Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Students at University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, 2019

About the Scholarship/ and University
The University of St. Gallen is a research university located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. It was established in 1898 and is known as HSG, an abbreviation of its former German name Handels-Hochschule St. Gallen. According to international rankings, the university is considered among the world’s leading business schools.

The University offers two different Excellence Scholarships to Students. These will be granted to foreign students enrolled in Bachelor studies at the University of St. Gallen as of Autumn Semester 2018 and on the basis of merit. Every year, six scholarships will be awarded to students in the Assessment Year, which will be paid out over a period of three years.

Requirements
International applicants with internationally recognized relevant educational qualifications and certificates, successful passing of the University of St. Gallen’s internatl admission test and timely submission of the documents in accordance with the application process. Further criteria during the study are (a) The bachelor’s degree has to be completed without any delays, as far as they are not conditioned by the studies; (b) The first instalment will be paid directly after starting the studies in the autumn. The second and third instalments are only paid out when a specified average grade is reached.

Awards/ Grants
The scholarship amount is tantamount to the current tuition fees at the Bachelor’s Level (which runs to six semesters). At present, a grantee would receive an annual sum of CHF 6,252 (for all three years, this corresponds to a scholarship of CHF 18,756)

Application Process
After successful admission to the degree course, a letter of motivation and a two-minute video in mp4 quality must be submitted using the online formular to the Advice Center of Study Funding. These two application elements should cover the following content:

1. Why is the applicant planning to study at the HSG?
2. Professional vision/ career prospects?
3. Reason as to why he/ she should receive a scholarship?
4. Previous contributions such as a social or charitable work, or ecological and/ or a social commitment.

There are several instructions that are going to completed for future students. Thus, it is strongly advised to visit this Scholarship Link. The application deadline is 8 days after the HSG admission test in Summer: 19 July 2019. The deadline also applies to applicants who pass their entrance exam in February 2019. A committee chooses the respective scholarship holders by the End of August 2019.