About the scholarship:
The LPDP – Netherlands scholarship is funded by the Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs and offers full costs covering scholarships to students from Indonesia.
Eligibility criteria
The scholarship applicants should meet the following requirements:
- Indonesian citizen, living in Indonesia, and willing to return to Indonesia upon graduation from the program;
- education background: S1/D4, minimal GPA: 3.0;
- TOEFL IBT ≥90 or IELTS ≥6.5, valid for 2 years from the date of the test;
- mid-career professional, maximum 35 years old by 31 December 2024;
- not intended for part-time study program, pre-master or distance learning;
- not currently pursuing or already obtained a master’s degree;
- not working for a bilateral or multilateral organization, a non-governmental organization that is internationally active and is focused on representing social interests, such as development cooperation, nature, and environmental protection, health or human rights; and
- unconditional Letter of Admission (LoA), submitted in DELTA (Nuffic online application system)*
*Only applicable to the shortlisted candidates (those who passed the first assessment process by LPDP). It must be uploaded in the Delta (Nufficonline application system).
Programme at ISS: MA in Development Studies
Available in the following majors:
- Development Studies major in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies
- Development Studies major in Economics of Development
- Development Studies major in Governance and Development Policy
- Development Studies major in Social Policy for Development
- Development Studies major in Governance of Migration and Diversity
Apply for this scholarship
Interested candidates need to apply to e-Beasiswa (LPDP online application system; https://beasiswalpdp.kemenkeu.go.id/index.php/site/login) by 12 February 2024. Please submit your application under Beasiswa Prioritas Category’ as this joint scholarship is referred to as Beasiswa Prioritas Diktiristek-LPDP-OKP Program Master in the LPDP website.
LPDP will then do the first assessment and shortlist candidates (by April 3). The shortlisted candidates will receive from the ISS instructions and a link to Nuffic’s online application ‘Delta’ to submit the application by 8 April 2024.
Find out more about the LPDP-Netherlands: Joint Scholarship Programme