Graduate Program Excellence in Life Sciences scholarships

Anne Zalmanski — 2025-12-04T14:22:41Z

A scholarship program offering competitive stipends (up to 10,000 €/year) for students following the Interdisciplinary Master in Life Science (IMaLiS) has been established by the Graduate Program in Life Sciences to specifically support international students.

Eligibility criteria for applying to a Graduate Program Excellence in Life Sciences scholarship in the Master M1 year :

– Students holding an international foreign Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or in another scientific discipline, but with a demonstrated background in Life Sciences, are eligible to apply to the scholarship program at the Master 1 level.

– Candidates must not have lived in France during the academic year of the selection (September 1st – August 31st) nor the previous year.

Please note : Students admitted at the M1 level may obtain a one-year scholarship that can be renewed for one additional year to cover the second year of IMaLiS. Recipients of the scholarship will be required to undertake their internship in laboratories affiliated with PSL.

Application procedure

Application for a scholarship is part of the application to the IMaLiS Master's program (only one application is required).
You will need to complete the PSL online application form for the Master IMaLiS track. For required documents and evaluations steps, please the see application procedure website. The online application form will enable you to indicate whether or not you wish to apply to the Graduate Program Excellence in Life Sciences scholarship program.

If you have been admitted to IMaLiS or placed on the waiting list, you will proceed to a remote oral examination on a biology-related topic, which will allow the panel to establish the list of the beneficiaries of the scholarships.
For the oral examination, students will be required to critically read a scientific article, that will be assigned to them beforehand.

On the basis of the interviews and exam results, a list of students accepted with funding and a ranked waiting list will be established.
Students on the main list will be enrolled in the Master and benefit from the scholarship.

Those on the waiting lists for both Master and scholarship will be enrolled in the Master, if students accepted to the Master withdraw, based on their ranking. If students who have obtained scholarships also withdraw, their scholarships will be offered to those on the waiting list, based on their ranking.

Timetable for the 2026/2027 academic year

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Graduate Program Excellence in Life Sciences scholarships