NL Scholarship (formerly Holland Scholarship)
Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science / Nuffic Netherlands · open to applicants worldwide
One-off €5,000 scholarship for students from outside the EEA starting a bachelor's or master's at a participating Dutch university.
Free to start · no account needed
Get your personal statement and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes.
You look at it first. Nothing is submitted without your tap.
About
What it offers: €5,000 in the first year (not full tuition).
Who can apply: For non-EEA students applying to a participating Dutch institution; each university sets its own deadline and criteria.
Free to apply.
Annual; applications go through participating universities, usually with deadlines in early spring.
How to apply: through university portal (you need an account there).
What to prepare: application form, motivation letter, transcript.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-21): “participating in the NL Scholarship for the 2026-2027 academic year”
Who can apply
- Open to students
- For non-EEA students applying to a participating Dutch institution; each university sets its own deadline and criteria.
What you will need
- Application form answersOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- Personal statement / SOPOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
- TranscriptOnly you can supply it: upload it once and it is attached wherever it is asked for.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (university portal), which needs an account in your name.
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get your personal statement and notes for your referees for this programme, drafted from your own documents in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science / Nuffic without your tap.
Nothing is submitted without your tap. Logins, CAPTCHAs, payments and interviews stay with you.