International Scholarships for Students in France
France is known for its worldwide position in quality education. There are many good universities in France which welcome international students . The cost of education is also considered low cost as compared to other countries, therefore it is preferred destination for many international students.
The list given below contains a number of scholarships which can be applied by international students in France. Various funding bodies like European Union, Nanosciences Foundation and French Ministry of Foreign Education are helping students by providing tuition and living expanses.
Scholarship Program: Call for the Master scholarships of the “Mathematics for Life Sciences” (Master2 MathSV) program
Employer: Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH)
Level of Study: Master
Scholarship Description: For the project LabeX LMH, the Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH) is offering one year scholarships for talented students applying for the master program in Mathematics for Life Sciences (Master2 MathSV) in one of its member institutions (the Departments in Applied Mathematics of the École polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, and Paris Sud University in Orsay). These scholarships are only for the second year of a Master degree program (M2).
Scholarship Website: http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/en/page/586
Scholarship Program: PhD degrees at Telecom Bretagne
Employer: European Union
Level of Study: PhD
Scholarship Description: More than 350 PhD degrees have been granted at Telecom Bretagne since it was created. Each year offers some 30 subjects supervised by one of the 9 departments .
Scholarship Website: http://www.telecom-bretagne.eu/studies/phd
Scholarship Program: BEM International Scholarships for International Students
Employer: BEM
Level of Study: Master
Scholarship Description: BEM is committed to excellence, social responsibility and diversity. Therefore, BEM has decided to offer financial support to high-profile international students willing to come and study with us.The BEM International Scholarships are available for applicants to all BEM Master degrees.
Scholarship Website http://www.bem.edu/en/Students/Join-BEM/Fees-and-scholarships
Scholarship Program: Chairs of Excellence Program at Nanosciences Foundation
Employer: Nanosciences Foundation
Level of Study: PhD
Scholarship Description: The PhD. program of the Nanosciences Foundation is a three year program to support PhD. training of excellent students. This support covers all areas of interdisciplinary research dedicated to Nanosciences and Nanotechnology. The thesis will be prepared in one of the network’slaboratories on a topic related to one or several of the following fields.
Scholarship Website http://www.fondation-nanosciences.fr/RTRA/en/513/programme-des-doctorants-2012.html
Scholarship Program: ISU Masters Scholarships for International Students
Employer: International Space University
Level of Study: Masters
Scholarship Description: The International Space University is provided funding from industry and government agencies to help support MSc students who are unable to cover all of their tuition fees. This aid is available to selected applicants, and covers a portion of their fees. It is paid directly to ISU by the sponsoring organization.
Scholarship Website http://www.isunet.edu/admissions/funding-a-scholarships
Scholarship Program: ENS Cachan International Scholarship Programme
Employer: ENS Cachan
Level of Study: Master’s, PhD
Scholarship Description: The ENS Cachan International Scholarship Programme is aimed at international students who are currently studying or have studied and obtained their latest diploma outside of France, who have a proven high academic level and who aspire to a career in the research and/or high education fields.This programme is aimed at students wishing to apply for a second year Research Master (RM2) or for a joint PhD in order to follow or pursue their research training in one of the departments or laboratories of the ENS Cachan.The grant amounts to 1000 euros/month.
Scholarship Website http://www.ens-cachan.fr/version-anglaise/profiles/coming-to-the-ens-cachan-students/ens-cachan-international-scholarship-programme-2012-2013-138047.kjsp
Scholarship Program: HEC-EGIDE/ Eiffel MBA Scholarships for Developing Countries
Employer: HEC, French Ministry of Foreign
Level of Study: Masters
Scholarship Description: Launched in January 1999 by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Ministère des Affaires Etrangères), the Eiffel Scholarship is designed to bolster international recruiting by French schools of higher education, at a time when competition to attract top foreign students is growing among developed countries.HEC reserves the right to submit only those candidates it feels best qualify for the Eiffel Scholarship as the award is particularly competitive and prestigious. Note that applications from students currently studying outside France will be given priority over those from students already studying in France.
Scholarship Website http://www.mba.hec.edu/Apply-Now/Funding/%28level2%29/281
Scholarship Program: Masters Degree Studies Scholarships for International Students
Employer: ENS
Level of Study: Masters
Scholarship Description: Each year the ENS organizes an international selection that allows a thirty students to follow a course of two or three years at the ENS. The winners are housed on the campus of the ENS and receive a monthly stipend. Selection International offers scholarships Master of 1000 euros per month to thirty students (in mathematics, this may be followed by a Master L3)
Scholarship Website http://www.ens.fr/spip.php?article334&lang=fr
Scholarship Program: Chateaubriand Fellowship – Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Employer: Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States
Level of Study: Fellowship
Scholarship Description: The Chateaubriand Fellowship – STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) – is a grant offered by the Office for Science and Technology of the Embassy of France in the United States.This program has two main goals: 1.To allow American students to benefit from an experience in one of the best laboratories in France 2.To develop scientific cooperation between France and the United States.
Scholarship Website http://stem.chateaubriand-fellowship.org/
Scholarship Program: Eiffel scholarships
Employer: The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs
Level of Study: Masters, PhD
Scholarship Description: The French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs launched the Eiffel excellence scholarship programme in January 1999 to support French centres of higher education in their international outreach initiatives, in a context of mounting competition among developed countries, to attract elite overseas students on master’s, engineering and PhD courses.
Scholarship Website http://www.egide.asso.fr/jahia/Jahia/appels/eiffel
Scholarship Program: 2013 IBRO Research Fellowship
Employer: IBRO
Level of Study: Research Fellowship
Scholarship Description: The IBRO Fellowships Programme aims to foster neuroscience research, especially in less well-funded countries, by providing support to high quality neuroscientists from diverse geographic and scientific areas (US/Canada Region excluded) who wish to broaden the scope of their training in neuroscience by working abroad in good laboratories.
Scholarship Website http://funding.ibro.info/Pub/Pub_Main_Display.asp?LC_Docs_ID=5383
Scholarship Program: Second call of the Master scholarships of the international Sophie Germain program
Employer: Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH)
Level of Study: Master
Scholarship Description: The stipend is 10,000 euros per year. Moreover the FMJH will support travel expenses (one round-trip ticket, economy class from your residence). Laureates won’t have to pay any tuition fees and will benefit from the French health insurance system (Sécurité Sociale). The FMJH will provide housing in students dormitories (the cost will be directly deduced from the scholarship).
Scholarship Website http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/?q=en/node/399
Scholarship Program: EHRA Training Fellowships
Employer: EHRA
Level of Study: Fellowships
Scholarship Description: Call for applications for the 2012 EHRA Training Fellowship Programmes is now closed.After the growing success in 2011, make sure not to miss YOUR opportunity and apply for one of the EHRA Training Fellowship Programmes.Both centres and individuals are invited to apply for these programmes.
Scholarship Website http://www.escardio.org/communities/EHRA/training-fellowships/Pages/welcome.aspx?hit=dontmiss
Scholarship Program: Perso-Indica Visiting Fellowships at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
Employer: Perso-Indica
Level of Study: Visiting Fellowships
Scholarship Description: The Perso-Indica Visiting Fellowships are offered at the Institut d’Etudes Iraniennes of the Sorbonne Nouvelle with the support of the research group ‘Mondes iranien et indien’ (UMR 7528) and the Fondation Colette Caillat of the Institut de France. The positions are open to outstanding senior and promising younger scholars from any country working on a research topic which can constitute an original and important contribution to the Perso-Indica project.
Scholarship Website http://www.perso-indica.net/events-news#ev-4
Scholarship Program: Undergraduate Scholarship for International Students in Fashion Design
Employer: IFA Paris
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Scholarship Description: In order to encourage young creative and talented people around the world to pursue career in fashion design, IFA Paris is launching its 2012 “Be Inspired” scholarship program. Students from all across the world are eligible to participate and have the opportunity to be awarded a full or half scholarship to pursue their Bachelor education in Fashion Design and Technology atour Paris school.
Scholarship Website http://www.ifa-edu.fr/admission/scholarship
Scholarship Program: International Scholarship for Undergraduates and Graduate Students
Employer: Illinois Institute of Technology
Level of Study: Undergraduates and Graduate
Scholarship Description: Applicants applying to IIT either as freshmen or transfer students may be eligible for one of the following partial merit international scholarships: $3,000, $6,000, $9,000 or $12,000 for the year. Selected engineering students from partner schools interested in any of the 1 year Master’s programs offered at our Stuart School of Business (SSB), will only be eligible for Stuart School of Business scholarships.
Scholarship Websitehttp://iitparis.free.fr/scholarship.html
Scholarship Program: Renewable Energy Science & Technology Master’s Scholarship Program
Employer: Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy
Level of Study: Masters
Scholarship Description: The Renewable Energy Science & Technology Master’s program is aimed at engineering, mechanical science and physics students from the best schools and universities in France and abroad. Each year, the program will be open to around 40 students who have completed a high level of studies, such as Ecole Polytechnique’s Energy for the 21st Century Master’s or the program offered by the China-EU Institute for Clean and Renewable Energy (ICARE).
Scholarship Website http://www.master-renewable-energy.com/en/candidature.php
Scholarship Program: Call for the Master2 scholarships in mathematical optimization
Employer: Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH)
Level of Study: Master
Scholarship Description: The scholarships are open to all students who have a bachelor’s degree in mathematics (or related to mathematics) and who have or will have completed the first year of a Master or PhD program in a foreign or French academic institution during the academic year 2011-2012. The enrolled students have to register in the second year (M2) of a Master program in optimization, uppermost in one of the FMJH member institutions. They will be encouraged to spend their research internship in one of the research teams involved in the PGMO.
Scholarship Websitehttp://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/page/615
Scholarship Program: The Emile-Boutmy scholarship
Employer: Sciences Po
Level of Study: Undergraduate, Masters
Scholarship Description: This scholarship is awarded by Sciences Po to top students from outside of the European Union. It is awarded to those students having demonstrated academic excellence and whose personal profiles match the course requirements.
Scholarship Website http://formation.sciences-po.fr/en/contenu/the-emile-boutmy-scholarship
Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Scholarship in Mathematics for Life Sciences
Employer: Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH)
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Scholarship Description: For the project LabEx LMH, the Jacques Hadamard Mathematics Foundation (FMJH) is offering one or two year scholarships for talented students applying to a postdoctoral position in Mathematics for the Life Sciences in one of its member institutions(the Labs in Applied or Pure Mathematics of the École polytechnique, École Normale Supérieure de Cachan, IHÉS and Paris Sud University in Orsay). The salary is up to 24,000 euros per year. Laureates will be asked to give 20 hours/year for tutoring session at graduate’s level. The appointment will be for one or two years beginning on September, 1st 2012.
Scholarship Website http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/fr/node/597/
Higher education in France is organized in to their level as bachelor, masters and doctoral studies. The list covers the information regarding available funds for every level.
