These awards are designed to attract high quality overseas research students to the University of Edinburgh. 30 Edinburgh Global Research Scholarships will be awarded for session 2014-2015. Each award covers the difference between the tuition fee for a UK/EU graduate student and that chargeable to an overseas graduate student. The awards do not cover maintenance expenses. Subject to satisfactory progress, the awards are tenable for up to three years.
Study Subject:
Scholarships are provided to learn any of the courses offered by the University of Edinburgh.
Eligibility:
The awards are open to overseas students undertaking a research degree and may be held in any field of study.
Applicants must be liable to pay tuition fees at the rate applicable to overseas students and must have already applied for admission to a full-time PhD research program of study.
Academic merit:
- Applicants must be of outstanding academic merit and research potential.
- Although candidates with an upper second class honors Bachelor’s degree (or the overseas equivalent) can be considered, in order to be competitive you should really have a first class Bachelor’s degree supplemented by an excellent Master’s degree.
- Other factors such as financial status, nationality and the proposed field of study are not taken into account.
Excluding factors:
- The University of Edinburgh will not generally consider candidates who have already obtained a PhD, or formal equivalent, as a result of direct research training.
- Students already on program can not be considered for these awards.
- Please also note that if you have applied for consecutive registration where you will start your Master’s program of study in 2014 and your PhD the following year in 2015, that you will not be eligible to apply for an award in 2014.
- Edinburgh Global Research Scholarships cannot be held concurrently with fully-funded scholarships such as a Commonwealth Scholarship, or a Marshall Scholarship.
Scholarship Value:
Each award covers the difference between the tuition fee for a UK/EU graduate student and that chargeable to an overseas graduate student. The awards do not cover maintenance expenses.
Application Deadline:
Eligible applicants should complete an online scholarship application before the application deadline of 3rd February 2014.
Notification:
The deadline for the receipt of College nominations and associated Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship applications to Scholarships and Student Funding Services is 3 February 2014. Successful applications will receive their Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship result letter in April 2014.
For further information: Edinburgh Global Research Scholarship
