European Commission’s

Application Deadline: March 1^st 2016

The joint International Master in Rural Development (IMRD), part of the European Commission’s Erasmus Mundus JMD programme, offers the opportunity to become an international expert on rural development in its diversity of approaches and applications, on a scholarship provided by the European Union.

The IMRD master course programme, is a high level academic programme aimed at training top students from all over the world into specialists in integrated rural development, focussed on socio-economic and institutional aspects; not only from the European Union but also from developed, developing and transition countries outside the EU.

The  IMRD master course programme is a 2 year master programme (120 ECTS) jointly organised by 16 worldwide leading universities in rural development and agricultural economics. The methodology consists of a combination of basic and specialised training in technical, economic and social sciences, a case study of one month, an individual master thesis and a high extent of student and scholar mobility.

Requirements:

• Are you a Bachelor/Master
• interested in Rural Development and Agricultural Economics ?
• Seeking further specialisation through an International Masters Degree interested in a multi-disciplinary and mobile training in Europe and, for European students, an experience in a non-European university, possibly financed on a scholarship ?

Application Procedure

When applying for the IMRD programme, a distinction is made between 4 different kinds of applicants, each with their own application deadlines, nationality requirements and tuition fees:

1. Non-European nationals wishing to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship (you are not a national from one of the 28 EU member states, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Turkey)
2. Applicants from any nationality wishing to apply for an IMRD Consortium Scholarship
3. European self-funding applicants (you are a national from one of the 28 EU member states, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Turkey)
4. Non-European self-funding applicants (you are not a national from one of the 28 EU member states, former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein or Turkey)

Application deadlines

You can apply all year round to know if you meet the academic criteria and language. Our programme starts each year in September. You receive notification of academic (non-)admission within 14 days of submitting your complete application.
You receive notification of scholarship award before end of April prior to the start of the academic year in September.

1. Non-European nationals wishing to apply for an Erasmus Mundus scholarship: apply before March 1^st
2. Applicants from any nationality wishing to apply for an IMRD Consortium Scholarship: apply before March 1^st
3. European self-funding applicants: apply before June 30th
4. Non-European self-funding applicants: apply before April 30^th

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2016 Erasmus Mundus Joint International Master in Rural Development (IMRD) Scholarship Programme