• You are of Dutch nationality.
• You are admitted or will be admitted to a graduate level programme at a well-ranked American university.
• The course of study can be a Master programme, a non-degree course, or a period of research.
• You have a bachelor's or a master's degree from a Dutch university.
• You have good grades.
• You gained well-developed social and cultural skills through extracurricular activities.  
• You have chosen a well-ranked American university.

The size of the Fulbright scholarship for students is US $35,000.

Applications can be made directly to the Fulbright Center

As of September, you can apply for this scholarship directly through an online form on the Fulbright Center’s website. Applications for the academic year 2021–2022 are now open.

The deadline for the submission of applications for the academic year 2021–2022 is 21 January 2021 at 12:00 p.m. (noon).

The eligibility criteria depend among others on your nationality. An overview of the specific funding conditions per country/funding authority are available via Funding Information for Ph.D. Candidates. 

Applications are submitted online directly to the EUI. Check the EUI website for more information about the application procedure.

Submit your application before 1 February of the year before the academic year in which you wish to start.

• You are of Dutch nationality or have been registered in the Netherlands for at least three years.
• Along with your application, you can submit a list of grades with an average grade of 8.0 or more.
• You're going abroad for education for a period of at least one year that will result in a master’s degree or similar degree, or for follow-up research of at least three months.
• You are highly motivated.
• You are an "excellent talent".
   

The full conditions -in Dutch- can be found on the fund's website      

The duration of the scholarship depends on the application.

The amount depends on the quality and quantity of the applications.

You can directly apply to het Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds  for the scholarship.

Before 2 April in the year prior to the academic year you want to start.

• You are of Dutch nationality or you receive Dutch student finance.
• You are a master's or bachelor's student in your last year, or have recently graduated, or you are a researcher at a university.
• You are no older than 35 years of age at the start of the scholarship.
• You are not doing an internship.
• You do not have an Erasmus+ scholarship.

Non-Dutch students cannot get cultural treaty scholarships for their country of origin.  

The complete conditions can be found at Nuffic.  

Depends on the programme and the country.

You can register directly at Nuffic.  

Differs per country.

Specific information for each country can be found at WilWeg  , the Dutch website for studying abroad.

Universities in the United States, Canada and some other countries use the TOEFL test to determine how well a person has mastered English. You can take this (online) test at various locations in the Netherlands.

View locations, dates and practice tests

Universities in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand use the scores from the IELTS to determine whether you speak English well enough to be admitted. You can take the paper test at test locations of the British Council in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Rotterdam. You can take the online test at Amsterdam, Barendrecht, Den Bosch and Zwolle.

More information about the IELTS test

This test is for students who want to be admitted to an MBA programme (postgraduate education in management) or to other graduate programmes in the United States in the area of business administration or management.

Your admission does not just depend on your GMAT results. Other aspects play a role during the admissions procedure. You take the GMAT at a test centre. There are test centres in many locations in the Netherlands among others in Maastricht.

Read more about the GMAT and the GMAT test
View test dates and locations in the Netherlands (click on "search for a convenient test center)   

The GRE is often compulsory if you want to enrol in a graduate programme in the United States. No GRE is required for graduate programmes in the following fields of study: law, medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, fine arts and music. Graduate programmes in business administration and economics require a GMAT instead of a GRE.

Read more about the GRE

You can take a language course at the UM Language Centre. You will get a certificate at the end of these courses. You can use this certificate to demonstrate how well you have mastered a given language.

Some faculties also offer language training. Ask about this at your faculty's International Relations Office.

Overview of language courses > Area of interest: choose 'Language & Culture' > Organisational unit: choose 'Language Centre'.

If you are going to study abroad, you will often be asked to take a test to prove that you have mastered English sufficiently. Two well-known tests are the TOEFL test and the IELTS test.

Read more about the TOEFL test and the IELTS test

Students who go abroad through the Erasmus+ programme can take Online Linguistic Support (OLS). The training is available for the main languages within Erasmus +. Ask your faculty's International Relations Office for more information.

Read more on the Online Linguistic Support