Instructions for Scholarship Nominations

KTH Scholarship:

• A tuition fee waiver for a one or two year master’s programme at KTH

The Swedish Institute’s scholarship “Pioneering Women in STEM:”

• A tuition fee waiver for women from ten selected countries, for ten selected master’s programmes at KTH, and a living allowance (two scholarships in all, so small in numbers)

About Pioneering Women in STEM

To be eligible for the SI/Swedish Institute scholarship you must be a fee-paying female student and citizen of Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Rwanda, South Africa, Thailand or Vietnam. The scholarship is available for applicants to the following programmes: 

• Aerospace Engineering
• Chemical Engineering for Energy and Environment
• Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Infrastructure
• ICT Innovation
• Interactive Media Technology
• Nuclear Energy Engineering
• Sustainable Energy Engineering
• Sustainable Urban Planning and Design
• Technology, Work and Health
• Technology-based Entrepreneurship

The lists sent out will have only applicants who meet the above requirement.

Furthermore, KTH requires that applicants specifically apply for the scholarship, even if the Swedish Institute does not. That means that only people who applied are considered and will be on the lists sent out by the Admission Office. Also, only applicants that ranked KTH as their first choice will be included, as with the KTH Scholarship.

More info from KTH and the Swedish Institute:

https://www.kth.se/en/studies/master/admissions/scholarships/si-scholarship-pioneering-women-in-stem-1.1368951

SI has more requirements, for example that nominees may not have a degree from a Swedish university, live here or currently study a Swedish master’s:

https://si.se/en/apply/scholarships/pioneeringwomeninstem/

Pioneering Women in STEM application details:

We have less information about the applicants who only applied for the SI scholarship since they applied in a shorter application form through the Swedish Institute and not through KTH.

The applicants who only applied for the SI scholarship will only have these headings:

The applicants who applied for the KTH Scholarship, or both the KTH Scholarship and SI’s scholarship, will have the headings mentioned above, and also those below:

Procedure

The Admissions Office sends a list of all of the eligible scholarship applicants to the UA at the Schools. The UA is responsible for sharing the lists with the PAs. The list you receive should include all of the KTH Scholarship and KTH India Scholarship applicants who have applied for your programme as first priority and have paid the application fee.

The simplest way to start your recommendations is to filter the list by programme in column I (programme code) or column J (programme name). For the applicants you would like to recommend for a scholarship, fill in the information in the columns marked in green in the right hand side of the list. All of the applicants that you do not recommend for a scholarship can then be deleted before you send your list back to your UA. This will make it easier for your UA to compile the final list of recommended applicants from your School.

The KTH Scholarship and SI’s Pioneering Women in STEM applicants will appear on the same list so you are only required to write one recommendation. PA’s are responsible for recommending top students for a scholarship by doing the following:

1. Assigning a merit value (1-75)
2. Writing a brief recommendation for why you believe the student should receive a scholarship
3. Sending your list of recommended applicants to your UA

Merit Values

Merit values should be assigned in the same way as you assign the merit value for admissions to a master’s programme. The evaluation scale for the KTH Scholarship/ Pioneering Women in STEM is the same as the one used for admission to the programme, with a maximum score of 75.

Recommendation

Rank the selected scholarship applicants by the merit values you have assigned and include a brief recommendation for why they should receive a scholarship. In the recommendation, highlight what is unique about this student and makes it likely that he/she will show academic excellence here at KTH. Your written recommendation should focus on aspects of the application other than the ranking of the university and the student’s GPA since these two criteria are considered in a separate evaluation by the scholarship steering group. Recommended aspects you can describe include (if they are provided in the application):

- Grades in courses which are part of the prerequisites of the master program

- Work, project, and research experience relevant to the master program, including publications (the information from the student’s application form is in column S and T)

- Results of competitions and extracurricular activities when they are relevant to the master program (the information from the student’s application form is in column V)

- Relevant teaching experience if applicable (the information from the student’s application form is in column U)

- Rank of the student within their BSc class (for example "rank 2/148 among all students in Mechanical Engineering"), if such information is provided in the official documents or recommendation letters."

The Scholarship Committee (previously called the Steering Committee) will place great consideration on the written recommendations when allocating the scholarships.

Please note that if an applicant has been recommended for a scholarship, this also implies that the applicant would be admitted to the programme. Therefore, only the top students should be recommended for a scholarship. Only students that have made an application to the KTH Scholarship or SI’s Pioneering Women in STEM scholarship can be recommended for a scholarship.

The KTH Scholarship application form includes information such as school rankings, GPA, work/project experiences and awards provided by the applicants. These columns have been marked in blue on the applicant list. This information should be considered as a tool to assist with your assessment only and should be read with caution and must be checked against the official documents in NyA Webben.

KTH Scholarship applicants must also include a motivation stating how they intend to contribute to sustainable development with a master’s degree from KTH. This portion will be assessed by the Sustainability Office after you have submitted your recommendations so you do not need to consider this motivation in your evaluation (and hence columns W, X, Y, Z are whited out in the lists).

Once you have made your recommendations, send your list to your UA. The UA is responsible for returning the complete list of recommended students to the Admissions Office. The recommendations must be provided to the Admissions Office from your UA by March 6, 2025 at the very latest.

In some cases, your assessment of the specific requirements (SB) and the assignment of merit values (MV) will have to be made before the Virtual Organisation (VO) has made the assessment of the general requirements (GBA) in NyA. This means that some of the applicants might not appear in your programme queue and you will need to look up their application numbers manually. 

If you have questions regarding the academic merits of specific applicants, please contact info@kth.se

For more information regarding the KTH Scholarship process, please see:

https://intra.kth.se/en/utbildning/utbi/tilldela-kth-stipendier-for-sokande-till-kth-s-masterprogram-1.783071

Key Dates:

The below are the dates and deadlines for the KTH Scholarship.

The Swedish Institute’s Pioneering Women in STEM has the same dates and deadlines for KTH. The nominees are however notified by the Swedish Institutute later, on April 24.