Apply as a student
IMPORTANT: Applications for class 21 are open
Please read all the information below before starting your application.
When you apply to join i-MESC, you apply automatically for an EMJM or an industrial scholarship granted by our associated partners (ALISTORE-ERI, CIC ENERGIGUNE, RS2E, UMICORE, etc.).
These fellowships will be awarded to the best ranked applicants.
Every year, we do our best to propose a funding to each selected student but we cannot guarantee it.If we select you without any allocation, you are invited to join us by self-financing your studies.
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List of required supporting documents
Accepted documents:
- Passport;
- ID card.
If the applicant’s passport or ID card is expired, she/he can upload a copy of the expired one, but she/he commits herself/himself to provide the valid one upon receipt.
Accepted documents:
- a bill (e.g. electricity, gaz, phone, water consumption);
- tax payer document;
- bank account statement;
- home insurance.
Documents not accepted :
- ID papers;
- Declaration on Honour;
- Voter card.
We need certified copies (with the stamp of the university) of these documents and they must be translated into English, by a sworn translator.
The applicant cannot write her/his own letter of recommendation.
The applicant is required to use the imposed template, that he/she can download here.
It is the applicant’s responsibility to forward the template to his/her referees.
They should come from academics or employers that supervised the candidate in the past.
The referee’s name, institution and contact details must be clearly stated.
If a referee wants to provide personally the i-MESC Consortium with the letter, they can send it by email to julie.bodelu[at]u-picardie.fr and jamila.tamimy[at]u-picardie.fr
Mandatory for all applicants.
The applicant must demonstrate at the application stage that she/he has the minimum level of English required by our programme. To do so, she/he has several options:
1) Applicants whose native language is English are exempted from taking a test; can provide a Declaration on Honour.
2) Applicants who have previously followed studies in English are allowed to provide a certificate from their university of origin stating that the medium of instruction was English.
3) For all the other applicants, only the following tests are accepted:
- a) IELTS: minimum score required 6.5;
- b) TOEFL: Minimum score required 580 (paper based) / 237 (Computer based) / 87 (Internet based). The ETS code of Université de Picardie Jules Verne for the TOEFL test is 5351. Please use this code to appoint UPJV a recipient of your test result. Your score will be then sent to us directly from the ETS.
- c) Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First;
- d) CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages): B2
Any English test not listed above shall not be accepted (such as OLS, Duolingo, etc).
You must upload a video:
- first presenting yourself by stating your first and last name clearly;
- then detailing your academic background and motivations in applying for the i-MESC Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree.
- finally mention the curriculum contents he/she would particularly look for in case of being selected to join the programme.
Please find below the requirements for the video :
- 1) Your face must appear clearly without any artefacts.
- 2) The video must be no longer than 2 minutes (we accept only AVI, MOV, MP4 formats and must not exceed 200MB, any video longer than 2 minutes will be considered as ineligible).
- 3) The technical quality of the video won't be taken into account for the evaluation by the selection committee.
ADMISSION CRITERIA
Each application will be assigned to 2 different referees and graded according to a jointly-established Evaluation grid. The evaluation criteria and corresponding “weights” will be as follows:
Criteria | Weight in the final grading |
|---|---|
| Academic excellence | 6 |
| Coherence of training and scientific background with the MESC+ Curriculum | 8 |
| Video (Statement of purpose) | 8 |
| Letter of recommendation | 3 |
| Language skills, as witnessed by TOEFL or equivalent test scores | 2 |
| University of origin | 3 |
| TOTAL | /150 |
