ArtEZ Scholarship

For the academic year 2026-2027, ArtEZ has the honour of offering non-European students who are among the brightest and most excellent in their field an ArtEZ scholarship. Still, it is not only brightness and excellence that matters: ArtEZ is also committed to strengthen the international diversity of its student population. This is bolstered by the ArtEZ scholarships. 

While the scholarships surely demand certain records of academic rigour and artistic excellence as a base upon which the student can be reviewed, they also aim to enable diverse kinds of students to cross the often intimidating threshold of art universities. ArtEZ scholarships are monitored and offered as a way of encouraging new voices, vocabularies, grammars, expressions and ambitions for our learning and research programmes and are committed to helping potential students building a critical community of care and responsibility within ArtEZ.

The amount of the ArtEZ Scholarship is 50% of the institutional tuition fee.

Students will receive the ArtEZ Scholarship for the nominal duration of their studies, and the amount will adjust each year with the institutional tuition fee.  

The scholarship is paid (or subtracted from the tuition fee), at the beginning of each study year, if and when, the student advances to the next study year. In case of deregistration, the ArtEZ Scholarship will be reimbursed in proportion.

Please note: every year we receive a lot of applications for this scholarship, but we have only a few scholarships to award.

This scholarship will be granted solely to students who meet the following criteria.

The applicant:

• has a Non-EU/EEA nationality;
• must have passed the entrance exam and have been accepted into an ArtEZ' full-time Bachelor's or Master's course;
• will start his/her study in September 2026 as a first year fulltime student;
• has never studied in the Netherlands before;
• has to pay the institutional tuition fee;
• meets the requirements to register with ArtEZ and, if applicable, to obtain a visa;
• makes plausible that there is a gap in her/his financial plan for studying at ArtEZ and that the scholarship contributes significantly to a viable plan;
• contributes demonstrably to the diversity of the learning community of the course;
• demonstrates potential to develop continuously;
• is able to reflect profoundly on her/his background and education as well as how these influence her/his work.

You can start your application as of 1 February 2026, after you have been admitted to a course of ArtEZ. The Student Affairs department will invite you to apply for a scholarship. You will receive an email with all the information. Before 1 May 2026 we must have received all the required documents. Incomplete applications and applications received after the deadline will not be processed.

The ArtEZ Student Affairs department will check whether all the required documents are received and inform you about the further procedure.

A committee, headed by both Master and Bachelor Deans, will examine your application and decide whether you will receive a scholarship, or not. Subsequently Student Affairs department will send you an email to let you know the decision. 

For more information you can always send an email to studentaffairs@artez.nl.