Applications for 2025/26 Global Excellence Scholarships are NOW OPEN.

University College Dublin (UCD) in Ireland is one of the world’s top universities and is the most popular university for international students in Ireland. Each year, UCD offers a number of Global Excellence Scholarships for international students (on non-EU fees) starting their courses in September.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must meet the citizenship and residence requirements outlined in the Regional Information section of this document.

Scholarships are only open to self-funding candidates who are classified as non-EU for tuition fee purposes.

Eligible programmes are limited to undergraduate and graduate taught programmes, where the student must be based in Dublin and no part of the programme is awarded by another institution. The following programmes are excluded from the Global Excellence Scholarship scheme:

Onlineprogrammes

Januarystart programmes

Part-time programmes

Clinical programmes

Off-shore campus programmes

UCD International Study Centre International Foundation Year Pathway For a full list of eligible programmes, please see Eligible Programmes.

Applicants to the Global Excellence Scholarship must have already obtained one of the following statuses on an application for an eligible programme:

Offer

Conditional Offer

Accept

Conditional Accept

Applications for the Global Excellence Scholarship should be submitted in accordance with the instructions given in the Global Excellence Scholarship Application Instructions.

The Global Excellence Scholarship cannot be combined with any other tuition fee scholarship.

Global Excellence Scholarship Terms and Conditions (Student Eligibility, Deadlines, Student Obligations)

Global Excellence Scholarship Eligible Programmes 2025

Global Excellence Scholarship Application Instructions

BENEFIT:

Limited 100% and 50% tuition fee scholarships for outstanding international students.