Skip to content
Menu

International PhD students

upf-edp

If you would like to apply to the Pacific Doctoral School, click here:

Scholarship programs for international students

The France Excellence Eiffel scholarship program

france-excellence-eiffel

The Eiffel scholarship program is a tool developed by the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs to help French higher education establishments attract the best foreign students to master’s and doctoral degree programs.

It is designed to train future foreign decision-makers in the private and public sectors in priority fields of study, and to encourage applications from foreign students aged 25 or under for master’s level courses, and 30 or under for doctorate courses.

Guide and regulations

Selection

  • The Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs appoints experts to select the program’s scholarship holders. Each expert is a teacher-researcher with a doctoral degree, and has proven international experience. They are appointed for a non-renewable 4-year term.
    Consult the list of jury members for the 2023 session.
  • The assessment of applications is based on evaluation grids. Access details of the grading grids for the Master’s or Doctorate sections.

Dossiers :

Only French higher education establishments can submit applications.

For details of the Eiffel Excellence Program, click here.