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ITC Excellence Scholarship Programme

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The Faculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation is pleased to announce the offer of partial scholarships to a maximum of 25 applicants with a very good academic track record. These academic scholarships are designed for students exhibiting as a high-skilled geospatial professional.

Own contribution

Please be aware that the ITC Excellence Scholarship is a partial scholarship. This means that applicants should be able to cover all remaining tuition fees, living allowance, insurance, and residence permit costs before the payment deadline of 1 May next.

What is expected of you?

ITC expects applicants to score an average mark for the ITC study programme that falls in the 10% highest mark range obtained by their regular students. As such, only academically excellent applicants will be selected for the award of these scholarships.

Before the end of the first academic year, a progress appraisal will be made to determine if the candidate is making satisfactory progress and if the ITC Excellence Scholarship funding may be continued to the second year. For the continuation of the fellowship into the second academic year of the programme, the student should have obtained at least all but 7EC (study points) ie. 53 out of the available 60 EC, before the start of the second academic year.

Scholarship value

As this is a partial scholarship, admitted applicants must be able to show that additional funding for the two-year Master's programme is available to complement the funding through this scholarship (i.e. covering all remaining fees and costs, € 17,000, before the payment deadline).

FINANCIAL SUMMARY (IN EUROS)  


Total costs

ITC Scholarship

Waiver ITC

Own contribution

Tuition fee*

€ 37,800


€ 27,200

€ 10,600

Allowance**

€ 28,750

€ 24,000

-

€ 4,750

Insurance**

€ 1,380

-

-

€ 1,380

Residence permit

€ 270

-

-

€ 270

Total

€ 68,200

€ 24,000

€ 27,200

€ 17,000

* tuition fees for two academic years, excluding the expected increase in tuition fees 2026-2027: € 250
** 23 months

Countries eligible for this scholarship
  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Antigua & Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Benin
  • Bhutan
  • Bolivia
  • Bosnia & Herzegovina
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Burkina Faso
  • Burundi
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Cape Verde
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Chile
  • Colombia
  • Comoros
  • Congo - Brazzaville
  • Congo - Kinshasa
  • Cook Islands
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Côte d’Ivoire
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Eswatini
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Gabon
  • Gambia
  • Georgia
  • Ghana
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iraq
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kosovo
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Laos
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Malaysia
  • Maldives
  • Mali
  • Marshall Islands
  • Mauritania
  • Mauritius
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia
  • Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Montenegro
  • Montserrat
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar (Burma)
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Nicaragua
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Niue
  • North Korea
  • North Macedonia
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Palestinian Territories
  • Panama
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Rwanda
  • Samoa
  • Senegal
  • Serbia
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • South Sudan
  • Sri Lanka
  • St. Helena
  • St. Lucia
  • St. Vincent & Grenadines
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Syria
  • São Tomé & Príncipe
  • Tajikistan
  • Tanzania
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tokelau
  • Tonga
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uganda
  • Ukraine
  • Uruguay
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Vietnam
  • Wallis & Futuna
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Application deadline

Application requirements

Application for the ITC Excellence Scholarship programme is a procedure separate from the application for course entry at the University of Twente. Before applying for the ITC Excellence Scholarship Programme, you first should apply for the ITC Master's Geo-information Science and Earth Observation or the Master's Spatial Engineering through our online application system to become academically accepted.

Applicants are requested to submit the (conditional) admission letter for one of the MSc programmes at ITC.

Additional requirements

Detailed deadline information

Please note that there are two application rounds.


Application deadlines

Notification deadlines

Payment deadline own contribution

Round 1

1 February 2025

21 February 2025

1 May 2025

Round 2

1 April 2025

22 April 2025

1 May 2025

As the ITC Excellence Scholarship Programme only has limited awards available, we advise candidates in need of funding to apply for as many (external) scholarships as possible to ensure timely payment for the selected MSc programme. Applicants may also want to consider a study loan.

How to apply

First, the applicant must have applied for the Master's in Geo-information Science and Earth Observation or the Master's in Spatial Engineering through the online application system and have received an academic acceptance letter.

If subsequently, you are interested (and eligible) to apply to the ITC Excellence Scholarship Programme, you will have to submit the completed application form via the "Apply" button below.

Please note that we will not accept incomplete submitted documents.

Questions?

Contact us at esp-itc@utwente.nl. We will get back to you within five working days.