UGA international

The Eiffel scholarship offers merit-based grants to international students.

Only French higher education institutions can preselect candidates and send an online application on their behalf on the Campus France website. Applications submitted directly by students or by foreign educational institutions will be rejected.

Eligible fields of study are

• Science and techniques: Biology and health / Ecological transition / Mathematics and digital / Engineering sciences
• Human and social sciences : History, Language and French Civilization / Law and Political Sciences / Economics and Management

Grant amount

€1,200 per month (starting from January 2026). Direct coverage of several services:

• International and national transportation
• Health and supplementary insurance
• Assistance with housing search
• Cultural activities

Possibility of a one-month preliminary language course (in August), if planned at the time of application. This course is not funded by the scholarship.

The scholarship may be maintained abroad only for compulsory internships or mobility periods included in the official curriculum (maximum duration: 1 year). Optional internships result in the suspension of the scholarship.

Only one gap year is allowed during the scholarship period. It leads to the suspension of all benefits, including accommodation.

Round-trip airfare may be reimbursed up to 50% of the standard fare if the scholarship holder pays the expenses in advance.

Grant duration

No deferral of the scholarship is possible.

• Maximum 12 months for students in second year master's programs (M2)
• Maximum 24 months for students in first year master's programs (M1)
• Maximum 36 months for students preparing an engineering degree

Criteria for the selection of candidates

• Academic excellence of the candidate.
• Coherent and well-founded academic and professional project.
• Age limit: 29 years old at the date of the Campus France selection committee (born after March 31, 1996).
• Restricted to candidates of non-French nationality (dual nationals, one of whose nationalities is French, are not eligible).
• Candidates currently studying in France are not eligible.
• The Eiffel Scholarship cannot be combined with another French government scholarship, Erasmus+, or a scholarship from the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie.
• Candidates who were not selected in a previous session are not allowed to reapply.

Procedure

Candidates have to:

1. Contact the Master's supervisor. The contact details are available in the Master’s catalog.
2. Read carefully the the Eiffel Programme rules (in French).
3. Complete the application form in collaboration with the Master's coordinator and the International Relations Department of the corresponding faculty. Incomplete files will not be accepted.
   • Section 1: “Information about the candidate” (to be completed by the student).
   • Section 2: “Presentation of the application” (to be completed by the Master’s program coordinator in collaboration with the candidate). Applications that are not sufficiently supported by the Master’s program coordinator will not be considered.
   • Indicate whether the program includes a language course or a compulsory internship. 
   • Section 3: “General information about the institution” (to be completed by the Main International Office at UGA). The section on scholarship monitoring must be completed by the relevant faculty/school.
4. Name the file as follows: DossierM_First name_Last name.
5. Attach all supporting documents in PDF format (maximum 3 MB per file), clearly named — e.g. Transcript_LASTNAME_Firstname.pdf.
6. Submit the fully completed application form and all supporting documents directly to the Master’s program coordinator for evaluation and possible approval of the application.