Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Intellectual Property and Data Law (MIPDaL)

Benefits & funding

• Erasmus Mundus scholarship holders pay no tuition to the consortium and no UK top-up fee, and receive €1,400 per month toward living and travel costs.
• Up to 60 scholarships exist across the five-year programme period, a maximum of 12 per academic year.
• Insurance covering travel health, liability, accident and assistance is provided to every student at no cost.
• Self-funded tuition is €9,980 per year for EU and UK students and €11,980 per year for non-European students.
• A €700 non-refundable deposit confirms the place and the balance falls due on 31 July; refunds are full until 31 May, half until 15 September, none after.
• A second semester in the UK carries a top-up fee of £20,050 at Queen Mary or £12,000 at Exeter, which scholarship holders do not pay.
• Two master’s degrees, one from each university attended.
• Every partner runs language courses, and the FAQ lists outside funding routes including Deutschlandstipendium, Erasmus+ and national schemes in Indonesia, Québec, Taiwan, Türkiye and Uzbekistan.

Eligibility

• A job-qualifying law or law-related degree worth at least 240 ECTS, that is four years of study; current first-degree students may be assessed after documenting at least 80% of the degree’s credits and can receive a conditional offer.
• Academic results equivalent to Upper Second Class honours in the UK system.
• English at C1, shown by Cambridge English, IELTS, PTE, TOEFL or ISE taken within the last two years, or WAEC within five years; native speakers and holders of a degree from a majority English-speaking country are exempt.
• French at C1 (DALF C1, DELF B2 or TCF C1) for a semester at Strasbourg, Spanish at B2 (DELE B2 or SIELE B2) for Madrid.
• The two chosen universities must sit in two different countries, neither of them the applicant’s country of residence at enrolment.
• Open to applicants of every nationality; scholarship selection applies an EU geographic rule under which no more than 10 per cent of scholarship holders across the five cohorts come from one country.
• Demonstrated motivation for intellectual property and data law.
• No age limit and no work-experience requirement are stated.

Application process

1. 1
   Choose a track — IT and Data Law, Creative Industries or Industrial Property Law — and the two universities that teach it.
2. 2
   Create an account on the MIPDaL portal at application.mipdal.eu, which runs on eMundus; accounts can be opened before a campaign starts.
3. 3
   Prepare the file: a Europass CV, a copy of your identity card, all university degree certificates, an official transcript with English translation, language certificates, a statement of purpose of about one page as a PDF, and one academic or professional reference letter on institutional letterhead. Templates for the statement and the reference are provided.
4. 4
   Submit everything in full by 15 January for scholarship consideration, by 15 March in the regular round, or by 15 June in the late round.
5. 5
   The consortium checks completeness first and rejects incomplete files, then verifies eligibility, then assigns evaluators who rank the applications.
6. 6
   Places are offered on merit, with geographic balance applied to the scholarship list.
7. 7
   Accept the offer, pay the €700 deposit, and settle the remaining tuition by 31 July if you are self-funded.

Program timeline

1. Applications open for the 2027/2028 intake

   Oct 1, 2026

2. Deadline for scholarship consideration and early applicants

   Jan 15, 2027

3. Regular application deadline

   Mar 15, 2027

4. Late application deadline

   Jun 15, 2027

5. Remaining tuition due from self-funded admits

   Jul 31, 2027

6. First semester begins

   Early September 2027

7. First semester ends

   Jan 15, 2028

8. Second semester, including the master’s thesis

   January to early September 2028