KTH Scholarship for Master's Study at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Each year KTH awards a limited number of KTH Scholarships to students who must pay tuition fees and who have picked a Master's programme at KTH as their first priority. The award is based on academic excellence and drive to contribute to sustainable development. It covers the KTH tuition fee for the first and second year, as long as your first-year study results are satisfactory. Living costs are not included.

KTH also runs other scholarship schemes:

• KTH One-Year Scholarship
• KTH Joint Programme Scholarship
• KTH India Scholarship

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden.

The scholarship applies to all programmes that involve two years at KTH, to the joint master's programmes in Molecular Techniques in Life Science and in Biostatistics and Data Science, and to the one-year master's programme in Architectural Lighting Design.

It is not open to joint Erasmus+ and EIT programmes, or to the joint programme Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering. Applicants to some of these programmes can apply for the KTH Joint Programme Scholarship.

The source does not give a fixed number of awards. In 2026, 9 % of the scholarship applicants admitted to a programme were nominated for the KTH Scholarship (65 out of 718).

Citizens of non-EU/EEA/EFTA countries.

The KTH Scholarship pays the tuition fee at KTH for the first year and the second year, on condition that your study results in the first year are satisfactory. It does not cover living costs.

To apply, you must be a fee-paying student, have applied for a Master's programme at KTH as your first priority, and have paid the application fee. You cannot apply for or be awarded a scholarship for programmes listed as your second, third or fourth priority. Students with conditional eligibility may also apply.

Awards go mainly on academic excellence, and nomination runs alongside the admission selection for the programme. Only applicants who meet the admission requirements of the programme they applied for can receive a scholarship.

Applications will open 1 December 2026.

First apply for admission to an eligible Master's programme at KTH. Admission applications go online through www.universityadmissions.se. The deadline is 15 January 2027 (midnight CET). After that, apply through the official scholarship website using the Apply Now button once the application window is open.

When the scholarship application is open, submit your scholarship application using the form on the official page. No additional documents are required for the scholarship application. During the evaluation, KTH will use the documents you submitted in your application to universityadmissions.se. These documents must be submitted by the document submission deadline, 1 February.

Check the official website (link below) for the application form and full details on how to apply.