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France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship (Master and PhD) via Université Sorbonne Paris Nord

Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France

Scholarship overview

The Eiffel Excellence Scholarship Programme is developed by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and managed by Campus France. It aims to attract the best international students to French higher-education institutions, at Master and doctoral level.

Candidates cannot apply alone: the host institution selects and submits applications. Université Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN) regularly puts forward applicants and is among the institutions with the most laureates. In the 2024 campaign USPN supported 17 applications from international students; 7 laureates were selected (6 Master, 1 doctorate) and 2 were placed on the complementary list.

Study fields are grouped into two areas: sciences and techniques (biology and health, ecological transition, mathematics and digital, engineering sciences) and humanities and social sciences (history, French language and civilisation, law and political science, economics and management).

Award Information

  • Foreign nationality; dual nationals with French nationality are not eligible.
  • Admission to a French national-diploma programme at Master level (engineering diplomas included) or doctorate, in one of the eligible fields of study.
  • Master: candidates already studying in France are ineligible.
  • PhD: students studying abroad have priority over those already resident in France; a 36-month award is reserved for first-year, first-time-arriving doctoral students.
  • A student already holding a French government scholarship is not eligible, although a former Master scholarship holder may be put forward for a doctoral award.
  • Franco-foreign programmes delivered abroad and apprenticeship or professionalisation contracts are not accepted.
  • Master: monthly allowance of EUR 1,200.
  • Doctorate: monthly allowance of EUR 2,100.
  • Master duration 12 to 36 months and doctorate 6 to 36 months depending on the diploma and year of enrolment (Campus France brochure).
  • Free visa where applicable, international travel, social security cover and housing assistance (Campus France brochure).
  • Tuition fees are not covered by the programme; government scholarship holders are exempt from administrative registration fees at most public institutions.

Typical annual calendar: call for applications published at the end of September; institutions send files to Campus France by the first week of January; results published in March. Student deadlines at USPN are set internally by the International Relations Department.

  1. Read the programme information on the Campus France Eiffel page.
  2. Contact the USPN International Relations Department ([email protected]) to submit your application.
  3. The university pre-selects candidates and submits files through the Campus France portal.
  4. An expert jury (one college per field of study) selects the laureates.

Official links

How selection works

  • Pre-selection by the host institution, then selection by a jury of experts.
  • Criteria: excellence of the candidate, international influence of the institution and its international student policy, and the ministry's cooperation and partnership policy.

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