Eiffel Excellence Scholarship (Excelia nominations)

Excelia Business School, France

Scholarship overview

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme is funded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and run by Campus France. Excelia has submitted applications on behalf of its top international candidates every year since 2019, and has had at least one scholarship awarded each year to one of its students.

Selection happens at the national level by a panel of experts. In the year described, 347 of 1,478 applications were selected.

Award Information

International (non-French) students only.
Excellent academic results over the three years before applying.
PhD applicants must also present an innovative research topic.
Profile must support the host institution's international strategy.
Fields: Law; Economics and Management; Engineering Sciences (Master) or Sciences (Doctorate); Political Sciences.
Master's applicants from emerging countries; PhD applicants from emerging and industrialised countries.

Master's: monthly allowance of EUR 1,181.
Doctorate: EUR 1,700 grant.
International and national travel support.
Local transport reimbursement up to EUR 50.
Social security cover for non-EU nationals and capped reimbursement of complementary health insurance.
Cultural events and a supplementary housing allowance for off-campus accommodation.

Apply to Excelia and be proposed as a candidate; Excelia submits the application to Campus France.
Begin the programme at the French host institution to receive the first monthly allowance.