Karolinska Institutet offers some tuition fee scholarships to excellent students who have been admitted to one of its Global Master’s Programmes starting each Autumn semester.
Karolinska Institutet awards 10 scholarships per year, spread across all the Global Master’s Programmes. The competition is fierce, with approximately 1500 international students applying for the scholarship annually.
Karolinska Institute, as a university, stands as Sweden’s most extensive hub for academic medical research and provides the broadest array of medical courses and programs in the country.
Since 1901, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute has been responsible for the selection of Nobel laureates in the field of Physiology or Medicine.
To be eligible for the Karolinska Institutet KI Global Masters Scholarship, you must:
- have applied to one of Karolinska Institutet’s Global Master’s Programmes starting in 2027 and have paid the application fee by 1 February 2027
- be a tuition fee-paying student (from outside the EU/EEA)
- fulfil the entry and documentation requirements for the programme you have applied for
- have ranked a master’s programme at KI as your first choice.
- Only first-year students are eligible to apply.
