Umeå University in Sweden awards full or partial tuition waivers to academically strong students on English-taught programmes starting in the autumn semester. The university’s page gives a dated timeline for 2027.
The scholarship
- A full or partial tuition fee waiver based on academic merit. A selection of top students is chosen each year.
- It applies to English-taught bachelor’s or master’s programmes at Umeå. The double-degree master’s in Sustainability Reporting and Financial Analysis is not eligible.
- A committee in each faculty selects the recipients after the registration deadline; results are emailed in late April.
Requirements
- Citizenship of a country outside the EU/EEA and Switzerland.
- A completed application to a full Umeå programme before the 15 January 2027 deadline, with that programme ranked priority 1 at University Admissions.
- The application fee paid by 1 February 2027 (students exempt from the fee but liable for tuition fees are also eligible).
- Only applicants with an Umeå programme as priority 1 receive an invitation, sent to the email address in the University Admissions account between 2 and 5 February 2027.
About the employer
Umeå University is a university in Sweden. Scholarship questions go to [email protected].
Salary and deadline
- 15 January 2027: deadline to have an Umeå programme as priority 1. 1 February 2027: deadline to pay the application fee.
- 5 March 2027, 23:59 CET: deadline to register interest for a scholarship. Late April 2027: results.
- Note: a few eligibility lines on the original page still carry 2026 dates; the ‘Timeline for 2027’ section is the updated one.
Source: Umeå University, “Umeå University Scholarship for International Students”, read on 25 October 2026. Summary by AVIDE; see the original page for the full, current text.