Global Masters Scholarships

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

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.