Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship

Overview

Our Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship Scheme provides a fee waiver of at least 50% (rising to 100% in some Schools) on full-time or part-time research degrees to international students and those from the EU.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for our Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship you must:

•  Have a first-class honours degree.

• Achieved Distinction at taught Master’s level.

or

• Have been recommended on the basis of your Master’s by Research by your supervisor and academic school.

and

• Have graduated from the University of Huddersfield in the last three years. If you are due to graduate in the current academic year, then any offer will be conditional on your degree outcome.

General

Our Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship Scheme is available for research undertaken on either a full-time or part-time basis.

Research degrees include the following awards; PhD, Master of Arts by Research, Master of Science by Research and Master of Enterprise.

Our Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarship Scheme is available for the standard registration period only; for doctoral awards this will be either 3 years full-time or 6 years part-time and for Master’s by Research awards this will be either 1 year full time or 2 years part-time. The fee waiver will not apply to any research undertaken outside of this standard registration period, including any write up period.

The University of Huddersfield reserves the right to vary or withdraw the waiver at any point in future academic years.

Application deadline 7 June 2024.