Scholarships (non-EU students)

About the Holland Scholarship

The Holland Scholarship exclusively applies to the Dutch NHL Stenden campuses. Funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, and various Dutch higher education institutions (including NHL Stenden), the scholarship of €5,000 is awarded to a select number of first-year students from non-EU/EEA countries.

Please bear in mind that the Holland Scholarship only partially covers the cost of the first year of study. Recipients of this scholarship will receive it after their arrival in the Netherlands in the first semester. It is important that you have a full understanding of tuition fees and the costs of living involved in studying in the Netherlands.

Criteria Holland Scholarship:

• You are a citizen of a non-EU/EEA country
• You applied for a Bachelor program at NHL Stenden
• You received a Letter of Acceptance from NHL Stenden
• You have a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or you are an English native speaker  

Application process:

1. Fill out the online application form by clicking on apply now
2. In addition to the application form you need to send a Letter of motivation with a maximum of 300 words to io@nhlstenden.com
3. Complete your Holland Scholarship application for 2023-2024 as from 1 November 2022 and/or before 1 May 2023.

The selection committee will assess the applications after the applipcation deadline of 1 May 2023. End of May you will receive information about the result of your application.

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About the NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship

The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is a performance-based financial award, which is granted to our best-performing non-EU/EEA bachelor students. If you are in the top 40 of non-EU/EEA bachelor students at the end of your first or second year at NHL Stenden, you will be awarded a scholarship of €2,000. This is based on the number of ECTS (study points) you have acquired in the previous year at NHL Stenden. If you do exceptionally well two years in a row, you may be awarded a maximum of €4,000 over the course of your studies at NHL Stenden.

Please note that the Excellency Scholarship is not an entry scholarship.

How do you qualify?

You can apply for the NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship if you are a non-EU/EEA bachelor student who started in or after September 2020 and you earn at least 54 ECTS (study points) during either your first or second year of study at NHL Stenden. The 40 best-performing NHL Stenden non-EU/EEA bachelor students per academic year (only year 1 and/or year 2) will be granted a €2,000 scholarship. If more than 40 students qualify annually, only those with the highest amount of ECTS (60, 59, 58 and so on) will be selected. The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is also available for non-EU/EEA bachelor students starting in February, for students following an NHL Stenden’s pre-bachelor language course, and students who have already earned themselves a Holland Scholarship.

Students selected by NHL Stenden will be informed personally. The amount awarded will be paid to selected students during the first period of the subsequent academic year. The NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship is not awarded as a tuition fee waiver.

Detailed information including application instructions is available to current NHL Stenden students on our intranet (look for Scholarships & Grants).

Additional information

If you have any questions about the NHL Stenden Excellency Scholarship, please contact  io@nhlstenden.com.