Graduate School

Prospective students


Important update for applicants holding a Dutch master‘ degree


Eight good reasons to come to Tinbergen Institute

6. Good funding opportunities
  MPhil graduation ceremony
  

TI runs its own scholarship program for MPhil students. TI scholarships are allocated on the basis of merit and need. 30-60% of all first- year students were fully funded, and most second-year students have been funded. The scholarship program is sponsored by the economics departments participating in Tinbergen Institute and by the Duisenberg school of finance.

In addition to these scholarships, TI offers some 20 teaching assistantships to second-year MPhil students each year. Many second-year MPhil students find other research assistantships in- and outside the TI departments.

Students in the program‘s PhD phase are typically employed by one of the TI departments as PhD researchers ('promovendus'). These are full-time positions that come with all the benefits of employment, including a good salary. Most include a small teaching assignment, comparable to a teaching assistantship.

[Reason 7: Gateway to a wide variety of PhD thesis opportunities in Amsterdam and Rotterdam]

Stephen Kastoryano (Switzerland)

3nd Year PhD student

Originally from Geneva, Switzerland, I had carried out my undergraduate work at Northwestern University in the US, but looked forward to pursuing my PhD in Europe. The program itself has proven to be at the level of any top US program, but students at TI, as opposed to students in those top universities, can truly work with any researchers at the forefront of almost every topic in economics. One factor that is often undervalued when applying to graduate schools concerns finance. With regard to the latter, I was lucky enough to receive an external scholarship for my two years of MPhil, but basically every foreign student received a sizable scholarship. Now, almost every TI student in the second year has a full scholarship.