ELIGIBILITY:

Criteria 1: You must hold an offer to study a full-time or part-time taught master’s course at one of UAL’s Colleges and Institutes starting in 2025/26.

Your course must offer either a Grad Dip, M ARCH, MA, MFA, MBA, MRes or MSc qualification and be offered at one of UAL’s Colleges or Institutes. Courses run by UAL Online are not eligible for this scholarship.

You are not eligible to apply if you already hold a UK postgraduate taught qualification (or one at an equivalent level) from studies undertaken in the UK.

Criteria 2: You need to qualify for the Overseas category of tuition fee status. Read more about Postgraduate Tuition Fees.

Criteria 3: You have achieved, or are predicted to achieve, an upper second-class honours degree or above at undergraduate level. Recognised equivalent qualifications are also accepted. To check your eligibility, read the International Academic Qualifications Equivalency (PDF 472 KB).

You will need to provide your transcripts as proof of your qualification.

If you have not yet received your results, you will need to provide evidence of your predicted grade as part of your application. When you receive your results, you will need to provide further evidence that you have achieved your predicted grade to be granted the award.

Criteria 4: You must provide a personal statement as part of your scholarship application which responds to the following questions (maximum 350 words per question):

Describe your background and your academic experience.

Describe how receiving a postgraduate scholarship would make a difference to you.

Tell us how you intend to use the qualification you will be gaining to support your future plans.

Confirm any other sources of funding you have, or have applied for, to meet the cost of your studies in the UK.

Criteria 5: You are able to support your application with a satisfactory personal reference from an academic or professional referee. Your reference must be provided in English.

BENEFIT:

A £7,000 tuition fee waiver for a full-time or part-time taught master’s course at one of UAL’s Colleges and Institutes will be provided.

ELIGIBILITY:

The University of Aberdeen is keen to welcome talented students from all over the world.

The scholarship is available to all self-funded full-time on-campus Masters students classified as international fee status and starting their studies in either September 2025 or January 2026. The scholarship applies to both taught and research Masters (research Masters that start outside of September or January in the 2025/26 academic year are still eligible for the scholarship). The scholarship is in the form of a tuition fee waiver.

To be eligible, students must be registering for a full-time on-campus program and cannot be in receipt of external scholarships or other University of Aberdeen scholarships, except for awards granted by the University of Aberdeen Development Trust. Please note that the scholarship does not apply to the DPLP or Dentistry.

The Aberdeen Global Scholarship does not require an application. It is automatically applied to all eligible students and will be reflected on their CAS.

Deadline: Available until further notice.

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