Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars

Through the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students, the Swiss Confederation grants young researchers and academics from abroad postgraduate scholarships at Swiss higher education institutions (universities, federal institutes of technology and universities of applied sciences) with the following modalities:

• Research scholarships (12 months).
• PhD scholarships (between 12 to maximum 36 months).
• Post-doctoral scholarships (12 months).

No scholarships for bachelor or master studies are awarded. Fine arts scholarships are not granted for Venezuela or other countries of accreditation of this Embassy (Barbados, Grenada, Guyana, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago). Scholarship applicants residing in Switzerland since more than one year at the beginning of the scholarship will not be taken into account.

Eligibility criteria, information on the application procedure, contact addresses and further information can be found listed under each country on the website of the Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Students (FCS).

Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists

Scholarships for Swiss students

The scholarship office of the Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities swissuniversities administers the foreign governmental scholarships of about 40 countries on behalf of the Swiss Confederation. The scholarships are offered to Swiss students, researchers and artists to study for a period of time abroad. For more details:

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Further information on scholarships as well as study and research opportunities at different Swiss institutions is available on the following websites:

State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI

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