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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS

Application Deadline: 12:00 GMT on the 27th November 2026.

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The International Excellence Scholarships are available to overseas students who have demonstrated academic excellence or show potential in their academics and wish to join Swansea University. Scholarships are awarded as a discount on tuition fees for the first year of study.  Undergraduate students who receive the full £5,000 in their first year of study will be awarded an additional £2,000 in their second year if they achieve a minimum average of 70% in their first year.  

ELIGIBILITY:

Applicants must be classed as overseas fee payers. If the fee status of the applicant changes after the scholarship application is made, then the University will need to remove the scholarship.

Applicants must have applied for and received an offer to study at Swansea University (Singleton Park Campus and Bay Campus) on a course starting in the academic year 2026/27 at Undergraduate or Master’s level.

Students studying for a PhD, MPhil, Masters by Research, MRes, Graduate Diploma in Law, Go Global Visiting, Exchange or Erasmus Mundus programme are not eligible to apply for this scholarship.

Students studying Taught Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate programmes of study with course fees of £16,000 or above per year are eligible to apply.

Students progressing from Undergraduate to Postgraduate Taught programmes are eligible to apply.

Alumni are eligible to apply.  Other terms and conditions apply with regards to other awards open to alumni, which may result in an award not being made in the full amount, or at all.

Applicants must have demonstrated excellence in their academic performance to date and be able to show what they will achieve at Swansea University in their application.

Applicants must be either fully or partially self-funded, i.e. not in receipt of a fully funded sponsorship from their home country / sponsor body, or external third party organisation. If full funding is confirmed after the scholarship is awarded, then the University reserves the right to remove it according to this condition.

Scholarships will be used to offset tuition fees only and cannot be used for any other purpose.

Click here to apply for the International Excellence Scholarship (Rest of the World) for January and March 2027 entry.

Please read the full terms and conditions to determine if you are eligible to apply.

Please note that only one application per student will be considered.

Applications for this scholarship will close at 12:00 GMT on the 27th November 2026.

BENEFIT:

International Excellence Scholarship:

up to £7,000 (Undergraduate)

up to £5,000 (Postgraduate)

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SWANSEA UNIVERSITY THRIVE BURSARY

LOCATION: United Kingdom

The Thrive Bursary is available to new, self-funding international students enrolling in an undergraduate course or postgraduate taught course at Swansea University.

Eligibility is based on your country of domicile, with full details of eligible countries, and all bursary conditions are outlined below.

ELIGIBILITY:

The Thrive Bursary is open to students studying taught undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes whose ordinary residence is in one of the countries listed below. Your ordinary residence is the country where you have been domiciled for the last 5 years and excludes countries in which you reside purely for the purpose of studying.

BahrainIndonesiaNigeriaThailand
BangladeshJordanOmanTurkey
BotswanaKenyaPakistanUnited Arab Emirates
EgyptKuwaitQatarUganda
GhanaLebanonSaudi ArabiaUzbekistan
Hong KongMalaysiaSouth AfricaVietnam
IndiaMoroccoTanzaniaZimbabwe

You must be classified as an overseas student for fee purposes. If your fee status changes at any point, the bursary will be withdrawn.

You must be fully self-funding your studies.

Your Ordinary Residence must be in one of the countries listed above.

You must be enrolling on a full-time taught course at Swansea University in academic year 2027.

Your course fees must be higher than £16,000 per year to be eligible for the Thrive Bursary.

Students studying an Undergraduate course that includes a Year Abroad or Year in Industry are not eligible to receive the progression bursary in their industry year or year abroad. Those studying a two-year Masters with an industry placement will receive the bursary in Year 1 only, not in the placement year

BENEFIT:

Level of StudyBursary Amount
UndergraduateThe Thrive bursary is a £4,000 reduction in tuition fees for the first year of study, with a progression bursary of £2,000 in subsequent years (applied as a discount off tuition fees).
Postgraduate (Taught Course Only)The Thrive bursary is a £4,000 reduction in tuition fees for the year of study.

The Thrive Bursary is awarded automatically to eligible applicants, so no separate application is required.

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