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UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH CHANCELLOR’S GLOBAL ACADEMIC MERIT SCHOLARSHIP

Application Deadline: 1 June, 2025

LOCATION: United Kingdom

For September 2026 entry, eligible applicants will be considered for the Chancellor’s Global Academic Merit Scholarship. This scholarship is merit-based, and applicants will need to have applied and accepted their academic offer by the given deadline.

ELIGIBILITY:

To be considered, applicants will also need to complete the Chancellor’s Global Academic Merit Scholarship application form as part of their application. Applications will then be considered by the university’s scholarship panel, and the successful candidates will be contacted by email to confirm their status shortly after the submission. 

To be eligible for this scholarship, you must be a self-funded international student. Only applicants who have been assessed as an overseas student for tuition fee purposes can access this scholarship.

If you’re studying an undergraduate, or postgraduate taught course, you must have applied as a self-funded student on a full-time, on-campus course for September 2026 entry. 

The scholarship is available for students who have never studied at the University of Portsmouth previously. 

International College Portsmouth (ICP) students are excluded from this scholarship. 

The scholarship will take the form of a £5,000 fee reduction, effective at the time of registration and will only apply to your first year of study. 

To be considered, you will need to complete the scholarship application form as part of your application before June 1, 2026. Any application submitted after 1 June 2026 will not be considered. Only applicants who are successful will hear from us by Monday 29 June 2026.

The scholarship cannot be combined with any other scholarship, discount, or fee offer. 

The discounted fee will be stated on your Confirmation of Acceptance for Study (CAS). This is the final document you receive when you have an unconditional offer to study at the University of Portsmouth and have paid your deposit. 

Only applicants who have been assessed as overseas students for tuition fee purposes can access this scholarship. 

Due to the number of applications received, we are unable to offer individual feedback, and only successful candidates will be contacted.

PGCE Science with Physics and PGCE Modern Foreign Languages (all pathways) are not eligible for this scholarship.

BENEFIT:

This scholarship will take the form of a £5,000 fee reduction that will apply to your first year of study.

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UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENTRANCE SCHOLARSHIP

LOCATION: Canada

The new international fee-paying students admitted to full-time, first-year degree studies starting in September 2026 will receive $10,000 for their first-year studies. No application is required. As an international student, you’ll be automatically considered for most of our scholarships.

ELIGIBILITY:

International fee-paying students admitted to a full-time, first-year degree program at Waterloo starting in September 2026. This includes students applying from CEGEP.

There are two conditions:

You need to be enrolled full-time (three or more courses) in your first and second terms at Waterloo..

You need to continue to be an international fee-paying student. If your residency status changes either before or during the term, and/or if you’re no longer required to pay the higher international study permit tuition fees, you’ll no longer be eligible to receive the scholarship.

You don’t need to apply. Students who are eligible will be automatically granted the scholarship. It will appear on the Awards and financial aid tab in the Waterloo applicant portal starting in mid-April.

The scholarship is not available to the following students.

Medical Sciences (Waterloo) and Doctor of Medicine (St. George’s University) students

Bachelor of Social Work, Doctor of Optometry, Doctor of Pharmacy students

Transfer students admitted with transfer credits.

Students who deferred their admission from September 2025 to September 2026.

Students enrolled in a 2+2 and other similar x+y programs.

BENEFIT:

$10,000

The first installment ($5,000) will be available in late July to help pay your first-term tuition. The second installment ($5,000) will be available to help pay your second-term tuition in late November.

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