Amsterdam Merit Scholarships for non-EEA countries

Amsterdam Merit Scholarships
Scholarships for outstanding students from non-EEA countries pursuing a Master’s degree at the UvA
Selection criteria

Target group:	Master’s degree
Purpose:	Study
Field of study:	All
Countries:	Afghanistan , Albania, Bouvet Island , Brunei , Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Canada , Cayman Islands , Central African Republic , Chad , Chile , China , Christmas Island , Cocos (Keeling) Islands , Colombia , Comoros , Conch Republic , Congo, Democratic Republic of the , Cook Islands , Costa Rica , Cuba , Djibouti , Dominica , Dominican Republic , East Timor , Ecuador , Egypt , El Salvador , Equatorial Guinea , Eritrea , Ethiopia , Falkland Islands , Faroe Islands , Fiji , French Guiana, Gabon , Gambia , Georgia , Ghana , Gibraltar, Greenland, Grenada , Guadeloupe, Guam , Guatemala, Guinea , Guinea Bissau, Guyana , Haiti , Honduras, India , Indonesia, Iran , Iraq , Israel , Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire) , Jamaica , Mexico , Micronesia, Moldova , Monaco , Mongolia, Montserrat, Morocco , Mozambique, Myanmar , Namibia , Nauru , Nepal , Netherlands Antilles , New Caledonia , New Zealand , Nicaragua , Niger , Nigeria , Niue , Norfolk Island , North Korea , Northern Mariana Islands , Oman , Pakistan, Saint Vincent & Grenadines , San Marino , Saudi Arabia , Serbia , Taiwan, Tajikistan , Tanzania , Thailand , Togo , Tokelau, Tonga , Trinidad And Tobago , Tunisia , Algeria , Andorra , Anguilla , Argentina , Aruba , Bahamas , Bangladesh, Belarus , Belize , Bermuda, Bolivia , Botswana , Brazil , Burundi , Cameroon, Cape Verde, Japan , Jordan , Kazakhstan , Kenya , Kiribati , Kuwait , Kyrgyzstan , Laos , Lebanon , Lesotho , Liberia , Libya , Macau , Madagascar, Malawi , Malaysia , Maldives, Mali , Marshall Islands , Martinique , Mauritania , Mauritius , Mayotte , Saint Kitts & Nevis , Saint Pierre And Miquelon , Samoa , Sao Tome And Principe , Senegal , Seychelles , Sierra Leone, Singapore , Solomon Islands , Somalia , South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sudan , Suriname, Svalbard And Jan Mayen Islands , Swaziland , Syria , Turkmenistan , Turks And Caicos Islands , Tuvalu , Uganda , Ukraine , United Arab Emirates , United States , Uruguay , Uzbekistan , Vanuatu , Venezuela , Vietnam , Virgin Islands , Wallis And Futuna Islands , Yemen , Zambia , Zimbabwe , American Samoa, Angola , Antigua And Barbuda , Armenia , Australia , Azerbaijan, Bahrain , Barbados , Benin , Bhutan , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Palau , Panama , Papua New Guinea , Paraguay , Peru , Philippines , Pitcairn Island , Polynesia, Puerto Rico, Qatar , Reunion, Russia , Rwanda, S.Georgia & S. Sandwich Isls. , Saint Lucia , Montenegro
Eligible candidates:	Outstanding students from outside the European Economic Area (holding a non-EEA-nationality) can apply for an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (AMS). Candidates must be officially accepted into a full-time degree programme at the UvA. The candidate must not receive a full-coverage scholarship from another organisation for the same period of study as the AMS scholarship and must be able to comply with Dutch visa regulations.

Value and purpose of grant : € 6,000 – € 21,000
Grant award period: Selected students receive a scholarship for the official duration of the programme they are enrolled in. The scholarship for one-and-a-half or two-year programmes will only be renewed if the student is making satisfactory progress towards the degree.
Closing date : Deadlines vary per faculty/graduate school (1 March/1 April/1 June). For detailed information per faculty/graduate school, please visit www.uva.nl/ams.
Availability : 120 scholarships
Grant provider: Universiteit van Amsterdam
Application procedure : AMS scholarships are awarded by the faculties and graduate schools. Application procedures vary per faculty/school. For more information on the application procedure and requirements, please visit www.uva.nl/ams.
More information : The AMS scholarship programme is highly selective. The best eligible candidates will be selected for a scholarship by the faculty or graduate school offering the study programme. Applicants will be selected on the basis of academic merit, such as grade average, letter of recommendation and motivation. For  more information on the selection criteria and application procedures per faculty, please visit www.uva.nl/ams.
The information provided here is correct to the best of our knowledge, but may be subject to change without notice. You should therefore check the information yourself before relying on it.