University of Birmingham

What is the Global Masters Scholarship

With a value of £2,000 per scholarship, this award is available to all international students from a selection of countries who are seeking to study a taught Masters degree at Birmingham in the 2024/25 academic year. Eligible scholars who successfully meet the criteria will have this amount deducted from their total tuition fees owed.

Who is eligible for a Global Masters Scholarship?

In order to be eligible, candidates must meet the following requirements. You must:

• Have applied for, and receive an offer of admission for, a taught Masters degree at the University of Birmingham UK campus, to study in the 2024/25 academic year.

• Be classed as ‘domiciled’ in one of the selected countries. Please see the list below.

• Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes.

• Start your studies at the University in September/ October 2024 on a full-time course delivered at the University's UK campus.

Are there any programmes not eligible?

• If you decide to defer your programme start date to September 2025, you will no longer be eligible as the scholarship is only available for programmes starting in September 2024.

• Students seeking to study on a course solely delivered as a ‘distance learning’ programme are not eligible for this scholarship.

• Students applying for programmes in the Birmingham Business School are not eligible for this scholarship but are eligible for other separate MSc and MBA scholarships offered by the Business School. 

• Students applying for programmes in the School of Computer Science are not eligible for this scholarship.

• Undergraduate programmes including the MBChB, MEng, MSci and MPharm undergraduate programmes are not eligible.

• Postgraduate programmes including MPhil, MRes, MMus and MLit are not eligible. PGDip and PGCert programmes are also not eligible.

• Students studying the University of Birmingham Dubai campus are not eligible for this scholarship.

Which are the eligible countries?

• Cameroon
• Egypt
• Gambia, The
• Ghana
• India
• Iran
• Kenya
• Nigeria
• Pakistan
• South Africa
• Sri Lanka
• Tanzania, United Republic of
• Uganda
• United Arab Emirates
• Vietnam
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Terms and Conditions

We recommend that you apply for your intended programme as soon as possible to ensure you meet the eligibility for this scholarship.

For information on how to apply to our postgraduate programmes, visit our guidance pages. 

Once an offer for admissions is made, candidates must meet the deadlines set by the Admissions Office (and stated in their offer letter) to ‘accept’ their offer and pay a deposit – this will simultaneously secure both the place on the Masters degree programme and this scholarship.

To secure this scholarship candidates must have an unconditional offer, and have accepted this unconditional offer, by 31 May 2024 (23:59 UK time/ GMT+1). If candidates secure an unconditional offer after this, they will not be eligible for this scholarship.