Each scholarship is a competitive award worth £5,000 towards the original tuition fee for a postgraduate taught programme, starting in September 2024.
The University of Sheffield , UK is offering 125 International Postgraduate Taught Merit scholarships in 2024. Interested candidates can apply for these scholarships at the official website — sheffield.ac.uk.
Each scholarship is a competitive award worth £5,000 towards the original tuition fee for a postgraduate taught programme, starting in September 2024. The scholarships are available to all new international students.
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Eligibility criteria
— Candidate’s programme must commence at the University of Sheffield in autumn 2024. Also, candidates should have received an offer for a course studied in full at the University of Sheffield. Masters programmes split between the University of Sheffield and a partner institution are not eligible to apply for a scholarship.
— All Crossways courses and Erasmus Mundus courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.
— Distance learning courses are ineligible for a merit scholarship.
— For tuition fee purposes, candidates should be self-funded and required to pay the overseas tuition fee.
— Candidates should not be sponsored students.
Selection criteria
A panel of senior members of staff will select the strongest applications and will be looking for the following:
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— Applicant has given examples of achievements which represent excellence and initiative in educational, voluntary, or professional areas.
— Candidate has shown how these achievements relate to the course they have applied for at the University of Sheffield and connected that to their future ambitions.
— Applicant has a strong academic profile.
The scholarship applications will begin in late Autumn 2023, and the deadline is 1 pm (UK time) on May 13, 2024. Scholarship results will be announced on June 10, 2024.
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First published on: 08-10-2023 at 17:00 IST