Global Masters Scholarships

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

• 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.
• Postgraduate programmes including MPhil, MRes, MMus and MLit are not eligible. PGDip and PGCert programmes are also not eligible.
• Undergraduate degree programmes including the MBChB, MEng, MSci and MPharm undergraduate programmes are not eligible.
• Students studying the University of Birmingham Dubai campus are not eligible for this scholarship.

• 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

This scholarship will be automatically offered to applicants who meet the criteria outlined on this page.

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

Note that to receive an unconditional offer of admission you will be required to pay the standard £2,000 (GBP) admissions deposit.

Frequently asked questions are located further down the page under the mailing list form. These contain further details relating to the terms and conditions and eligibility of this scholarship, please ensure you read through these

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 July 2024 (23:59 UK time/ GMT+1). If candidates secure an unconditional offer after this, they will not be eligible for this scholarship.

Please be aware that the University reserves the right to cease the scholarship offer to new applicants at any time.

Scholarships will be awarded based on the eligibility criteria outlined above and according to the application and admission process stated above. The University will make its best endeavours to input the scholarship details onto each student’s CAS record for visa application purposes (this ‘note’ will be visible for the UKVI but not the student). The scholarship, applied as a discount to tuition fees, will be awarded/ applied upon enrolment of the successful candidate in September 2024.

Please note that eligible students who successfully secure this scholarship must 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) and must also be able to pay the outstanding tuition fees that are not covered by the scholarship.

To secure this scholarship, candidates must have completed online registration and be ‘Normally Registered’ by 4 October 2024 (23:59 UK time/ GMT+1). If this is not the case, the university will withdraw the scholarship. Candidates must have also paid their net tuition fees for the first year by 1 November 2024, or have set up a payment plan and paid their first instalment.

If you withdraw from your programme of study at the University this scholarship will also be fully withdrawn, and you will be required to pay your tuition fees. The date of your withdrawal (as reported to Taught Student Administration) and the type of programme will determine the amount of tuition fee that you will be charged.

In the event that you take a leave of absence after the scholarship has been applied to their tuition fee account, the scholarship will be adjusted to accurately reflect the applicable tuition fees for that cycle. Upon your return, the scholarship will be honoured for the subsequent period of study at the rate applicable for the subsequent year, subject to availability and at the discretion of the University and the University reserves the right to withdraw the scholarship if the funding is no longer available.

In accepting and securing this scholarship, awardees are expected to support the University, to a reasonable extent, by providing profiles testimonials and engaging in ambassadorial activities if requested by the University. 

The University of Birmingham Global Masters Scholarship provides a £2,000 tuition fee discount for eligible students.

Once you have received an offer of admission for a taught Masters degree and meet all the eligibility criteria, this discount is then applied automatically to your fees when you enrol on your programme of choice. You will therefore be asked to pay your fees with the discount already deducted.

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

Have applied for, and received 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 listed.

If you are in receipt of a full tuition fee scholarship from an external organisation, you will not be eligible for this scholarship. When completing your enrolment, please ensure that you state who your funding will be provided by.

We reserve the right to withdraw the scholarship should we be made aware after your enrolment that you are fully funded by an external organistation.

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, on-campus University of Birmingham course delivered in the UK.

Domicile means the country where you are habitually resident. It is not the same as nationality or citizenship.

In this context, being classed as ‘domiciled’ in one of the selected countries means you must be a habitual resident in one of those countries.

If you decide to defer your programme start date to September 2025, you will no longer be eligible for this scholarship as it is only available for programmes with a September 2024 start date.

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.

Undergraduate degree 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.

There is no application process for this scholarship. If you meet the requirements, you will receive the discount automatically upon enrolment on your chosen programme in September 2024. To be considered for the scholarship you will need to have made an application to your intended Masters programme and have received an unconditional offer of admission and met the other criteria (see ‘who is eligible’ FAQ).

Once you have met all of the conditions of your offer, accepted your offer and paid your deposit, our Admissions Office will send you a ‘Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies’ (CAS) which you can then use to apply for a student visa. We plan to send successful scholars a scholarship letter embedded within an email shortly which you may print and submit as part of your visa application. However, rest assured that as part of the CAS generation process the University will communicate details of your tuition fees and of this scholarship directly to the UK Visas and Immigration Agency. Please note that you will not require a new CAS if you have already received one and you should proceed with your visa application in the regular way.

Once you have undertaken the stages outlined above, you will be invited to complete online registration. Once completed you will receive an automatically generated invoice for your tuition fees for the 2024/25 academic year. Note that this will show your total tuition fee for your Masters programme (without the scholarship deducted). As a University of Birmingham Global Masters Scholarship winner we ask that you manually deduct the £2,000 scholarship from the total tuition fee amount stated in your invoice and that you only make payment for the net tuition fee (your gross/ total tuition fee minus the £2,000 scholarship). Our Finance Office will ensure that the scholarship is applied to your financial record at the University.

If you have already paid your full tuition fee in advance, once you enrol you will be able to request a refund to the value of the scholarship. More information about this process can be found on the Intranet.

If you have any questions related to payment of your tuition fees then you may contact the Finance Office Accounts Receivable Team: accountsreceivable@contacts.bham.ac.uk

We recommend you apply as early as possible to your chosen programme.

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

Yes. This scholarship can be used in conjunction with another University-funded scholarship or other discount.

However, the scholarship cannot be in held in conjunction with a scholarship that provides a full 100% fee waiver / discount, provided by either the university or an external body.

If you benefit from partial funding from an external organisation, you will still be eligible for the fee discount.However, the scholarship cannot be in held in conjunction with a scholarship that provides a full 100% fee waiver / discount, provided by either the university or an external body.

No, the scheme is not available to students already enrolled on a Masters-level taught programme. 

No, the scholarship is only open to students who will be studying at the UK campus.

This scholarship is specifically for students who are overseas for fees and are domiciled in the countries listed on the main Global Masters scholarships page, provided they meet the other eligibility criteria.

Note that this scholarship is not applicable to students domiciled in the UK.

Only full-time taught Masters programmes qualify.

No. Courses advertised as solely being delivered as a ‘distance’ or ‘remote learning’ programmes are not eligible for this scholarship.

The programme must be solely delivered on campus.

If you have already applied to a programme, you must wait to receive an offer of admission.

If you receive an offer of admission for the programme, and meet the other eligibility criteria, the discount will be automatically applied to your fees.

This scholarship will be automatically offered to applicants who meet the criteria outlined on this page.

To secure the scholarship candidates must have an unconditional offer, and have accepted this unconditional offer via the postgraduate portal 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.

Note that to receive an unconditional Offer you will be required to pay the standard £2,000 (GBP) admissions deposit.

Candidates must also have completed online registration and be ‘Normally Registered’ by 4 October 2024 (23:59 UK time/ GMT+1). If this is not the case, the university will withdraw the scholarship. Candidates must have also paid their net tuition fees for the first year by 1 November, or have set up a payment plan and paid their first instalment.

If you have any further questions you can contact our regional officers using the email addresses which can be found within the ‘Meet us’ tab on our country specific webpages.