UNIL awards around ten excellence scholarships each year, exclusively to students who have graduated from a foreign university and whose academic results are of a very high standard.
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UNIL Masters Scholarships
Requirements for UNIL Masters Scholarships Qualification
- To have obtained a foreign university degree considered equivalent to a Swiss university bachelor before the beginning of the masters programme at UNIL.
- To have distinguished yourself during your studies, especially through particularly brilliant academic results.
- To have a language level of at least C1 (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 is taught (to check on the programme's page).
- Not to be registered at UNIL
- To have paid the CHF 200.00 Administrative fees (see document, "list of documents for an application").
Interview date, Process and Venue for UNIL Masters Scholarships
- The application form for the Masters Scholarship also serves as an application for admission to the chosen Master's program (and hence as a matriculation form at UNIL): you therefore do not need to apply for the master’s degree at the Admission Office (SII) of UNIL.
- Candidates for the Masters Scholarship must apply online and upload their complete application file in PDF during the online application (refer to the document below, "list of documents for an application").
- Application files in PDF sent by email and incomplete application files will not be considered.
- Additionally, for candidates with a bachelor issued from a university based in a State which did not ratify the Lisbon Recognition Convention : a certified copy of the university documents, certified by the university, in a sealed envelope of the university has to be sent by postal mail.
- Please consult the procedure to follow regarding the certified copies (see information in the blue box).The sealed envelope with the certified copies of the university must be sent to the following addresswithin the deadline of November 1st (post mark), but only if the online application was filled in and sent successfully.
Université de Lausanne
Service des affaires sociales et de la mobilité étudiante (SASME)
Bâtiment Unicentre
CH - 1015 Lausanne
Switzerland
Check also:
Mastercard Foundation Scholars' Program at ALCHE 2027
Global Korea Scholarship 2027
Application Deadline
November 1, 2025How to Apply
For more details, visit UNIL Scholarship webpage