Maastricht University is a public research university in the city of Maastricht, Netherlands. The university was founded in 1976 and has rapidly become one of the fastest-growing institutions across the world. Ranked as the 88th best university in the world by the Times Higher Education World Ranking and 4th among young universities, the University offers the 25th best master’s programme in International Business in the world according to Financial Times and possesses 23rd best Law faculty worldwide.
Unarguably one of the best educational institutes in the European Union, the University is known for accepting 55% international students and offering most of its master’s and doctoral programmes in English. However, the university is offering an innovative and advanced undergraduate programme called the UM Global Studies, which has rapidly assumed the role of an ideal multi-disciplinary undergraduate programme in the world.
The Global Studies bachelor-level study programme trains students to understand and develop solutions for complex global issues, transcending disciplinary and geographical boundaries. The study programme is unique with six faculties, each having their own disciplinary expertise, contributing equally to the educational content of the programme.
The study programme offers students the opportunity to perform a field study in the Global South (countries in Africa, Asia, Latin-America and the Caribbean) and intervene in a societal problem presented by an NGO, agency or a government, firm or a school and then write an interdisciplinary bachelor thesis. The programme also emphasizes language training, an essential skill for global leaders, and offers its students the opportunity to learn one foreign language such as Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Spanish.
The UM Global Studies Scholarship offers a fully covered scholarship (including a tuition fee waiver and a monthly stipend) each academic year for a select number of top-performing bachelor students from the Global South with immense potential who have been (conditionally) admitted to the Global Studies study programme.
The scholarship covers :
Living expenses of € 11,400 per academic year
Health & liability insurance
Visa application costs of € 192*
A tuition fee of € 12,800 per year
Pre-Academic Training costs
The applicant must be a nationality of a country in the Global South, countries in Africa, Asia (including the Middle-East), Latin-America and the Caribbean as per the definition of the OECD and meet the requirements for obtaining an entry visa and residence permit of the Netherlands to be eligible to apply for the scholarship.
Application deadline
The deadline is up to and including 1 March 2022.
For further information regarding the UM Global Studies programme and scholarship, please click here.
