The Eiffel Excellence Scholarships was established by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to help French institutions of higher education in their efforts to attract top foreign students to their master’s and doctoral programs.
Its purposes are:
- to train future foreign decision-makers in the private and public spheres in priority areas of study and
- to attract applicants from developing countries to French master’s programs level and applicants from developing and industrialized countries to French doctoral programs
Application Criteria for Eiffel Excellence Scholarships in France
To apply for the Eiffel Excellence Scholarships in France, an applicant has to fulfill the following requirements:
- Nationality: The Eiffel Program is reserved for non-French nationals. Candidates with two nationalities of which one is French are not eligible.
- Age: Candidates for the master’s component must be 25 or under and Candidates for the doctoral component must be 30 or under at the time of the application.
- Source of applications: Only applications submitted by French educational institutions will be accepted. These institutions commit to admitting awardees to the academic program specified in the application. Applications from any other source shall not be considered. Any candidate nominated by more than one institution shall be disqualified.
- Academic levels targeted: Eiffel Program scholarships are intended for students seeking to enroll in a master's-level program in France (including at a school of engineering) and for doctoral candidates. Only programs recognized by the French government are eligible. The Eiffel Program cannot be used at French-run programs abroad or in connection with apprenticeship contracts or professional training contracts.
- Scholarship conflicts: Applications nominating students who, at the time of application, have already been awarded another French government scholarship will not be accepted, even if the other scholarship covered only health insurance.
- Master’s component: An application nominating a student rejected in a previous competition will not be accepted, even if the application was submitted by a different institution or in another field of study. Students who have previously received an Eiffel master’s scholarship are not eligible to receive another at the master’s level.
- Doctoral component: Institutions may nominate for a doctoral scholarship a candidate previously awarded a scholarship at the master’s level. Candidates previously awarded a doctoral scholarship are not eligible to receive another. An applications nominating a candidate rejected in a previous competition will not be accepted, even if the application was submitted by a different institution or in another field of study.
- Language proficiency: When preselecting non-French-speaking candidates, institutions shall ensure that the candidates’ language skills meet the requirements of the academic program.
Students enrolled in academic programs abroad have priority over students already in France.
Eiffel Excellence Scholarships are available in four broad fields:
- Law
- Economics and management
- Engineering at the master’s level and the sciences more broadly at the doctoral level
- mathematics
- physics
- chemistry
- the life sciences
- nano-biotechnology
- earth sciences
- space sciences
- environmental sciences
- information and communication sciences and technologies
- Political science
Benefits of Eiffel Excellence Scholarships in France
If you win Eiffel Excellence Scholarships in France, you will be entitled to the following benefits:
The Eiffel scholarship consists of a monthly allowance of €1,181 (a maintenance allowance of €1,031 plus a stipend of €150) for Master's and €1,700 for Ph.D.
International air travel: Round-trip international air travel between the awardee’s home country and France.
Train travel within France: Campus France will provide a train ticket
Local transportation: Reimbursement of up to €50 of the cost of travel via taxi or public transportation from the airport or train station to the first study location.
Health insurance: For awardees from outside the European Economic Area, Campus France will provide health insurance coverage.
Supplemental health insurance
Cultural activities. Under certain conditions, student awardees may also be entitled to receive assistance to meet the costs of housing outside student residences.
Questions about practical matters may be addressed to: candidatures.eiffel@campusfrance.org
Eligible Nationalities
All nationalities are eligible for Eiffel Excellence Scholarships.