©iStock.com/cofkocof Finnish universities are known for high-quality, research-based teaching and offer many Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes in English. Students from the EU/EEA and Switzerland study for free, but students from outside the EU/EEA have paid tuition fees since 2017, typically €9,000 to €20,000 a year, and from 2026 Finnish law requires these fees to cover the full cost of education. There are no Finnish government scholarships for Bachelor’s or Master’s students, so the main options are university tuition fee waivers, Fulbright awards for Americans, Erasmus Mundus and paid doctoral positions. scholars4dev.com lists the top scholarships in Finland below. Finnish University Scholarships »   University of Helsinki Tuition Fee Waivers (Finland) The University of Helsinki offers a limited number of tuition fee waivers to high-achieving students from outside the EU/EEA who are admitted to one of its nearly 40 English-taught Master’s programmes. The waivers cover 50% or 100% of the tuition fee of €13,000 to €18,000 a year, and most of them are 50% waivers. Students apply for a waiver in the same application as for the programme, between 5 and 19 January 2027. The scholarships cover Master’s programmes in Helsinki’s 11 faculties, including science, the biological and environmental sciences, agriculture and forestry, medicine, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, the social sciences, law, education, theology and the arts. Aalto University Excellence Scholarship (Finland) Aalto University gives a small number of Excellence Scholarships to the highest-achieving applicants from outside the EU/EEA in its Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, and programmes may also decide not to award any. Each scholarship waives the full tuition fee for the standard length of the degree (two years for a Master’s), and students apply for it during admission. The scholarships cover Aalto’s programmes in technology and engineering, business, and art, design and architecture. Tampere University Tuition Fee Scholarship (Finland) Tampere University awards a limited number of tuition fee scholarships at admission to the best-performing applicants from outside the EU/EEA in each of its English-taught Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, where fees are €10,000 to €12,000 a year. The scholarship covers 50% of the tuition fee for the length of the programme; 100% scholarships are no longer offered, but students without a scholarship can get an early bird discount, and further scholarships can be applied for during studies. The scholarships cover Tampere’s programmes in fields such as engineering and the natural sciences, information technology, the built environment, medicine and health technology, management and business, education and the social sciences.   Other Scholarships and Funding for Studying in Finland »   Fulbright Finland Graduate Awards (USA) The Fulbright Finland Foundation offers graduate awards to US citizens with a Bachelor’s degree who want to complete a Master’s degree at a partner university, including Aalto, Helsinki, Jyväskylä, LUT, Tampere and Turku. The partner university covers the full tuition fee for up to two years, as long as the student does well in the first year, and the Foundation pays a grant of €1,000 a month, a travel award of USD 1,600 and accident and sickness cover. The awards cover Master’s programmes in all fields offered by the partner universities. Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Scholarships (Europe) Finnish universities take part in several Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programmes, which are run together with universities in other European countries. The EU-funded scholarships cover the participation costs and give a monthly allowance, and Erasmus Mundus scholarship holders do not pay Finnish tuition fees. Students from all over the world apply to each programme through the Erasmus Mundus Catalogue. The scholarships cover the fields of each joint programme, such as engineering, computing, the environment and the social sciences. Paid Doctoral Positions in Finland (Finland) Doctoral programmes in Finland are tuition-free for students of any nationality, but doctoral students must fund their own living costs. Many do this through paid doctoral researcher positions at universities, which are advertised on Euraxess.fi and on university websites, or through grants from Finnish foundations. The positions cover doctoral research in all fields. Several Finnish universities, such as Turku, Jyväskylä, LUT, Eastern Finland and Åbo Akademi, now offer only discounts or second-year scholarships that cover less than half of the tuition fee, and the national Finland Scholarship and the EDUFI Fellowships have ended.   See also the list of Top 5+ Countries with Free or Low Tuition for International Students   See also the list of Top 25+ Scholarships in Europe for International Students The post Top 5+ Scholarships in Finland for International Students first appeared on Scholars4DeV.