Admission and application Research MSc in Water and Sustainable Development

While completing your application, you will be asked to submit a motivation statement by answering 6 motivation questions. Your motivation is an important criterion for selecting you for admission and/or scholarship. Therefore, prepare you motivation statement well in advance. The questions are:

1. What are your reasons for applying for this research-oriented MSc programme at IHE Delft? (max 600 characters with spaces)
2. What are the challenges, issues or problems (in your country, region or worldwide) that you would like to address in your professional career once you have completed this MSc programme? (max 1000 characters with spaces)
3. How will this MSc programme enable you to address abovementioned challenges, issues or problems? (max 1000 characters with spaces)
4. What are your most relevant qualifications and experiences that make you a suitable candidate for this programme? (max 1000 characters with spaces)
5. What role will research play in your future career, how do you want to contribute to research and science in the future? (max 1000 characters with spaces)
6. With which IHE Delft academic department do you prefer to further explore your research orientation?

• Certified copies of degrees/diplomas.
• Certified copies of academic transcripts. Authenticated or certified copies are copies with an official stamp to verify that the copies are true copies of original documents. This official stamp may be from one of the following: a solicitor/notary, the educational institution from where the student gained the diplomas, or the local council/local authority/local government office. Please include the official grading system used by the university or country, if this is not clearly explained on the transcript.
• Two recommendation letters. The letters should come from a person who is qualified to evaluate the applicant's potential for graduate study, e.g. from your current employer or former academic supervisor/mentor.
• Copy of official identity document.
• Copy of results of English language test score (if required, see English language requirements).
  
  If you meet all admission requirements but cannot submit English test results, you may receive a conditional admission letter. Sponsors, however, will always require an unconditional admission letter and therefore you are advised to register to do an English test simultaneously in order to meet fellowship application deadlines.
   
• If any of the original documents is not in English we additionally need an official English translation by a sworn translator. Upload one PDF of both original and translation at the designated place in the application form.

A number of preparatory courses are available via IHE Open Course Ware (OCW). You can visit the OCW platform and create an account, so that you can access the preparatory courses for the MSc programme in Water and Sustainable Development.

In the above overview you can see which preparatory courses are advised for specific tracks and profiles. You are strongly advised to study these courses before your arrival at IHE Delft. Especially those applicants who are interested in a certain track/profile, who did not study the advised courses during their undergraduate programmes, or who need to refresh their knowledge about these subjects, are strongly advised to take time to study the advised preparatory courses.

A very important preparatory course is the English language course. All applicants are advised to take this course.

After receipt of the application, the IHE Delft admission office will screen the application on English requirements, GPA and relevant BSc degree.

Applicants are provisionally admitted to the programme based on their initial preference for a track and profile. Applicants must indicate in their application at which department and in what scientific field they would like to do research.

Once the application file is complete and all objectively verifiable criteria are met, the file is forwarded to the relevant academic department, where the academic record and motivation statement of the applicant are reviewed. In case of a potential match between applicant and department, the applicant will be invited for an online interview with a member of the department.

Based on the outcome of the interview, the applicant may be accepted, re-directed to another IHE Delft academic department, or the application may be discontinued. After acceptance of the applicant by the academic department, the applicant will be formally granted “academic admission” by the Academic Registrar.

Once academically admitted, the applicant will receive an admission letter and can start the search for funding.

Once funding has been secured and IHE Delft has received financial confirmation (e.g. through a scholarship or other funding source), the applicant will be “financially admitted”.

The applicant will then start interacting with an IHE Delft coach to explore which individual study trajectory best fits the applicants’ learning ambitions. The applicant’s background determines the scope of modules the applicant can select from.

A research master coach, who is an experienced and active researcher in the academic department which supported the applicant’s academic admission, will guide the student throughout his/her learning trajectory, including the taught modules and the thesis research components.

This involves support in the selection of the track modules during the first year to ensure alignment with the envisioned research topic, in the development of the thesis research topic, and more generally with all aspects of participating in the Research MSc programme, ensuring that the student can successfully achieve the learning objectives.