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88 tuition-free universities and fully funded scholarships in 32 countries, for international students from anywhere, with live deadline countdowns.
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Master's · 63 routes
Funded and tuition-free master's degrees
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See all 63 on the board →PhD · 38 routes
Funded PhDs and doctoral grants
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See all 38 on the board →Bachelor's · 38 routes
Funded bachelor's degrees
Undergraduate scholarships and universities that give need-based aid to international students.
See all 38 on the board →Tuition-free · 7 routes
Tuition-free universities
Public universities where international students pay no tuition, only a small semester fee.
See all 7 on the board →Scholarship programmes · 28 routes
Government and foundation scholarships
National and foundation programmes that fund you at the university of your choice.
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Funded PhD and research positions
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What’s new
Denmark: tuition, application fees and waivers
New country guide: non-EU tuition at all eight Danish universities, from €7,450 a year at Aalborg, the €100 to €200 application fees and who is exempt, and the tuition waivers each university offers, most due by 15 January.
Eric Bleumink Fellowship at Groningen
New: the University of Groningen's Eric Bleumink Fellowship, a full master's scholarship for students from 79 developing countries. To be considered for September 2027, complete your Groningen master's application before 1 December.
OIST's funded PhD, 2 Lund positions and Voyager 1
New: the OIST PhD Program in Okinawa, which closes on 15 November and takes applicants with a bachelor's, and two salaried PhD posts at Lund University on Huntington's disease and on autonomous GIS. In the news: Voyager 1 reaches one light-day from Earth on 18 November.
2 new scholarships, 7 PhD positions and 4 stories
New scholarships: Imperial's President's PhD Scholarships and MBZUAI's funded AI degrees. New PhD positions: three at Max Planck Schools, closing 1 December, and four at Lund University. New stories cover those deadlines and a physics result from RHIC.
ASU's new Mastercard call and the Swedish Institute's 2027 dates
ASU's Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program now lists 50 online master's places based in Kigali, closing 22 November. The Swedish Institute's scholarship portal opens from 8 to 24 February 2027. Knight-Hennessy's 2028 application opens in summer 2027.
Programmes on DegreeStep
- Australia Awards Scholarships
- Canada Graduate Research Scholarships: Doctoral (formerly Vanier)
- Chevening Scholarships
- Clarendon Scholarships (University of Oxford)
- Commonwealth Master's Scholarships
- Commonwealth Shared Scholarships
- DAAD Scholarships (nationwide)
- Danish Government Scholarships
- Eiffel Excellence Scholarship
- Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters
- Fulbright Foreign Student Program
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship
- Global Korea Scholarship (GKS) for graduate degrees
- Government of Ireland: International Education Scholarships
- Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme
- Knight-Hennessy Scholars (Stanford)
- MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship
- Master Mind Scholarships (Flanders)
- Mastercard Foundation Scholars Program
- Norwegian PhD Fellowships (salaried)
- Research Training Program (Australian Government)
- Rhodes Scholarships (Oxford)
- Romanian Government Scholarship
- Stipendium Hungaricum
- Swedish Institute Scholarships (SISGP)
- Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships
- Türkiye Bursları
- VLIR-UOS ICP Connect Scholarships (Belgium)
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