India High Fliers Undergraduate Scholarships

The University of Birmingham is pleased to announce the award of 20 scholarships of £5,000 for select Indian students applying for entry to an undergraduate programme at the University starting September 2025.

These are joint awards with our local representatives and high schools who will be invited to send nominations of the students to the university based on their year 12 scores and scholarship Statement of Purpose.

The scholarships will be awarded to the highest performing students starting their University of Birmingham programme in the 2025/2026 academic year.

Please note that the scholarship cannot be combined with any other award.

Value of Award

The scholarship is 20 x £5,000 towards tuition fees (for the first year only) of a full-time undergraduate degree programme at the University of Birmingham UK campus, starting September 2025

Eligibility Criteria

Students applying to MBChB Medicine and Surgery or BDS Dental Surgery are not eligible for this scholarship. Please note Law applicants can apply for scholarships offered by the Birmingham Law School

In order to be eligible, candidates must:

• Have received an offer and selected the University of Birmingham as their firm choice for a full-time undergraduate programme starting September 2025. The student must be entering the first year of an undergraduate programme based at Birmingham’s UK campus.

• Meet the academic conditions of their offer to the programme.

• Be classed as domiciled in India.  

• Be classed by the University as an overseas fee payer for tuition fee purposes and be able to pay the outstanding tuition fees not covered by the scholarship.

• Have sufficient funds to cover the full cost of living at the University of Birmingham, plus any visa/travel expenses associated with studying in the UK.

• Start their studies at the University in September 2025 (the scholarship award may not be deferred).

• Be registered with, and have their undergraduate study application attached to, one of our local representatives listed below in alphabetical order.

• Submit your scholarship application through one of our local representatives by the deadline; 31 May 2025.

• Upon enrolment in September 2025, pay their net tuition fees for the first year by 31^st October, immediately following enrolment.

Please note that students already registered and studying on a programme at the University of Birmingham in the UK, and students applying for MBChB Medicine and Surgery or BDS Dental Surgery are not eligible for this scholarship.

Closes 31/05/2025.