Karolinska Institutet (KI, Sweden), a leading Nordic medical university, offers the KI Global Master’s Scholarship to students from outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland admitted to its master’s programmes, for the autumn 2027 intake.
The scholarship
- Full tuition fee waiver for the standard duration of the master’s programme
- Does not cover living costs, accommodation or flights
- Applies to most KI master’s programmes, except the two joint programmes with KTH (Molecular Techniques in Life Science; Biostatistics and Data Science), which have their own KTH scholarship options
- Around 10 scholarships are awarded each year
Requirements
- Classified as a tuition fee-paying student (check status at universityadmissions.se)
- Has applied to and ranked a KI master’s programme as first choice
- Assessed via an academic CV form, evaluated by programme staff
About the employer
Karolinska Institutet is a leading medical university and biomedical research institution based in Solna (Stockholm area, Sweden), the body that awards the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, strong in graduate training in biomedicine, pharmacy and health sciences.
Salary and deadline
Full tuition fee waiver. The scholarship application is submitted separately, after applying to the master’s programme, during 8 to 24 February 2027; results are announced around late April 2027 (about 26 April 2027), with an acceptance deadline of 30 April 2027.
Source: Karolinska Institutet, “The KI Global Master’s Scholarships for fee-paying students”, read on 29 September 2026. Summary by AVIDE; see the original page for the full, current text.