About the scholarship
The Romanian government provide scholarship to non-EU students every year. To be eligible you should meet the education requirements. Apart from Medicine, Dental Medicine and Pharmacy, applicants can select any course of study. Study programs for Bachelors and Master are offered in Romanian except for PhD students who can opt for an English program or a foreign language programs set by the doctoral school. Before enrolling on a program of choice, students will have to take a preparatory course in Romanian if they do not speak the language. The documents required are diploma, birth certificate, transcript, passport and curriculum vitae.
Conditions for awarding scholarship:
Foreign citizens from all non-EU countries, with the following exceptions:
- Citizens of Romanian origin or who are part of the Romanian historical communities in the proximity of Romania (entitled to different scholarship programmes);
- Citizens who have requested or acquired a form of protection in Romania;
- Stateless persons whose stay on the territory of Romania is officially recognized according to the law;
- Members of the diplomatic and consular corps or family members of the diplomatic and consular corps accredited to Romania;
- Members of the administrative and technical staff of diplomatic missions and consular offices accredited to Romania;
- Staff members of international organizations based in Romania or family members of staff of international organizations based in Romania;
- Beneficiaries of a scholarship from the Romanian state for the same cycle of study.
Qualification
To be eligible, the scholarship applicant must:
- submit a complete file;
present study documents issued by accredited/recognized education institutions in the country where they were issued; - comply with the enrolment deadline;
- have good results in education, respectively an average of the study years, for the last graduated school of at least 7 (seven) corresponding to the scoring system in Romania or the “Good” score, as the case;
- comply with the application submission methodology.
Scholarship coverage
- Bachelor’s degree: bachelor’s degree programmes are addressed to graduates of high school studies or pre-university studies at the end of which they obtained a baccalaureate degree or equivalent, as well as candidates applying for further university studies in Romania. The complete programme runs for a period of 3-6 years, depending on the specialization followed and ends with a bachelor’s exam;
- Master’s degree: master’s degree programmes are addressed to undergraduates, and will run for a period of 1 year, 1.5 years or 2 years and end with the dissertation exam;
- PhD: doctoral programmes are addressed to graduate students or equivalent and run for a period of 3-5 years, depending on the profile of the chosen faculty and end with the presentation of a PhD thesis. In order to be admitted to doctoral studies and to obtain the scholarship, it is compulsory that, prior to submitting the application, the candidate should get the written agreement of the Doctoral Tutor, which must be a member of the doctoral school, and also that he/she passes the admission interview.
Language of study
In order to promote the Romanian language and culture, the beneficiaries of the scholarships granted by the Romanian state for undergraduate and master`s studies study only in Romanian. The exception is doctoral scholarship holders, who can opt for studies in Romanian or in a foreign language set by the doctoral school.
Exceptions
- Those who present Romanian study documents (diplomas or certificates) or study documents, school records attesting at least four consecutive years of studies attended in Romanian in an educational unit/institution from the Romanian national system;
- Those who, in order to enroll in university education, pass the Romanian language test, organized according to the regulations in force;
- Those who, in order to enroll in university education, present a certificate of linguistic competence in Romanian, minimum level B1, issued according to the regulations in force.
Submitting application
The scholarship application can be sent ONLY through the Study in Romania platform.
Candidates can access the platform at https://studyinromania.gov.ro, via the Apply for MFA scholarships button, or directly at https://scholarships.studyinromania.gov.ro. The platform can be accessed both in English and French.
To be rejected: Applications submitted directly by the applicants to the registry offices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or the Ministry of Education, or to the e-mail addresses of the MFA employees / departments of the MFA Headquarters, or to the Romanian diplomatic missions or the foreign diplomatic missions accredited in Bucharest, will not be accepted.
Deadlines
The enrolment period begins on 29 January 2025. The deadline for submitting applications is 12th March, 2025.
Feedback from scholarship board
The results of the scholarship selection process will be announced by e-mail, around 30 June 2025 to every candidate who applied for a scholarship.