Postgraduate Scholarships
Postgraduate scholarships are the biggest category for Sri Lankan applicants — Chevening, Commonwealth, Fulbright, Erasmus Mundus, Australia Awards, and university merit awards. We track active deadlines and sequence parallel applications.
354 active awards for Sri Lankan applicants.
Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom
Eligibility
International Master's or PhD students at a German university with excellent grades and demonstrated commitment to liberal, free-market and human-rights values.
Jönköping University
Eligibility
Talented international applicants to Jönköping's English-taught Master's. Sri Lankan students eligible.
Maynooth University
Eligibility
Talented international Master's applicants to Maynooth University, Ireland — merit-based tuition reductions on taught postgraduate programmes.
OeAD (Austria's Agency for Education and Internationalisation)
Eligibility
Graduates from developing countries pursuing a development-relevant Master's (or completing a degree) at an Austrian university.
Nanyang Technological University
Eligibility
ASEAN citizens applying for an NTU PhD. NOTE: Sri Lanka is not in ASEAN — Sri Lankan-only nationals should consider the open NTU Research Scholarship instead.
Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Eligibility
International master's applicant at Politecnico di Milano with strong academic record; automatic consideration via admission application.
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Eligibility
International Master's applicant at Erasmus University Rotterdam; faculty-specific selection with academic merit and financial need both considered.
University of Strathclyde
Eligibility
Self-funded international postgraduate taught applicants on full-time on-campus programmes, normally with a UK first-class degree or international equivalent. Fully sponsored students are excluded.
Graz University of Technology
Eligibility
International applicants to TU Graz's English-taught Master's programmes with strong engineering or science backgrounds.
Universität Hamburg
Eligibility
Non-German students already enrolled at Universität Hamburg — two completed semesters for bachelor's, one for master's. Doctoral researchers are excluded, and you cannot hold other funding at the same time.
University of Florence
Eligibility
International applicants enrolling at the University of Florence; merit incentives for new international students plus need-based regional DSU Toscana grants.
University of Milan (La Statale)
Eligibility
International applicants with a foreign qualification admitted to an English-taught Master's at the University of Milan; merit-based.
