SSE offers several scholarships that fully or partially cover the tuition fees through generous private donations. All scholarship applications are assessed by a selection committee, taking into consideration the relevance and the quality of the personal motivation, academic excellence, relevant extra-curricular activities, program cohort diversity and the distribution of scholarships across all programs. 

How to apply:   

1. The application for a scholarship is submitted during the application process for the BSc or MSc program, via our online application portal (please see the tab called "Scholarships" in the program application).
   
   
2. Write a motivational letter for the available funding, and if you would like, you can mention that you fulfil the requirements for a specific fund (see below). This will make the matching easier for us.  

Please note that your application for the scholarships is not going to have an impact on your application for the program. Scholarships are distributed on a merit and need basis and we take into consideration the fair distribution across the programs.

Per-Olof Lööf wants to contribute to diversifying SSE's student population and provide opportunities for students coming from underprivileged socioeconomic backgrounds. Therefore, they are supporting one Swedish female Bachelor student with a scholarship of SEK 10 000 per month for three years. The purpose is to cover living expenses for three years conditional upon satisfactory performance as determined by SSE.

Eligibility:

To qualify for the scholarship, which will be awarded on a competitive basis and is subject to successful admission to SSE, the student must be female and also comply with one or more of the following criteria:

1. Have Swedish citizenship or permanent residence permit in Sweden
2. Come from an underprivileged socio-economic background

Application

Apply here no later than August 24, 2022.

Fredrik Strömholm wants to contribute to the education of strong students with a diverse and underrepresented background. Therefore, he is supporting three Swedish Bachelor students with a scholarship of SEK 10 000 per month for three years. The purpose is to cover living expenses for three years conditional upon satisfactory performance as determined by SSE.

The scholarship recipients will begin their studies in the Autumn of 2022 and will graduate in 2025. 

Eligibility:

The scholarship candidates shall be considered by SSE to have the potential to perform well in their respective educational programs. 

To qualify for the scholarship, which will be awarded on a competitive basis and is subject to successful admission to SSE, the students must meet at least one of the following requirements:

1. Have parents/guardians without an academic degree
2. Have at least one parent/guardian born outside of Sweden
3. Have grown up in an area of Sweden outside of the Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö metropolitan areas
4. Come from an underprivileged socio-economic background

Application

Apply here no later than August 24, 2022.

Each year the President of the Stockholm School of Economics personally hand-picks one or two outstanding students to realize a project of their own design abroad. The purpose of this is to equip these future leaders with the tools and experiences necessary to succeed, both in their studies at SSE as well as future careers.

Many previous GELS winners started out as management consultants and are now CEOs for large companies, entrepreneurs or leaders of large organizations. They work in countries ranging from Sweden and the US to Singapore and Vietnam, providing a global network. Their projects range from fast-food noodles to international aid coordination.

Coming up with a project of your own design and executing it in a foreign country will be both fun and challenging – while providing plenty of personal development. And by setting a clear goal for the impact you aim to achieve you get the chance to apply the theories you’ve learned at SSE in real life. 

Read more about the scholarship, application process, past projects and scholarship holders here!

Minor Field Studies (MFS) is a scholarship program for field studies in developing countries. It is intended for students who are reaching the end of their BSc or MSc degree and who wish to gather material for their degree essay on-site in a developing country.

You are welcome to apply for a MFS scholarship if you:

• are a Swedish citizen or have a permanent residence permit in Sweden
• are studying at a university or university college in Sweden
• have not started doctoral (third cycle) level education
• have not previously received a MFS-scholarship

Read more about the Minor Field Studies Scholarship here!

The Yinka Shonibare Thesis Scholarship gives Bachelor and Master students in their thesis writing phase at the Stockholm School of Economics the opportunity to do a field study on site in Nigeria while staying at one of the the two Yinka Shonibare Foundation’s residences. The thesis must focus on topics related to the UN Agenda 2030. Read more here!

One to two scholarships are available. Each scholarship covers fully the tuition fees for the MSc program, plus living expenses for SEK 100,000 a year, plus travelling expenses for SEK 20,000.

Eligibility: 

1. have a significant working experience in a Swedish company in Sweden or abroad and choose to leave the current working position to become a student at the school;
   
   
2. must have a long-term goal of contributing to the Swedish business society;
   
   
3. not have any previous higher education in Business or Economics; 
   
   
4. have achieved good merits both in school and on the practical level. 

The Board of Insamlingsstiftelsen till Per Hillers Minne (The Foundation in Memory of Per Hiller) has established a new scholarship to reward outstanding study achievements of students in the Master program in Accounting, Valuation and Financial Management (MAVFM) and the Master program in Finance (MFIN).

Scholarship:

Up to five scholarships of SEK 50,000 each will be awarded to outstanding students in each of the two master programs. The scholarships are to be received in period 4 in the Spring semester of the first year of study. Based on recommendations by the Program Directors of MAVFM and MFIN, students who are nominated will be appointed by the SSE Student Scholarship Taskforce. The Master students do not have to apply for the award, but all eligible students will be considered by the Program Directors of MAVFM and MFIN.

Purpose:

To encourage and reward outstanding students who participate in an engaged way in the courses offered in the MAVFM and MFIN programs at Stockholm School of Economics. The awards will be based on the students’ study achievements in periods 1 to 3 in the first year of the respective Master program. Hence, the awards will enable ambitious and hard-working students to get a prestigious reward and acknowledgement for their study performance.

Selection criteria:

• Students who receive the Per Hiller Outstanding Master Student Award have achieved outstanding study results in periods 1 to 3 during their first year in the MAVFM or MFIN programs at SSE.
  
  
• The assessment of study results is based on the compulsory and voluntary courses offered in the MAVFM respective MFIN program, having a clear connection to the subject area of Financial Economics (in a broad sense). Also, nominated students will be recognized for their active participation and collaborative teamwork with fellow students in the program activities being offered in the respective Master program.
  
  
• The first cohort being eligible for the Per Hiller Outstanding Master Student Award is the master students registered in the MAVFM and MFIN programs in the Fall semester 2022.

Announcement:

Master students receiving the Per Hiller Outstanding Master Student Award will be informed about this by the end of May in period 4 of their first year of study in the MAVFM and MFIN programs.

The Swedish Program and the Stockholm School of Economics offer a joint scholarship for the Swedish Program  alumni who choose to continue their studies joining one of the Master Programs at SSE. The SSE-Swedish Program Scholarship offers full tuition fees for one Swedish Program Alumni accepted to one of the Master Programs at SSE. The Swedish Program is an independent program, sponsored by a consortium of American colleges and Universities, and affiliated with the Stockholm School of Economics.  

Eligibility: Have successfully graduated from the Swedish Program by the start of the MSc studies.  

The UniCredit Foundation offers one student of the MSc in Economics at SSE a scholarship. The recipient of the scholarship receives €15,000 per two academic years (in 3 instalments). 

Eligibility: 

Eligible applicants must be nationals of one of the EU or EEA countries included in the perimeter in which UniCredit operates (that is Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia). 

Application: 

A separate application for the scholarship is not necessary. On the basis of merit, and in accordance with the selection procedure for the MSc in Economics at SSE, the Department of Economics will nominate a shortlist of three potential recipients from all eligible applicants to the MSc program. These nominees will be contacted and asked for consent to forward their data to the UniCredit Foundation.The UniCredit Foundation will then choose the scholarship recipients from the shortlist. 

Read about the initiative here.