ETH Zurich Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program for International Students 2024: (Deadline 30 November 2024)

ETH Zurich supports excellent Master’s students with the following scholarship programme:

The Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme (ESOP) supports students with a scholarship, mentorship and a network of the ETH Foundation. The scholarship covers the full study and living costs during the Master’s degree course.

About ETH Zurich

A brief overview of more than 150 years of ETH Zurich history   Established in 1855 as the Federal Polytechnic School, ETH Zurich has, from the outset, been a national centre for education with international appeal, attracting talent from all over the world. The successful combination of a cosmopolitan outlook with national roots made the young educational institution one of the driving forces behind industrialisation in Switzerland: it brought the necessary expertise into the country, trained technical specialists and helped set up groundbreaking national infrastructures. 

Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program

Aim and Benefits of Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program

The Excellence Scholarship/ESOP consists of a scholarship covering living and study expenses (CHF 12’000 per semester) as well as a tuition fee waiver.
ESOP is awarded for the regular duration of the Master’s programme (three or four semesters). This also applies for the tuition fee waiver.
Only ETH Bachelor students may start the ESOP with a leave of absence.

Requirements for Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program Qualification

• Very good result in Bachelor’s degree programme (top 10% of Bachelor’s degree programme = grade A)
• Please make sure to be reachable under the telephone number specified in your CV as the selection process might include a phone/VC interview in February

If you are already enrolled in a Master’s degree programme at ETH Zurich, or hold a Master degree, you are not eligible for ESOP.

Interview date, Process and Venue for Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Program

Selection:

For the start in the academic year 2025/26 there will be assigned approximately 60 ESOP scholarships. The decision is communicated at the end of March.
The applications are evaluated by the Admissions Committees of the respective Master’s programmes. The final decision for awarding scholarships in the Excellence Scholarship & Opportunity Programme rests with the Rector of ETH Zurich. The exact number of annual scholarships depends on the availability of funds. The decisions are communicated by end of March.

Documents Required for Application

In addition to the documents for the Master admission you will need to upload a pre-proposal for your master thesis (Downloadguidelines_preproposal (PDF, 86 KB)).

The pre-proposal for the Master’s thesis must be developed by yourself and use established scientific citation practice.
Plagiarism, negligent or intentional misinformation will lead to exclusion from the admission process or – if discovered later – to the revocation of the admission and of any scholarship.

If your study programme does not ask for references you must name two reference persons (professors) for your ESOP application. These persons should upload (after an email from the system) a reference letter.

November 30, 2024

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to ETH Zurich on www.lehrbetrieb.ethz.ch to apply

ESOP applications are supplied via eApply (online Master application).
This also applies for ETH Bachelor students for a consecutive Master programme.

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