HAN NL Scholarship

HAN University of Applied Sciences, based in Arnhem and Nijmegen, runs one of the more generous and more clearly documented scholarship schemes among Dutch universities of applied sciences — and unusually for the Netherlands, it stretches across the whole degree rather than the first year only. The HAN NL Scholarship pays EUR 2,500 per semester in your first year and then EUR 2,500 a year for the following three years of a bachelor's, up to EUR 12,500 in total, roughly LKR 4.3 million. On a master's it is EUR 2,500 per semester, up to EUR 5,000 or about LKR 1.7 million. A second award, the Honors Scholarship, is worth up to EUR 7,500 on a bachelor's and EUR 2,500 on a master's, and you do not apply for it at all — HAN's academic board selects recipients, and it is aimed at strong students who did not receive the NL Scholarship. The eligibility framing is precise and worth reading literally: you must be a national of a country outside the EU and EEA (Suriname excluded), you must be liable for the higher institutional tuition fee rather than the statutory Dutch rate, you must not already hold a degree from a Dutch institution or have previously enrolled at one, and you must be accepted onto a full-time English-taught HAN programme. Sri Lankan citizens meet the nationality test cleanly. HAN also sets a firm English bar of IELTS 6.5 or TOEFL iBT 90 or a Cambridge CAE or CPE — there is no institutional waiver route here, so budget time and money for the test in Colombo. The continuation condition is real: 45 credits a year, every year, or the payments stop.