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Motivation Letter Examples for University, PhD and Scholarship Applications

Worked motivation letter examples for Masters, PhD, Erasmus, scholarship and internship applications, with notes on what each paragraph is doing and why. Open any of them in the letter builder and rewrite it as your own.

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University applications

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Admissions committees read hundreds of these in a fortnight. The ones that survive answer two questions early: why this programme, and what have you already done that proves you can handle it.

Master's degree application

A taught Masters application that names the programme, the modules and the reason for the switch.

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PhD position application

A funded PhD application written to a named supervisor, built around a research fit rather than a CV summary.

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Scholarships and exchange

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Funding panels and exchange offices are not assessing your grades again. They are deciding whether the money or the place changes anything, so the letter has to make the consequence concrete.

Scholarship application

A scholarship letter that treats need and merit as one argument instead of two separate paragraphs.

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Erasmus exchange application

An Erasmus letter that picks one host university and justifies it with course codes, not enthusiasm.

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Internships and traineeships

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Here you are competing against people with the same coursework and no more experience than you. The letter has to show judgement, because nothing else in the file can.

Research internship

A summer research placement letter that turns one undergraduate project into evidence of method.

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Graduate traineeship

A traineeship letter for an EU institution, written for a panel that scores against published criteria.

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