ELIGIBILITY:

Available to: Prospective students

Selection criteria: Financial need

Eligible fee status: Overseas

Eligible programmes: All postgraduate taught

Candidates can be from any country outside the UK but must fulfill all of the following criteria:

be eligible to pay the Overseas fee rate;

come from a lower-income background*;

AND have submitted a complete admission application (including the submission of references) for a full-time master’s degree at UCL in 2026/27.  Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person

The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the full-time programme is 2 years in length.  In that case the scholarship will be paid 50% in each year.

The UCL Global Masters Scholarship may be held alongside other scholarships, studentships, awards, or bursaries depending on the total value of other funds received by the student.

Scholarship recipients are obliged to inform the UCL Student Funding Office immediately of any other funding they are awarded towards their UCL Master’s degree studies, before or subsequent to the UCL Global Masters Scholarship being awarded.

BENEFIT:

The value of the bursary is £15,000.

There are up to 85 (eighty-five) scholarships available in 2026/27, with five ring-fenced for students from India and one for a student from Japan.