The Vice Chancellor’s International Postgraduate Excellence Scholarship

Overview

The Vice Chancellor’s International Postgraduate Excellence Scholarship is an application based award open to those who hold an offer of study at UEA. Our panel sits on a regular basis with submissions of a high quality being offered £7,000 as a tuition fee discount. Successful applicants will be informed shortly after each panel.

This scholarship is designed to reward international fee status applicants who have been offered a place to study with UEA and who can clearly and concisely explain how studying here at UEA will help them to make an outstanding contribution to their chosen field of study as well as the wider UEA community.

Academic Excellence

Successful offer holders will be able to clearly and concisely explain how studying here at UEA will help them to make an outstanding contribution to their chosen field of study and how they can contribute to the UEA campus society.

We do not offer this scholarship for integrated Master’s, MSc Global Plant Health, MSc Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement, MBBS courses, MSc Occupational Therapy or MSc Physiotherapy.

Eligibility Criteria

You are eligible for a UEA Postgraduate International Excellence Scholarship under these Terms if you meet all these criteria: 

• You are an Overseas fee-paying student. If the fee status changes during your course from Overseas to Home fees the scholarship shall be discontinued.

• You are in receipt of an offer to study at UEA at the time of your scholarship application.

• Students sponsored for full tuition fees by an outside body or government organisation are not eligible for this scholarship. However, students applying for, or expecting to receive, government loans are eligible. 

Scholarships do not remove the requirement to pay the International deposit, by the publicised deadline.

Eligible Programmes 

Except for the courses set out below, Scholarships may be offered by us in respect of full time, campus based, credit-bearing MSc, MA, PGCE or MBA programmes studied at UEA, commencing in September 2025 or January 2026. 

We do not offer this scholarship for integrated Master’s, MSc Global Plant Health, MSc Plant Genetics and Crop Improvement, MSc Occupational Therapy or MSc Physiotherapy.

Where a programme is two years in length, scholarship will be offered for the first year only.

The deadline for application is 2 June 2025.