India Excellence Scholarship

The UCL India Excellence Scholarship aims to enable and encourage Indian students with an outstanding academic record to pursue full-time Master’s degree studies at UCL.

Key information

• Value: £5,000 (for one year)

• Available to: Prospective postgraduate taught students

• Selection criteria: Bachelor’s degree GPA and NIRF ranking of current/previous institution of study

• Eligible fee status: Overseas

• Eligible programmes: All postgraduate taught (excluding distance learning programmes)

• Deadline: 5pm BST, Thursday 27 February 2025

Eligibility

Candidates must fulfil all of the following criteria:

• be eligible to pay the Overseas fee rate;

• be permanently domiciled in India;

• have a bachelor’s degree, or be enrolled in the final year of a bachelor’s degree, from an institution listed in the Top 100 of the Government of India’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF );

• have a GPA in their bachelor’s degree that is equivalent to a UK first-class degree;

• AND have submitted a complete admission application (including references) for a full-time Master’s degree at UCL in 2024/25 by 5pm BST, Thursday 27 February 2025.  Please note: Distance-learning options are not eligible for this fund; students must be coming to the UK to attend UCL in person.

Value, benefits, and duration

• There are up to 33 (thirty-three) scholarships available in 2025/26 

• The value of the bursary is £5,000. 

• The scholarship is tenable for one year only unless the full-time programme is 2yrs in length. In that case the scholarship will be paid 50% in each year.

• The UCL India Excellence 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 India Excellence 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 instalments, throughout the academic year, towards maintenance.