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Santander Scholarships

Santander Scholarships is a Banco Santander initiative that has been offering scholarships to university students and professionals of all ages for over 25 years. It is now one of the world’s largest scholarship programmes promoted by a private company.

Santander Scholarships remains firmly committed to lifelong learning through #NeverStopLearning, as it seeks to meet the new needs of the labour market and promote upskilling and reskilling among university students and professionals of all ages to improve their employability.

On our platform you can find more than 400 Santander Scholarships programmes each year, with over 124,000 scholarships on offer in subjects such as technology, languages, research, soft skills, professional practices, or women’s leadership.

Our scholarships are categorised into 7 disciplines

Through Santander Universities, Banco Santander offers scholarships in the following seven disciplines and at no cost to the learner:

Santander Tech Scholarships

Which promote learning based on programming or technological innovation to master digital and technological languages, such as blockchain, machine learning, cloud & DevOps or product design strategies.

Santander Skills Scholarships

to help develop horizontal skills (soft skills) that are essential to thrive in the labour market. This discipline also includes programmes aimed at developing entrepreneurial skills for those at a very early stage of the entrepreneurial cycle.

Santander Women Scholarships

Designed to promote the professional development, leadership capacity and negotiation skills of women leaders.

Santander Language Scholarships

Scholarships that strengthen your language knowledge so that you may leverage professional opportunities in an increasingly international and digitalised environment.

Santander Scholarships Studies

To help learners complete their studies through specific support to ensure that those with limited resources can achieve academic excellence, and to generate international mobility opportunities.

Santander Internship Scholarships

To promote the employability of university students through practical work experience. The goal of these scholarships is to offer recent graduates opportunities to access quality first jobs.

Santander Research Scholarships

Designed to give material and financial support to undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students to start or continue with their research plans.

Santander Sustainability Scholarships

They provide the tools and personal skills necessary to take advantage of the professional opportunities associated with the green transition.

More than 162.000 Santander Scholarships in 2021

More than 139,000

scholarships for higher education and employability

promoting the development of professional, linguistic, digital and transversal skills, as well as academic mobility. With internship programs and orientation in the search for the first job.
More than 23.000

scholarships fostered entrepreneurship

with support programs that have provided access to training, visibility and networking resources, to emerging entrepreneurial projects.