
Step 3: Each Faculty selects and ranks their top 5% of Scholarship applicants and sends these to the UM International Services Desk for a final check in March 2021.
Step 4: The UM International Services Desk confirms the Faculty selections by the end of March 2021.
Step 5: The UM International Services Desk will inform all candidates of their application status in April 2021. Your status will be selected, waitlisted or rejected by the beginning of May 2021 at the latest. Waitlisted application statuses will be changed to selected or rejected by May 2021. Scholarship awardees will receive more information about the UM Pre-Academic Training programme and arrival in Maastricht upon receiving their award letters. The UM Pre-Academic Training is a three-week mandatory component of the UM Holland-High Potential Scholarship programme. The Pre-Academic Training takes place in August 2021.
Step 6: You must sign and return the award letter to the UM International Services Desk to accept the Scholarship.
Read more about the Holland Scholarship
Application deadline
The deadline for applying is up to and including 1 February 2021.
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