KTH Scholarships

Every year, a limited number of KTH Scholarships are awarded based on academic excellence to students who are required to pay tuition fees and who has applied for a Master’s programme at KTH as first priority. Other KTH scholarships are also offered:

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

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All programmes with two years spent at KTH, the joint master’s programmes in Molecular Techniques in Life Science, and Biostatistics and Data Science, and the one-year master’s programme in Architectural Lighting Design.

The scholarships are not available to joint Erasmus+, EIT Digital, EIT InnoEnergy, EIT Urban Mobility and Nordic Five Tech programmes, and the joint programme Computer Simulations for Science and Engineering.

In 2025, 8 % of the scholarship applicants admitted to a programme were nominated for the KTH Scholarship (65 out of 803).

Citizens from non-EU/EEA/EFTA countries

The KTH Scholarship covers the tuition fee at KTH for the first and the second year, provided that the study results during the first year are satisfactory. The scholarship does not include living costs.

To be eligible to apply, you must be required to pay tuition fees and have applied for a Master’s programme at KTH as your first priority. Students with a conditional eligibility are eligible to apply for a scholarship.

The scholarship is granted primarily on the basis of academic excellence and the nomination process will be undertaken in parallel with the selection process for admission to the programme.  Only applicants who fulfil the admission requirements of the programme applied for are eligible for a scholarship.

Applications will open 1 December 2026.

To be considered for the scholarship, you must apply for admissions to an eligible Master’s programme at KTH. Applications are done online at www.universityadmissions.se. Deadline is 15 January 2027 (midnight CET). Then, you have to apply at the official scholarship website by clicking the Apply Now button when the application is open.

It is important to visit the official website (link found below) to access the application form and for detailed information on how to apply for this scholarship.