Who is it for?
The track is aimed at UT Master’s students who are in the top 10% of their class with demonstrated research affinity. Otherwise excellent and interested Master’s students are also welcome to apply.
COSTS
All Honours programme tracks are free of charge for UT students.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Once the application for this track is open, you can apply through the form located on the Master Honours webpages.
Within your application for the Master Research Honours track, please submit:
- A letter of motivation (roughly one page).
- Your CV.
- A recommendation letter from your Master thesis supervisor/MSc Programme Director that recomends you as having a high potential for a PhD candidate/researcher and a strong candidate for the Research Honours track.
- You are also asked to submit a combined overview of your Bachelor's final results and the grade list of all Master courses completed up to the moment of application. For Bachelor education and Master courses followed at the University of Twente, you can download a Study Progress Overview from OSIRIS in the following way:
- Go to osiris.utwente.nl;
- Click on "Login Osiris Student" and log in with your student credentials;
- Navigate to the Progress tab;
- On this page, ensure that the boxes "Print all test results" and "Print weighted average grade" are selected;
- Find your Bachelor's/Master's study from your list of exam programmes (usually indicated with the name of your study followed by "Bachelor/Master Main Phase") and click on Download File.
- The file should contain the courses you are enrolled in and their results. Check that there is a table with your average grade at the end of the document.
The selection committee will then decide on inviting you for an interview. For questions regarding this track, please contact the coordinators of this track. The full selection procedure is as follows:
The selection committee will decide whether to invite you for an interview based on your written documents. The committee will announce its decision roughly one week after this interview.
- Students can apply to the programme until the 1st of December 2024, 23:59.
- After your application, you may be invited to a selection interview.
- All students who applied will receive the results from the selection committee in December.