The UCL Global Masters Scholarship in the UK 2025 aims to enable and encourage international students from lower-income backgrounds to pursue full-time Master’s degree studies at UCL. The University College London scholarship allows a master’s-level program in the field of all subjects taught at University College London.
The purpose of the UCL Global Masters Scholarship is to provide financial assistance to international students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, allowing them to attend a full-time Master’s program at UCL.
University College London, which operates as UCL, is a public research university in London, United Kingdom. It is a member institution of the Federal University of London and is the second-largest university in the United Kingdom by total enrolment and the largest by postgraduate enrolment.
UCL Global Masters Scholarship
- Value: £15,000 (for one year)
- Available to: Prospective students
- Selection criteria: Financial need
- Eligible fee status: Overseas
- Eligible programs: All postgraduate taught
- Deadline: 5 pm BST, Tuesday, May 7, 2024
Eligibility
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 an admission application for a full-time Master’s degree at UCL in 2025. Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person.
Scholarship Benefits
There are up to 72 (seventy-two) scholarships available in 2025, with two aimed specifically at students from India. The value of the bursary is £15,000.
The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the full-time program is two years in length. In that case, the scholarship will be paid 50% each year.
The UCL Global Masters Scholarship may be held alongside other scholarships, studentships, awards, or bursaries. The amount of the UCL award may be adjusted 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.
The scholarship will first be applied to the recipient’s tuition fees, with any remainder payable to the recipient in three equal installments, throughout the academic year, toward maintenance.
How To Apply
You need to have submitted a complete admission application to UCL (including the submission of references) in order to apply for the scholarship.
- Login to Portico with your normal details. Click on the ‘View’ button for the ‘Active Application’ that you wish to apply for funding.
- In the application screen, click on ‘Funding’ in the menu at the top of the page.
- You are now on the funding page. To find out which funds you are eligible to apply for, click ‘Check and apply‘ under ‘Funds Available’.
- Click on the scholarship name of the scheme that you wish to apply for.
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